The Physical Environment

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The Atmosphere

Looking Back: Atmospheric Structure

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1. What happens to air temperature as one moves upward through the troposphere?

2. Define the normal and environmental lapse rate of temperature.

3. What happens to air temperature as one moves upward through the stratosphere?

4. Define "inversion".

5. What are the "functional layers" of the atmosphere

 

 

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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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