Label the Layers of the Atmosphere

5th Grade ScienceLayers of the Atmosphere3 pages

About this worksheet

A tall diagram of the atmosphere runs from the ground at 0 km upward on page 1 of this 5th grade science sheet, with dashed lines at 12, 50, 85 and 600 km. Students match five numbered pointers to a word bank of exosphere, mesosphere, stratosphere, thermosphere and troposphere. The picture shows a cloud, a jet, a weather balloon, an ozone band, a meteor, the aurora, a space station and a satellite in place. Page 2 asks which layer we live in and which holds the ozone layer, the meteors and the space station.

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Curriculum objectives covered

โ€œName the five layers of the atmosphere and put them in order from the ground up.โ€

Page 1 pointers 1 to 5 run from the troposphere to the exosphere.

โ€œUse a labeled diagram to say which layer holds the ozone layer, meteors and the International Space Station.โ€

Questions 2, 3 and 4 on page 2.

What's inside this worksheet

Layers of the Atmosphere

A tall diagram with heights marked at the side and five pointers numbered from the ground up. Students write each layer name from the word bank on the matching numbered line.

Atmosphere Questions

Four questions that send students back to the diagram: the layer we live in, the layer with the ozone layer, the layer where meteors burn up and the layer where the space station orbits.

Answers

The five layers with their heights, from the troposphere (0 to 12 km) to the exosphere (above 600 km), and the four one-word answers.

How teachers use it

Point before you write

Ask students to point to the ozone band, the meteor and the aurora and say the layer out loud before they write a single label. It slows down guessing.

Order mnemonic

Give two minutes to invent a phrase for the first letters, T, S, M, T and E, and write it beside the diagram.

Exit ticket

Use page 2 on its own at the end of a lesson. Each answer is one layer name, so a class set marks in minutes.

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