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Activity: Up, Up, and Away! Part I
Problem: To create a semi-scale drawing of the atmosphere
Materials: One legal-size sheet of plain white paper, pencil, ruler, map colors or markers, etc.
Procedure:
You may or may not want
to give the answers where blanks have been inserted. You can find the answers below.
- Neatly fold the paper in half the short way.
- Turn paper long ways in front of you.
- The scale for this diagram has been pre-determined to be _____________.
- Measure one centimeter from the bottom on both sides of the paper.
- Use the ruler to draw a line between the dots and to the sides of the paper and parallel with the
bottom. Label this space earth.
- From the line just drawn, measure ________ and put a dot on both sides of the paper. Using the ruler, draw a line parallel to the previous line. Label this area the ____________________.
- Repeat step 5 for the __________________ and the ___________________ (next two layers)
remembering to use the scale _____________.
- By now you should almost be to the halfway mark of the paper. From this point, it is impossible to
draw the remaining layer _____________________________________ or sublayers _______________________and
_______________________ to scale.
- From the top on both sides of the paper, measure __________ from the top of the paper. Using the
ruler draw a line between the dots parallel to the top of the paper. This line is for you to write the
title of this drawing.
- Divide the remaining paper in half. Label the top section _________________________ and the bottom
section ________________________. Put arrows pointing upwards in the ___________________ to
indicate that this layer continues beyond the paper.
- Follow ALL the directions on Part II
Answers:
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- 1 millimeter=1 kilometer
- none
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- 12 km (ave. height of troposphere) X 1 mm=12 mm, troposphere
- stratosphere, mesosphere, 1 mm=1 km
- thermosphere, ionosphere, exosphere
- 2 cm
- exosphere, ionosphere, exosphere
- none
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Oxygen Calculation
Up, Up, and Away |
Atmosphere Riddles
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