SPHERES
ATMOSPHERE
ENERGY TRANSFER
WIND
OCEAN CURRENTS
100
Where ponds and rivers may be found.
What is the hydrosphere?
100
The layer that we live in.
What is the troposphere?
100
The transfer of energy as electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
100
the movement of air caused by differences in air pressure.
What is Wind?
100
stream-like movements of water
What is currents?
200
Where ice and glaciers are found
What is the cryosphere?
200
The uppermost layer of the atmosphere.
What is the thermosphere?
200
The transfer of energy due to direct contact.
What is conduction?
200
the narrow zone near the equator where the trade winds meet.
What is Doldrums?
200
currents at or near the surface, caused by wind.
What is Surface Currents?
300
The invisible sphere.
What is the atmosphere?
300
It burns up meteoroids.
What is the mesosphere?
300
The transfer of energy due to the movement of matter.
What is convection?
300
High-speed winds that blow from west to east and are located 7km-16km above earth's surface.
What is Jet Streams?
300
Differences in water density causes this type of current.
What is deep currents?
400
Where the mountains and earth's layers can be found.
What is the geosphere?
400
Where the ozone layer is located.
What is the stratosphere?
400
The energy transferred between objects at different temperatures.
What is heat?
400
The curving path of a moving object due to earth's rotation.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
400
The process in which warm surface water is replaced by cold, nutrient-rich water from the deep.
What is Upwelling?
500
The gases that you might find in the atmosphere
What is nitrogen, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and argon.
500
The process by which gases in the atmosphere absorb and reradiate heat.
What is the greenhouse effect?
500
Increase in volume due to an increase in temperature.
What is thermal expansion?
500
Global winds that occur near the equator and blow from east to west.
What is Trade Winds?
500
What the ocean transports.
What is energy and matter?
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