6. Climate and Climate Change
Climate Basics — Quiz
Test your understanding of climate basics with 5 practice questions.
Practice Questions
Question 1
Which climate subsystem interacts with the atmosphere primarily through latent heat exchange of water?
Question 2
Radiative forcing is best defined as:
Question 3
Which feedback mechanism acts as a negative feedback by increasing outgoing longwave radiation when surface temperature rises?
Question 4
If Earth’s planetary albedo decreases from 0.30 to 0.28 and the solar constant is $S=1361\ \mathrm{W/m^2}$, what is the approximate change in radiative forcing $\Delta F$ at the top of the atmosphere? Use $\Delta F = -\frac{S\,\Delta a}{4}$.
Question 5
Which Milankovitch cycle involves changes in Earth’s axial tilt, affecting the latitudinal distribution of solar insolation?