Question
Select the correct text in the passage.
Hannah is writing a report on how albedo affects the global climate. She’s proofreading her passage for any factual errors. Which sentence must Hannah correct before submitting her report?
Earth receives energy from the Sun. This energy drives many of the processes on Earth, including its climate. Some part of this energy is reflected by Earth’s surface. We use the term albedo to describe the reflected energy. Albedo of an object is the ratio of the reflected radiation to the total radiation reaching the object. A value of 0 means no energy is absorbed by the object, whereas a value of 1 means that all of the energy is absorbed. In this way, the albedo of an object can influence Earth’s atmospheric temperature.
Hannah is writing a report on how albedo affects the global climate. She’s proofreading her passage for any factual errors. Which sentence must Hannah correct before submitting her report?
Earth receives energy from the Sun. This energy drives many of the processes on Earth, including its climate. Some part of this energy is reflected by Earth’s surface. We use the term albedo to describe the reflected energy. Albedo of an object is the ratio of the reflected radiation to the total radiation reaching the object. A value of 0 means no energy is absorbed by the object, whereas a value of 1 means that all of the energy is absorbed. In this way, the albedo of an object can influence Earth’s atmospheric temperature.
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The sentence that must Hannah correct before submitting her report is: "A value of 0 means no energy is absorbed by the object, whereas a value of 1 means that all of the energy is absorbed."
This is incorrect because a value of 0 indicates that all incoming energy is reflected (none is absorbed), while a value of 1 means that all incoming energy is absorbed (none is reflected). So the correct explanation should reflect that a value of 0 means complete reflection and a value of 1 means complete absorption.
This is incorrect because a value of 0 indicates that all incoming energy is reflected (none is absorbed), while a value of 1 means that all incoming energy is absorbed (none is reflected). So the correct explanation should reflect that a value of 0 means complete reflection and a value of 1 means complete absorption.