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LECTURE 36
questions before lecture
think about these - they should already be familiar
- How deep do you think the atmosphere would be if we could liquify it?
- In which direction is a clear sky bluest?
- In which directions and at what time of day is the sky red? What color is it in the opposite direction?
- What kinds of light get through our atmosphere and what kinds are absorbed?
- What is ozone? What does it do for living creatures? Why is the ozone layer eroding?
- What does UV light do to living creatures?
- Have you heard of a CFC? What is it?
- What is the greenhouse effect? What does it do for living creatures? Why is it increasing?
- Which greenhouse gases are humans responsible for increasing in the atmosphere?
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Revised November 30, 1997.
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