Water Cycle
when the sun heats up water in rivers or lakes or the ocean and turns it into vapor or steam
What is evaporation?
Energy that travels across distances as certain types of waves.
What is radiation?
This gas makes up about 78% of the air we breathe
What is nitrogen?
the layer of Earth's atmosphere we live in
What is the Troposphere?
This is the amount of water vapor in the air compared to the maximum amount the air can actually hold at that specific temperature.
What is relative humidity
The two driving forces for the water cycle
What is gravity and the Sun?
transfer of heat energy from one substance to one another through direct contact
What is conduction?
This gas forms a protective layer high in the Stratosphere that protects Earth by absorbing and blocking harmful ultraviolet radiation from the Sun.
What is Ozone?
air so thin there is great visibility and satellites orbit in this layer
What is the Exosphere?
the three types of global winds
What are trade winds, westerlies, and easterlies?
water vapor in the air gets cold and changes back into liquid, forming clouds
What is condensation?
About 50% of solar energy is absorbed and heats
What is Earth's surface or the land & water?
Name another gas that is found in the atmosphere
What is argon, carbon dioxide, methane, ozone or water vapor?
This protective layer in the Earth's stratosphere absorbs most of the sun's harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation.
What is the ozone?
This type of frozen precipitation forms when rain falls through a layer of freezing air near the ground, turning into ice pellets before hitting the surface.
What is sleet?
the process by which water on the ground surface enters the soil
What is infiltration?
Transfer of heat through the movement of particles.
What is convection?
Oxygen
What is the 2nd most abundant gas in Earth's atmosphere?
Two features of this layer include the Jet Steam and Ozone layer
What is the Stratosphere?
prevents the winds from flowing directly from the poles to the equator, causing them to move in three routes, called global wind belts
What is the Coriolis Effect?
when water in the form of ice, rain, sleet, hail, or snow, falls to Earth
What is precipitation ?
This percentage is reflected by the clouds, dust and gases
What is 25%?
If the concentration of this atmospheric gas increases it will cause the temperatures on Earth to increase.
What is carbon dioxide?
This coldest region of the atmosphere is 50-80 km and protects Earth from meteors burning them up before they hit Earth.
What is the Mesosphere?
Uneven heating of the Earths surface causes air pressure to differ from place to place
What is the cause of wind?