Exam 18: Energy Balance in the Atmosphere

Photons appear when they are emitted and disappear when they are absorbed.

Frequency means __________ per __________.

__________ are particles of light.

On __________, every place on Earth receives 12 hours of sunlight and 12 hours of darkness.

Atmospheric convection is:

If scientists were to spread a thin layer of ashes on the Antarctic ice cap, we would expect that the albedo of the region would:

__________ is the amount of energy required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance by 1°C.

The most important greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are:

On the __________, every portion of the globe receives 12 hours of sunlight and 12 hours of darkness.

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

When a substance changes from one state to another, __________ heat is absorbed or released.

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

Which is not an electromagnetic wave?

__________ is the transport of heat by currents in liquids or gases.

Albedo is the:

The sky appears blue because:

When an object absorbs radiation, the:

__________ measures the total energy in a sample.

Ocean currents:

The Earth remains warm at night because: