1. Define air pressure.
2. Define an adiabatic process.
3. Identify the advantages of an aneroid barometer over a mercury barometer.
4. Describe how air pressure and air density change with altitude.
5. Explain why ascending air cools whereas descending air warms.
6. Identify the principal reservoirs in the global water cycle.
7. Distinguish among the various phase changes of water.
8. List some of the implications of the global water budget.
9. Describe ways in which the water vapor component of air is quantified.