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Atmosphere and Climate Change
Take Home Quiz- Vocab and Chp6 pages 110 (Living in the Env Text)
*You will be quizzed in class on this material
Vocab
1. Weather takes place in this part of the atmosphere: ______
2. The ozone layer is present in the ______.
3. This gas makes up between 0.1% and 4% of the atmosphere: ______
4. This greenhouse gas is produced through aerobic respiration and the burning of fossil fuels. ______.
5. List the two most prevalent naturally occurring greenhouse gases found in the atmosphere.
Chapter Notes
6. True/False: A city will tend to have more haze and smog because cities can have their own microclimate.
7. Why do the climates of coastal cities tend to be different than those climates found more inland and not near a large body of water?
8. True/False: The greenhouse effect is essential to life on earth.
9. In a low pressure weather system what temperature of air is rising and what might weather may be observed in a low pressure system?
10. What process allows heat to be transferred from the oceans to the atmosphere?
11. True/False: Warm dry air rises and cools, and the cool, moist air sinks.
12. True/False: Weather and Climate are terms that both refer to current atmospheric conditions.