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Met Quiz 2 Answers

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Q1 A measure of the AVERAGE kinetic energy is a measure of ____________ temperature
Q2 Temperature is measured with what tool? thermometer
Q3 Name 2 commonly used labels for temperature degree C, degree F, K
Q4 Heat transfer in all directions is called _____________ radiation
Q5 Heat transfer by touching the heat source to the heat sink is called ______________ conduction
Q6Heat transfer that results when heat rises is called ____________ convection
Q7The Earth's surface is heated by what form of heat transfer? radiation
Q8The air that touches the Earth's surface is heated by what form of heat transfer? conduction
Q9 The whole atmosphere is heated by what form of heat transfer? convection
Q10 Weather happens because of this kind of heat transfer convection
Q11 When heat rises, cools, sinks, gets heated, rises (over and over) it creates a _____________ convection cell or convection current or convection cycle
Q12 When solar energy is trapped in the Earth's atmosphere it is known as the ________________ greenhouse effect
Q13 If the greenhouse effect were to continue, the Earth might experience _________________ global warming
Q14 A measurement of the weight of the air pushing down is called air (barometric) pressure
Q15 The tool that measures barometric pressure is barometer
Q16 The label that we will use in this class for measuring barometric pressure is millibars (mb)
Q17 Storms usually indicates what kind of pressure low
Q18 Fair weather is usually what kind of pressure high
Q19 Arid is another word for ______ dry
Q 20 Warm air is usually what kind of pressure low
Q 21 Valleys usually have what kind of pressure high
Q 22 Isolines that connect locations with the same barometric pressure are called isobars
Q 23 When isobars are close, it will be windy
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