Chapter 3
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| ______ is the distance between successive troughs and crests. | show 🗑
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| All of the following types of electromagnetic radiation have wavelengths longer than that of visible light with the exception of | show 🗑
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| All of the following types of electromagnetic radiation have wavelengths shorter than that of visible light with the exception of | show 🗑
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| show | shortest
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| show | higher than
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| Solar radiation that reaches Earth's surface consists of | show 🗑
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| show | Ultraviolet radiation
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| show | the Sun
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| show | the wavelength at which radiation from the surface is most intense will lengthen.
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| If the temperature of the Sun were to ______, the wavelength at which solar radiation is most intense would decrease. | show 🗑
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| Solar radiation | show 🗑
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| The ultimate source of solar radiation is | show 🗑
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| Today, the solar altitude is at a maximum around | show 🗑
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| Earth is closest to the Sun during the | show 🗑
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| Earth is closest to the Sun in | show 🗑
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| During summer in the Northern Hemisphere, the number of hours of daylight is ______ the number of hours of darkness. | show 🗑
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| During winter in the ______ Hemisphere, the number of hours of daylight is less then the number of hours of darkness. | show 🗑
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| show | any day of the year.
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| show | Tropic of Capricorn
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| Except right at the poles, nights are everywhere about 12 hours long when? | show 🗑
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| At the equinoxes, the noon Sun has an altitude of 90 degrees at the | show 🗑
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| show | is essentially the same throughout the year.
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| show | is actually variable.
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| As solar radiation travels through the atmosphere, a portion of that radiation is | show 🗑
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| show | converted to heat energy
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| The layer of the atmosphere that contains the ozone shield is the | show 🗑
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| show | chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs).
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| show | All of the above are correct.
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| Formation and dissociation of ozone in Earth's atmosphere is related to the | show 🗑
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| show | black asphalt
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| show | fresh snow
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| Which one of the following surfaces absorbs the highest percentage of incident solar radiation at noon? | show 🗑
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| show | less than 10 percent.
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| show | at noon
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| show | less than
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| The surface of Earth is absorbing solar radiation. If more solar radiation is absorbed than emitted, then the temperature of Earth's surface will | show 🗑
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| show | ocean water
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| show | infrared
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| show | water vapor
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| show | clear
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| Clouds, carbon dioxide, water vapor, and methane strongly ______ infrared radiation. | show 🗑
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| The chief reason for the upward trend in atmospheric carbon dioxide since the mid-1800s is (are) | show 🗑
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| A gas that absorbs within the so-called atmospheric windows: | show 🗑
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| show | sixteen times the amount it now receives.
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| Compared to the rest of the 20th century, the global mean annual temperature during the decade of the 1990s was relatively | show 🗑
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| show | cloud surface temperatures.
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