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The document discusses Earth's atmosphere, including the gases that compose it such as nitrogen, oxygen, water vapor, and carbon dioxide. It also describes the vertical structure of atmospheric pressure and temperature, and the different types of weather and climate within the atmosphere. Most atmospheric gases and weather occur within the lowest 30 kilometers above Earth's surface.

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Air Is Made Up Presentation

The document discusses Earth's atmosphere, including the gases that compose it such as nitrogen, oxygen, water vapor, and carbon dioxide. It also describes the vertical structure of atmospheric pressure and temperature, and the different types of weather and climate within the atmosphere. Most atmospheric gases and weather occur within the lowest 30 kilometers above Earth's surface.

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The Earth and its Atmosphere

This chapter discusses:

1. Gases in Earth's atmosphere

2. Vertical structure of atmospheric


pressure & temperature

3. Types of weather & climate in the


atmosphere
Solar Energy as Radiation

Figure 1.1
Nearly 150 million kilometers separate the sun and earth, yet solar radiation
drives earth's weather.
Earth's Atmosphere

Thin Gaseous envelope

Figure 1.2
99% of atmospheric gases, including water vapor, extend only 30 kilometer
(km) above earth's surface.

Most of our weather, however, occurs within the first 10 to 15 km.


Composition of Atmosphere
Nitrogen - ____ %
Oxygen - ____%
Water Vapor 0 to __%
Carbon Dioxide - _____%
Other gases make up the rest
Atmospheric Gases
Nitrogen,
oxygen, argon,
water vapor,
carbon dioxide,
and most other
gases are
invisible.

Clouds are not


gas, but
condensed vapor
in the form of
liquid droplets.

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