Albedo Is the Tendency of a Surface to Reflect Solar

question 48

Multiple Choice

Albedo is the tendency of a surface to reflect solar energy instead of absorb it.Over the last 20 years the amount of the Arctic Ocean that has ice on it has decreased each summer,thereby exposing more and more of the Arctic Ocean to the atmosphere each summer.Would this cause the total absorbtion of heat in the Arctic to increase or decrease?

• A)increase
• B)decrease

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