Energy Transfer in the Atmosphere
Heat can move when two objects touch through this process.
What is conduction?
Earth’s surface does not warm evenly because of this effect.
What is ineven heating?
The line at 0° latitude is called this.
What is the equator?
Nonliving parts of an ecosystem.
What is abiotic?
An organism that makes its own food.
What is an Autotroph or a Producer?
Heat moves through fluids like air and water because warm parts rise and cool parts sink.
What is convection?
This movement of air or water is driven by changes in temperature and density.
What is a convection current?
Lines that run north to south and measure east–west positions.
What is longitude?
A group of the same species living in one area.
What is population?
Organisms that cannot make their own food.
What is a heterotrph or a consumer?
Heat from the Sun reaches Earth through this type of transfer.
What is radiation?
Warm air rises because it has less of this physical property.
What is density?
The line at 0° longitude.
What is the Prime Meridian?
All the living and nonliving parts interacting in one place.
What is an ecosystem?
Tiny animals that feed on dead material and recycle nutrients.
What are detritivores?
This type of heat energy always moves from warmer areas to cooler one.
What is thermal energy?
What ocean current is driven by wind and tide?
What are surface currents?
The imaginary lines that run east–west and measure north–south positions. (Latitude)
What is latitude?
All the ecosystems biuld biome. All the biomes build the ____________.
What is the biosphere?
Animals that eat only plants.
What are herbivores?
This type of heat transfer does not require molecules to move or touch.
What is radiation?
These deep ocean current is driven by heat and salt.
What are thermohaline currents?
These divide Earth into northern and southern halves.
What are hemispheres?
All of the populations living together in an area.
What is a community?
An organism that eats both plants and animals.
What is an omnivore?