Chapter 5 - Atmosphere and Currents

The ocean and the atmosphere are closely linked, and their dynamic intractions create ______ and ______ over the surface of the Earth

• wind, waves

• weather, climate

• sun, heat

• clouds, tides

What is the correct order of the layers of the atmosphere starting closest to the Earth's surface?

• Exosphere

  Thermosphere

  Mesosphere

  Stratosphere

  Troposphere

• Troposphere

  Ozone Layer

  Exosphere

  Thermosphere

  Stratosphere

• Ozone Layer

  Troposphere

  Mesosphere

  Stratosphere

  Thermosphere

• Troposphere

  Stratosphere

  Mesosphere

  Thermosphere

  Exosphere

Which is NOT a distinct boundary within our atmosphere

• ozone layer

• tropopause

• thermopause

• stratopause

True or False: Because of the angle of the Sun's rays changes with Earth's latitude, radiation is lowest at the equator and it increases toward the poles.

• True

• False

True or False: Uneven heating of Earth is the greatest influence on wind and currents.

• True

• False

_______ are the gases in the atmosphere that block heat from transmitting back to space

• Nitrogen

• Auroras

• Greenhouse Gases

• Oxygen

Which is NOT an important Greenhouse gas?

• Water Vapor

• Carbon dioxide

• Nitrogen

• Methane

• Nitrous Oxide

What is responsible for the wind and weather patterns experienced on land and at sea?

• uneven heating of Earth's surface

• Earth's rotation pattern

• Both

• Neither

The _____ always deflects things to the right in the northern hemisphere and deflects things to the left in the southern hemisphere.

• Coriolis Effect

• Ozone Layer

• Wind

• Waves

____ is the movement of molecules in the air

• Weather

• Wind

• Tides

• Waves