Quiz Format

Preparation Strategy

1. Material covered or provided in class
   
   
   1. Lab Activities:
      • Lab Activity #4: Introduction to the Earth's Energy Budget
      • Lab Activity #5: Long-Term Average Energy Budgets for the Earth's Atmosphere and Surface
        • Energy budget figures for Lab Activity #5
      • Lab Activity #6: Earth's Energy Budget and the Greenhouse Effect
      • Lab Activity #7: Global Patterns of Sea Surface Temperature and Salinity
      
      
   2. Lecture topics and class discussion of lab activities:
   • Summary of discussion about Lab Activity #4: Introduction to the Earth's Energy Budget
   • Questions Raised by Analyses of Data in Labs #1, 2, and 4 [PDF file]
     (Note: some of these questions have now been addressed, at least partly, in Lab Activities #5, #6, and #7, and perhaps indirectly by Problem #3.)
   • Summary of discussion about Lab Activity #5: Long-Term Average Energy Budgets for the Earth's Atmosphere and Surface
   • Summary of discussion about Lab Activity #6: Earth's Energy Budget and the Greenhouse Effect
   • Summary of discussion about Lab Activity #7: Global Patterns of Sea Surface Temperature and Salinity [PDF file]
     
     
   3. Handouts:
   • Templates for class notes (some annotated):
     • Basic Laws of Radiation (annotated)
       • Figure: Emission spectra for blackbodies at different temperatures (annotated) [PDF file]
     • Long-term, global average vertical temperature profile of the atmosphere
     • Composition of the Atmosphere
     • Absorption Spectra for Atmospheric Gases (annotated) [PDF file]
     • Heat budgets for low, middle, and high latitude zones (annotated) [PDF file]
       
       
2. Pre-class Quizzes
   1. Pre-class Quiz #2: The Greenhouse Effect, Etc.
   2. Pre-class Quiz #3: Ocean Surface Currents
      
      
3. Reading Assignments
   1. Reading #2
   2. Reading #3
   3. Reading #5a
      
      
4. Homework Problems
   1. Problem #3
      • Solution to Problem #3
   2. Problem #4
      • Solution to Problem #4 [PDF file]
        
        
5. Clicker Questions
   1. Definition of a heat source; units of energy flux; Stefan-Boltzmann Law [PDF file]
   2. CO₂ and global warming [PDF file]

Review the questions posed in lab activities, lecture, pre-class quizzes, and homework problems (and even in the reading questions, though that is more straight factual knowledge than problem-solving) and practice figuring out responses rather than trying to memorize the answers.