Review Questions for Quiz #1
 

• From Chapter 1 of the text, page 23: 1-6, 8-11 & 14.
• Additional Questions:
1. Definitions: Lapse Rate; Temperature Inversion
2. If the number density of air on the top of Mt. Lemon is about 75% of the value it is in Tucson (about 2.5x10¹⁹molecules/cubic centimeter), then what is the number density of nitrogen molecules on the top of Mt. Lemon?
3. If you took a sample of the air in the classroom to a chemistry lab for analysis, how many gases would constitute 99% of the air in the room?  What would be their relative proportions?
4. If you went to the top of Mt. Everest and repeated the above exercise, what would you find?
5. What are the general characteristics of each "sphere" of the atmosphere when we categorize based upon the vertical profile of temperature? (In this class we'll be most interested in the lowest 2 layers.)
6. How does atmospheric pressure change with altitude?

From Chapter 15 of the text, page 398: 2,3,4,11.