GEOG 1400 Chapter Notes - Chapter Composition and Structure of the Atmosphere & Atmospheric and Surface Temperatures: Ionosphere, Thermosphere, Tropopause
29 Jul 2016
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Ap geog 1400 book notes #4 (sept. 24) Unit 5 composition and structure of the atmosphere. Unit 7 atmospheric and surface temperatures (pgs. Immediate and short-term conditions of the atmosphere that impinge on daily human activities. Long term conditions (over at least 30 years) of aggregate weather over a region, summarized by averages and measures of variability; a synthesis of the succession of weather events we have learned to expect at any given location. Atmospheric gases always found in the same proportions. Two of them constitute 99% of the air; nitrogen (78%) and oxygen (21%) Atmospheric gases present in differing quantities at different times and places; three are essential to life; carbon dioxide, water vapour, and ozone. Solid particles floating in the atmosphere whose quantities vary in time and space. Among other things, they play an active role in the formation of raindrops. The biological name for process is respiration.
