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Weather influences people, but people don't influence weather.
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False.
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The biosphere interacts with the lithosphere, the hydrosphere, and the atmosphere.
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True.
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Compared to Earth, the density of the Martian atmosphere is very high.
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False.
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The ions in the ionosphere come primarily from oxygen and nitrogen.
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True.
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The troposphere is part of the homosphere.
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True.
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There is no well-defined thermopause.
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True.
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At one time, the Earth's atmosphere contained no free oxygen.
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True.
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Although carbon dioxide is present only in small amounts, it is still more significant meteorologically than the other more abundant gases composing dry air.
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True.
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Vertical motion in the lower atmoshere is strongly related to the environmental lapse rate.
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True.
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Nearly all of planet Earths mass is in the region known as the hydroshpere.
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False.
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"Average weather" is an adequate definition of the climate.
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False.
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Weather and climate are synonymous terms.
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False.
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The oceans cover about 50% of the Earth's surface.
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False.
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Benjamin Franklin was the first to discover that temperature does not continually decrease with an increase in altitude.
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False.
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Carbon dioxide's importance in the atmosphere is solely due to its absorbtion and release of latent heat.
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False.
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