Unit 1 Exam Review Quiz

If you put your hand above a candle flame and feel the warmth, without touching the flame, the warmth you feel is evidence of energy transfer by

• radiation and convection

• radiation only

• conduction and convection

• radiation and conduction

True/False

When thermal energy is added to a fluid the motion of the particles speeds up.

• True

• False

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What are the gases surrounding the Earth called?

• atmosphere

• troposphere

• stratosphere

• mesosphere

A student traps air in a syringe by clamping it. When he pushes down on the plunger, what happens to the air particles?

• The particles get smaller.

• The particles move more slowly.

• the particles get closer together.

• there are few particles.

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Use these labels to correctly identify the air pressure inside these balloons!

a

b

c

More Air Pressure inside Balloon

Even less Air Pressure inside Balloon

Less Air Pressure inside Balloon

Watch this video of balloons inside a vacuum chamber.

Why do the balloons pop when air is sucked out of the vacuum chamber?

What are these two flashlights demonstrating?

• The role of radiation on the grid

• Differences in Solar Angle

• The Steinbrenner Effect

• The Coriolis Effect

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What happens to the particles of a substance when it is heated?

• The particles move faster and spread out

• The particles move slower and come together

• The particles stop moving

• The particles disappear

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What is the layer of the atmosphere closest to the Earth's surface called?

• Stratosphere

• Troposphere

• Exosphere

• Thermosphere

Reorder the following Latitudes from GREATEST Solar Angle to SMALLEST!

• 0°

• 10°S

• 90°N

• 44°N

• 80°S