51. At what latitude and during what season is the daily-averaged insolation at the top of the atmosphere the greatest?
52. A missile lunched due south in the Northern Hemisphere will be deflected toward:
53. Earth rotation makes global winds curve. This is called the ................
54. Earth atmosphere is important to living things because it ................
55. Heat transfer between two substances that are in contact is called ................
56. Heat from the sun reaches you by ................
57. The two most important greenhouse gases are:
58. Which of the following gases is not a greenhouse gas:
59. The atmosphere is a(n):
60. Earth atmosphere traps energy from the sun, which ................
61. At the theoretical Absolute Zero (Zero degrees Kelvin)
62. Horizontal pressure changes are ………………….. than vertical pressure changes.
63. The Coriolis effect is strongest at this latitude:
64. On average, the atmosphere absorbs roughly this percentage of the solar radiation that reaches the top of the atmosphere:
65. The troposphere makes up what fraction of the atmospheres mass?
66. In a typical troposphere, air temperature decreases with height at the following rate:
67. The greenhouse effect warms up Earth surface temperature by:
68. The average albedo of the Earth is about:
69. How large is the rate of terrestrial radiation emission from the Earths surface compared to the solar radiation that arrives at the top of the atmosphere, globally averaged?
70. What fraction of the solar radiation that arrives at the top of the atmosphere is absorbed in the atmosphere?
71. What fraction of the solar radiation that arrives at the top of the atmosphere is absorbed at the Earths surface?
72. What fraction of the solar radiation that is absorbed at the Earths surface is used to evaporate water?
73. What fraction of the terrestrial radiation emission from the Earths surface escapes to space without being absorbed by the atmosphere?
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