Exam 18: Energy Balance in the Atmosphere

__________ __________ is the energy released or absorbed when a substance changes from one state to another.

If the air is filled with dust or water droplets, all of the wavelengths scatter, and the sky becomes red.

The Earth emits higher energy radiation than the Sun does.

__________ __________is the amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of material by 1°C.

A mirror has an albedo:

Evaporation from a body of water:

The Earth's surface emits __________ radiation.

If Earth had no atmosphere, radiant heat loss would be so rapid that the Earth's surface would cool drastically at night.

The Earth's surface emits __________ radiation, which has a relatively long wavelength and low frequency.

If you place a pan of water and a rock outside on a hot summer day, the:

The amount of radiation that the Earth receives from the Sun is so tiny that it hardly warms the Earth's surface.

Snow/ice has an albedo of __________ percent.

Snowfields and glaciers have low albedos.

Atmospheric gases, water droplets, and dust particles __________ sunlight in all directions.

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

Light behaves as both an electrical and magnetic wave.

Carbon dioxide and methane can trap heat in the Earth's atmosphere and are therefore known as __________ gases.

Particles of light are called __________.

Visible light is a large portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.

The __________ __________ is the continuum of radiation of different wavelengths and frequencies.