The layer where humans live and where weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
100
Cooler temperatures as you travel up a mountain and impacts wind patterns and transfer of energy in an area
What is elevation and topography?
100
The height of an area above sea level
What is elevation?
100
The transfer of energy from one object to another through direct contact
What is conduction?
100
The movement of air from high areas of pressure to low.
What is wind?
200
Contains the ozone layer and helps protect the Earth from some harmful UV rays
What is the stratosphere?
200
Controls temperature of a region and how much direct sun rays a location receives
What is latitude?
200
The angular distance in degrees north and south from the Equator
What is latitude?
200
The transfer of energy due to the movement of matter
What is convection?
200
The movement of water
What are currents?
300
The nitrogen and oxygen molecules convert the sun's energy into heat in this layer. This layer also helps protect the Earth from most harmful heat/sun rays.
What is the thermosphere?
300
Moves water from place to place, creating warmer and colder spots
What is surface ocean currents?
300
The average condition of a location over time.
Condition of Earth's atmosphere at a certain place or time.
What is climate and weather?
300
The transfer of energy as electromagnetic waves
What is radiation?
300
The uneven heating and density of the waters cause this.
What is the formation of ocean currents?
400
Protects the Earth from meteoroids
What is the mesosphere?
400
Affects temperature
What is wind?
400
Currents on the surface of an ocean
What are surface currents?
400
Ocean currents are types of _______
What is convection?
400
Different temperatures, high and low pressure zones, and ocean currents and winds
What is effects of unequal heating of the Earth?
500
Where satellites are sent out to/reside in-Outermost layer
What is the exosphere?
500
Moderates weather so that high and lows are less extreme
What are bodies of water?
500
Surface features of an area
What is topography?
500
Sun rays hitting Earth
What is radiation?
500
The sun unevenly heats the earth’s surface. This causes different temperatures, which creates high and low pressure zones. The earth’s rotation also impacts the movement of wind.