1 TROPOSPHERE

2 STRATOSPHERE

Layers Of The Earth

3 MESOPHERE
Evan Barnes

4 THERMOSPHERE

5 EXOSPHERE
 TROPOSPHERE

CHARACTERISTICS THICKNESS
Contains over 80 percent of The average
1 of the atmosphere, along 3 thickness of the 5
with all of the water vapor. troposphere is
This layer has the oxygen, 13km.
winds, and clouds.

LAYER
The layer of air up to 15
mi above the surface of
the Earth, also known as
the lower atmosphere.
ALTITUDE
TEMPERATURE
As the density of
About 63°F; 17°C
2 and reaches of 4 the gases in this
layer decrease with
minimum of −64°F;
height, the air
−53°C at an altitude
becomes thinner.
of 6.2 mi (10 km).
 STRATOSPHERE

CHARACTERISTICS
The stratosphere contains most of the
ozone found in Earth's atmosphere,
and the presence of ozone is the
reason for the temperature profile
found in the stratosphere.
LAYER
The stratosphere extends from from 4
-12 miles above the Earth's surface to
around 31 miles. This layer holds 19
percent of the atmosphere's gases
but little water vapor.
TEMPERATURE
Heat is produced in the process of
the formation of ozone which is
responsible from an average -60°F at
tropopause to a maximum of about
5°F at the top of the stratosphere.

THICKNESS ALTITUDE
OZONE There are no mountains high enough Temperature increases as you gain
Ozone is found almost to reach the stratosphere. This layer is altitude in the stratosphere because
exclusively in a layer 22 miles thick, but the stratosphere because the ozone layer absorbs the
about 9–36 mi in layer is the most important ozone greater part of the solar ultraviolet
altitude. At lower layer. radiation.
altitudes, ozone gas is
irritating to eyes.
 MESOPHERE

LAYER THICKNESS
1 The third layer of 3 The mesosphere 5
the atmosphere, extends from about
lying between 31 to 53 miles
about 50 and 80 above the Earth's
kilometers in height surface.
and characterized
by a small lapse
rate.
CHARACTERISTICS TEMPERATURE ALTITUDE
The mesosphere is the The top of the Within the
coldest layer of Earth's mesosphere is the mesosphere,
atmosphere. The 2 coldest area of the
Earth's atmosphere
4 temperature
decreases with
mesosphere is the first
line of defense from because increasing height,
bodies entering the temperature may due to decreasing
atmosphere. locally decrease to solar heating .
as low as 100 K.
 THERMOSPHERE

CHARACTERISTICS LAYER TEMPERATURE THICKNESS ALTITUDE

In the thermosphere,
The thermosphere is the The top layer of the This layer can reach
temperatures
region from about 85 to atmosphere starts at up to 4,500 degrees
increase because of
about 500 km altitude, 48 mi and stretches Fahrenheit. If you
This layer of Earth's heating due to the
containing the up hundreds of miles were to hang in the
atmosphere is about absorption of solar
ionosphere. It is into space. Due to thermosphere you
319 miles thick. radiation in the far
characterized by high energetic solar would be cold
and extreme
temperature and large radiation, this layer because there aren't
ultraviolet part of the
variability, can possess very molecules to transfer
spectrum.
high gas heat to you.
temperatures.
 EXOSPHERE

CHARACTERISTICS LAYER
The exosphere has gases like hydrogen and
1 2 The exosphere is the very edge of our
helium, but they are very spread out. There is a
atmosphere. This layer separates the rest of
lot of empty space in between.
the atmosphere from outer space

TEMPERATURE THICKNESS ALTITUDE

It can reach The exosphere is the Temperature is not of altitude.
3 temperatures of 987.5 4 very edge of our 5 Temperature increases into the
degrees Celsius (1,810 atmosphere. It's about thousands of degrees during the
degrees Fahrenheit). 6,200 miles thick.. day radiation.