Concepts to Know from Unit 1: Week 1
From GeoClasses
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Concepts to Know from Week 1
- Reflection
- What is it
- Angle of reflection
- Wavelengths of reflected light (what color do you see)
- Refraction
- What is it
- Wavelengths of refracted light (what color do you see)
- Why does the angle of refraction change for different colors
- How does the thickness of the material (water, air in the atmosphere) affect the displacement of light without changing the angle of refraction
- How does the thickness of atmosphere that the sun's energy passes through change with latitude
- Scattering
- What is it
- What circumstances give you greater scattering (and what color do you see in this circumstance)
- What circumstances give you less scattering (and what color do you see in this circumstance)
- How does the sun's angle affect scattering
- How does the sun's angle affect how much atmosphere its energy passes through
- Insolation
- What is it
- How do sunspots affect the amount of insolation
- What is the solar cycle
Those topics listed in bold will be revisited in the first peer review assignment.
