Exam 3: Air Temperature

Minimum daily temperatures usually occur about a half hour after _______.

Temperature decreases with elevation in the troposphere because of:

Examine the annual net radiation patterns shown in this figure. The curve for the city of Aswan at 24ᵒ N latitude is labeled:

Examine the annual net radiation patterns shown in this figure. The curve for the city of Hamburg at 54ᵒ N latitude is labeled:

Widely spaced isotherms on a map indicate a:

Adjacent water and land locations have quite different temperature ranges due to differences in:

Urban areas generally absorb more insolation than nearby rural areas because surfaces like asphalt have higher albedos than surfaces like meadow or forest.

An isotherm is a line that connects points of equal temperature on a map.

Annual temperature ranges tend to _______ increasing latitude.

The situation in which air temperatures increase with elevation is known as a temperature ________.

______ is what you feel when you touch a warm object.

Insolation tends to be more intense at higher elevations, because there are fewer air molecules to absorb or scatter the sun's light.

A possible result of global warming is:

On high mountains, insolation levels will be _______ the adjacent lowlands.

Temperature tends to ______ with elevation in the mesosphere, and ________ with elevation in the thermosphere.

Outline the factors that cause temperature differences between land and water bodies.

The process by which plants lose water to the atmosphere by evaporation through leaf pores is called evapotranspiration.

If you touch a hot oven with your hands and get burned, which transfer of heat process is being observed?

Which of the following areas would tend to have the coolest air temperatures on a given day, assuming all receive the same insolation?

For mid-latitude locations, total daily insolation tends to smallest on the: