Exam 18: Energy Balance in the Atmosphere

Evaporation is a process whereby water ____.

Photons travel through space at only one speed.

In Earth's northern hemisphere, the hours of sunlight per day during the Summer Solstice are ____ at the North Pole as compared to the Equator.

What is the speed of light and how fast does it take a photon to move between the Sun and Earth?

The ____________________ is the entire range of electromagnetic radiation.

Earth remains warm at night because ____.

What are isotherms?

The region of the globe directly beneath the Sun is warmer because it ____.

What is sublimation and how many calories does water require?

____________________ is the characteristic weather of a region, averaged over many years.

During the ____ of radiation, the energy of the photon may initiate chemical and physical reactions.

Incoming solar radiation is absorbed by Earth's surface as long-wave radiation and reemitted as short-wave radiation.

____________________ is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of substance by 1 ° C.

If Earth had no atmosphere, sunlight would travel directly to the surface, and the Sun would look white in a black sky.

____________________ are particles of light or the smallest particle or packet of electromagnetic energy.

List two reasons why it is warm in the Northern Hemisphere during June.

On the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, sunlight strikes Earth from directly overhead at the tropic of ____.

Why does the Sun appear yellow from Earth?

____ plays an important role in heat transfer and storage because it commonly occurs naturally on Earth in all three states: solid, liquid, and gas.

The most important greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are ____.