Weather Vocab
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- air pressure
- the measure of the force with which air molecules push on a surface.
- radiation
- the transferof energy as electromagneticwaves
- mesosphere
- the layer of the atmosphere between the stratosphere and the thermosphere and in which temperature decreases as altitude increases
- greenhouse effect
- the warming of the surface and lower atmosphere of earth that occurs when water vapor carbon dioxide and other gases absorb and reradiate thermal energy
- global warming
- a gradual increase in average global temperature
- stratosphere
- the layer of the atmosphere that is above the troposphere and in which temperature increases as altitude increases
- thermal conduction
- the transfer of energy as heat through a material
- convection
- the transfer of thermal energy by the circulation or movement of a liquid or gas
- troposphere
- the lowest layer of the atmosphere,in which temperature decreases at a constant rate as altitude increases
- thermosphere
- the uppermost layer of the atmosphere in which temperature increases as altitude increases.
- atmosphere
- a mixture of gases that surrounds a planet or a moon.