Concept Quiz 4

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This quiz covers key concepts 7 and 8 from Chapter 1. Answer the questions by darkening in the circle next to the correct answer. When completed with the quiz, click on "submit answers for grading" at the bottom of the page.

This activity contains 5 questions.

Identify each of the layers of the atmosphere (based on temperature) by selecting the correct response.

The letters A through D appear on an image associated with this question.

This question presents 4 items numbered 1.1 through 1.4. Each item is presented with a pulldown menu containing the letters A through D. For each item below, use the pull-down menu to select the letter that labels the correct part of the image.

1.1 Mesosphere
1.2 Stratosphere
1.3 Thermosphere
1.4 Troposphere

Essentially all important weather phenomena occur in the:

	troposphere
	stratosphere
	ionosphere
	heterosphere

On the average, for every 1 km increase in altitude in the troposphere the air temperature:

	rises about 6.5 degrees C
	decreases by about 6.5 degrees C
	rises by day and drops by night
	remains unchanged for the first 500 m and then drops

	One-half (or 50%) of the atmosphere lies below an altitude of 3.5 miles above the Earth's surface.

	True False

	In the stratosphere, the temperature remains constant to a height of about 12 miles above the Earth's surface before it begins a sharp decrease due to the absorption of ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the Sun by ozone.

	True False

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Concept Quiz 4

Identify each of the layers of the atmosphere (based on temperature) by selecting the correct response.

Essentially all important weather phenomena occur in the:

On the average, for every 1 km increase in altitude in the troposphere the air temperature:

One-half (or 50%) of the atmosphere lies below an altitude of 3.5 miles above the Earth's surface.

In the stratosphere, the temperature remains constant to a height of about 12 miles above the Earth's surface before it begins a sharp decrease due to the absorption of ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the Sun by ozone.