Earth and environmental science review

What is a heat island?

• an urban area in which significantly more heat is absorbed and retained than in surrounding areas.

• a global phenomenon created by burning fossil fuels, which adds heat-trapping gases to the earth’s atmosphere.

• a period in time when the earth’s climate is very low. Which lead to continental ice sheets, polar ice sheets, and mountain glaciers.

• usual condition of the temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, rainfall, and anything else.

Which words goes along with the following definition: when forests are destroyed by cutting trees and not replanting them. Commonly to obtain wood and fuel.

• ice age

• deforestation

• climate change

• anti-tree

What are the layers of the atmosphere in order?

• troposphere, mesosphere, stratosphere, thermosphere

• stratosphere, mesosphere, troposphere, thermosphere

• thermosphere, mesosphere, stratosphere, troposphere

• troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere

Does the temperature in the atmosphere

• get hotter

• stay the same

• fluctuate

• get cooler

What layer of the atmosphere does the Aurora Borealis happen?

• stratosphere

• thermosphere

• mesosphere

• troposphere

True or false: the ozone layer is in the mesosphere

• True

• False

What layer is the ozone in?

• troposphere

• mesosphere

• stratosphere

• thermosphere

Where does most of Earth's energy come from?

• the sun

• earth's core

• plate tectonics

• the moon's energy

Which type of energy travels in the form of a wave?

• wavetion

• convection

• radiation

• conduction

When two objects transfer energy because they are touching, this is

• Convection

• Energy

• Radiation

• Conduction