Vocab Quiz - Topic 6

The three-atom molecule of oxygen that is a pollutant in the troposphere, but important in the stratosphere where it absorbs much of the ultraviolet insolation from the Sun.

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The cutting down of tress and other plants of a forest.

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A darker region of the Sun's visible surface.

A series of weather change on Earth caused by a change from cold surface ocean water to warm surface ocean water in the earther Pacific ocean off western South America.

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The result of the balance between the total amount of energy an object receives and the total energy it emits.

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The angle at which the Sun's rays hit Earth's surface.

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Gases such as carbon dioxide, water vap0or, and methane, present in the atmosphere, which absorb long infrared radiation.

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The process by which plants release water vapor into the atmosphere as part of their life functions.

The part of the Sun's radiation that is received by Earth.

A recent trend towards the warming of Earth's surface and lower atmosphere possibly caused by human pollution.

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