Heat transfer
The energy transferred from an object at a higher temperature to an object at a lower temperature.
What is heat?
What is kinetic energy?
78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen gas, and 1% other.
What is the atmosphere made up of?
Movement of air caused by differences in air pressure.
What is wind?
Narrow belts of high-speed winds that blow from west to east between 7km and 16km above Earth's surface.
What are Jet Streams?
The transfer of energy as heat from one substance to another through direct contact.
What is conduction?
The energy that an object has due to its position, condition, or chemical composition.
What is potential energy?
Increase in volume that results from an increase in temperature.
What is thermal expansion?
Apparent curving of a moving object from an otherwise straight path due to Earth's rotation.
What is the Coriolis effect?
Sun heating your body.
What is an example of radiation?
The transfer of energy as heat by the movement of a liquid or gas.
What is convection?
The energy that results from the position or motion of charged particles.
What is electrical energy?
Three types of heat transfer.
What are radiation, convection and conduction.
Three different types of global winds.
What are trade winds, polar easterlies, and prevailing westerlies?
The metal spoon warming up from the hot soup.
What is a form of conduction?
The transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
A form of potential energy.
What is chemical energy?
The mixture of gases that surround Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
Two types of light wind.
What are horse latitudes and doldrums?
Water warming in a pan.
What is an example of convection?
The average kinetic of particles.
What is temperature?
When energy changes from one form into another.
What is an energy transformation?
Some of the energy is reflected and scattered by Earth's atmosphere.
What is solar radiation?
The movement of air over short distances.
What are local winds?
Heat does not pass through well.
What is an insulator?