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Earth Science Atmosphere Reveiw
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Earth Science Review Quiz
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In the Northern hemisphere, winds travelling north appear to curve to the east because of the
Coriolis effect
Hadley cells
continental deflection
trade winds
2
Air temperature changes as altitude increases because of
gravity
water content
gases that absorb solar energy
air pollution
3
Narrow belts of wind that can reach 400 km/hr are called
Hadley cells
trade winds
jet streams
air currents
4
Air moves around the Earth as global winds in large patterns called
trade winds
Hadley cells
westerlies
easterlies
5
What is the source of most human pollution?
agriculture
industry
vehicle exhaust
animal waste
6
What causes differences in air pressure around the Earth?
air rising at the equator and poles
air rising at the equator and sinking at the poles
air sinking at the equator and rising at the poles
cold air in mountains moving down slope
7
Carbon monoxide put directly into the atmosphere is called
smog
a secondary pollutant
haze
a primary pollutant
8
Where is the ozone layer found?
mesosphere
thermosphere
troposhere
stratosphere
9
Most solar energy that reaches the atmosphere is
absorbed by the Earth's surface
reflected
scattered by clouds
absorbed by the atmosphere
10
Global warming may be caused by
the escape of thermal energy
the escae of radiation
an increase in greenhouse gases
a decrease in greenhouse gases
11
Guess how much of the Sun's energy reaches the Earth
1%
100%
10%
about 1 / 2000000000
12
The Earth's atmoshpere is composed of
78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen and 1 % all else
70% Nitrogen, 20% Oxygen and 5% water and 5% all else
21% Nitrogen, 78% Oxygen and1 % all else
78% Nitrogen, 1% Oxygen and 21 % all else
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Energy transferred as electromagnetics waves is called
conduction
diffusion
convection
radiation
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Convection is the transfer of energy
to the atmosphere
as heat moving through a material
as electromagnetic waves
by the circulation of gas es or liquids
