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Grading                         CHAPTER B ATMOSPHERIC OPTICS
Learning
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Photographs
Practice          1. Bending of light waves as they travel from one
Questions         transparent medium into another is known as
Special Notice    reflection
Student           scattering
Responsibilities  absorption
                  refraction
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Daily Weather     2. Which one of the following cloud types is most likely
Summary and       to produce a halo about the sun or moon?
Learning          cumulus congestus
Activities        nimbostratus
                  cumulonimbus
National Weather  cirrostratus
Service - Green
Bay               3. Which one of the following optical phenomena is
                  primarily the consequence of diffraction of visible
       Home       light?
                  rainbow
                  halo
                  corona
                  mirage

                  4. The blue of the daytime sky is caused by
                  reflection of sunlight by aerosols
                  scattering of visible radiation by raindrops
                  refraction of infrared radiation by water vapor
                  scattering of sulight by nitrogen and oxygen molecules

                  5. A rainbow may be visible
                  on a day when the sky is completely covered by clouds
                  to a person facing the setting sun
                  to a person facing a shaft of falling rain with the sun
                  at his/her back.
                  None of the above is correct



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