The Earth receives energy from the Sun by?

What are the mechanisms of heat transfer?

The primary wavelengths of radiation emitted by Earth's surface are (A) longer than those emitted by the sun. (B) shorter than those emitted by the sun. (C) about the same as those emitted by the sun. (D) about the same as UV radiation

a. What two characteristics are used to classify air masses? b. Classify the four major types of air masses according to whether they are dry or humid. c. What type of air mass would form over the northern Atlantic Ocean?

Which one of the following are the three most abundant gases in the dry atmosphere?

A. nitrogen, oxygen, argon

B. argon, carbon dioxide, nitrogen

C. carbon dioxide, nitrogen, oxygen

D. oxygen, argon, carbon dioxide

Where are magnetic lines of force parallel to Earth's surface?

Which of these is an example of an active, continent-continent collision?
a) Arabian Peninsula slamming into North Africa under the Red Sea
b) westward movement of the South American plate over the Nazca plate
c) northern movement of Baja California and a sliver of western California toward the Hawaiian Islands
d) northward movement of India into Eurasia.

Describe what happens to the energy from the sun that reaches Earths atmosphere.

The San Andreas fault, California, is an example of which fault type?

Could the sun be used economically as a source of energy in your area? Why or why not?

Which of the following gases are considered greenhouse gases? a. methane b. carbon dioxide c. ozone d. all of the above

Which type of radiation has the shortest wavelength?

a. gamma rays

b. X-rays

c. visible light

d. radio waves

Ozone filters out most of what radiation in sunlight?

Where do magnetic lines of force enter earth?