Week 1: Introduction and Weekly Schedule

Introduction and Weekly Schedule

Week 1 Objectives:

• Summarize the atmosphere's composition
• Evaluate why the atmosphere is important for life
• Desccribe the layers of the atmosphere in terms of changing physical properties (e.g. temperature, pressure and density)
• Evaluate the types of air pollutants and summarize their impacts on the atmosphere and the biosphere
• Compare and contrast ozone located in the troposphere vs the stratosphere
• Submit 1.1 ASSIGNMENT: Design Your Own Experiment
• Submit 1.2 ASSIGNMENT: Quiz on Atmosphere and Air Pollution

After you have completed this part of the lesson, you can check the box for this lesson piece in the course to mark it as complete