ENVIRONMENTAL GE OLOGY FINAL ACTUAL
EXAM 1 WITH QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED
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Precipitation that results from air forced up a mountain barrier is called: -
ANSWER- Orographic lifting
The atmospheric layer that we call home is: - ANSWER- Troposphere
The ozone hole above both the Arctic and Antarctic regions was probably caused
by: - ANSWER- Chlorofluorocarbons
Fog that develops when warm, moist air flows over a cooler surface is - ANSWER- Advection fog
Hail develops and falls from this cloud type: - ANSWER- Cumulonimbus
The perpendicular rays of the sun reach 23.5 north on this date - ANSWER- June 21
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When liquid rain droplets fall on surfaces that are below freezing the resulting
precipitation type is: - ANSWER- Glaze
Air that rises and cools at 10 degrees C per 1,000 m with no condensation
occurring is cooling at the: - ANSWER- Dry adiabatic rate
As solar radiation enters the earth-atmosphere system, only about this percentage
reaches the surface: - ANSWER- 50%
In the troposphere, the average turnover time for pollutants is: - ANSWER- 2
weeks
The heating of air at the surface and its subsequent upward vertical movement into
the troposphere is called: - ANSWER- Convection
The perpendicular rays of the sun will be at this location on December 21 - ANSWER- Tropic of Capricorn
The day with the longest daylight hours during the year in the northern hemisphere
occurs on: - ANSWER- June 21
What form of solar radiation in small quantities gives us a suntan, but in larger does cause skin cancer and cataracts? - ANSWER- Ultraviolet
The atmospheric temperature at which saturation occurs is called: - ANSWER-
Dew point
The highest temperatures recorded at the surface of planet Earth are found in: - ANSWER- Deserts 2 / 3
During the nighttime hours water vapor that condenses on cool objects but stays in
a liquid form is called: - ANSWER- Dew
Fayetteville, Arkansas receives the vast majority of its precipitation from this
atmospheric process: - ANSWER- Frontal activity
The primary source of water vapor for the eastern United States during the year is - ANSWER- Gulf of Mexico
Most of the precipitation that falls from the troposphere to the surface drops into
the: - ANSWER- Oceans
The narrow temperature window in which life thrives on Earth is: - ANSWER- 0 C
- 40 C
Our solar system formed from a cold, diffuse cloud of interstellar gas and dust.
About 99.8% of the cloud was composed of: - ANSWER- Hydrogen & Helium
The gas making up most of the modern atmosphere is - ANSWER- Nitrogen
The Earth's surface color that has the highest albedo is: - ANSWER- White
Solar energy streams from the sun in all directions and Earth receives only one: - ANSWER- Two-billionth
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