Short Answer
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1.
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What
are the two main elements in our atmosphere and the approximate percentages of each?
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2.
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Where
does most of Earth’s weather occur?
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3.
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What
are the five principal layers of the Earth’s atmosphere?
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4.
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What
is the tropopause and why is it so important to commercial aviation?
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5.
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Why
do modern commercial aircraft prefer to fly mostly in the stratosphere?
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6.
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What
is the importance of the ionosphere to communications?
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7.
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What
are the two types of barometers used by the Navy?
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8.
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What
three things cause changes in the weather?
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9.
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What
are the two most widely used temperature scales, and what are the freezing and boiling points for
each scale?
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10.
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What
is “dew point”?
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