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Question

1. Briefly outline the nature of light. What is a photon? What is the electromagnetic spectrum?

2. What happens to light when it is absorbed? When it is emitted? Give an example of each of these phenomena.

3. What is albedo? How does the albedo of a surface change when snow melts? When forests are converted to agricultural fields? When fields are paved into parking lots?

4. What is the fate of the solar radiation that reaches Earth?

5. Explain the greenhouse effect.

6. Explain the difference between heat and temperature.

7. Explain the difference between conduction and convection.

8. What is latent heat? How does it affect Earth's surface temperature?

9. What is specific heat? How does it affect Earth's surface temperature?

10. Explain how the tilt of Earth's axis affects climate in the temperate and polar regions.

11. How does temperature and lengths of days at the poles, the midlatitudes, and the equator at the following times of year: June 21, December 21, and the equinoxes.

12. Explain how altitude, wind, the ocean, cloud cover, and albedo affect regional temperature.