Sunday 9 March 2008

Structure of the atmosphere and the earth's energy balance...

We started Friday's lesson by recapping the vertical stratification of the atmosphere (see earlier post for diagrams) - the words ending in "-pause" were the upper limits of each layer, and Tom Sings Musical Tunes was the mnemonic we came up with to remember the order of the layers as you move upwards.

We then looked at the earth's energy balance....

Although it is written for Scottish Highers, this bit of the BBC Bitesize website has a nice and fairly straightforward summary...

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