Chapter 13 Test

What percent of our atmosphere is made up of gases other than oxygen and nitrogen?

• 5%
• 10%
• 1%
• 2%

Instruments use to measure air pressure are called

• thermometers
• hygrometers
• hydrometers
• barometers

As you rise upwards in the atmosphere, air pressure

• increases
• decreases
• doesn't change
• first increases, then decreases

The layer of our atmosphere in which weather occurs is the

• troposphere
• mesosphere
• stratosphere
• exosphere

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The greenhouse effect is

• the absorption of energy by clouds
• a gradual increase in the temperature of the atmosphere
• the reflection of solar energy into the atmosphere
• the process by which gases hold heat in the atmosphere

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Cool air tends to

• be less dense and flow over warm air
• be lifted up by more dense warm air
• be more dense and flow under warm air
• mix easily with warm air masses

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Local winds differ from global winds because they

• are cause by unequal heating within a small area
• are caused by differences in cloud cover
• are due to unequal rainfall
• are not influenced by air masses

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Earth's rotation makes global winds curve. This is called the

• convection effect
• Coriolis effect
• global effect
• rotational effect

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An instrument called a(n) _______________________ is used to measure how hot or cold the air is.

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Energy from the sun that reaches Earth is mostly in the form of visible light, infrared radiation, and ____________________ radiation.