Exam 18: Energy Balance in the Atmosphere

When high-energy, visible light from the Sun is absorbed, Earth's surface will emit ____.

Snowfields and glaciers have relatively low albedo.

What is conduction?

____________________ is the transport of heat by collisions between atoms and molecules.

What can affect Earth's atmospheric temperatures in terms of absorption or reflection?

The sky appears blue from Earth's surface because the blue component of the sunlight ____________________ more than the other frequencies.

Describe the levels of a photon's energy.

The horizontal airflow in atmospheric convection is called ____.

The measure of the total energy in a sample is called ____.

Why doesn't Earth get hot enough to boil oceans and melt rocks from the radiant energy it absorbs from the Sun?

What is the frequency of a wave?

Conduction is the transport of heat by direct collision among atoms or molecules.

Cloudy regions generally have a narrower daily temperature range than regions with predominantly blue sky and starry nights because clouds cool Earth during the day and warm it at night.

What is the temperature of the Sun's surface?

Equinoxes are lines on a weather map connecting areas with the same average temperature.

The electromagnetic spectrum comprises the entire range of electromagnetic radiation, including ____ waves.

____ can behave as both a wave and a particle simultaneously.

When a bucket of water and a rock absorb equal amounts of energy, the ____.

Snow has an albedo of ____ percent.

A mirror has an albedo of ____.