Earth Atmosphere Puzzle: Geography Education Game
Earth Atmosphere Puzzle is a free online knowledge level game to sort objects into their correct atmospheric layer. This interactive geography and science puzzle includes 21 familiar objects, from clouds and birds to space shuttles and satellites. It's a fun and visual educational exercise suitable for online lessons, interactive classes, and exciting homework assignments. Can you rebuild the sky?
What is the Atmosphere? The atmosphere of Earth is the layer of gases—commonly known as air—that surrounds the planet and is retained by Earth's gravity. The atmosphere protects life by creating pressure that allows liquid water to exist, absorbing ultraviolet solar radiation, warming the surface through heat retention (the greenhouse effect), and reducing temperature extremes between day and night.
In general, air pressure and density decrease with altitude. However, temperature has a more complicated profile. Because the temperature behavior changes at different heights, scientists use it as a metric to divide Earth's atmosphere into five main layers (a process called atmospheric stratification).
How to play Earth Atmosphere Puzzle
There are 21 movable pieces representing different objects or phenomena. Drag and drop them at the approximate altitude of the corresponding atmospheric layer on the diagram. If all objects belonging to a specific layer are placed correctly, the scientific name of that layer will be revealed! Sort all 21 objects to win the game.
Knowledge Achievements:
Sort correctly the 5 layers of Earth's atmosphere and get +1 Knowledge Level.
Difficulty: Easy
Class Subject: The 5 Layers of Earth's Atmosphere
This fun science game answers questions like: Which is the first atmospheric layer? Where do space stations orbit? Where do meteors burn up?
Atmospheric Stratification and Objects:
1. Troposphere (up to 10-17 km)
2. Stratosphere (up to ~50 km)
- Planes (Commercial jets)
- Weather balloons
- Spy planes
- Ozone layer
3. Mesosphere (up to ~85 km)
- Noctilucent clouds
- Meteorite burns
- Sounding rockets
- Meteors (Sparks/Shooting stars)
4. Thermosphere (up to ~690 km)
- Aurora clouds
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Space Shuttles
- International Space Station (ISS)
- Former Mir Station
- (No sound travels here)
5. Exosphere (up to ~10,000 km)
- Polar Orbiting Satellites
- Medium Earth orbit satellites
