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Heating and cooling of the atmosphere

In this Class 11 Geography topic, students learn how the atmosphere is heated and cooled through incoming solar radiation and outgoing terrestrial radiation. The lesson explains Earth’s heat balance and the roles of conduction, convection, advection, and latent heat in transferring energy through the atmosphere. Students also examine how land and water surfaces, cloud cover, humidity, and atmospheric circulation influence temperature patterns and help produce differences between places and times.

Medium · Level 3 · 25 questions

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  1. Earth’s surface warms the lower air by emitting longwave radiation
  2. Ozone sends cold air downward
  3. The exosphere directly cools Earth’s surface
  4. Rain falls from the mesosphere into the troposphere
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  1. Stratosphere and ozone heating
  2. Troposphere and hydrogen escape
  3. Exosphere and monsoon rainfall
  4. Mesosphere and surface friction
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  1. The intensity of surface heating and convection varies
  2. Ozone remains uniform everywhere
  3. Gravity disappears seasonally
  4. The exosphere descends toward Earth
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  1. Its air is extremely rarefied, so very few particles collide with the object
  2. Its air is denser than air at sea level
  3. Its particles stop moving when sunlight is absorbed
  4. Its temperature is always lower than that of the troposphere
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  1. Warming with height makes the air stable
  2. Air heated from the surface rises and produces convection
  3. The troposphere contains no water vapour
  4. The troposphere is a complete vacuum
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  1. The surface absorbs solar energy and heats lower air by longwave radiation
  2. The exosphere supplies heat from below
  3. Rainfall in the mesosphere heats the air
  4. The thermosphere directly touches the surface
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  1. Troposphere—heating by longwave radiation emitted from Earth’s surface
  2. Exosphere—monsoon condensation
  3. Mesosphere—surface evaporation
  4. Stratosphere—energy from ocean waves
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  1. Daily condensation of water vapour
  2. Absorption of ultraviolet radiation by ozone
  3. Rainfall of hydrogen
  4. Evaporation of sea salt
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  1. The Sun directly heats upper air the most
  2. The surface absorbs solar energy and emits longwave radiation
  3. The Moon heats air at night
  4. Sea waves heat the atmosphere
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  1. Conduction
  2. Convection
  3. Advection
  4. Condensation
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  1. Radiation
  2. Reflection
  3. Convection
  4. Albedo
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  1. Conduction
  2. Radiational cooling
  3. Condensation
  4. Advection
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  1. Both are only sound waves
  2. Solar energy is shortwave and terrestrial radiation is longwave
  3. Both are only tidal energy
  4. Terrestrial radiation is shortwave and solar energy is longwave
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  1. Greater escape of longwave radiation
  2. Increase of solar radiation
  3. Absorption of lunar radiation
  4. Increase in ocean salinity
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  1. By day they create longwave radiation and by night block the Sun
  2. By day they reflect solar radiation and by night trap terrestrial radiation
  3. They only increase temperature both day and night
  4. They are unrelated to temperature
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  1. It absorbs latent heat
  2. It creates longwave radiation
  3. It changes Earth's distance
  4. It makes albedo zero
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  1. It blocks solar energy
  2. It releases latent heat
  3. It increases albedo
  4. It makes air zero
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  1. High heat capacity of water
  2. High heat capacity of land
  3. Zero albedo of sea
  4. Greater effect of the Moon
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  1. Sea nearness is greater
  2. Land heats and cools quickly
  3. Solar radiation does not reach there
  4. There is no night there
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  1. Temperature generally decreases with height
  2. Sea forms with height
  3. Day becomes longer with height
  4. Air disappears with height
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  1. Temperature may increase with height
  2. Temperature always decreases with height
  3. Air pressure becomes zero
  4. Solar energy ends
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  1. Advection
  2. Temperature inversion
  3. Solar constant
  4. Sea breeze
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  1. Temperature lag
  2. Temperature inversion
  3. Zero albedo
  4. Solar eclipse
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  1. Heat loss continues throughout the night
  2. The Sun is hottest then
  3. Albedo is lowest then
  4. Evaporation stops
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  1. It traps part of longwave radiation emitted by Earth
  2. It blocks all solar radiation
  3. It moves Earth away from the Sun
  4. It ends day length

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