Where & What
Measurement
Seasons
Sun & Matter
Heat Transfer
100
gases surrounding the Earth
What is atmosphere?
100
degree of hotness or coldness
What is temperature?
100
imaginary axle that passes through the Earth's poles
What is axis?
100
angle at which light passes through the atmosphere
What is solar angle?
100
energy that travels in rays
What is radiation?
200
condition of Earth's atmosphere at a given time in a given place
What is weather?
200
how fast or slow air is moving
What is wind speed?
200
sloped angle of the Earth as it rotates
What is tilt or 23.5 degrees?
200
the way light rays cover a larger area when they hit a surface
What is beam spreading?
200
energy that moves by contact
What is conduction?
300
average temperature and precipitation for a given location
What is climate?
300
location from which air is moving
What is wind direction?
300
spinning or turning like a top
What is rotation?
300
energy from molecular motion
What is heat or kinetic energy?
300
transfer of energy through rays a second time
What is reradiation?
400
scientific study of Earth's weather
What is meteorology?
400
force of air pushing down on Earth
What is air pressure?
400
traveling around something, possibly in an elliptical orbit
What is revolution?
400
amount of matter
What is mass?
400
circulation of gas or liquid that results from heat transfer
What is convection?
500
layer of the atmosphere where most weather happens
What is troposphere?
500
amount of water vapor in the air
What is relative humidity?
500
the fixed point that the north pole always points to
What is the North Star or Polaris?
500
amount of space matter takes up
What is volume?
500
differences in matter that cause convection
What is density or temperature?
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