PSC 50 Chap. 3
Latent heat is ________ during glacial melt.
absorbed.
Compared to land, bodies of water:
cool more slowly.
The region with the greatest difference between summer and winter average temperatures would be:
eastern Siberia.
Albedo:
is high for ice, snow, and thick clouds.
Sweating cools people because:
it utilizes evaporative cooling.
Greenhouse gases:
keep the earth at a comfortable temperature.
Water vapor is the primary carrier of:
latent heat.
The latent heat released during rainfall is ________ the latent heat released during snowfall.
less than.
Latent heat released during dew formation is ________ the latent heat required for water to freeze from its liquid state.
more than.
The radiation emitted by the earth is:
primarily absorbed by the atmosphere.
Why is the sky blue?
rayleigh scattering of solar radiation by air molecules.
The range of daily temperatures is ________ during cloudy conditions because ________.
reduced; clouds reduce both the incoming shortwave radiation and the outgoing longwave radiation.
Latent heat absorbed during evaporation of lake water is _______ the latent heat released during fog formation.
same as.
The atmosphere is a:
selective absorber.
Solar noon is typically not the warmest time of the day because:
surface temperature increases as long as the energy gained by the surface is greater than the energy lost.
The difference between Rayleigh scattering and Mie scattering is:
the wavelengths of the incoming radiation and the size of scattering particulates.
The ________ attempts to tell us what it "feels like" in cold, windy conditions.
wind chill index.
The planetary albedo of the earth:
30%.