Meteorology Questions and Answers
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What is the term for the amount of energy required to change ice directly into water vapor?
✔✔ Sublimation
Which gas plays the most important role in Earth's greenhouse effect?
✔✔ Carbon dioxide
What process warms the lower atmosphere as it absorbs longwave radiation from Earth’s
surface?
✔✔ Greenhouse effect
What happens to the wavelength of radiation as the temperature of an object increases?
✔✔ It becomes shorter
What does albedo measure?
✔✔ Reflectivity of a surface
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,Which has a higher albedo: snow or forest?
✔✔ Snow
What type of radiation does Earth emit most?
✔✔ Infrared radiation
What is the term for the transfer of energy through electromagnetic waves?
✔✔ Radiation
What causes the air temperature to drop sharply after a thunderstorm?
✔✔ Evaporation and downdraft cooling
What does a hygrometer measure?
✔✔ Humidity
What is the term for wind that flows uphill during the day?
✔✔ Valley breeze
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, What type of breeze flows from land to water at night?
✔✔ Land breeze
Why do cities tend to be warmer than surrounding rural areas?
✔✔ Urban heat island effect
What kind of fog forms when moist air passes over a cooler surface?
✔✔ Advection fog
What type of precipitation forms when strong updrafts carry raindrops above the freezing level
multiple times?
✔✔ Hail
What causes the pressure difference that drives monsoons?
✔✔ Seasonal heating contrast between land and ocean
What is a temperature inversion often associated with in urban areas?
✔✔ Trapping of pollutants
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Latest Version Already Passed
What is the term for the amount of energy required to change ice directly into water vapor?
✔✔ Sublimation
Which gas plays the most important role in Earth's greenhouse effect?
✔✔ Carbon dioxide
What process warms the lower atmosphere as it absorbs longwave radiation from Earth’s
surface?
✔✔ Greenhouse effect
What happens to the wavelength of radiation as the temperature of an object increases?
✔✔ It becomes shorter
What does albedo measure?
✔✔ Reflectivity of a surface
1
,Which has a higher albedo: snow or forest?
✔✔ Snow
What type of radiation does Earth emit most?
✔✔ Infrared radiation
What is the term for the transfer of energy through electromagnetic waves?
✔✔ Radiation
What causes the air temperature to drop sharply after a thunderstorm?
✔✔ Evaporation and downdraft cooling
What does a hygrometer measure?
✔✔ Humidity
What is the term for wind that flows uphill during the day?
✔✔ Valley breeze
2
, What type of breeze flows from land to water at night?
✔✔ Land breeze
Why do cities tend to be warmer than surrounding rural areas?
✔✔ Urban heat island effect
What kind of fog forms when moist air passes over a cooler surface?
✔✔ Advection fog
What type of precipitation forms when strong updrafts carry raindrops above the freezing level
multiple times?
✔✔ Hail
What causes the pressure difference that drives monsoons?
✔✔ Seasonal heating contrast between land and ocean
What is a temperature inversion often associated with in urban areas?
✔✔ Trapping of pollutants
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