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| nitrogen, carbon dioxide, methane, oxygen, water vapor...air |
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| living material in the atmosphere |
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| exchange, transmission and storage of solar radiation received by the Earth's surface |
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| rock, making up earth, crust |
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| determine temperature of matter, eating Cheerios (calories) raises body temp |
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| 2 masses that exert and energy on eachother |
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| water in all its forms, lakes, ponds, rivers, icerbergs |
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| a system where energy and matter cannot enter or exit |
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| a statement that describes what something does in science |
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| a set of principles that explain and predict phenomena |
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| energy can enter and exit the earth's atmosphere |
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| matter can't enter or exit the earth's atmosphere |
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| storing energy and matter through the components of the earth's system |
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| amount of energy to increase the temperature of 1 kg of water |
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| builds and organized knowledge in the form of testable explanations and predictions about the universe |
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| technique for investigating science |
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| a group of things that work in concert to produce a certain result |
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| a set of principles that explains and predicts phenomenon |
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| a type of electromagnetic radiation within or surrounding a body in thermodynamic equilibrium with its environment |
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| Electromagnetic energy, eyes detect this |
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| electromagnetic radiation |
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| a form of energy emitted and absorbed by charged particles, which exhibits wave-like behavior as it travels |
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| basic unit of matter that consists of a dense central nucleus and electrons floating around the nucleus |
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| a substance of one type of atom |
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| the location of an electron away from the nucleus |
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| reflecting power of a surface, depends on the frequency of the radiation |
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| electrons emitted from matter as a consequence of their absorption of energy from electromagnetic radiation |
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| sum of all the kinetic energy of the molecules composing a substance |
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| proportional to the avg kinetic energy of the molecules composing a substance |
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| capacity or ability to do work |
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| a force applied over a distance or the equivalent |
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| fusing a hydrogen with high pressure and temperature, energy released through gamma rays |
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| neutron added to nucleus at a high velocity, nucleus unstable and 2 smaller nuclei created |
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| 1st law of thermodynamics |
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| in a system of constant mass, the energy involved in any physical or chemical is neither create nor destroyed, but merely changed from on form to another |
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| 2nd law of thermodynamics |
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| energy always changes from a concentrated more usable form to a less concentrated, less usable form |
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| magnitude of change in waves |
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| number of cycles per unit of time |
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| a range of all possible frequencies |
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| solar winds that effect the rotation of planets around the sun, seen in the aurora borealis |
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| measures the absorption of radiation |
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| measures the emission of radiation |
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| measurement of brightnesss |
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| 8 to 15 million degrees kalvin, 38% hydrogen, 62% helium, 170,000 km radius |
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| 66,000 mi thick, energy moves outward by convection |
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| 4,000 to 8,000 degrees kalvin, avg 58,000 degrees kalvin, energy radiated into surrounding space, IR, visible, UV, x ray, and gamma radiation |
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| 50,000 degrees kalvin, very low density gas |
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| 1,000,000 kalvin, very low density, send solar winds, a stream of high energy particles |
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| what water droplets attach to to make rain, semi trucks release of it |
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| all the gasses on the earth's atmosphere |
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| measures pressure using mercury |
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| amount of energy needed to change from one state of matter to another |
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temp= -50 degree Celsius to 20 degrees degrees Celsius
warmer at bottom |
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| temp increase -60 degrees celsius to 0 degrees celsius |
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temp decreases
low density
less ozone |
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| move slowly, homogeneous warm air mass that lies on the boarder of trough's of low pressure, if air is unstable, a thunderstorm is created |
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| produce cirrus clouds, in the sharp surface trough's of low pressure |
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| when conditions in the atmosphere warrant a change in temperature, usually a unstable condition exists when a front moves across the region |
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| a process of ice crystal growth that occurs in a mixed phase change |
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| occurs when two air masses of different densities meet |
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| Florida effect, air pushes upward when they meet |
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| Convectional or Density lifting |
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| atmospheric vertical motions |
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| when an air mass is forced from a lower elevation to a higher elevation as it moves over a land mass |
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density of 1 droplet per cubic mm
created when a water molecule surrounds itself in a piece of dust in the atmosphere |
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| rate of decrease in temperature with altitude |
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