Energy in the atmosphere and ocean vocabulary

The horizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of lower pressure

• Land breeze

• Wind

• Sea breeze

• Coriolis effect

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The flow of cooler air from over an ocean or lake toward land

• sea breeze

• land breeze

• jet stream

• wind

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The flow of air from land to a body of water

• Sea breeze

• wind

• land breeze

• Coriolis effect

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Band of high-speed winds about 10 kilometers above Earth's surface

• Jet stream

• wind

• Coriolis effect

• sea breeze

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The effect of Earth's rotation on the direction of winds and currents

• jet stream

• wind

• sea breeze

• Coriolis effect

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

A wave that can transfer electric and magnetic energy through the vacuum of space

• Electromagnetic wave

• greenhouse effect

• thermal energy

• convection

The trapping of heat near a planet's surface by certain gases in the planet's atmosphere

• Electromagnetic wave

• Greenhouse effect

• Thermal energy

• conduction

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-5

The total kinetic and potential energy of all the particles of an object

• electromagnetic wave

• greenhouse effect

• thermal energy

• Wind

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-5

The transfer of thermal energy by the movement of a fluid

• convection

• conduction

• radiation

• thermal energy

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS3-3

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

The transfer of energy from one particle of matter to another (direct contact)

• Convection

• Conduction

• Radiation

• Thermal Energy