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Heat
Atmosphere
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Energy
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100
Heat from the sun reaches you by this
What is radiation?
100
Most of the energy that heats Earth's atmosphere is this:
What is infrared radiation?
100
Earth's rotation makes global winds curve.
What is the Coriolis effect?
100
On a mountaintop a person becomes out of breath quickly because fewer of these are present per cubic meter of air.
What are oxygen molecules?
100
An instrument that is used to measure how hot or cold the air is.
What is a thermometer?
200
Cold air is more dense than warm air, so this occurs:
What is Convection?
200
As you rise upwards in the atmosphere, this happens to air pressure:
What is decreases?
200
When climbing a high mountain, you get out of breath because of this.
What is "there is less oxygen in each cubic meter of air?"
200
Solar energy called this is felt as heat and has wavelengths longer than that of red light.
What is ultraviolet radiation?
200
In the atmosphere, this happens to the sun's rays.
What is they get scattered?
300
Heat transfer between two substances that are in contact is this
What is Conduction?
300
The layer of our atmosphere in which weather occurs is this
What is troposphere?
300
Wind speed is measured by this:
What is an anemometer?
300
Energy travels through space to Earth in the form of this
What are electromagnetic waves?
300
The atmospheric gas that forms clouds when it condenses.
What is water vapor?
400
Most of the heating of the troposphere occurs by this, which is the transfer of heat by fluid movement.
What is convection currents?
400
The layer of gases that surrounds Earth
What is the atmosphere?
400
Weak winds are characterized by this
What are doldrums?
400
Earth's atmosphere traps energy from the sun which makes this happen:
What is allows water to exist as a liquid?
400
This is the distance above sea level.
What is altitude?
500
Tends to be more dense and flow under warm air.
What is cool air.
500
Earth's atmosphere is important to living things because of this.
What is it provides all the gases that living things need to survive?
500
Gases in the air hold much of the energy that is radiated from Earth's surface in a process called the..
What is green house effect?
500
Most of the Earth's incoming ultraviolet radiation is absorbed by this
What is ozone?
500
Global winds generally do this:
What is blow from specific directions over long distances?