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| Energy Quiz Weather & Climate |
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| On a Celsius Scale the freezing point of pure water |
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| When you touch a hot spoon-heat is transferred to your hand through conduction |
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| The wavelengths of violet light are |
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| LONGER than the wavelengths of Ultraviolet radiation |
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| Wavelengths a little shorter than visible light |
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| Absorbs most of Earth's incoming ultraviolet radiation |
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| The process by which gases hold heat in the atmosphere |
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| The total energy of motion in the molecules of a substance |
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| Heat reaching you from a camp fire |
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| Convection takes place because |
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| Cold air is more dense than warm air |
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| Energy travels through space to Earth in the form of |
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| Solar energy called INFRA-RED radiation is |
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| felt as heat and has wavelengths longer than red light |
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| Gases in the air hold energy that is radiated from Earth's surface |
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| Used to measure how hot or cold the air is |
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| Convection (transfer of heat by fluid movement) |
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| How most of the heating of the troposphere occurs |
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| What would happen if gases in the atmosphere did not trap energy? |
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| The heat would escape, it would be cold, plants and animals could not survive. |
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