Up, Up, and Away
What does "meso" mean?
Middle
Heat energy that transfers in solids?
Conduction
This is the movement of air pressure caused by differences between warm and cool air?
Wind
What does "turning" or "changing" mean?
Tropo
Wind that blows to the west are called?
Westerlies
Gravity
Heat energy that can be traveled in space?
Radiation
High altitude winds up to 250 miles per hour?
Jet Stream
Where would you find in the Stratosphere?
Ozone
What heats and cools faster than water?
Land
Where you would find shooting stars?
Mesosphere
Heat transfers in liquids?
Convection
Land is heated during the day that heats the air above it where that air rises and meets the cooler air from the water?
Sea Breeze
Where would you find the weather?
Troposphere
What does "thermo" mean?
Heat
Name the five layers of the atmosphere from highest to lowest.
1. Exosphere
2. Thermosphere
3. Mesosphere
4, Stratosphere
5. Troposphere
Hot fluids rise up while cooler fluids sinks. This process is called what?
Convection Current
Heat rises, cools, and then sinks causes?
Convection Currents
What would you find the Ionosphere?
Thermosphere
These gases keeps Earth warm and can sometimes escape into space?
Greenhouse Effect
Name the three things you would find in the atmosphere and their percentages.
1. Nitrogen 78%
2. Oxygen 21%
4. Other gases 1%
This is an electromagnetic radiation?
Thermal radiation
The greater the difference in pressure, what happens to the wind?
It gets faster
Land is cool at night and warm air goes towards the water?
Land breeze
The flow of heat due to a temperature difference?
Thermal energy