Atmosphere
Hydrosphere
Geosphere and Biosphere
Energy Transfer
Labs and Models
100
It is what makes the layer of gas swirl and take circular patterns.
What is Coriolis effect?
100
They are currents that bring nutrients from deep in the ocean to the surface?
What is a deep current?
100
Continents deflect them after wind and the Earth's rotation create them.
What is a surface current?
100
The movement that can occur through air or water?
What is convection?
100
It is the pressure created when air becomes less dense and warmer.
What is low pressure?
200
It is the layer of gas that we live in and weather occurs.
What is the Troposphere?
200
They allow animals to migrate because of their fast moving nature and can be deflected by continents into gyres.
What are surface currents?
200
Rocks absorb the energy from the sun and then do this to release it back into the Atmosphere.
What is radiation?
200
The air is warmed by the ocean at this time.
What is night?
200
The Greenhouse Effect article helped us understand the interaction between these three Earth System Spheres.
What are the geosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere?
300
It is the layer that contains the Ozone that protects us from UV Rays and allows the Greenhouse effect to happen.
What is the stratosphere?
300
The ocean levels would drown parts of Florida if this Earth system sphere was destroyed.
What is the Cryosphere?
300
It gets the hottest during the day.
What is geosphere?
300
It drives the Greenhouse Effect and the movement of deep sea currents.
What is Convection?
300
The water boiling on the desk and the bag of water under the lamp show these.
What is convection, conduction, and radiation?
400
A narrow band of fast moving air high in the troposphere that controls part of our seasonal change.
What is the Jet Stream?
400
The direction in which the breeze blows at the coastline at night.
What is a land (or towards the sea) breeze?
400
The reason why it is harder to breath when you climb Mount Everest?
What is lower air pressure?
400
The lack of energy in this part of the atmosphere burns meteors up when crashing towards Earth.
What is the Mesosphere?
400
Global winds that go west to east.
What is Prevailing Westerly?
500
The result would be a planet that is too cold to support life.
What is a missing ozone layer?
500
This decrease in density results from molecules spreading apart.
What is hot or warm water?
500
At night this material releases energy faster than water.
What are rocks?
500
This law explains why all energy transfer ends in a balance.
What is The Law of Conservation of Energy?
500
It represented upwelling or a deep current of high pressure.
What was the blue water in the tank?
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