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| History of Earth and Moon | |
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1. Do you understand the composition of the earth's atmosphere near the earth's surface?
2. Do you know what water vapor is?
3. Do you understand condensation and evaporation?
4. Do you understand latent heat and what a greenhouse gas is?
5. Do you understand the concepts of density and pressure?
6. Do you understand lapse rate?
7. Can you profile the vertical structure of the atmosphere
in terms of:
a) temperature
b) pressure
c) composition
d) electrical properties
8. Do you understand the difference between latitude and longitude (parallels and meridians)?
9. Do you understand how winds circulate around high and low pressure systems in the northern hemisphere?
10. Do you understand the symbols for warm front, cold front, stationary front, and occluded front?
11. Do you understand the role the ionosphere plays in AM radio transmission?
1. What is the primary source of energy in the earth's atmosphere?
2. List the four most abundant gases in today's atmosphere.
3. What is standard atmospheric pressure in a) millibars, and b) inches of mercury?
4. What is the standard lapse rate in the troposphere?
5. What atmospheric layer contains ...
a) all of our weather?
b) the lowest average temperature?
c) the highest average temperature?
6. How are CFC's related to the destruction of stratospheric ozone? If all ozone in the stratosphere were destroyed, what possible effects might this have on the earth's atmosphere and its inhabitants?
7. Even though the actual concentration of oxygen is close to 21 percent (by volume) in the upper stratosphere, explain why you would not be able to survive there.
8. Rank the following storms in size from largest to smallest: hurricane, tornado, middle latitude storm, thunderstorm.
9. How does weather differ from climate?
10. When someone says that "the wind direction today is south," what does that mean?
11. Weather in the middle latitudes tends to move in what general direction?
12. If you were given today's vertical temperature profile of the atmosphere up to an elevation of near twenty kilometers, how would you be able to locate the tropopause?
13. What was the source of the earth's primordial atmosphere? What are some differences between the earth's primordial and modern atmosphere?
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