The Atmosphere - Chapter 1: Controls of Temperature

Question 1

What are four big factors in temp difference

Answer 1

Differential heating of land and water
Ocean currents
Altitude
Geographic Position

Question 2

Lands heats more rapidly and to ____ than water

Answer 2

higher temperatures

Question 3

Does land or water cool more rapidly?

Answer 3

Land

Question 4

Temperature variations are ____ over land than water

Answer 4

greater

Question 5

What is specific heat?

Answer 5

The amount of energy needed to raise 1 gram of a substance 1Celcius

Question 6

The specific heat is greater for ___ than ____

Answer 6

water

land

Question 7

Land surfaces are ___, so heat is absorbed only at surface

Answer 7

opaque

Question 8

The water that is heated is mixing with water below which distributes the heat how?

Answer 8

Through a larger mass

Question 9

What does water have that land doesn’t have to the same extent that might make land retain heat more?

Answer 9

evaporation (a cooling process)

Question 10

Cooler temperatures are to be expected at ___ heights

Answer 10

greater