The transmission of energy in the form of waves. The Sun transmits energy to Earth in this way.
What is Radiation?
100
The most dense layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs.
What is the Troposphere?
100
The Earth rotates along this imaginary line.
What is its Axis?
100
This tool measures temperature.
What is a Thermometer?
100
When heat transferred up the Steel and Aluminum sticks, we were observing this.
What is Conduction?
200
The transmission of heat energy through collisions between neighboring molecules or contact between materials.
What is Conduction?
200
This layer of the atmosphere protects the Earth from the Sun's harmful radiation.
What is the Ozonosphere?
200
When the Earth's axis is tilted away from the Sun, it is this season in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is Winter?
200
This tool measures air pressure.
What is a Barometer?
200
When various materials absorbed heat at different rates, we observed this.
What is Differential Heating?
300
The transmission of heat by mass motion of a fluid such as air or water when the heated fluid is caused to move away from the source of heat, carrying energy with it.
What is Convection?
300
This layer of the atmosphere is known for its extreme temperatures.
What is Thermosphere?
300
When the Sun passes directly over the Equator, it is called this.
What is an Equinox?
300
This is a cyclonic storm that forms over warm ocean water.
What is a Hurricane?
300
When we increase the heat energy in a material, this characteristic of the material decreases.
What is Density?
400
The ways sunlight heats the Earth’s atmosphere and materials differently depending on solar angle and characteristics of the materials absorbing the sunlight.
What is Differential Heating?
400
This layer of the atmosphere contains the Ozonosphere.
What is Stratosphere?
400
This is the angle that the Sun's rays enter the Earth's atmosphere.
What is Solar Angle?
400
A cyclonic storm that most often forms in the Midwest region in the United States.
What is a Tornado?
400
When we burned incense and then cooled it with ice, allowing it to travel along the bottom of a chamber, and then watched it rise after being heated by a candle, we observed this.
What is Convection?
500
Radiation emitted as a consequence of a previous absorption of radiation.
What is Reradiation?
500
Satellites orbit the Earth near this layer of the atmosphere.
What is Exosphere?
500
When the Sun is closest to the Earth, it is on this day.
What is Winter Solstice?
500
This tool measures moisture or humidity in the air.
What is a hygrometer?
500
When the sun shines on the ocean and evaporates some of the water, this property of the ocean water goes up.
What is Salt Concentration or Salinity? (Density goes up too)