Practice Quizzes

After completing the reading assignment and exploring the web resources, study guide, and tutorial,
review what you have learned with these quizzes:

 
The Atmosphere and Earth's Motions Multiple Choice Quiz
 

Quizzes, Tarbuck and Lutgens, Chapter 16, Key Concepts 1-3

Home Planet
Download this public domain astronomy package and screen saver.  You can view the earth from satellites, from the sun, or from the moon.  You can observe day and night regions and find the current location of the overhead sun.

Earth and Moon Viewer
You can view the earth showing day and night in various formats without downloading the complete progam. Try the Colour Composite view of the earth.  You will see an overview of the temperatures, clouds, and weather systems as well as day and night.

Here Comes the Sun
A simple and light-hearted tutorial about rotation, revolution, solstices, equinoxes, and the cause of seasons.

Sun-Earth Geometry
Explore this interactive exercise on the sun's angle at different latitudes throughout the year. Simulate the angles of the sun at noon for Alameda. (Approximate latitude 38 degrees North.)

Ozone - Good Up High Bad Nearby
From the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, learn why ozone is a good gas in the stratosphere but a bad gas in the troposphere close to the earth's surface.

Atmospheric Structure and Composition
A simplified summary of the atmosphere's structure and composition from Michael Ritter's Web Site, University of Wisconsin Stevens Point.