Energy
The ability to cause change.
What is energy?
The measure of the force with which air molecules push on an area of a surface.
What is air pressure?
What is temperature?
The movement of air caused by the difference in air pressure.
What is wind?
Two types of energy.
What are potential and kinetic?
This happens to air pressure as you increase in altitude.
What is increases?
The total kinetic energy of particles.
What is thermal energy?
The curving of the path of a moving object due to the Earth's rotation.
What is the Coriolis effect?
Takes place when energy changes from one form to another.
What is an energy transformation?
The most abundant gas in the Earth's atmosphere.
What is Nitrogen?
The increase in volume that results from an increase in temperature.
What is thermal expansion?
Wind always moves in this direction.
What is from high to low pressure?
States that energy is neither created nor destroyed.
What is the law of conservation of energy?
The second most abundant gas in the atmosphere making up around 21%.
What is oxygen?
The formula for density.
What is mass/volume?
Narrow belts of high-speed winds that blow from west to east.
What are jet streams?
Results from a change in an objects position, condition or chemical composition.
What is potential energy?
The mixture of gases that surround the Earth.
What is the atmosphere?
The way the sun transfers energy through electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation?
Land heats up faster during the day causing the air above the land to rise forming a low pressure zone below. High pressure from the sea rushes in creating this type of breeze.
What is a sea breeze?