Thermal Energy & Weather
What is thermal energy?
This is a substance through which energy or matter can move from one location to another.
What is a medium?
This is the term for the action of a planet, moon, or star spinning on its axis.
What is rotation?
This is the term for usual conditions of weather that occur in a region over a long time.
What is climate?
These organisms are responsible for recycling the nutrients found in dead organisms.
What are decomposers?
When particles have more thermal energy, this happens to their density.
What is, they become less dense?
The type of wave that is a disturbance of particles.
What is a mechanical wave?
This is the effect of decreasing the mass of either object on the gravitational attraction between two objects.
What is decreasing gravitational attraction?
This is something that brings with it regular temperature, precipitation, and air pressure conditions when it moves over land.
What is an air mass?
This category of organisms are able to create their own stored chemical energy from sunlight and carbon dioxide.
What are producers or plants or photosynthesizers?
What is a low pressure system?
This type of wave does not require a medium to transfer energy.
What is an electromagnetic wave?
This occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth, blocking the Sun's light from reaching Earth.
What is a solar eclipse?
This describes how the direction of wind is determined.
This is the form of energy that is produced by all levels of the food web and leaves the ecosystem.
What is thermal energy?
This happens when water evaporates from plants.
What is transpiration?
When this is larger, a sound is louder.
What is amplitude?
This is a type of model that is geometrically similar to a real-life object, but smaller or larger than the object.
What is a scale model?
These conditions will increase the amount of wind experienced by an area.
What is the condition that occurs if the difference in high and low atmospheric pressure zones increases?
These water plants grow in many areas along Indonesia's coasts, providing a place to live and food for a wide range of organisms, including sea snails, sea urchins, small fish, and green sea turtles.
What are seagrasses?
This is what happens when water vapor loses thermal energy high up in the atmosphere.
What is cloud formation or condensation?
What is a medium or particles?
This is the effect of decreasing the distance between two objects on their gravitational attraction.
What is increasing gravitational attraction?
This type of climate is characterized by a narrow range of temperatures and usually fairly high humidity.
What is a coastal climate?
This is the likely cause of the decline in the orangutan population in Leuser Ecosystem in Sumatra.
What is deforestation associated with palm oil production?