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PHSC 210 Quiz 6 – Question with Answers

1. Which of the following gases vary the most in composition of the atmosphere?
2. Which of the following statements is not true about heat?
3. In which layer of the atmosphere does most of our weather occur?
4. Why is the summer noon sun more intense in Texas than Alaska?
5. When does the North Pole begin getting 24 hours of daylight?
6. Which of the following is not a greenhouse gas?
7. Which of the following is not an effect of acid rain?
8. Which of the following is the source of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
9. Pressure is defined to be the _________.
10. Which form of energy transport results from rising motion of less dense air?
11. In which layer of the atmosphere does the temperature increase with altitude?
12. Which of the following is an example of weather?
13. During which of the following months would you expect the number of daylight hours to be the most in the United States?
14. Which of the following is not a consequence of increased global temperatures?
15. On average at what time is the hottest temperature of the day reached?
16. When transferred from one container to another, which of the following is representative of a liquid?
17. Which of the following is a description of the Koeppen climate zone designated group B?
18. Which of the following is an example of climate?
19. All aerosols are solids that remain suspended in the air.
20. All objects decrease in size as the temperature goes down.
21. An object with a high albedo absorbs most of the sunlight incident on it.
22. Every time energy moves into our out of an object its temperature changes.
23. Greenhouse gases absorb in the infrared range of the electromagnetic spectrum.
24. If the earth had no atmosphere, the average surface temperature of th
25. earth would be below freezing. 25. Density of the atmosphere decreases as the pressure decreases.