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Stack #4712594
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Earth system | all of the olivig things,living thing, ad processes that makes up the planet earth. |
| geosphere | the mostly solid,rocky part of earth, extending form the center of the core to the cruct. |
| hydrosphere | the protion of earth that is water |
| cryosphere | where water is in solid form, including snow cover,floating ice,glaciers,ice caps,ice sheets,ad froze groud permafrost |
| atmosphere | the outer layer of gases of larger body I space |
| biosphere | a living organism o earth, in the air,land,and water. |
| energy budget | the et flow of energy into and out of a system |
| air pressure | the measure of the force with which air molecules pushed on a surface. |
| thermosphere | the uppermost layers of the atmoshere, I wich temp increases as the altitude decreses |
| mesosphere | the layer of the atmosphere and the thermosphere and I which temp decreases as altitude icresess |
| stratosphere | the layer of the atmosphere that lies between the troposphere and the mesosphere |
| troposphere | the lowest layer of the atmosphere, that the temp drops at a constant rate as altitude increases. |
| ozone layer | the layer of the atmosphere where the altitude is 15 to 40 km in which ozone absorbs ultraviolet solar radiation |
| greenhouse effect | the warming of the surface and lower atmosphere of the earth |
| temperature | the measuring of how hot or cold something is |
| thermal energy | the total kinetic energy if a substance's atoms |
| thermal expansion | an increase in the size of a substance in response to an increase in the temp of the substance |
| heat | the warm energy that transferred between objects that are different temperatures |
| radiation | transfer of energy waves |
| convection | the movement of matter due to differences in density |
| conduction | the transfer of energy as heat through a material |
| wind | the movement of air by different pressures |
| ocean current | movement of water that flows a regular pattern |
| surface current | a horizontal movement of ocean water by wind and it happens by the ocean surface |
| deep current | a stream like movement of ocean water far below the surface |
| convection current | any movement of matter that results from differences in density |
| upwelling | the movement of deep, cold and nutrient rich water to the surface |
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abigail GB.