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Explain why the atmosphere is heated chiefly by radiation from the Earth’s surface rather than by direct solar radiation.

Please answer the following questions:

  1. Do the annual variations in Earth-Sun distance adequately account for seasonal temperature changes?  Explain.
  1. Describe how latent heat is transferred from the Earth’s surface (land-ocean) to the atmosphere?
  1. Explain why the atmosphere is heated chiefly by radiation from the Earth’s surface rather than by direct solar radiation.

Rubric

 

o   Up to 3 points for complete, accurate, and on-points response for each question.

o   One point for proper spelling and grammar.

No.2

pick just 2 of them

FIND

o   2 completely different examples of how weather affects the human species.

o   2 completely different examples of how weather affects other species (plants or animals)

o   2 completely different examples of how climate affects the human species.

o   2 completely different examples of how climate affects other species (plants or animals)

o   2 completely different examples of the dollar costs of weather events or climate-related phenomena.

INFORMATION SOURCES

 

Google searches won’t work.  Please access the SMC Library’s online databases from which your examples must come from.

For each information source that you use for the examples that you find, please indicate the source of the information with a full and properly formatted MLA-style citation.

RUBRIC

  • One point for each appropriate example that you locate and properly cite (10 examples for up to 10 points)

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