CFU 1.2

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CFU 1.2

Answer the following questions based on the assignments, lecture notes, discussion, homework from the previous lesson

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1. Insolation is a combination of what words? *

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Incoming radiation activity

Increasing solar radiation

Incoming solar radiation

In the Solar Zone

2. Which of the following statements is FALSE about the equinox *

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The Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere receive the same amount of direct solar radiation

The Equinox occurs twice a year

The equinox will mark spring in one hemisphere and fall in the other

The Southern Hemisphere receives more direct solar radiation during the equinox than the Northern Hemisphere

3. What feature of the Earth is most directly responsible for the change in seasonality throughout the year.

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The daily spinning of the earth about its axis

The tilt of the poles at a roughly 23.5 degree angle

The eccentricity of the orbit of the Earth around the sun

The "wobble" resulting from the oblong shape of the planet.

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4. Which season is being represented in the image below for the Southern Hemisphere?

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Vernal Equinox

Autumnal Equinox

Summer Solstice

Winter Solstice

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5. Which of the following features is most likely able to explain a rapid (within a period of 200 years or so) overall increase of the Earth's average temperature?

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Earth's Precession

Earth's Eccentricity

Earth's Obliquity

Increased burning of fossil fuels as connected to human activity

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