GS Mechanisms of Heat Transfer, Atmosphere

Which of the following is not a method for heat transfer

• Radiation

• Insulation

• Conduction

• Convection

How does heat energy reach the Earth from the Sun

• Convection

• Radiation

• Conduction

• Insulation

What is the best definition of CONDUCTION?

• When heat is transferred from objects like rays of light or electromagnetically.

• a hot liquid or air that expands, becomes less dense, and rises or becomes more dense, and sinks.

• When heat transfers from objects that are touching.

• When heat transfers through the heater or AC in your house.

What kind of heat transfer happens when the sun is heating your body?

• Conduction
• Radiation
• Convection
• Density

What heat transfer happens when you burn your hand by touching a hot metal spoon?

• Radiation

• Conduction

• Convection

• Insolation

Heat transfers from an area of ____temperature to an area of ___ temperature.

• high to low

• low to high

• high to high

• It can travel high to low and low to high.

This layer of the atmosphere contains the ozone layer.

• troposphere
• thermosphere
• mesosphere
• stratosphere

Which of the following is the correct order of the atmosphere layers from Earth to space?

• troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere
• troposphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, exosphere, stratosphere
• thermosphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, troposphere, exosphere
• troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, exosphere, thermosphere

This layer is where weather occurs.

• troposphere
• thermosphere
• exosphere
• stratosphere

What absorbs dangerous ultraviolet radiation from the sun which causes the temperature to increase in the stratosphere?

• Nitrogen

• Ozone

• Water Vapor

• carbon dioxide