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What reflects all energy?

a. Black
b. White
c. Acid rain

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b. White

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What is it when liquid changes to a gas below it’s boiling point?
A. Evaporation
B. Hydrologic cycle
C. Acid rain

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A. Evaporation

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What is process where plants convert sunlight into oxygen and energy?

a. Thermosphere
b. Stratosphere
c. Photosynthesis

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c. Photosynthesis

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What are HCFC, Carbon dioxide, water vapor, CFC’s and methane examples?

a. Ozone
b. Green House gases
c. Fossil fuels

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b. Green House gases

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What is the layer in the atmosphere 30 miles up where they is little wind?

a. Thermosphere
b. Trophospere
c. Stratosphere

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c. Stratosphere

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What is the energy coming in from the sun?

a. Inward flow
b. Fossil fuel
c. Boyle’s Law

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a. Inward flow

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What is it when the pH of rain is lower than 5.4?

a. Acid rain
b. Heat capacity
c. Respiration

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a. Acid rain

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What absorbs all energy?

a. reflectivity
b. black
c. HCFC

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b. black

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What is coal, natural gas and gasoline examples of?

a. Green house effect
b. fossil fuel
c. CFC

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b. Fossil fuels

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What are propellants that are used in aerosol cans and as coolants in fridges and air conditioners?

a. Green house gases
b. CFC
c. black

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b. CFC

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What is process where we breathe out CO(2) into the air?

a. Outward flow
b. Heat capacity
c. Respiration

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c. Respiration

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What is the layer where we live - 6 miles up - where the weather takes place?

a. Thermosphere
b. Trophospere
c. Statosphere

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b. Trophospere

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What is another name for the water cycle?

a. Hydrologic cycle
b. Heat capacity
c. Green House gases

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a. Hydrologic cycle

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What is the process where a gas changes to a liquid?

a. Evaporation
b. Acid rain
c. Condensation

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c. Condensation

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What is the process of absorbing reflected energy in the atmosphere to warm the earth?

a. Reflectivity
b. Green house effect
c. HCFC

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b. Green house effect

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What is energy that is released back into space?

a. While
b. Fossil fuel
c. Outward flow

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c. Outward flow

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What is the layer of gas that surrounds the earth and protects us from UV rays?

a. Ozone
b. CFC
c. Photosynthesis

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a. Ozone

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What is produced when you replace a chlorine with a hydrogen on CFC’s?

a. Ozone
b. Green House gases
c. HCFC

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c. HCFC

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What is it when light strikes an object and is reflected back without heating up?

a. Heat capacity
b. Reflectivity
c. Respiration

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b. Reflectivity

19
Q

What states that pressure and volume are to be inversely proportional?

a. Boyles Law
b. Respiration
c. Evaporation

A

a. Boyles Law

20
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What king of process is evaporation?

a. Heating
b. cooling

A

b. Cooling

21
Q

What is the heat capacity of water?

a. 4.2
b. 4.1

A

a. 4.2

22
Q

Where was acid rain first reported?

a. Germany
b. New England
c. Scandinavia

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c. Scandinavia

23
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Acid rain is rain below what pH?

a. 5.4
b. 5.0

A

a. 5.4

24
Q

Photosynthesis and respiration are both??
a opposites
b. same

A

a. opposites

25
Q

What gas has the highest percentage in the atmosphere?

a. Oxygen
b. Nitrogen

A

b. Nitrogen

26
Q

How do UV ray affect the ozone?

a. split it
b. create it

A

b. create it

27
Q

Which of the following uses the least amount of inward flow energy?

a. Photosynthesis
b. Wind cycle

A

a. Photosynthesis

28
Q

What happens to the average temperature of the earth- if we did not have the green house gases?

a. Decrease
b. Increase

A

a. Decrease

29
Q

What does asphalt do with energy?

a. absorb
b. refect

A

a. absorb

30
Q

What does snow do with energy?

a. absorb
b. reflect

A

b. reflect

31
Q

What kind of heat capacity does water have?

a. High
b. Low

A

a. High

32
Q

When do CFC’s do damage?

a. near the ozone
b. Low in the atmosphere

A

a. near the ozone

33
Q

Which of the following is not a green house gas?

a. Oxygen
b. Water vapor

A

a. Oxygen

34
Q

Since 1800’s human activity has increased the amount of carbon dioxide in the air by how much?

a. 30%
b. 20%

A

a. 30%

35
Q

On a hot day by the beach what kind of air comes from the ocean to the land?

a. Warm
b. Cool

A

b. Cool

36
Q

On a hot day by the beach what kind of air moves out of the land?

a. Warm
b. Cool

A

a. Warm

37
Q

If you have more holes in the atmosphere which of the following is true?

a. Less sunburn/cataracts
b. More food crop yields
c. damage to aquatic plants
d. all of the above
e. none of the above

A

c. damage to aquatic plants

38
Q

Which does more damage?

a. CFC
b. HCFC

A

a. HCFC

39
Q

How much are we raising the temperature of the earth each decade?

a. 1 degree
b. .3 degrees

A

b. .3 degrees

40
Q

What will happen to coastal cities if we do not get green house gases under control?

a. Dry up
b. Flood
c. Hotter climate

A

b. Flood

41
Q

Which of the following is the part of the atmosphere we live in?

a. Troposphere
b. Stratosphere

A

a. Troposphere

42
Q

What is the atmosphere mostly made of?

a. Air
b. Ozone
c. Water vapor
d. a and b
e. b and c
f. c and a

A

f. c and a

43
Q

Which of the following is the part of the atmosphere where radio waves travel?

a. Thermosphere
b. Troposphere

A

a. Thermosphere

44
Q

What is the average temperature of the Earth?
a 59*
b. 63*

A

a. 59*

45
Q

which of the following is a way to increase CO(2) in the air?

a. Burning trees
b. Crating cement
c. Cutting down trees
d. Burning fossil fuels
e. All of the above
f. None of the above

A

e. All of the above

46
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Be able to draw and label the layers of the atmosphere - and write the distance that each layer is up in the air.

A

See Mrs. Krumpelman if need help

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