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Nitrogen, oxygen
1. In a volume of air near the earth's surface,
occu- pies 78 percent
and nearly 21 percent. Water vapor
2. Which of the following is considered a variable
gas in the earth atmosphere Less that 4%
3. Typically, water vapor occupies about what
percent- age of the air's volume near the Water vapor
earth's surface?
4. The most abundant greenhouse gas in the
earths at- mosphere
5. This holds a planets atmosphere close to its surface Gravity
6. The amount of force exerted over an area of Pressure
surface is called
7. Which of the following weather elements Pressure
always de- crease as we climb upward in the
atmosphere
8. In the stratosphere the air temp normally Increases with increasing
height.
9. The earths atmosphere is divided into layers based on Air temperatur
the vertical profile of
10. Almost all the earths weather occurs in the Troposphere
11. Warming in the stratosphere is mainly caused by: absorption of
ultraviolet
radiation by ozone
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,12. In a temperature inversion air temperature
increases with
increasing height
13. Temperature
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Which of the following provides a measure of
average speed of air molecules
14. In the Celcius temperature scale what is the 1/100 of the inter-
signifi- cance of the temperature increment of
val between freezing point
1 degree cel and the boiling point
of water
15. Energy of motion is also known as kinetic energy
16. Heat is energy in the process of being Hot object to cold object
transferred from
17. The change of state of ice into water vapor is Sublimation
known as:
18. This is released as sensible heat during the formation Latent heat
of clouds
19. The process of condensation and freezing both release sensible hea
into the environment.
20. The transfer of heat by molecule to molecule contact Conduction
21. A heat transfer process in the atmosphere Convection
that de- pends upon the movement of air
is
22. The blueness of the sky is mainly due to the scattering of sunlight
by air molecules
23. The earth's radiation is often referred to as radi- ation
while the
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, sun's radiation is often referred to as Long wave, shortwave
radiation.
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