Heating the Atmosphere

Warm air rises and the cool air sinks demonstrates this type of heat transfer. 

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

• Insolation 

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The kind of heat transfer that travels through space in electromagnetic waves is ______________________.

• insulation.

• Radiation

• Conduction

• Convection

___________________ is the type of heat transfer that occurs in fluids, such as warm air rising and cold air sinking; creating wind.

• Convection

• Conduction

• Radiation

• insulation.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Which of the layers below experiences an increase in temperature as altitude increases?

• troposphere

• stratosphere

• mesosphere

• exosphere

Warm air rises and the cool air sinks demonstrates this type of heat transfer. 

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

• Insolation 

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The ​ (a)   is the process by which gases in the atmosphere absorb and radiate heat.

• ozone layer

• greenhouse effect

• atmosphere

• temperature

While drinking a cup of hot chocolate, on a cold winter night, you know that the hot liquid is transferring energy into the surrounding air. The heated air over the cup of hot chocolate expands and rises, as steam, and is replaced by cooler, denser air. This method of energy transfer is -

• CONDENSATION

• CONVECTION

• CONDUCTION

• RADIATION

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NGSS.MS-PS1-4

Which of the following is most like the greenhouse effect?

• touching a hot iron

• the convection currents inside the earth's mantle

• the inside of your car getting hot on sunny day

• popping popcorn in the microwave

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NGSS.MS-PS3-4

Water circulating in a pot because of the heat from the stove would be an example of...

• thermal conduction

• radiation

• convection

What kind of heat transfer happens when the sun is heating your body?

• Conduction

• Radiation

• Convection

• Density