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Layers of the Atmosphere

  • Social Science
  • Class 9
  • 3D model
  • English · Hindi

Layers of the Atmosphere: a 3D model for Class 9 Social Science, covering The troposphere (0–12 km) holds most of the air and all weather; temperature falls about 6.5 °C for every km up., The stratosphere (12–50 km) holds the ozone layer, which absorbs most of the harmful ultraviolet rays from the Sun., Temperature rises through the stratosphere because ozone absorbs UV; jet aircraft cruise in its calm lower part., The mesosphere (50–80 km) is the coldest layer, about −90 °C at its top; meteors burn up here as shooting stars., In the thermosphere (80–500 km) temperature rises again; auroras glow here and the ISS orbits at about 400 km..

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Also called

atmosphere · troposphere · stratosphere · ozone layer · mesosphere · thermosphere · exosphere · ionosphere · tropopause · weather balloon · meteors burn up · aurora · International Space Station · temperature with height · lapse rate · वायुमंडल · क्षोभमंडल · ओज़ोन परत · समतापमंडल

Topics

  • The troposphere (0–12 km) holds most of the air and all weather; temperature falls about 6.5 °C for every km up.
  • The stratosphere (12–50 km) holds the ozone layer, which absorbs most of the harmful ultraviolet rays from the Sun.
  • Temperature rises through the stratosphere because ozone absorbs UV; jet aircraft cruise in its calm lower part.
  • The mesosphere (50–80 km) is the coldest layer, about −90 °C at its top; meteors burn up here as shooting stars.
  • In the thermosphere (80–500 km) temperature rises again; auroras glow here and the ISS orbits at about 400 km.
  • The exosphere, above about 500 km, thins into space; light atoms such as hydrogen and helium escape from it.
  • Going up, temperature falls, rises, falls and rises again; each turn of the trace marks a boundary between layers.
  • A weather balloon swells as it climbs because air pressure drops with height; most burst at about 30 km.

About this model

A GLB file of about 339 KB, shown in Lably's 3D viewer and, on a phone, placed in your room with AR. Credit: Model, science and animation: Lably (built procedurally with three.js; no downloaded meshes). | CC BY 4.0. Original geometry and animation made for Lably.

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