Albedo - Warm Up

You walked outside today - and it was snowing.

• Weather

• Climate

• Seasonal Change

Every summer when you travel to Australia for a month - you have to wear a jacket; when you get back home to Kuntree Bumpkin, NC - you have to put your jacket back in the closet.

• Weather

• Climate

• Seasonal Change

From a Science perspective - the majority of the air you are breathing right now is

• Simply Air

• Nitrogen

• Oxygen - of course

• Carbon Dioxide

The collection of gasses and materials that surround the Earth like a force field

• Exosphere

• Troposphere

• Stratosphere

• Atmosphere

The Early Earth had no oxygen - which of the following is primarily responsible for introducing oxygen into the atmosphere?

• bacteria

• phytoplankton

• trees (cellular respiration)

• dinosaurs

• Early Cavemen

What has the highest albedo?

• the oceans
•  glacial ice
• the ground
• roads

What heats faster, land or water?

• Land
• Water

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Albedo can best be described as...

• the temperature at the equator
• the amount of solar radiation absorbed
• the amount of solar radiation reflected
• the air pressure during El Nino

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS2-2

NGSS.HS-ESS2-4

What has the highest albedo?

• the oceans

• Ice in the Arctic or Antarctic

• the ground

• roads

All Weather happens here; you are happening here.

• troposphere

• stratosphere

• mesosphere

• thermosphere

• Exosphere