Q: What is the name of the protective layer of gases that surrounds the earth and blocks harmful rays from the sun?


Read this paragraph and choose the correct option from the provided answers:

The atmosphere protects living things from the Sun’s most harmful rays. Gases reflect or absorb the strongest rays of sunlight. Figure below models this role of the atmosphere.

 Choices:

- the corona

- the protector

- the coma

- the atmosphere


A:
the atmosphere