Exam 2: Energy: Warming Earth and the Atmosphere

The faster something moves, ____.

The rising air bubbles from convection are known as ____.

Which of the following is the poorest conductor of heat?

Most of the radiation emitted by a human body is in the form of ____.

Earth's magnetic field protects Earth from some of the ____.

Solar wind is composed of ____________________, or ____________________, travelling through space.

What is released as sensible heat during the formation of clouds?

A temperature of 250 Kelvin is considered extremely hot.

The solar wind is not responsible for solar storms. Solar wind and solar storm are simply different names for the same phenomena.

Solar radiation reaches Earth's surface as ____.

The atmospheric greenhouse effect occurs because the atmosphere allows ____________________ radiation to pass through, but inhibits to some degree the passage of ____________________ radiation leaving Earth's surface.

Explain why the Kelvin temperature scale is also called the absolute temperature scale.

A vertical exchange of heat is called ____.

Suppose last night was clear and calm. Tonight's forecast indicates that low clouds will be present. From this, you would conclude that tonight's minimum temperature will be ____.

The amount of heat energy required to bring about a change in temperature in a substance is called the ____.

Visible radiation is more successful in dislodging electrons from air atoms and molecules than ultraviolet radiation.

Which gases are primarily responsible for the atmospheric greenhouse effect in Earth's atmosphere?

If the temperature of the air is said to be at absolute zero, one might conclude that the ____.

A change of 1 degree on the Celsius scale is ____ a change of 1 Kelvin.

Both the Earth and the Sun can be treated as blackbodies.