Energy Transfer
Where does the Energy for the Earth orginiate?
What is the Sun?
Plants and animals
What is the Troposphere?
The ozone layer
What is the Stratosphere?
78% in the Atmosphere
What is Nitrogen?
Fluffy and low altitude
What is a Cumulous?
Transfer when atoms molecules collide - touching
What is Conduction?
What is the Exosphere?
The Hubble Space Station
What is the Exosphere?
21% in atmosphere
Oxygen
Low cloud, layered sheet like that covers much of the sky in a given area
What is stratus?
Transfer from the sun that is either absorbed or reflected
What is Radiation?
The coldest layer
Weather balloons
What is the Stratosphere?
Destroying the ozone layer the most
What is Carbon Dioxide?
High clouds, made of ice crystals
Transfer of thermal energy by movement from one place to another
What is convection?
The hottest layer
What is the Thermosphere?
Where do planes fly?
What is the Tropopause between the Troposphere and the Stratosphere?
3 oxygen atoms
What is the ozone?
means middle clouds
What is alto?
Total energy of particles in an object due to their random motion
What is thermal energy?
The Aurora Borealis? Be specific
What is the ionosphere?
Thickest Layer
What is the Thermosphere?
Most important Greenhouse gas?
What is water vapor?
Storm clouds
What is Nimbus?