Topic 6: Insolation

Insolation

• the part of the sun's radiation that is received by Earth

• times of widespread glaciation outside of the polar areas

• the results of the balance between the total amount of energy an object receives and the total amount of energy it loses.

• gases such as carbon dioxide, water vapor, and methane, present in the atmosphere

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS2-4

Ice Age

• the part of the sun's radiation that is received by Earth

• times of widespread glaciation outside of the polar areas

• the results of the balance between the total amount of energy an object receives and the total amount of energy it loses.

• gases such as carbon dioxide, water vapor, and methane, present in the atmosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Heat Budget

• the part of the sun's radiation that is received by Earth

• times of widespread glaciation outside of the polar areas

• the results of the balance between the total amount of energy an object receives and the total amount of energy it loses.

• gases such as carbon dioxide, water vapor, and methane, present in the atmosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Greenhouse Gases

• the part of the sun's radiation that is received by Earth

• times of widespread glaciation outside of the polar areas

• the results of the balance between the total amount of energy an object receives and the total amount of energy it loses.

• gases such as carbon dioxide, water vapor, and methane, present in the atmosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

Global Warming

• the process by which plants release water vapor into the atmosphere as part of their life functions.

• a darker region of the sun's visible surface.

• a three-atom molecule of oxygen that is important in the stratosphere where it absorbs much of the ultraviolet insolation from the sun

• a recent trend towards a warming Earth's surface and lower atmosphere possibly caused by pollution

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

Ozone

• the process by which plants release water vapor into the atmosphere as part of their life functions.

• a darker region of the sun's visible surface.

• a three-atom molecule of oxygen that is important in the stratosphere where it absorbs much of the ultraviolet insolation from the sun

• a recent trend towards a warming Earth's surface and lower atmosphere possibly caused by pollution

Sunspot

• the process by which plants release water vapor into the atmosphere as part of their life functions.

• a darker region of the sun's visible surface.

• a three-atom molecule of oxygen that is important in the stratosphere where it absorbs much of the ultraviolet insolation from the sun

• a recent trend towards a warming Earth's surface and lower atmosphere possibly caused by pollution

Transpiration

• the process by which plants release water vapor into the atmosphere as part of their life functions.

• a darker region of the sun's visible surface.

• a three-atom molecule of oxygen that is important in the stratosphere where it absorbs much of the ultraviolet insolation from the sun

• a recent trend towards a warming Earth's surface and lower atmosphere possibly caused by pollution

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

El Nino

• A series of weather changes on Earth caused by the change from a cold surface ocean to warm surface ocean in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

• a darker region of the sun's visible surface.

• a three-atom molecule of oxygen that is important in the stratosphere where it absorbs much of the ultraviolet insolation from the sun

• a recent trend towards a warming Earth's surface and lower atmosphere possibly caused by pollution

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Deforestation

• A series of weather changes on Earth caused by the change from a cold surface ocean to warm surface ocean in the eastern Pacific Ocean.

• the cutting down of trees and other plants of a forest

• a three-atom molecule of oxygen that is important in the stratosphere where it absorbs much of the ultraviolet insolation from the sun

• a recent trend towards a warming Earth's surface and lower atmosphere possibly caused by pollution

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-4

NGSS.MS-LS2-5