The+atmosphere

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 * Key knowledge **
 * role of the atmosphere in maintaining life in the environment
 * effects of human activities, such as agriculture, industry, transport, energy production, on the atmosphere
 * chemical reactions and processes of acid rain
 * qualitative effects of ozone depletion and photochemical smog
 * role of the carbon and nitrogen cycles in maintaining life on earth
 * the laboratory and industrial preparation of one gas of significance to the quality of the atmosphere


 * the major contributing gases to the enhanced greenhouse effect and at least one of the associated local, state, national or international protocols


 * kinetic molecular theory and its use in explaining properties of gases

> volume-volume and mass-volume stoichiometry
 * calculations including those involving gas laws, molar volume at STP and SLC, the General Gas Equation,