17.2 Heating the Atmosphere

Energy transferred from one object to another because of a difference in their temperatures is called

• convection

• temperature

• heat

• all of these

A measure of the average (kinetic) energy of motion of particles in a substance.

• heat

• temperature

• conduction

• all of these

The direct transfer of heat from one substance to another by touching.

• heat

• convection

• temperature

• conduction

Process by which, in a fluid being heated, the warmer part of the mass will rise and the cooler portions will sink.

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

• temperature

Energy that is radiated or transmitted in the form of rays or (electromagnetic) waves or particles.

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

• temperature

When light bounces off an object with the same intensity.

• reflection

• refraction

• scattering

• radiation

Produces a larger number of weaker waves.

• reflection

• refraction

• scattering

• radiation

Natural situation in which heat is retained in Earth's atmosphere by carbon dioxide, methane, water vapor, and other gases

• greenhouse gases

• greenhouse effect

• green power house

• all of these

The mechanisms that operate to transfer energy between Earth's surface and the atmosphere

• conducion, convection, radiation

• conduction, convection, radiotion

• conduction, convection, radiation

• nuclear fusion

What two words are often misused to describe one another

• heat and energy

• light and energy

• temperature and heat

• temperature and cold