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What is the term for atmospheric temperature increasing at higher altitudes?

Correct answer B. Inversion

Explanation

Normally air cools with height, but a temperature inversion is a layer where temperature rises with altitude, as in the stratosphere where ozone absorbs ultraviolet radiation.

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