Heat Transfer
What are the three heat transfers?
Convection, conduction, and Radiation.
Water is more dense in which state?
Solid
Energy created from the fusion or breaking of atoms.
Nuclear energy
Turbines collect this energy source in wide open spaces like hills.?
Wind
Where two air masses meet
Front
What is the process by which heat is directly transmitted?
Conduction
What is condensation?
Gas to liqud
The ability to do work is __________
Energy
What are fossil fuels made from?
the remains of dead animals
Why are tropical areas so humid?
close to the equator, so they have more sunlight.
When hot air rises and cold air drops what happens?
Convection
Freezing is?
liquid to a solid
A pitcher in a baseball game, throwing the ball is an example of what?
Kinetic Energy
Law of Conservation of Energy
Energy cannot be created nor destroyed, only transformed.
What are three things that can affect climate?
Latitude, distance from a large body of water, and elevation.
What does fire give off?
Radiation
What temperature is boiling for both Fahrenheit & Celsius?
212-F
100- C
When you put gas in a car, ________ energy is being transformed into ___________ energy.
Chemical, Mechanical
The sun provides what two types of energy?
Heat and Light or Radiant
How clouds form ?
As warm air rises, it expands and cools allowing the water vapor to condense. What is this?
Heat always transfers from _____ to _________?
object of higher temperature to object of lower temperature
What are all the states?
Deposition, Sublimation, Condensation, Vaporization, Evaporation, transpiration
What do we call fuel sources such as coal, oil, and natural gas?
Nonrenewable Energy Sources
Sedimentary deposit composed predominantly of carbon that is readily combustible. Primarily used as fuel to generate electric power in the United States.
Coal.
What is a rain shadow and name the two sides.
1-Mountains block the moisture from reaching the other side
2- windward & leeward