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Certain gases in the atmosphere help maintain the Earth's temperature. and climate. These are called?
a) solar gases
b) ozone gases
c) greenhouse gases
d) stomach gases

What is the process called where solar energy that is absorbed by earth's land and water surfaces and is changed into heat and radiates back into the atmosphere?
a) Ozone
b) radiation
c) greenhouse effect
d) evaporation

True of False: All of the radiation from the Sun is absorbed by the Earth
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

True or False: The Earth acts like a greenhouse that catches and traps heat from the sun.
a) True
b) False
c)
d)

The gas that is most abundant in the atmosphere is
a) oxygen
b) nitrogen
c) carbon dioxide
d) argon

What is the greenhouse effect?
a) The warming of a planet due to trapped radiation
b) The cooling of Earth due to air pollution.
c) The heating of a solid, such as a rock.
d) The urge for everyone in the neighborhood to paint their house green

Without the Greenhouse Effect the Earth would be...
a) Warm
b) Cold
c) dead
d)

What happens to the temperature if more greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere?
a) Temperature goes up
b) Temperature goes down
c)
d)

Greenhouse gases...
a) Absorb solar energy that would have otherwise been emitted into space
b) Reflect the sun's energy
c) Make Earth colder
d) Do not exist in the atmosphere.

Why is the Earth (on average) warmer than the moon?
a) The moon has a very thick atmosphere that does not let the sun's heat in
b) The moon does not have an atmosphere like Earth does.
c) It's darker on the moon
d) The moon is further away from the sun so it doesn't get as much heat as the Earth does.

What are the two main factors that determine the climate of an area?
a) precipitation and humidity
b) temperature and air pressure
c) wind conditions and humidity
d) temperature and precipitation

What causes winds to form on Earth?
a) solar energy
b) ocean currents
c) elevation differences
d) uneven heating of the Earth by the sun

What are the 3 major climate zones in order from equator to the poles?
a) polar, temperate, tropical
b) tropical, temperate, polar
c) temperate, polar, tropical
d)

Which BEST describes why latitudes closest to the equator have warmer climates?
a) they are at lower elevations
b) they receive more solar energy
c) they are nearer to ocean currents
d) they get more winds that carry energy in the form of heat

What is the weather conditions in an area over a long period of time?
a) climate
b) temperature
c) elevation
d) precipitation

Which sentence best describes the relationship between elevation and air temperatures?
a) LOWER elevations = COLDER temperatures
b) HIGHER elevation = COLDER temperatures
c) HIGHER elevation = WARMER temperatures
d) a

What factors affect surface currents?
a) Global winds, Tides
b) Continental deflection, Gravitational pull from moon
c) Global winds, Coriolis effect, continental deflection
d) Tides, gravity from sun, Global winds

The Coriolis effect causes what?
a) global winds and surface currents to move in a curved path instead of a straight line
b) continental deflection
c) the Earth to rotate on its axis
d) global winds and deep oceans currents to move in a curved path instead of a straight line.

Due to the prevailing westerlies wind belt and the jet stream, weather in the middle latitudes (30*-60*) of the Northern Hemisphere blows ... to ...
a) north; south
b) east; west
c) west; east
d) south; north

Which term below best describes how heat is transferred through the oceans?
a) convection
b) conduction
c) radiation
d)

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