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Large bodies of water affect climate because

• water heats up and cools more slowly than land
• water heats up and cools faster than land
• water and land cool at the same time
• water and land heat at the same rate

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Visible light reaches Earth’s surface while infrared light is trapped as heat. Which characteristic of Earth’s atmosphere causes this to happen?

• the hole in the ozone
• the greenhouse effect
• atmospheric pressure
• the inversion layer

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If the tilt of Earth’s axis were increased from
23.5° to 30°, summers in New York State would
become

• cooler, and winters would become cooler
• cooler, and winters would become warmer
• warmer, and winters would become cooler
• warmer, and winters would become warm

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What happens to the temperature if more greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere?

• Temperature goes up
• Temperature goes down

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The graph shows that the temperature for the past 10,000 years, compared with the previous 400,000 years, has been:

• getting warmer
• staying stable
• getting cooler

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What happens when sunlight hits greenhouse gas molecules?

• quickly cools them, decreasing temperature
• slowly cools them, decreasing tempature
• quickly heats them, increasing temprature
• slowly heats them, increasing temperature

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Without the greenhouse effect, Earth would be...

• Hotter than the sun
• .Relatively the same temperature as now
• Uninhabitably frigid
• Substantially warmer than it is now

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During explosive volcanic eruptions, large amounts of ash entering Earth’s atmosphere often rise to an altitude of 20 kilometers. What is the most likely effect of this ash cloud?

• a decrease in the insolation reaching Earth’s surface
• a decrease in the thickness of Earth’s stratosphere layer
• an increase in the insolation reaching Earth’s surface
• an increase in the thickness of Earth’s stratosphere layer

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The greenhouse effect is due to

• the absorption and reradiation of infrared radiation by the atmosphere

• the reflection of ultraviolet radiation by the atmosphere

• the absorption of ultraviolet radiation by the atmosphere

• the reflection of infrared radiation from Earth's surface

• the absorption of ultraviolet radiation by Earth

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What is the greenhouse effect?

• warming of the earth due to gases such as carbon dioxide and methane in our atmosphere

• cooling of the earth due to gases in our atmosphere

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