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Weather vocab.
vocabulary for science
Question | Answer |
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Define weather | The state of the atmosphere at a particular time and place |
Name 3 important elements of weather | Moisture,temperture,wind speed, and also atmospheric presure |
Define solar energy | Is the source of most of the earths heat on land, in the oceans , and in the atmosphere |
Whatis the process called where by thesolar energymakes its way through the vacuum of spaceto the planet earth | Radiation |
How much of the suns energy that reaches the earthis absorbed by land and oceans | 1/2 |
Do many typesof surfaces found on the earth absorb and give off energy at the same rate give an example from a lab | No, the cooling and heating of the soil |
Since the atmosphereaffects the amount of solar energythat reaches the earth it also protectsit from the suns ___________ ________… | Harmful radiation |