Sunlight that bounces off a surface is said to be ___________.
What is a reflection?
100
Rising air cools by this process.
What is expansion?
100
Without the atmospheric greenhouse effect, the average surface temperature would be ____________ than it is now.
What is lower?
100
Energy transferred by electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
100
The energy of motion
What is kinetic energy?
200
The heat we can feel and measure with a thermometer.
What is sensible heat?
200
Temperature scale where 32 is the freezing of pure water.
What is Fahrenheit?
200
At night, low clouds (enhance, weaken, have no effect on) the atmospheric greenhouse effect.
What is enhance?
200
A good absorber of a given wavelength of radiation is also a good emitter of that wavelength. This is a statement of _________ law.
What is Kirchoff's law?
200
The stored energy or energy of position.
What is potential energy?
300
Transfer of heat by molecule to molecule.
What is conduction?
300
Which of the following is not considered a temperature scale: Fahrenheit, Kelvin, Calorie, Celsius?
What is Calorie?
300
The combined albedo of the earth and the atmosphere is approximately ______%.
What is 30%?
300
What determines the wavelength and amount of radiation an object emits?
What is temperature?
300
If the absolute temperature of an object doubles, the maximum energy emitted goes up by a factor of ____.
What is 16?
400
Ratio amount of heat energy absorbed by a substance to its corresponding temperature rise.
What is heat capacity?
400
The cold feeling that you experience after leaving a swimming pool on a hot, dry summer day represents heat transported by ______________ .
What is Latent Heat?
400
The horizontal transport of any atmospheric property by the wind.
What is advection?
400
The earth emits radiation with greatest intensity at ___________ wavelengths.
What is infrared?
400
A rapid eruption from the sun's surface that emits high energy radiation and energized charged particles.
What is solar flare?
500
Which of the following is not an example of heat transport process in the atmosphere: conduction, radiation, convergence, or convection?
What is convergence?
500
Suppose last night was clear and calm. Tonight, low clouds will be present. From this you could conclude that tonight's minimum temperature will be (higher, lower, or the same) as last night's temperature.
What is higher?
500
The blueness of the sky is due to this.
What is the scattering of sunlight by air molecules?
500
The order from shortest to longest wavelength is _________, ____________, _____________.
What is ultraviolet, visible, infrared?
500
How much radiant energy will an object emit if its temperature is absolute zero?