Insolation and temperature Flashcards
What is not true about energy?
It cannot change between forms
Which terms means the energy of motion?
Kinetic
What is heat?
Energy transfer between different molecules
Which temperature scale has the freezing point of water at zero degrees
Celsius
Where does most solar radiation arriving at earth fall on the electromagnetic spectrum?
Visible
What is the shortest wavelength of radiation?
UV
What arrives at earth at a constant amount of about 1372 watts per square meter?
Insolation
Which type of energy transfer will tend to warm an object?
Absorption
What involves radiation passing through a medium without interacting with that medium?
Transmission
Which term represents how terrestrial radiation is delayed or trapped by gases in the atmosphere?
Green house effect
Which term describes the vertical circulation of energy in a fluid as air or water?
Convection
What causes the loss of nearly 1/3 of Insolation with no effect to the atmosphere?
Reflection
What describes the pattern of more energy arriving at the tropics and less energy at the poles?
Latitude
What primarily determines the intensity of solar radiation arriving at any spot on earth?
Angle on incidence
What does not describe one of the climactic differences between land and water ?
Advection
