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Geography

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.

Easy · Level 4 · 25 questions

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01Why do clouds reduce surface heating during the day?

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02Why can clouds keep temperature relatively higher at night?

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03Why does evaporation cool a surface?

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04Which heat is released in the atmosphere during condensation?

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05How is the heat capacity of water compared with land?

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06Why does land heat faster than water?

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07Why is temperature range usually smaller in coastal areas?

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08What generally happens to temperature with increasing height in the atmosphere?

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09What may happen opposite to the normal condition in temperature inversion?

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10Why is heat loss greater on a clear-sky night?

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11Which condition helps in frost formation?

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12Why does the daily maximum temperature not always occur exactly at noon?

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13When is the minimum temperature usually recorded?

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14How do greenhouse gases help keep the atmosphere warm?

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15Carbon dioxide is useful in absorbing which radiation?

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16Why can water vapour make nights relatively warmer?

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17Why can deserts have a large difference between day and night temperature?

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18Why can a black surface become warmer than a white surface?

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19How is the albedo of a snowy surface?

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20Which surface is likely to show more temperature rise during the day?

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21Horizontal transfer of heat in the atmosphere occurs by what?

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22The cooling effect of sea breeze is related to which process?

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23Why does warm air rise?

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24Why does cold air generally sink?

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25Why does rising air become cooler?

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