Vocab
Water vapor and carbon dioxide are known as these. They are responsible for keeping Earth warm.
What are greenhouse gases?
This type of heat transfer takes place through contact of one molecule to another.
What is conduction?
Explain how radiation is involved in heat transfer.
What is radiation from the Sun? (and Earth's surface)
Describe density.
What is how tightly packed the particles of a substance are?
What is 24 hours?
This type of energy is energy of motion.
What is kinetic energy?
These two greenhouse gases help trap heat in Earth's atmosphere.
What are water vapor and carbon dioxide?
Explain how conduction is involved in creating wind.
What is heat transfer by contact, as the particles of air bang into the Earth's surface?
This liquid is more dense than oil, water, milk, and dish soap.
What is honey?
The amount of time it takes Earth to make one revolution.
What is 365 and one-fourth days?
This type of heat travels in rays.
What is radiation?
In the video of a convection chamber, we watched smoke fall and rise because of this.
What is density?
The air above the candle become less dense and rose, while the air under the ice became more dense and fell.
Explain how wind is created due to convection.
What is hot, less dense air rises and cool, more dense air moves across the Earth's surface?
Explain why the red, hot water floated on top of the cold, clear water in our Zoom experiment.
What is density?
The red, hot water sat at the top because it was less dense than the cold, clear water.
It is winter in the northern hemisphere. Name the season of the southern hemisphere.
What is summer?
In this type of heat transfer, air or water molecules move in a circular pattern because of density.
What is convection?
Name the three types of heat transfer.
What are radiation, conduction, and convection?
This is the large convection cell that surrounds the equator.
What is the Hadley Cell?
Explain how density is involved in making wind.
What is the hot, less dense air above the land rises, while the cool, more dense air drops and moves across the Earth's surface?
This is the cause for the seasons.
What is Earth's tilt on its axis?
Calm, windless areas close to the equator.
What are doldrums?
These two types of heat transfer are involved in making a s'more.
What are radiation and conduction?
Radiation - the heat from the fire transfers to the marshmallow through radiation.
Conduction - The heat from the marshmallow transfers to the chocolate through conduction.
Explain how radiation from the Sun affects land and water.
What is uneven heating?
The land heats up faster than the water.
This is the cause for doldrums.
What is the low density air above the equator?
This is what we call the name of the days when the Sun is directly in line with Earth's equator.
What is an equinox?