ES12AB Test - Heat and Water in the Air

The Sun’s energy comes to us as these waves which can travel through space.
1. Electromagnetic
2. Remedy
3. Radioactive
4. Physical
The transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves through the vacuum of space is
1. Radiation
2. Electromagnetic
3. Physical
4. Radioactive
A form of energy with wavelengths longer than red
1. Polar
2. Electrical
3. Ultraviolet
4. Infrared
When the earth’s surface is heated, it radiates some of the energy back into the atmosphere as infrared radiation.
1. False
2. True
Air temperature is usually measured with a thermometer.
1. true
2. false
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. conduction
2. radiation
3. sublimation
4. convection
Earth's surface is heated by the Sun's convection currents.
1. true
2. false
ROY G BIV is a way to remember _____________________ .
1. the primary colors
2. the inventor of the prism
3. The colors of a rainbow
4. the scattered light colors
Red has the longest wavelength of visible light
1. true
2. false
Violet has the longest wavelength of visible light
1. true
2. false
Water vapor changing to liquid water is an example of
1. evaporation
2. condensation
3. thawing
4. freezing
The Sun is the major heat source to change __________ into vapor on Earth.
1. rocks
2. water
3. sand
4. soil
When water vapor changes into water it is known as
1. evaporation
2. surface tension
3. melting
4. condensation
When water changes into vapor it is known as
1. snow
2. evaporation
3. melting
4. condensation
When water changes into a solid it is known as
1. freezing
2. melting
3. condensation
4. evaporation
When solid water changes into a liquid it is known as
1. evaporation
2. melting
3. condensation
4. freezing
This is rain that freezes on the way to the ground.
1. condensation
2. melting
3. sleet
4. evaporation
This is rain that freezes when it hits the ground.
1. snow
2. sleet
3. hail
4. freezing rain
This is rain that freezes and is blown up into a cloud to get more layers of ice..
1. freezing rain
2. snow
3. hail
4. sleet
These clouds are thin and feathery – like a circus hat feather.
1. stormoufic
2. cirrus
3. stratus
4. cumulus
These clouds are layered – like a cake is layered.
1. stormoufic
2. stratus
3. cumulus
4. cirrus
These clouds are light and puffy – they bring good weather.
1. stratus
2. cumulus
3. stormoufic
4. cirrus
The amount of water in the air
1. psychrometer
2. humidity
3. snow gauge
4. weather gauge
Inside each piece of precipitation there is a tiny ___________ .
1. rain gauge
2. marble chip
3. atom of ozone
4. spec of dust

ES12AB Test - Heat and Water in the Air

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