Can you name the layers of the atmosphere?

Approx. Extent	Layer
Up to 6,200 miles
Up to 430 miles
Up to 53 mile
Up to 31 miles
Earth's surface up to 4-12 miles
Located within the thermosphere
Located within the stratosphere

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Layers of the Atmosphere Quiz

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Published: April 3rd, 2009
Category: Science
Plays: 50,970

Tags: atmosphere, layer, space, meteorology

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	slew:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 17:19 GMT	26 points
	Why is ionosphere a bonus but not magnetosphere? I'm sure I'll get negative for asking this :

	antifolkhero:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 17:24 GMT	8 points
	Didn't know any of them except ionosphere, and only figured out thermosphere because it was in the answer for ionosphere!

	pete:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 17:33 GMT	18 points
	i knew tropo and strato, got thermo from the iono bonus (thanks!) and then guessed a couple of prefixes like exo and meso to get the most unlikely 100% i ever got in one of these with 18 seconds to spare. this is basically my equivalent of winning the World Cup.

	mjenks:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 17:33 GMT	14 points
	I'm an idiot. I got the bonus question...but then missed the one provided by the bonus question.

	Fenwicky:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 17:39 GMT	1 point
	i know the exo (most missed) and strato (least missed)... weird

	sactoshc:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 17:41 GMT	2 points
	3 out of 5 plus the bonus...my grandmother, a science teacher, would not be pleased.

	Frowney:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 17:42 GMT	4 points
	This would work better as a picture quiz.

	foo:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 17:43 GMT	-3 points
	Ouch. I got three thanks to two answers being given away from the bonus answers.

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	jwbrockman:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 18:05 GMT	14 points
	You forgot the Blogosphere. Cmon guys.

	RobH:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 18:41 GMT	0 points
	3 out of 5 plus bonus. Missed the two nearest. What's the Heaviside layer then? I thought that was one but it's not there.

	HollywoodLeo:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 18:45 GMT	1 point
	LOL I got two bonuses before getting any answers, but the two bonuses gave me answers. (although I already knew one of them but didn't enter it yet.)

	Dabears2334:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 18:45 GMT	4 points
	Got everything but mesosphere

	zigra:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 19:11 GMT	11 points
	sporcle has gone from teaching me what I didn't know to teaching me that I don't know things I didn't even know that I didn't know.

	Evan:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 19:15 GMT	2 points
	5/5, took an intro to atmosphere class in college.

	RobH:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 19:26 GMT	5 points
	@Evan. I bet that required some blue sky thinking.

	lulubelles:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 19:57 GMT	6 points
	zigra you sound like donald rumsfeld lol

	schoopdawoop:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 19:59 GMT	-1 points
	shoot, i knew em all but had a brainfart.

	Hannah:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 20:26 GMT	2 points
	6/5 thank god for eighth grade science :D

	CarpeDiem:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 20:45 GMT	-1 points
	Great game... at which I totally sucked. I agree wholeheartedly with zigra! :-)

	aerodynamic:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 21:08 GMT	-1 points
	@Alex: me, too.

	shel99:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 21:17 GMT	0 points
	100% + bonus. And a good thing too, since I teach this stuff to my 8th graders...

	Brii:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 21:22 GMT	-1 points
	Whoo. Go 8th grade science class! 45 seconds to spare(:

	Joe_Ball:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 21:24 GMT	8 points
	Could we possibly not give away answers in the descriptors for the bonuses? I suspect more people have heard of the ozone layer than the stratosphere.

	zalagreensbury:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 21:48 GMT	-2 points
	i knew it was only a matter a time before i'd come face to face with this quiz.

	Moo:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 22:40 GMT	-2 points
	oddly enough, i could not remember "stratosphere", but i got the bonus ionosphere....

	buiksloot:	Apr 3rd, 2009 at 22:49 GMT	2 points
	Lols for other things with layers, including the quiz-writer's fragile emotional psyche! :D

	tcalleen:	Apr 4th, 2009 at 00:18 GMT	2 points
	Am I the only one humming "Let's Go Fly a Kite"?

	Zoe Vic:	Apr 4th, 2009 at 01:08 GMT	2 points
	7/5 woohoo! Ozone Layer was a stab in the dark, I agree that it would be harder if the clues were taken out of the bonus answers but what a cool quiz!

	Dubliner :	Apr 4th, 2009 at 01:48 GMT	2 points
	Anybody heard of the biosphere ? The 12 mile band from the ocean deep (7 miles) to 5 miles above ground in which 'life' as we know it can live ?

	larryv:	Apr 4th, 2009 at 02:09 GMT	3 points
	@Dubliner: Of course :) It's not an atmospheric layer though.

	larryv:	Apr 4th, 2009 at 02:23 GMT	6 points
	@slew The magnetosphere is not a part of the atmosphere; rather, the magnetosphere of a celestial body is the region in which that body's magnetic field is the dominant magnetic field. The particles caught in the magnetic field are mostly plasma from the solar wind; to a lesser extent, some of the ionized particles from the ionosphere "escape" Earth's gravity, only to be captured in the magnetosphere.

	CBK KUMURA:	Apr 10th, 2009 at 00:21 GMT	-3 points
	that was easy

	CBK KUMURA:	Apr 10th, 2009 at 00:21 GMT	-4 points
	.......

	Journey2688:	Apr 26th, 2009 at 22:35 GMT	1 point
	Thank goodness that this is what we are learning about right now in eighth grade science!

	amlt:	May 12th, 2009 at 22:26 GMT	1 point
	just a minor thing, but "mile" needs to be plural in the "up to 53 miles" clue

	GeoExpert:	May 28th, 2009 at 00:40 GMT	1 point
	Magnetosphere would make a pretty good bonus along with ionosphere

	redfire389:	Jun 12th, 2009 at 11:33 GMT	1 point
	damn. Just remembered stratosphere and ionosphere, and thermosphere came by itself, Now If it do it again ill get all of them

	GeoExpert:	Jul 29th, 2009 at 17:57 GMT	0 points
	Uh. Why was Troposphere not working? Because I thought it was Toposphere