Solar Energy on Earth

If you want to keep your house cool all year, should you design the house roof to have a high or a low albedo?

• High

• Low

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Some energy is absorbed by land, water, and the atmosphere and some energy is reflected back to space.

• True

• False

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What does most sunlight do when it reaches earth?

• Gets absorbed by the surface

• Gets reflected by the surface

• Gets absorbed by the air

• Gets reflected by the air

What has the highest albedo?

• the oceans

• Ice in the Arctic or Antarctic

• the ground

• roads

Which would you expect to have the lowest albedo?

• dark soil

• white sand

• ice and snow

• grass

Energy from the sun reaches Earth through ______, or the transfer or thermal energy from one material to another by electromagnetic waves.

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

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Solar energy is more concentrated at Earth's _______, which results in higher temperatures and longer days.

• poles

• equator

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The angle of incoming sunlight and the amount of solar energy transferred to various parts of the Earth from the sun depends largely on ________.

• longitude

• latitude

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What transfers thermal energy by radiation?

Mark all that apply.

• the sun

• fire

• ice

• all matter

What is the primary source of solar energy on Earth?

• The Moon

• The Sun

• The Stars

• The Earth itself

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