Earth's Sphere
Atmosphere
Energy Transfer
Wind
Water
100
The number of spheres in the Earth.
What is five.
100
The amount of layers in the atmosphere
What is four.
100
The energy that is transferred between objects that are at different temperatures.
What is heat.
100
The movement of air caused by the differences in air pressure
What is wind.
100
Stream like movements of water
What are Ocean currents
200
The mostly solid and rocky part of Earth
What is Geosphere
200
The process by which gases in the atmosphere, such as water vapor and carbon dioxide absorbs and gives off infrared radiation.
What is the Greenhouse Effect.
200
The different rate at which materials become warmer or cooler.
What is thermal expansion.
200
The trade winds of both hemispheres that meet in a calm area around the equator
What are the doldrums.
200
When ocean water at the surface becomes ______ than water below it, the ______ water sinks.
What is denser
300
The hot layer of rock between Earth's crust and core.
What is the Mantle
300
The greatest percentage of gas in the Earth's atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen.
300
When cooler air molecules come into direct contact with the warmer ground.
What is conduction.
300
The apparent curving of the path of a moving object from an otherwise straight path due to Earth's rotation
What is the Coriolis Effect.
300
The measure of the amount of dissolved salts or solids in a liquid.
What is Salinity
400
The estimated percent of the atmosphere that's nitrogen.
What is 78%
400
The layer in the atmosphere where the temperatures can be low as -120 degrees celcius.
What is the mesosphere.
400
The transfer of energy due to the movement of matter.
What is convection.
400
The _____ __________ blow between the poles and 60 degrees latitude in both hemispheres
What are the Polar Easterlies.
400
This picture displays
What is upwelling
500
How thick the mantle is.
What is 2,900 km
500
Gas molecules in the atmosphere being pulled by gravity.
What is air pressure.
500
The measure of the average kinetic energy of particles.
What is temperature.
500
Narrow belts of high-speed winds that blow from east to west, between 7 km and 16 km above Earth's surface.
What are Jet Streams.
500
Deep currents make up the bottom part of the belt. True or False.
What is true
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