The Physical Environment

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The Atmosphere

Looking Back: Atmospheric Composition

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1. Define homosphere and heterosphere.

2. List the "permanent (constant)" gases.

3. Which greenhouse gas is more effective at heating the atmosphere, carbon dioxide or methane?

4. Which gas filters UV light in the stratosphere, carbon dioxide, ozone, or methane?

5. Soot increases or decreases reflectivity resulting in melting when deposited on snow?

 

 

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For Citation: Ritter, Michael E. The Physical Environment: an Introduction to Physical Geography.
2006. Date visited.  http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/faculty/ritter/geog101/textbook/title_page.html

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