Question Bank

1. Diurnal variation of temperature over ocean is _____

2. -40°C = -40°F

3. Which surface will cause higher diurnal variation

4. A clear and calm night is cooler than a cloudy night, because nocturnal radiation

5. Hot bodies (like sun) radiate

6. The liquid used in Minimum Thermometer is

7. During day the ambient temperature is _____ than ground

8. The wavelength of most intense radiation is inversely proportional to its

9. Minimum temperature is reached at

10. The door of Stevenson's screen should open

11. Boiling point of water is

12. Water vapour is transparent to terrestrial radiation

13. Snow surface reflects about ______ % of solar radiation

14. Rise in temperature of a surface is proportional to its specific heat

15. Solar radiation received by the earth is

16. Diurnal variation of temperature is greatest when wind is

17. The solar radiation consists of about 46%

18. Higher the temperature ______ would be the wavelength of emitted radiation

19. The flow of heat from earth surface is 77% by

20. Boiling point of water is

21. Intense radiation are emitted by

22. The total energy radiated by a black body is proportional to its temperature(T)

23. Diurnal variation of temperature is least on a day when it is

24. Diurnal variation of temperature is maximum over

25. Warmer the earth _____ will be the Nocturnal radiation

26. If temperature does not change in a layer with height on a day indicates

27. Air is a bad conductor of heat. A parcel of air can therefore be regarded as insulated from the environment

28. At a coastal station the diurnal variation of temperature depends on

29. An air parcel is lifted till it gets saturated. The temperature attained by its called

30. Freezing point of water is

31. Surface Temperature is recorded at a height of _____ above ground

32. Convert 68°F into Kelvin temperature

33. Specific heat of land is _____ than that of water

34. Heat is the _____ of the KE of all the molecules and atoms of a substance

35. Freezing point of water is

36. ALBEDO is

37. Cloudy nights are

38. Amount of Solar radiation received per unit area is

39. On a clear day the amount of solar radiation received by earth surface is