Weather and Heating Science Vocab

electromagnetic waves

• the process of gases holding in heat

• a form of energy that can move through the vacuum of space

• dust particles and gases that reflect light

• the direct transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves

radiation

• electromagnetic waves, longer than visible light, shorter that microwaves

• an invisible form of energy, wavelengths are shorter than violet light

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• the direct transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves

Infrared radiation

• electromagnetic waves, longer that visible light, shorter than microwaves

• the process of gases holding in heat

• electromagnetic waves

• longer than visible light, shorter than microwaves

ultraviolet radiation

• an invisible form of energy, wavelengths are shorter than violet light

• an invisible for of energy

• shorter than violet light

• wavelengths

scattering

• that reflect light

• and gases

• dust particles

• dust particles and gases that reflect light

greenhouse effect

• holding in heat

• of gases

• the process of gases holding in heat

• the process

temperature

• the average amount

• the average amount of energy of motion of each particle of a substance

• of energy of motion

• of each particle of a substance

thermal energy

• the total energy of motion of each particle of a substance

• the total energy

• of motion of each

• particle of a substance

thermometer

• a glass tube with a bulb on one end

• contains liquid

• measures temperature

• a glass tube with a bulb on one end that contains liquid to measure temperature

heat

• conduction

• the transfer of thermal energy from a hotter object to a cooler one

• transfer of heat

• hotter object to cooler one