Chapters 1-6
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| show | 8 minutes
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| show | Shortwave
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| Cooling of air expansion is called ____. | show 🗑
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| show | Eastern Siberia
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| The higher latitudes recieve much less insolation than tropical zones because of ____. | show 🗑
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| In the electromagnetic spectrum, visible light occupies the band between 0.4 and 0.7 ____. | show 🗑
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| The solar energy reaching Earth travels a distance of ____ million kilometers. | show 🗑
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| ____ objects radiate in shorter wavelengths than _____ objects. | show 🗑
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| show | Black Body
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| show | Short
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| show | Red
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| About ___ percent of the total insolation is directly absorbed by the air. | show 🗑
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| show | Earths Surface
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| show | Normal Lapse Rate
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| Solar energy and terrestrial reradiation are usually measured in units of length called _____. | show 🗑
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| show | The Greenhouse Effect
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| show | Dark colered
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| Which of the following is closely related to a surface temperature inversion? | show 🗑
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| show | Increases in greenhouse gases have been observed.
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| Vertical motion in air causes cooling of the lifted air. This phenomenon is governed by the ___ effect. | show 🗑
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| Which of the following electromagnetic wavelenghts are the LONGEST? | show 🗑
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| show | Scattering
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| The observed increase in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere in this century is attributable to ______. | show 🗑
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| In the heating of the atmosphere, which amount of energy is the SMALLEST? | show 🗑
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| show | Through the tropics
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| show | Winds
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| show | 6.5
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| ALthough several factors are involved, the main factor controlling the distribution of annual average temperature for Earth as a whole is ______. | show 🗑
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| show | the season is winter
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| show | The temperature increases with altitude
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| show | Is a star of average size
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| Between .7 and 1.0 micrometers are some of the ______ wavelengths. | show 🗑
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| show | 4
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| show | Longwave, shortwave
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| What process explains the slow rate of snowmelt on a sunny day when air temperatures are above freezing? | show 🗑
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| show | In Siberia 9(70*N)
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| show | United States
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| The main culprite for global warming (not ozone depletion) appears to be _______. | show 🗑
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| show | Insolation
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| A langley is defined as a unit of energy equal to one calorie per square centimeter. | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| The ability of a molecule to pass through the atmosphere is called scattering. | show 🗑
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| show | False
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| show | True
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| show | False
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| Coriolis effect sets ocean currents in motion. | show 🗑
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| show | False
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| The Fahrenheit scale for temperature reading is still the most widely used scale in the world. | show 🗑
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| Sea level is currently rising because of global warming. | show 🗑
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| show | False
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| show | True
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| Adiabatic warming takes place by compression in descending air. | show 🗑
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| Albedo is the same phemomenon as advection. | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| show | True
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| show | True
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| The "greenhouse effect" doesnt work the same way in a greenhouse as is does in the atmosphere. | show 🗑
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| show | True
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| Solar radiation striking the Earths surface is characterized as "longwave". | show 🗑
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| show | Nitrogen
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| show | Decrease of temperature with increasing altitude
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| show | The plane of the equator
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| show | 0-4
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| show | Exosphere
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| show | Leeward
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| The third most plentiful gas in the Earths lower atmosphere is _____. | show 🗑
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| show | Burning of coal
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| ______ is(are) the crucial to the formation of clouds in the atmosphere. | show 🗑
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| The segment of the atmosphere in which gases maintain an approximately uniform composition is the _____. | show 🗑
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| show | Reduce ultraviolet radiation
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| The atmospheric layer in which gases do not maintain a uniform composition is the ____. | show 🗑
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| show | 4
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| show | Clouds, duh
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| What is the main absorber of ultraviolet radiation in the atmosphere is ______. | show 🗑
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| show | Atmosphere
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| Mountainds act as major climatic barriers with the sheltered or _____ side recieving less moisture than the exposed side. | show 🗑
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| show | Third
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| show | Main
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| _____ is(are) responsible for placing oxygen in the atmosphere. | show 🗑
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| Oxygen is the ______ component of the atmosphere in terms of volume. | show 🗑
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| In general, warm ocean currents are located _____ of the continents. | show 🗑
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| The most basic factor causing the distribution of hot and cold temperatures over Earth's surface is ______. | show 🗑
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| Which is NOT a "weather element"? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following is an atmospheric gas. | show 🗑
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| show | Stratosphere
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| show | Chlorofluorocarbons
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| A "hole" in the ozone layer was first discovered over ______. | show 🗑
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| show | ALLL OF THE ABOVE
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| In the atmosphere, the temperature decreases with increasing altitude in the ______ and the ______. | show 🗑
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| Which of the following is not considered a climatic control? | show 🗑
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| Chlorine in the stratosphere will turn ozone directly into ________. | show 🗑
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| show | More than 95%
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| If one were 30 kilometers above sea level, one would be apart of the atmosphere known as the ________. | show 🗑
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| show | has the hottest temperatures in the atmosphere
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| The concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a _______. | show 🗑
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| Clouds owe their existance to the presence of atmospheric _______. | show 🗑
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| The smallest atmospheric particles can remain suspended in the atmosphere for a period of ________. | show 🗑
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| What atmospheric layer is directly above the tropopause? | show 🗑
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| It is thought that the Earth's climate is being changed rapidly by __________. | show 🗑
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| Ozone is actually _______. | show 🗑
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| show | refer to the atmosphere as studied on different time scales
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| show | troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere
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| show | Hygroscopic
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| Which of the following exists highest in the atmosphere? | show 🗑
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| show | Most of its mass is relatively close to the ground.
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| show | Tropopause
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| show | Latitude
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| show | is very shallow
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| show | NONE OF THE ABOVE
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| show | True
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| Oxygen is the most common gas in the lower part of the atmosphere. | show 🗑
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