Chapter 7: Atmosphere

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Across
  1. 2. Most powerful and dangerous UV
  2. 4. The warmest layer and home of the ISS
  3. 7. Vital to all human and animal life
  4. 8. Measured in watts per square meter
  5. 9. Where you will find a shooting star
  6. 10. Least harmful UV ray
  7. 12. The magnetosphere protects the earth from this (2-words)
  8. 15. What the upper atmosphere is known as
  9. 17. protects the earth’s surface from the sun’s harmful radiation
  10. 18. Transfer of heat by electromagnetic waves
  11. 22. When the magnetosphere and solar wind meet it makes this
  12. 23. The outermost layer and home to satallites
  13. 24. the ratio of solar radiation reflected by an object to the solar radiation that strikes it
  14. 25. The lightest gas in the upper atmosphere
  15. 26. Closer to the sun
  16. 27. Where weather balloons are found
Down
  1. 1. It is heated first
  2. 3. Essential for plants
  3. 5. Invisible force concentrated at the Earth’s poles
  4. 6. Heats slow, but holds heat longer
  5. 10. Causing tanning and sunburns
  6. 11. Farther from the sun
  7. 13. Most abundant gas in the atmosphere
  8. 14. Layer where we live
  9. 16. What the lower atmosphere is known as
  10. 19. The blanket of gases that surround the planet
  11. 20. The amount of sun that hits the earth is _____ over time
  12. 21. trapping heat in the atmosphere