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1. Do you understand that temperature is a measure of average speed of atoms and molecules?
2. Do you know the difference between Fahrenheit, Celsius, and Kelvin scales and how to convert between them?
3. Do you understand why evaporation is a cooling process, and condensation is a warming process?
4. Do you understand conduction, convection, and radiation; the mechanisms of heat transfer?
5. Do you understand why rising air cools and sinking air warms?
6. Do you
understand the balance between absorption and emission, equilibrium in earth's
atmosphere?
1. Explain how heat is transferred by three mechanisms (conduction, convection, radiation)?
2. How is latent heat an important source of atmospheric energy?.
3. How is advection different from convection?
4. How does a temperature of an object influence the radiation it emits?
5. What is wavelength
of the visible region of the electromagnetic spectrum in microns, nanometers,
and angstroms?
a) 1 micron = 10 -6 meters
b) 1 nanometer = 10 -9 meters
c) 1 angstrom = 10 -10 meters
6. Which photon is most energetic: visible, infrared, or ultraviolet?
7. If the earth's surface continually radiates energy, why doesn't it become colder?
8. Explain how the atmosphere near the earth's surface is warmed from below.
9. Explain the factors that contribute to the greenhouse effect.
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