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Heat Transfer
Vocab.
Misc.
100
It is the Troposphere.
What is the first layer of the atmosphere?
100
It is infrared radiation.
What kind of radiation heats the atmosphere?
100
It is the transfer of heat by touch.
What is conduction?
100
It is the blanket of gases that surrounds the earth.
What is the atmosphere?
100
It is the theory that an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will raise the average temperature of the earth.
What is green house effect?
200
It is the Stratosphere.
What is the layer that the ozone layer is in?
200
It is wavelengths that are shorter than visible violet light.
What is UV radiation?
200
It is bare feet on hot sand.
What is an example of conduction?
200
It is a compound of three oxygen molecules.
What is ozone?
200
It is nitrogen.
What is the name of the main gas in the atmosphere?
300
It is the Mesosphere.
What is the layer that protects us from meteors?
300
It is wavelengths that are longer than visible red light.
What is infrared radiation?
300
It is warming your hands directly in front of a campfire.
What is an example of radiation?
300
It is a colorless, odorless gas.
What is Carbon monoxide?
300
It is a gas created by sunlight reacting with emissions from cars.
What is photochemical smog?
400
It is the first layer of the atmosphere.
What is the Troposphere?
400
They are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet.
What are the names of the colors of visible light?
400
It is the transfer of heat through the movement of a liquid or gas.
What is convection?
400
It is a green house gas known as CO2.
What is Carbon dioxide?
400
It is the Exosphere.
What is the layer that the I.S.S. is in?
500
It is the Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere.
What is the order of the layers of the atmosphere?
500
It is UV rays.
What causes sunburn?
500
It is the direct transfer of heat through wavelengths.
What is radiation?
500
It is rain that is more acidic than normal.
What is acid rain?
500
It is the layer that protects us from harmful UV rays.
What is the ozone layer?