light wavelengths
Shortest light wavelength with the highest energy
What is UV light?
More greenhouse gases and more trapped infrared light leads to
What is higher temperatures?
Receives direct, perpendicular sunlight year-round.
What is the equator?
Energy flows from warmer temperatures/objects to...
What is lower/cooler objects?
The earth is tilted on this.
What is the earth's axis?
Wavelength of light we can see.
What is visible light.
Fewer greenhouse gases and more infrared light escapes leads to
What is falling temperatures?
Receives slanted, indirect sunlight year-round.
What are the poles?
This is the temperature when the energy flow between to objects ends.
What is when they are the same temperature.
As Earth travels around the Sun, different hemispheres point toward or away from the Sun. This causes ....
What is our seasons?
Visible light contains these colors.
What is all the colors of the rainbow?
Name for gases in the atmosphere (like carbon dioxide and methane) trap escaping infrared light, holding heat near Earth's surface.
What is Greenhouse gases?
Sunlight hits straight on, spreading energy over a smaller area, this causes....
What is warmer temperatures?
Type of energy that always flows naturally from areas of higher temperature (warmer) to areas of lower temperature (cooler).
What is thermal energy?
Season where hemisphere tilted toward the Sun.
What is summer?
Longer wavelength, low energy, felt as heat.
What is infrared light?
This light is reflected back from the earth into the atmosphere, causing a warming effect.
What is infrared light?
Sunlight hits at a slant, spreading the same amount of energy over a larger area, this causes....
What is cooler temperatures?
Earth's atmosphere and ocean currents move surplus warm energy from southern/equatorial regions towards...
What is the poles?
Season where hemisphere tilted away from the Sun
What is winter?
A protective layer in the atmosphere that acts like a shield. It absorbs high-energy light with shorter wavelengths before it can reach Earth's surface.
the warming of the troposphere by energy trapped by greenhouse gases
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
Light that is the most concentrated on Earth’s surface.
What is light hitting the equator?
After picking up a handful of snow, it melts and the hand gets colder. This is the same energy flow as warmer equatorial water currents moving water to the poles...true or false
What is true?
The Northern and Southern Hemispheres always have opposite _______________?
What is seasons