Heating Earth
What is Radiation?
When heat is transferred through electromagnetic radiation such as light.
What is the Troposphere made up of?
Contains 78% nitrogen,21% oxygen.
Cumulo meaning?
This means the cloud is puffy and tends to pile vertically on itself as it forms.
What is precipitation?
Water falling back to earth.
The waters of the ocean move in streams called?
Currents
What are land breezes and sea breezes cause by?
Convection currents
What is in the Stratosphere.
Very little turbulence; ozone layers absorb radiation here.
Cirro meaning?
This means the cloud is very high in the atmosphere. Due to the colder temperatures higher in the atmosphere these clouds are made up of ice crystals.
What are clouds made off?
Liquid
Liquid Water
What is convection?
When heat is transferred by movement of gas
What is average temperature of the Mesosphere?
Temperature decreases here to -90c; meteoroids burn up here.
Strato meaning?
This means the cloud is a blanket like layer.
A special type of evaporation is called?
Transpiration
Currents result when?
A fluid or gas moves in a definite direction.
Temperature measures the average of?
Kinetic Energy
What is in the Thermosphere and what occurs in the Thermosphere.
Space stations, and the northern lights.
Nimbo meaning?
This refers to any cloud that is likely to produce rain soon.
The water cycle can take place even on a human?
Body
This rising of cold deep water is known as?
up welling
Eventually water molecules move fast enough and enter the air as.
Water Vapor
What is the Exosphere.
The outermost layer in the atmosphere.
what are clouds made of?
Liquid or solid water
We release water
What is the gulf stream?
It carries heat from the warm waters of the gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean sea to the north Atlantic.