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Energy in the Atmosphere
Heat Transfer
Winds
Water in the Atmosphere
Precipitation
100
Where nearly all of earth's energy comes from
What is the sun?
100
The average amount of energy of motion of each particle in a substance
What is temperature?
100
The horizontal movement of air
What is wind?
100
The movement of water between the atmosphere and earth's surface
What is the water cycle?
100
The most common form of precipitation
What is rain?
200
Waves that can travel through the vacuum of space
What are electromagnetic waves?
200
The total energy of motion of the particles of a substance
What is thermal energy?
200
How/where wind travels
What is from an area of high pressure to low pressure?
200
The amount of water vapor in the air
What is humidity?
200
Any form of water that falls from clouds to the surface of Earth
What is precipitation?
300
The direct transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves
What is radiation?
300
The direct transfer of heat through electromagnetic waves (the surfaces do not need to be touching)
What is radiation?
300
Happens during the day; occurs when warm air rises over land, causing cooler air from the sea to blow inland
What is a sea breeze?
300
Wispy, feathery clouds
What are cirrus clouds?
300
Round, pellets of ice larger than 5 mm in diameter
What is hail?
400
About what percentage of heat that comes from the sun and is absorbed by Earth's surface?
What is 50%?
400
The direct transfer of heat from one substance to another that it is touching
What is conduction?
400
Winds that blow steadily from specific directions over long distances
What are global winds?
400
Clouds that look fluffy and rounded
What are cumulus clouds?
400
When raindrops fall through a layer of air that is below 0 degrees Celcius, they freeze into this
What is sleet?
500
Explain the Greenhouse Effect
Energy from the sun is absorbed by gases in the air which keep this heat from escaping the atmosphere, gradually heating earth's surface
500
The transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid
What is convection?
500
The way Earth's rotation makes winds curve
What is the Coriolis effect?
500
Clouds that form in flat layers
What are stratus clouds?
500
Long periods of unusually low percipitation
What is a drought?