Energy and Climate Test Review

The balance between the amount of solar energy coming in and the energy radiated or reflected out. It determines the Earth's temperature and climate.

• Energy Budget
• Greenhouse gasses
• Feedback loop
• Carbon sink

Average weather conditions for a region year after year, after looking at 30 or more years of data.

• Climate
• Weather
• Global Warming
• Geosphere

A reservoir, either natural or artificial, that absorbs more carbon from the atmosphere than it releases to the atmosphere.

• Carbon sink
• Biosphere
• Reflection
• Radiation

The act of taking in or soaking up energy.

• Absorption
• Reflection
• Radiation
• Ocean circulation

A change in the direction of a wave at an interface between two media that sends the wave back into the medium from which it came.

• Reflection
• Radiation
• Absorption
• Greenhouse gasses

The emission or transmission of energy as particles or waves

• Radiation
• Reflection
• Absorption
• Hydrosphere

Any molecule in the atmosphere that traps heat within the atmosphere.

• Greenhouse gas
• Energy
• Carbon sink
• Earth's energy budget

A long-term change in the temperature range and other atmospheric conditions of Earth.

• Climate change
• Weather
• Feedback loop
• Atmosphere

An increase in the average temperature of Earth's atmosphere, especially a sustained increase great enough to cause changes in the global climate.

• Global warming
• Earth's Energy Budget
• Reflection
• Absorption

The large-scale movement of water in the ocean.

• Ocean circulation
• Radiation
• Global warming
• Wave