The Effect of Solar Energy on Earth's Atmosphere,

Earth's energy budget describes

• How people on Earth spend money

• How people on Earth use solar energy

• What happens to incoming solar energy

• What happens to incoming lunar energy

What is one factor that, when combined with others, forms an area's climate?

• Earth's revolution

• distance from the sun

• Earth's rotation

• where the moon is in its revolution

• distance from large bodies of water

Land heats up and cools faster than water

• True

• False

Water heats and cools faster than land, creating extreme temperatures for areas new that body of water

• True

• False

A convection current is

• solar radiation hitting Earth's atmosphere

• a type of heat transfer that takes place only in solids

• the rising of warm air and the falling of cool air

• none of these

There are several steps to cloud formation. One step is

• warm air rises

• cool air rises

• warm air sinks

• none of these

Hurricanes form over

• heated land

• warm water

• cold water

• cold land

What would happen if Earth did not have a layer of gases (the "greenhouse effect")?

• Earth would be too hot

• Earth would be too cold

• Nothing would change

• Plants would grow better

Look at the picture of Earth's Energy Budget on page 158 in your orange review book. How much solar energy is reflected back into space?

• 6%

• 64%

• 30%

• 23%