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Energy is work
It is classified in joules and calories |
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| How is radiation classified? |
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| Is classified by wavelength |
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| Longest visible light wavelength? |
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| What is the shortest visible light wavelength? |
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| Violet (next to ultra violet) |
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| What is the major source of energy for the earth? |
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| What is electro magnetic energys 2 forms? |
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| Long and short wavelengths |
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| _______ wave radiation doesn't reach the surface (it gets filtered by the atmosphere) |
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| _______ wave radiation is most of the radiation that leaves the surface of the earth |
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| Solar radiation and earth inputs |
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-mostly in the form of visible light
-3/4 used to evaporate H2O from oceans |
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| Solar radiation and earth outputs |
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| Mostly in the form of (infrared) heat energy |
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| Energy is moved from areas of |
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High concentration to areas of low concentration
(from the equator to the poles) |
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| What type of energy is solar radiation? |
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| How do we classify electromagnetic energy in the spectrum? |
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| What is the difference between heat and temperature? |
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| Heat is energy and temperature is measure of kinetic energy |
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| A form of energy and measured in calories |
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| Measure of average kinetic energy, measured in degrees (K,C,F) |
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| Two kinds of energy used to change ice to water vapor? |
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Latent heat(PE) used to change phase
Specific heat(KE) heat energy used to in case temperature |
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| The amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 gram of a substance to 1°c |
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| ______ has the highest specific heat of all naturally occurring substances. |
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| The higher the specific heat..... |
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| The SLOWER a substance HEATS and the SLOWER it COOLS down |
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| What are the 3 stages of H2O? |
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| Solid-ice liquid-water gas-water vapor |
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| A change in phase from a liquid to a gas (HEAT ABSORBING PROCESS) |
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| Evaporation increases when: |
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Water is... Uncovered and heated
Wind is blown over water |
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| Opposite of evaporation, changing a gas into a liquid (HEAT RELEASING PROCESS) |
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| Conduction, convection, and radiation |
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| Heat is a form of energy because.... |
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| It allows works to be done |
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| Energy travels from the sun in a form of.... |
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-process of giving off energy
-method of transferring energy |
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| The transfer of heat by direct contact. (Bec of a series of collisions with molecules) |
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| The transfer of heat due to density differences with a fluid. |
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| The rising and falling of air due to density differences |
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| To go in various directions |
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| Passed through the material |
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