Chapter 6.2 packet
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| What form does solar energy travel to Earth? | visible, UV, and IR
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| Which three gases contribute most to the greenhouse effect? | water vapor, carbon dioxide, and methane
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| How much of the radiation from the sun is absorbed by particles and gases in the atmosphere? | 20%
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| How much of the radiation from the sun reflected by the clouds and the atmosphere? | 25%
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| How much of the Sun's rays reach and are absorbed by Earth's surface? | 5%
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| What is absorbed radiation re-emitted as? | IR
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| What is radiation balance? | when the amount of energy that is absorbed is equally re-emitted as IR
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| What layer is between the stratosphere and the thermosphere? | mesosphere
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| Birds, bats, and insects fly in what layer of the atmosphere? | troposphere
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| Which layer of the atmosphere contains the ozone layer? | Stratosphere
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| What does earth's atmosphere contain? | water vapor, nitrogen, carbon dioxide, oxygen, and other gases
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| What layer extends from the mesosphere to the exosphere? | thermosphere
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| What are the three types of energy transfer? | latent heat, conduction, and convection
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| What is an ordered series of actions? | process
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| How do bright surfaces on Earth affect what happens to incoming sunlight? | the surfaces reflect the light
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| What is conduction? | the temperature change when two things touch
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| What is convection? | the heat that occurs when something circulates in order to heat the entire substance
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| What is stable air? | air that is almost the same temperature in higher areas as lower areas
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| What is unstable air? | air that forms clouds as warm air rapidly rises
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| What is a mountain wave? | air the moves all over a mountain range
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| What is stability? | how weak or strong something is
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| What is temperature inversion? | as altitude increases, temperature increases
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| Does water freezing involve the absorption or the release of thermal energy? | release
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| Does ice melting involve the absorption or the release of thermal energy? | absorption
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| Does water evaporating involve the absorption or the release of thermal energy? | absorption
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