Intro to Energy
The ability to cause change
What is energy?
The uneven transfer of heat in liquids and gases.
What is convection?
The weigh of the air
What is air pressure?
The movement in air caused by differences in air pressure
What is wind?
The potential of a chemical substance to undergo a transformation through a ______ reaction to transform other chemical substances..
What is chemical energy?
The total kinetic energy in an object
What is thermal energy?
The mixture of gases surrounding Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
Wind systems that occur near Earth's surface
What are global winds?
The energy of motion
What is kinetic energy?
The transfer of energy from a hotter object to a colder one.
What is heat?
Increase of an object's volume with heat
What is thermal expansion?
The wind that blows from 7-16 km above Earth's surface.
What are jet streams?
When energy changes form
What is an energy transformation
The transfer of heat with electromagnetic waves
What is radiation?
Differences in temperature
Why does the atmosphere have many layers?
The curving of a moving object otherwise straight.
What is the Coriolis effect?
The sum of an object's potential energy and kinetic energy
What is mechanical energy?
Solids have their molecules close enough.
Why does conduction only happen in solids?
THe lowest layer of the atmosphere.
What is the troposphere?
Short distance winds.
What is a local wind?