Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Vocabulary 3
Vocabulary 4
Vocabulary 5
100
Moving Air
What is Atmosphere?
100
Measure of the distance above the earth's surface
What is altitude?
100
A force that holds objects down
What is Gravity?
100
Sun
What is Solar Energy?
100
The force of air pushing down on an area
What is Air Pressure?
200
States of Matter
What is liquid, solid, and gas?
200
The measure of the average motion of all particles in a substance.
What is Temperature?
200
The transfer of energy from objects with a higher temperature to objects with a lower temperature.
What is Heat?
200
Transfer of energy that can travel through matter or empty space.
What is Radiation?
200
Transfer of heat through direct contact.
What is conduction?
300
Transfer of heat through moving particles.
What is Convection?
300
The trapping of heat in our atmosphere.
What is the Greenhouse Effect?
300
The process in which moisture changes from a gas to a liquid.
What is Condensation?
300
The change of water into warm air or cloud.
What is Evaporation?
300
Rain, sleet, hail, and snow are examples of this.
What is Precipitation?
400
The movement of air.
What is wind?
400
A large air current that moves across long distances and in specific directions.
What is Global Winds?
400
A large air current that moves east between 30 degrees latitude and the equator.
What are Trade Winds?
400
A prevailing wind that travels from west to east.
What are Westerlies?
400
Global winds that blow away from the poles and to the east, above the 60 degree latitude point.
What are Polar Easterlies?
500
Area along the equator with very little wind.
What are the Doldrums?
500
An area at 30 degrees North and South Latitude that experiences little to no winds. Named because of what the sailors did to the horses on the ships.
What are the Horse Latitudes?
500
An eastward moving global wind in the trosposphere and the stratosphere.
What is the Jet Stream?
500
The curving of the path of moving objects due to the rotation of the Earth.
What is the Corolis Effect?
500
Land breezes and sea breezes
What are local winds?
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