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Science SOL 6.4
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Absorption | the process or action by which one thing absorbs or is absorbed by another. |
| Conduction | The process by which heat from one substance to another. |
| Convention | the transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid. |
| Electromagnetic wave | A form of energy that can travel through space. |
| Energy transformation | A change to one type of energy to another. |
| Greenhouse affect | the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere, due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface. |
| Heat | The energy transferred the warmer object to the cooler object. |
| infrared radiation | A form of energy with wavelengths that are longer than visible light. |
| Radiation | The emission of energy as electromagnetic waves or as moving subatomic particles, especially high-energy particles which cause ionization. |
| Reflection | The change in direction of a wavefront at an interface between two different media so that the wavefront returns into the medium from which it originated. |
| Scattering | Reflection of light in all directions |
| Solar energy | Energy from the sun |
| Thermal energy | The energy in motion in molecules |
| UV radiation | Invisible rays that are part of the energy that comes from the sun. |
| Visible light | light that can be seen by the human eye. |
| wave lengths | The horizontal distance between two crest. |