Thermal Energy
Atmospheric Layers
Water Cycle
Wind
Potpourri
100
The source of all energy in our atmosphere
What is the Sun
100
The layer of the atmosphere closest to earths surface
What is the troposphere?
100
The source of energy in the water cycle
What is the Sun?
100
Caused by earths rotation.
What is the coriolis effect?
100
A gas that makes up 21% of the atmosphere.
What is oxygen?
200
The transfer of energy that occurs when molecules bump into each other
What is conduction?
200
The layer of the atmosphere that contains the highest concentration of ozone
What is the Stratosphere?
200
The process of water changing to a gas.
What is evaporation?
200
When cool dense air from over the water flows inland.
What is a sea breeze?
200
Gas made of three oxygen atoms.
What is ozone?
300
The transfer of heat by the flow of heated material
What is convection
300
Temperatures in this layer of the atmosphere are very hot.
What is the Thermosphere?
300
The process of water vapor changing into a liquid
What is condensation?
300
A windless zone at the equator
What are the doldrums?
300
The reason not all areas on Earth's surface receive the same amount of radiation.
What is the curve of Earth's surface?
400
The transfer of energy in the form of rays or waves
What is radiation
400
They breakdown the ozone molecule into oxygen and a free oxygen
What are chlorofluorocarbons?
400
Underground water that slowly drains to the ocean.
What is the aquifer?
400
They occur because land heats and cools more quickly then water.
What are sea and land breezes
400
Where the Suns rays strike the earth most directly.
What is the equator?
500
Reflection and absorption by the atmosphere prevent some of this from reaching Earths surface
What is (solar) radiation?
500
The most common gas in the atmosphere
What is nitrogen?
500
The process of plants releasing water into the atmosphere.
What is transpiration?
500
They are responsible for moving much of the weather across the United States.
What is are the prevailing westerlies?
500
The amount of this greenhouse gas in the air will increase the most if large forests are cut down without planting new trees in their place.
What is carbon dioxide
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