Exam 1 review
1. Which are trace gases in the atmosphere?
2. What is the approximate height of the atmosphere (or Troposphere)? Choose the answer with
the right order of magnitude.
3. Which atmosphere has weather?
4. Which atmosphere has a lot of ozone?
5. Which sphere takes most of the extra heat of the climate system?
6. Given the following data, what’s the median? 7,12,5,9,20,20,1
7. Given the following data, what’s the mode? 7,12,5,9,20,20,1
8. Average human temperature is about 310K. At what wavelength range does human body’s
radiation peak?
9. A newly discovered star has a temperature of 3000K. Earth’s temperature is 300K. Assume they
both are blackbodies and follow the Stefan-Boltzmann’s law. The star’s total radiation is a factor
of ( ) larger than the Earth’s total radiation?
10. Over the earth as a whole, one would expect to observe the smallest variation in temperature
from day to day and from month to month ( )
11. Making communities more resistant to harmful impacts of climate change involves ( ).
12. Sustainability is the capability to meet needs of the ( ) without compromising needs of future
generations.
13. Of energy stored in the climate system between 1971 and 2010, ocean warming accounts for ( )
of the total.
14. Earth is a(n) ( ) system for energy and a closed system for mass.
15. The average vertical temperature change with increasing altitude in the atmosphere or
environmental lapse rate is about ( )C per kilometer.
16. Satellite observations of ECVs involve ( ).
17. Geostationary satellite orbits place then in relatively ( ).
18. Polar orbiting satellite typically have better resolution and clarity because they ( ).
19. An in situ ocean measuring system of sensors is ( ).
20. The oldest U.S. climate observing system is the ( ) program.
21. The range is a measure of the ( ) of the smallest and largest values occurring.
22. The square root of the average of squared differences of each value from the mean is a measure
of the dispersion of values of the variables and is called the ( ).
23. In a Gaussian distribution, the ( ) are at the center position of the distribution.
24. The Koppen climate classification system is based on types of ( ) related to temperature and
precipitation amounts.
25. Climate normal are ECV averages calculated from the ( ).
26. List the following radiation types in order of increasing energy:
27. If the temperature of a blackbody increases, its wavelength of most intense radiation would ( ).
28. The albedo of a flat water surface ( ) as the Sun rises higher in the sky.
29. Movements of warmer or colder fluid during convection result from differences in the fluid’s ( ).
30. The lowest temperature of the day typically occurs ( ) sunrise.