Energy and Heat in the Atmosphere
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| Heat transfer between two substances that are in contact (touching) is called _____. | Conduction
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| Heat from the sun reaches you by _______. | Radiation
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| Most of the Earth's incoming ultraviolet radiation is absorbed by ______ | ozone
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| When you walk on the hot sand at the beach, your feet get hot because of heat transfer by ________. | Conduction
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| What is the major way that heat is transferred in the troposphere? | Convection
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| The upward movement of warm water and the downward movement of cool water in lakes results in heat transfer by ________. | Convection
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| Air temperature is measured with a _____. | thermometer
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| The average amount of energy of motion (kinetic energy) of each particle of a substance is called ______. | temperature
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| The total energy of motion (kinetic energy) in the particles of a substance is called ______. | thermal energy
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| On the Celsius scale, the freezing point of water is _____. | 0 degrees
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| True or False: The temperature of the sand at the beach increases more than the temperature of the water, over the course of the day. | True
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| Which of Earth's materials (air-water-soil) heats up the slowest? | water
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| Which of Earth's materials (air-water-soil)heats the fastest? | air
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| The transfer of thermal energy from a hotter object to a cooler one is called ____. | Heat
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| On the Celsius scale, the boiling point of water is _____. | 100 degrees
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| What are the three ways that heat is transferred? | Radiation, Conduction, Convection
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| A cup of hot coffee and a pot of hot coffee are the same temperature. Which one has more thermal energy? | The pot of hot coffee has more thermal energy because it has many more particles than the cup of hot coffee.
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| What happens to most of the sunlight that reaches Earth? | It is absorbed by the atmosphere or the Earth's surface
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| What happens to the energy from the sun that is absorbed by Earth's surface? | It heats up the land and water.
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