Describe the important aspects of atmospheric absorption, reflection, scattering, and transmission of light
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: Absorption represents an energy transfer to the absorber. This transfer has two effects: The absorber gains energy and warms, while the amount of energy delivered to Earth's surface is reduced. The reflection of energy is a process whereby radiation making contact with some material is simply redirected away from the surface without being absorbed. When a beam is reflected from an object as a larger number of weaker rays traveling in many different directions, it is called diffuse reflection, or scattering. When solar radiation travels through the vacuum of outer space, there is no modification of its intensity, direction, or wavelength. This is an example of transmission.
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A) alanine B) asparagine C) serine D) tyrosine
The frontal lifting pictured on this map is moving to the
A. west. B. east. C. south. D. north.
Characteristic of Iran (northeast of the Persian Gulf):
From Table 29.1, the biome map, and the climate map, determine the terrestrial biome that best characterizes each of the following descriptions and write its name on the first line provided. On the second line, relate it to temperature and precipitation regimes and/or global pressure and wind belts outlined at the end of Section 1.
The primary habitat of the river dolphin is
A) uninhabited by humans. B) subject to periodic fires and drought. C) also inhabited by many other fresh water dolphin species. D) the Sundarbans, the world's largest mangrove forest.