ES12A - Pre Quiz - Heating Earth's Air

The Sun’s energy comes to us as these waves which can travel through space.
1. Radioactive
2. Electromagnetic
3. Physical
4. Remedy
The transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves through the vacuum of space is
1. Physical
2. Electromagnetic
3. Radiation
4. Radioactive
A form of energy with wavelengths longer than red
1. Electrical
2. Ultraviolet
3. Infrared
4. Polar
When the earth’s surface is heated, it _______________ some of the energy back into the atmosphere as infrared radiation.
1. radio
2. radiates
3. translates
4. absorbs
The average amount of energy of motion in the molecules of a substance measured with a thermometer
1. boiling
2. freezing
3. polar
4. temperature
Air temperature is usually measured with a __________.
1. thermometer
2. barometer
3. wind tool
4. rain gauge
Heat refers to the energy transferred from a colder object to a hotter one.
1. true
2. false
The direct transfer of heat from one substance to another substance that it is touching is
1. radiation
2. conduction
3. sublimation
4. convection
Earth's surface is heated by the _________________________ from the Sun..
1. convection currents
2. Radiation
3. convection
4. touching
ROY G. BIV is a way to remember _____________________ .
1. the primary colors
2. the scattered light colors
3. the inventor of the prism
4. colors of a rainbow
Water changing to water vapor is an example of
1. thawing
2. freezing
3. condensation
4. evaporation
Red has the ___________________ wavelength of visible light
1. longest
2. shortest
3. fastest
4. slowest
Violet has the __________________ wavelength of visible light
1. shortest
2. longest
3. fastest
4. slowest
Water vapor changing to liquid water is an example of
1. freezing
2. evaporation
3. condensation
4. thawing
Most of the energy on the Earth comes from the ____________.
1. volcanoes
2. Sun
3. atmosphere
4. lightning

ES12A - Pre Quiz - Heating Earth's Air

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