Earth and Space Test 7

What day of the week is President's Day this year?

Which type of solar radiation is partially absorbed by the ozone layer, causing some to reach the earth's surface?

Which of the following surface would be warm more quickly during the day?

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What is the atmospheric pressure at sea level?

The armospheric pressure at sea level is 1103 millibars

If there were no oxygen in the stratosphere, would the temperature increase as the altitude rises?

This is downslope wind caused by cooling air near a slope.

Monsoon require the location to be...

This is the transfer of heat by electromagnetic waves

Upper atmosphere waves associated with the polar front jet stream are the Rossby waves

The exosphere is earth's weather layer.

Which direction do anticyclones rotate in the Southern Hemisphere?

The Intertropical Convergence Zone is caused by

What is the amount of available energy to heat the earth's land, water, and air?

Auroras that occur in Southern latitudes are called aurora australis

This is the transfer of heat by direct contact

Plasma, the fourth state of matter is created by solar radiation

Which portion of the atmosphere is named for its distinct layers of different gases

Plane Streams are narrow, meandering bands of high-altitude winds that move rapidly

These two gases are resposible for providing the earth with a mild, stable climate

This effect is caused a seasonal change in wind direction bringing both wet and dry seasons

A foehn is a warm, dry wind that travels down a mountain slope

A rise in temperature caused by the compression of gas with no heat added is...

This feature marks the bottom of the mesosphere:

What is the horizontal movement of air caused by a transfer of heat?

Why does a compass point north?

The ratio of solar radiation reflected by an object to the amount of radiation that strikes the object its albedo

Which layer of the earth's atmosphere is the least understood layer?

Which convection cell is located between the Equator and 30 degrees latitude?

The regions of high pressure and gentle winds at about 30 degrees north and south latitudes are the doldrums.

This layer of the armopshere, which protects the earth from harmul UV radiation, is found in the upper stratosphere

The horizontal movement of air caused by a transfer of heat is a downdraft

This is the portion of the earth's magentic field that is influenced by solar wind.

This is cool, gentle wind blowing in from the water to the land.

Convection currents on a global scale are due to...

Conduction currents are most responsible for the earth's weather

Air that expands and cools as it rises creating high-altitude winds is an example of adiabatic heating.

Which surface winds consistently allowed ships to make quick passage across the ocean?

This is the transfer of heat by moving currents of fluid.

What can enable radio waves to be transmitted across the world?

What is one of the two factors that cause the Coriolis Effect?

These are doughnut-shaped regions surrounding the earth that trap particles of solar winds

Which point is the coldest point in the atmosphere?

Anabatic winds are caused by ________________________________ rising near the mountain slope

Which of these is the unit used to measure the amount of energy something gains, loses or uses?

This occurs when a large amount of dense, cold air spills over the tops of mountain ranges

Which of the following is a true statement

The layers of the atmosphere are in this order from the land to the outermost layer:

Which layer of the earth's atmosphere is the weather layer?

Which would have the highest atmospheric pressure if all factors except altitude were the same?

Where in its orbit does the earth reach its closest point to the sun and the most insolation from the sun

What term is given to the solar radiation that reaches the earth's surface?

Which of the greenhouse gases is the most important and abundant?

Which convection cell is located between 60 degrees and the poles?

Due to the Coriolis Effect, cyclones in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres blow in ______________ directions.

The atmospheric pressure at sea level is 1301 millibars

Which portion of the earth's magnetosphere stretches away from the sun?

Why is the afternoon the hottest part of the day?

The homosphere is so names because of its uniform mixture of gases

Which layer of the earth's atmosphere is located above the mesopause and at the bottom of the heterosphere

The steady change in atmospheric temperature with altitude is the atmosphere's temperature gradient.

AIR ALWAYS FLOWS FROM AREAS OF LOWER PRESSURE TO AREAS OF HIGHER PRESSURE

Which convection cell is located between 60 degrees and 30 degrees latitude?