1. Which of these is a harmful effect of temperature inversions?

2. Which of these is the energy from the sun that travels to earth?

3. Which of these is absorbed by the layers of the atmosphere the least, before reaching Earth.

4. What kind of energy does the atmosphere absorb from the ground?

5. When is the warmest part of a day?

6. What are the bands of high-speed winds in the upper atmosphere?

7. When trade winds meet at the equator, what are the bands of weak variable winds called?

8. What is the wind that blows from land to water?

9. Air pollution destroys which of these?

10.  Changed! Absorbed! Destroyed! I See You!
What happens to solar radiation that isn’t reflected back into the atmosphere?
Changed! 
Absorbed!
Destroyed!
I See You!

11. Which of these is Albedo?

12. Which of these blow through the middle of the United States?

13. Due to the Coriolis effect, which way does an object traveling north from the equator curve?
Right

14. Smog intensifies during a temperature inversion when it gets trapped by:

15. Carbon dioxide, water vapor, and other gasses trap heat near Earth’s surface. This is known as:

16. What percent of radiation . . .
. . . is reflected?
. . . is absorbed?

17. How does sunlight change as it is absorbed?

18. How would the temperature inside compare with the outside?
What are these pictures models of?

19. So . . . what percent of the sun’s light is not changed to heat?
When the sun’s light is absorbed, what form of energy does it become?

20. When is sunlight changed to heat?

21. What angle does the greatest heating occur?

22. What does the Earth have that Mars does not – that explains the temperature differences?
Moderate Temperature Changes
Extreme Temperature Changes

23. Why does the Equator have a different climate than the South or North Pole?
Not Hot
Hot

24. What does unequal heating of air cause?
Coriolis Effect

25. What direction does most of the United States’ weather flow?

26. What effect do global winds have on Earth?
Slow Down 

27. What is this called? 
Coriolis Effect

28. How is ozone different from oxygen gas?

29. In what atmospheric layer is ozone a pollutant?

30. Why have CFCs (chloroflorocarbons) been banned?

31. What does the ozone layer protect Earth from?