Quiz 3: Atmosphere and Weather

What are the two most common gases in the atmosphere?

• hydrogen and oxygen

• nitrogen and water vapor

• hydrogen and nitrogen

• oxygen and nitrogen

Photosynthesis

• uses carbon dioxide and creates oxygen

• uses oxygen and creates carbon dioxide

• uses carbon dioxide and oxygen and creates food energy

• uses food energy and creates carbon dioxide and oxygen

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As you increase in altitude, air pressure ____________ .

• increases

• decreases

• stays the same

As air rises, water vapor forms __________.

• ozone

• clouds

• particulates

• carbon dioxide

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Molecules are packed more tightly together in air with higher ____________.

• temperature

• pressure

• greenhouse gases

When heat is transferred by the movement of electromagnetic waves it is called

• convection

• conduction

• radiation

• plasma

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If you add heat to a gas, the molecules

• split apart

• combine into more complex molecules

• vibrate more rapidly

• collide less frequently

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Earth owes its moderate temperature to

• greenhouse effect

• insolation

• the tilt of its orbital axis

• the variety of wavelengths of energy from the sun

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Light, radio waves and gamma rays are examples of

• radioactivity

• electromagnetic radiation

• plasma

• solar wind

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Infrared energy is also known as

• heat

• x-rays

• light

• radio waves

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