Vocabulary
The meaning of geo in greek.
What is ground?
The layer of our atmosphere where green house gasses prevent excessive heat loss.
What is the troposphere?
The type of energy transfer that occurs when cooking popcorn in the microwave.
What is radiation?
The transfer of heat through direct contact.
Conduction
Steers weather systems such as storms.
What is the Jet Stream?
Contains many components that are wet.
What is the hydrosphere?
The layer of the atmosphere where meteors burn up.
What is the Mesosphere?
The meaning of the prefix cryo.
What is icy cold.
Warm air rising, cool air sinking
What is convection?
A sunny beach has warm land and cooler ocean water in the afternoon. Air rises over the warm land.
What most likely happens next?
What is cooler ocean air moves toward the land?
The sphere on earth that contains all living things.
What is the biosphere?
All air consists of atoms and molecules that have mass, so air has _____________.
What is mass?
The spheres that interact when chemicals in the air impact the weathering of rocks.
What is the atmosphere and the geosphere?
The order in which heat transferes on Earth.
What is radiation, conduction, convection?
The type of energy that causes of ocean currents.
What is convection?
The layer that contains the ozone.
What is the Stratosphere?
As altitude increases _________________ decreases.
What is air pressure?
The reason why a hot air balloon rises.
What is convection.
What would happen if earth did not have greenhouse gasses?
Earth would lose heat and become a much colder planet.
The primary role of the Jet Steam.
What is steers weather systems?
One of Earth's sytems made of the core, mantle, inner core, outer core.
What is the geosphere.
What are the layers of the atmosphere in order from earth outward?
Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere
The cause of wind, convection cells, jet stream, global winds, and ocean currents.
Uneven heating of Earth's surface.
What kind of energy is the primary source of energy that drives atmospheric movement on Earth?
What is radiation?
Explain what causes wind when you are at the beach.
What is warm air rising and cool air rushing in to take it's place. This happens because warm air is less dense and cool air is more dense.