Abeka: Science Earth and Space Quiz 21
The amount of energy available to heat the earth's land, water, and air is the earth's albedo.
energy budget
What happens when a body of air rises in the atmosphere?
It cools because the atmospheric pressure is lower.
If both receive the same amount of sunlight, which is hotter on a summer day: a beach or the water next to it?
The beach is hotter
A process that involves a temperature change with no heat being gained or lost is a convective process.
adiabatic
The transfer of heat by direct contact between two objects is convection.
conduction
The transfer of heat by electromagnetic waves is electromagnetism.
radiation
Which of the following situations would have the greatest insolation?
summer in Florida
Earth's closest point to the sun is at perihelion.
true
Most of the earth's weather occurs because of convection currents in the troposphere.
true
The process that traps heat in the earth's atmosphere is called the greenhouse effect.
true
