PDS APES 8th Period 2009-10

On Friday, we talked about why there is uneven heating on the earth and what affects wind. There are 3 main reasons that the earth is heated unevenly: The rotation of the earth The earth rotates around an axis, and it completes one full rotation each day.  At different times of the day, different areas [...]

We started class by discussing earth’s atmosphere; we learned that it has five layers, but we are only going to focus on four:  (1) the troposphere, (2) the stratosphere, (3) the mesosphere, and (4) the thermosphere.  As the layers increase in altitude, the temperature decreases and the amount of ozone (O3) increases (O3 collects in the stratosphere).  [...]