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Question 1: Briefly outline the nature of light. What is a photon? What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
Question 2: What happens to light when it is absorbed? When it is emitted? Give an example of each of these phenomena.
Question 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?
Question 4: What is the fate of the solar radiation that reaches Earth?
Question 5: Explain the greenhouse effect.
Question 6: Explain the difference between heat and temperature.
Question 7: Explain the difference between conduction and convection.
Question 8: What is latent heat? How does it affect Earth's surface temperature?
Question 9: What is specific heat? How does it affect Earth's surface temperature?
Question 10: Explain how the tilt of Earth's axis affects climate in the temperate and polar regions.
Question 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.
Question 12: Explain how altitude, wind, the ocean, cloud cover, and albedo affect regional temperature.