1. Science Starter Open your SISN to your atmosphere title page.
Answer the 5 essential questions on your title page.
Did you have legit trouble with any of the questions???

2. Heat Transfer and Global Winds
Vocabulary
Heat Transfer and Global Winds

3. Vocabulary Kim Chart
Set up a KIM chart (like we did for the atmosphere unit) with 9 words

4. Radiation
Definition: Energy transferred through empty space as electromagnetic (light) waves; typically from sun.
Examples: tanning is radiation from the sun
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5. Convection
Definition: Transfer of energy when air or water of different temperatures rise and fall. Colder, denser material sinks while warmer less dense materails start rise.
Examples: boiling water
Facts/Characteristics:
dense=sinks; less dense=rise

6. Conduction
Definition: Transfer of energy in the form of heat within an object by direct contact.
Examples: how a pot warms on the stove; heat transferred from bottom up through the pot
Facts/Characteristics:
Moves from hot to cold areas

7. Global winds
Definition: The dominant wind patterns that blow in a fairly constant, steady direction across our Earth.
Examples: trade winds, westerlies, polar easterlies
Facts/Characteristics:
named for direction in which they blow from

8. Jet stream
Definition: Narrow band of very strong, westerly air currents that circle the globe.
Examples: polar jet stream
Facts/Characteristics: can travel up to 100 mph; fast, narrow, winding
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9. Doldrums Definition: Areas at the equator that have little to no wind.
Facts/Characteristics:
Located along the equator

10. Coriolis Effect
Definition: Appearance of wind to look curved or deflected due to the rotation of Earth below a layer of gas.
Examples: hurricanes turn left (counterclockwise) in northern hemisphere and right (clockwise) in southern hemisphere
Facts/Characteristics: effects weather & ocean currents; result of earth's rotation
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11. Greenhouse gases
Definition: Gasses that trap heat in our atmosphere. These contribute to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation (heat) produced by the solar warming of the Earth's surface.
Examples: They include carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), nitrous oxide (NO2), and water vapor
Facts/Characteristics: trap heat which leads to an increase in temp (global warming)
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12. Greenhouse Effect
Definition: A natural warming of Earth due to the trapping of heat due to Earth’s atmosphere. Caused by gases such as carbon dioxide, water vapor, and methane.
Examples: greenhouses and sitting in cars-it gets hot!
Facts/Characteristics: would not have weather without the Greenhouse effect
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