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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 4 · 25 questions

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  1. They create shortwave radiation
  2. They absorb longwave radiation
  3. They change Earth's axis
  4. They reduce ocean depth
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  1. Water vapour and clouds are low there
  2. The Sun rises at night there
  3. Atmosphere is absent there
  4. Sea is everywhere there
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  1. They absorb heat by day and release it slowly at night
  2. They create the Sun at night
  3. They make air pressure zero
  4. They permanently stop rainfall
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  1. Evapotranspiration
  2. Complete blocking of terrestrial radiation
  3. Change in solar constant
  4. Ocean salinity
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  1. More heating due to greater absorption
  2. Less heating due to greater reflection
  3. No radiation will reach
  4. Temperature will always double
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  1. Air pressure is lower at height
  2. The Sun ends at height
  3. Water is absent at height
  4. Gravity is zero at height
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  1. Increase in pressure
  2. Solar radiation becoming zero
  3. Freezing of ocean
  4. Decrease in night length
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  1. Convection is vertical and advection is horizontal heat transfer
  2. Convection occurs only in water and advection only in rocks
  3. Convection occurs without air and advection without wind
  4. Neither has any direction
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  1. To understand Earth's thermal balance
  2. To know river speed
  3. To measure Moon brightness
  4. To reduce mountain height
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  1. Cooling will decrease
  2. Cooling will always be zero
  3. Cooling will occur only over sea
  4. Cooling will turn into day
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  1. Evaporation in wet soil uses heat
  2. Sunlight does not reach dry soil
  3. Wet soil has no heat
  4. Dry soil is always icy
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  1. Advection
  2. Conduction
  3. Radiation
  4. Condensation
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  1. Air mixing is weak and radiational cooling is stronger
  2. Sea breeze becomes strong
  3. The Sun gives more energy
  4. Albedo disappears
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  1. Heating of slopes makes nearby air lighter
  2. The Moon pulls the slopes
  3. Snow always pushes air upward
  4. Sea changes into mountain
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  1. Slopes cool by radiational cooling
  2. The Sun heats mountains at night
  3. Sea waves reach mountains
  4. Evaporation always stops
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  1. Solar radiation reaching the surface may decrease
  2. Solar radiation will double
  3. Surface albedo will become zero
  4. Night will turn into day
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  1. Air reaches near saturation and water vapour condenses
  2. The Sun burns water vapour
  3. Dust changes into water
  4. Wind makes sea
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  1. Frost forms near freezing point while dew forms as liquid droplets
  2. Dew forms only in deserts
  3. Frost always forms at noon
  4. Both form without cooling
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  1. Dry clear sky with few clouds
  2. Dense clouds and high humidity
  3. Humid coastal area
  4. Day with continuous rainfall
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  1. It may be low
  2. It will be very high
  3. It will always be zero
  4. It will occur only over sea
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  1. Absorption and reflection
  2. Longitude and time zone
  3. River and waterfall
  4. Earthquake and volcano
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  1. It can occur without a medium
  2. It occurs only in solids
  3. It occurs only in rivers
  4. It occurs only at night
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  1. Air is a poor conductor of heat
  2. Air has no particles
  3. Air is always solid
  4. Air has no temperature
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  1. Strong unequal heating of the surface
  2. Zero temperature in total darkness
  3. Permanent freezing of sea
  4. Complete absence of air
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  1. It sends heat outward and causes energy loss
  2. It brings the Sun closer
  3. It completely stops rainfall
  4. It turns land into sea

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