Sol quiz #8

Question 1

The suns radiant energy is made up of 3 different types of electromagnetic radiation?

Answer 1

Infrared radiation, visible light and ultraviolet radiation.

Question 2

Earths energy budget

Answer 2

Describes what happens to incoming solar energy

Question 3

What happens to that solar energy.

Answer 3

1/3 gets reflected back into space. 1/2 is absorbed by the earths surface, the rest is absorbed by the atmosphere and clouds.

Question 4

The green house effect

Answer 4

Is what makes the earths temperature suitable for life.

Question 5

Climate

Answer 5

refers to the long term weather pattern.

Question 6

Why are extremes in temperature minimized near large bodies of water.

Answer 6

Waters absorbs more thermal energy then land. It intakes more thermal energy during the summer and slowly regales it back during the winter.

Question 7

Convection current

Answer 7

Rising of warm air and falling of cool air.

Question 8

How do clouds form.

Answer 8

Water vapor condense and changes into time droplets that collect on dust floating around that makes a cloud.

Question 9

How do thunderstorms form?

Answer 9

When warm air goes above cool air makes clouds which plays a key role in a thunderstorm.

Question 10

Air is made of?

Answer 10

78% nitrogen 21% oxygen and 1% of other gases.

Question 11

Humidity

Answer 11

Amount of water vapor in the air

Question 12

Relative humidity

Answer 12

Measure of the amount of water vapor in the air at a specific temperature.

Question 13

Air pressure and altitude

Answer 13

Air pressure decreases as altitude increases

Question 14

Earths atmosphere

Answer 14

Made of layers of air that surrounds the planet. Earths gravity holds the atmosphere in place .

Question 15

Thermospher

Answer 15

-outermost layer
-aurora borreallis

Question 16

Mesosphere

Answer 16

-second outer most layer
- coldest layer of the atmosphere.

Question 17

Stratosphere

Answer 17

Second layer
-jet planes fly here
- ozone layer protects life on earth from ultraviolet radiation from the sun.

Question 18

Troposphere

Answer 18

-first layer of the atmosphere
-life exists here
-weather takes place here

Question 19

air temperature

Answer 19

-thermometer
-location on earth and amount of radiation from the sun affects

Question 20

air or atmospheric pressure.

Answer 20

-weight of air pressing down on earths surface.
-barometer
-altitude
-density
-temperature

Question 21

moisture

Answer 21

water in the atmosphere
-hygrometer: both H and RH
-psychometer: measures relative humidity

Question 22

air mass

Answer 22

A large volume of air that has a similar temperature, pressure and humidity.

Question 23

fronts

Answer 23

boundaries that separate warm, moist air masses from colder, drier airmasses.

Question 24

warm front

Answer 24

boundary formed when warm air is replacing cold air.

Question 25

cold front

Answer 25

boundary between airmasses when cold air is replacing warm air.

Question 26

occluded front

Answer 26

When warm air catches up to cold air