True-False Quiz

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This True-False Quiz is designed to reinforce the knowledge you gained while reading Chapter 4, Insolation and Temperature.

This activity contains 10 questions.

	Absorption refers to the reflectivity of a surface.
	Absorption refers to the reflectivity of a surface.
	True False

	The orange and red colors evident in this space shuttle photograph of Earth's climb at sunrise are best associated with scattering.

	True False

	Examine this sounding plot from Omaha, Nebraska, which shows data collected at 1200 UTC on June 28, 1998. The local time that data was collected was at 6 p.m.

	True False

	This upper air sounding is plotted on a Skew-T diagram. Lines of constant temperature are colored in blue and are oriented diagonally from left to right. The white line on the right is the variation of temperature with height while the white line on the left shows how the amount of moisture in the atmosphere varies with height. Study how temperature varies with height. The temperature profile illustrates advectional inversion near the surface. (Hint: Look at this map of 850 mb temperatures. At Omaha during this time there was a strong wind blowing from the southwest).[Source]

	True False

	Compared to a land surface subject to the same heating, an ocean surface should have a seasonal temperature cycle lagging behind the land's seasonal temperature cycle.

	True False

	The transfer of heat from one point to another by a moving substance is called subduction.

	True False

	20º north latitude experiences a radiation surplus on an annual basis.

	True False

	A temperature inversion is where temperature increases with increasing altitude.

	True False

	The Pacific coast of North America is where you would expect to find the greatest annual temperature range.

	True False

	The Earth–atmosphere system emits the same amount of energy as it absorbs from the Sun.

	True False

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True-False Quiz

Absorption refers to the reflectivity of a surface.

The orange and red colors evident in this space shuttle photograph of Earth's climb at sunrise are best associated with scattering.

Examine this sounding plot from Omaha, Nebraska, which shows data collected at 1200 UTC on June 28, 1998. The local time that data was collected was at 6 p.m.

Compared to a land surface subject to the same heating, an ocean surface should have a seasonal temperature cycle lagging behind the land's seasonal temperature cycle.

The transfer of heat from one point to another by a moving substance is called subduction.

20º north latitude experiences a radiation surplus on an annual basis.

A temperature inversion is where temperature increases with increasing altitude.

The Pacific coast of North America is where you would expect to find the greatest annual temperature range.

The Earth–atmosphere system emits the same amount of energy as it absorbs from the Sun.