Cambridge Primary Science · Stage 4 · Earth and Space
Atmosphere
Games
Four games to practise what you learned about the layers, the gases and the way the atmosphere protects us. Pick one to begin.
Highest at the top
Tap a card, then tap a row
Tap a placed card to take it back
You have caught 100 tiny pieces of dry air in a jar. Set the mixture to match real air. Every square must be filled.
1 square = 1 piece in every 100
Meteors are falling towards Earth. They can only burn up in the mesosphere — the shaded band. Tap each meteor while it is inside that band. Too early or too late and it slips through.
Keyboard: press Space to burn the lowest meteor inside the band
Fly a weather balloon up to 35 km, where real ones burst. Hold to add lift, let go to slow down. Watch the temperature stop falling and start rising when you enter the stratosphere — that is the ozone layer soaking up the Sun. Climb too fast for too long and the balloon bursts early.
Keyboard: hold Space or the Up arrow