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Unit 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Earth system | All of the nonliving things, and processes that make up the planet earth, including the solid earth, the hydrosphere, the atmosphere and the biosphere. |
| Geosphere | The mostly solid rocky part of earth extends from the center of the core to the surface of the crust. |
| Hydrosphere | The portion of earth that is water. |
| Cryosphere | One of the earth's spheres where the water is in solid form, including snow cover, floating ice, glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, and frozen ground permafrost. |
| Atmosphere | A mixture of gases that surrounds a planet , moon or other celestial body. |
| Biosphere | The part of earth where life exists includes all of living organisms on earth. |
| Energy budget | The net flow of energy into and out of a system. |
| Air pressure | The measure of the force with which air molecules push on a surface. |
| Thermosphere | The uppermost layer for the atmosphere, in which temperature increases as altitude increases. |
| Mesosphere | The strong lower part of the mantle between the asthenosphere and the outer core The layer of the stratosphere and the thermosphere and in which temperature decreases as altitude increases. |
| Stratosphere | The layer of the atmosphere that lies between the troposphere and the mesosphere and in which temperature increases as altitude increases ; contains the ozone layer. |
| Troposphere | The lowest layer of the atmosphere in which temperature drops at constant rate as altitude increases the part of the atmosphere where the weather conditions exist. |
| Ozone layer | The layer of the atmosphere at the altitude of 15 to 40 km in which ozone absorbs ultraviolet solar radiation. |
| Greenhouse effect | The warming of the surface and lower atmosphere of earth that occurs when the water vapor carbon dioxide and other gasses absorb and reradiate energy. |
| Temperature | A measure of how hot or cold something is specifically a measure of the average kinetic energy of the particles in an object. |
| Thermal energy | The total kinetic energy of a substances atoms. |
| Thermal expansion | An increases in the size of a substance in the response to an increase in the temperature of the substance. |
| Heat | The energy transferred between objects that are at different temperature. |
| Radiation | The transfer of energy as electromagnetic waves. |
| Convection | The movement of matter due to differences in density the transfer of the energy due to the movement of matter. |
| Conduction | The transfer of energy as heat through a material. |
| Wind | The movement of air caused by differences in air pressure. |
| Coriolis effect | The curving of the path of a moving object from an otherwise straight path due to earth's rotation. |
| Global wind | The movements of air over earth's surface patterns that are worldwide. |
| Jet stream | A narrow band of strong winds that blow in the upper troposphere. |
| Local wind | The movements of air over short distances occurs in the specific areas as a result of certain geographical features. |
| Ocean current | A movements of ocean water that follows a regular path. |
| Surface current | A horizontal movement of ocean water that is caused by wind and that occurs at or near the oceans current. |
| Deep current | A stream like movement of the ocean water far below the surface. |
| Convection current | Any movements of matter that results from differences in density may be vertical circular or cyclical. |
| Upwelling | The movement of deep cold and nutrient rich water to the surface. |
Created by:
Journey preston