Quiz Review: Solar Energy on Earth

The specific heat of water is higher than the specific heat of sand. That is why water heats up more slowly than sand.

• True

• False

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When Earth receives energy from the Sun, _____.

• some is absorbed by land and water on Earth's surface

• some energy is reflected back into space

• some is absorbed by the atmosphere

• all of the above

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What is specific heat?

• Specific heat is the amount (measured in joules) of thermal energy needed to raise the temperature of 1kg of a material by 1 degree Celsius.

• The transfer of thermal energy between materials by the collisions of particles.

• Energy due to motion.

• To move in one direction, hit a surface, and then quickly move in a different and usually opposite direction.

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The sun's energy hits the surface of Earth most directly at the poles.

• True

• False

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Which sentence correctly compares temperatures in rural and urban areas?

• Rural areas are usually cooler because trees and water absorb more sunlight than concrete surfaces.

• Rural areas are usually warmer because grasses and other plants absorb sunlight to grow.

• Urban areas are usually cooler because buildings absorb sunlight before it reaches the ground.

• Urban areas are usually warmer because streets have surfaces that absorb sunlight.

What area of Earth is receiving the most solar radiation?

• North pole

• South pole

• Equator

• All of the above.

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Which does not happen to the radiation that Earth receives from the Sun?

• Radiation can be reflected back into space.

• Radiation is absorbed by Earth's atmosphere.

• Radiation is absorbed by Earth's surface.

• Radiation is reflected to the ocean.

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Why is it colder at the North and South poles than at the equator?

• Radiation from the Sun is not evenly distributed on Earth.

• Radiation does not hit the North and South Poles at all.

• Radiation only hits the equator.

• None of the above.

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What is radiation?

• To move from one place to another.

• The transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves.

• The distance north or south of the equator measured in degrees.

• The amount (measured in joules) of thermal energy needed to raise the temperature of 1kg of a material by 1 degree Celsius.

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What is albedo?

• The amount (measured in joules) of thermal energy needed to raise the temperature of 1kg of a material by 1 degree Celsius.

• Describes how much solar radiation is reflected off of a surface.

• To take in or soak up.

• A small piece of matter.