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| Heat | The total amount of internal energy from motion |
| Heat transfer | when 2 objects of different temperature eventually arrive at a common temperature by way of 1 of 3 ways heat is transferred. |
| Conduction | Heat transfer by touch, from one molecule to another |
| Convection | Heat transfer by circulation of air or liquid |
| Radiation | Heat transfer by way of (electromagnetic) energy waves |
| How altitude effects temperature | temperature drops 6.5 C/km or 3.5 F/1000 ft. in troposphere only |
| How Altitude effects pressure | Pressure decreases as you go up in altitude |
| Pressure | movers from High to Low- colder air to warmer air. |
| Land breeze | wind blowing from the land to the sea/water - evening |
| Sea Breeze | wind blowing from the sea to the land - daytime |
| warm air | rises due to less dense, lighter air |
| cold air | drops/falls because it is more dense, heavier. |
| air | heats up and cools off the fastest |
| water | takes the longest to heat up and remains the same the longest |
| soil | second fastest to heat up because it is darkest |
| sand | takes almost as long to heat up as water, stays fairly constant once heated |
| Sun | Is the driver of weather. It transfers its heat to earth via radiation-waves. |
| Coriolis force | as a result of the earth's rotation wind gets blown to the right in the N. hemisphere and to the left in the Southern. |
| Cold front | Colder air overtakes warm air. Produces Cb clouds. |
| Warn front | Warmer air over take cold air- produces Ns and Sc clouds |
| Occluded front | Cold air surrounds and blocks warms air above. |
| Stationary front | Warm and Cold air meet and stall. Air Masses do not move and the weather stagnates. |
| mP | maritime Polar air mass - Cold moist air |
| cP | Continental Polar air mass-Cold dry air |
| mT | maritime Tropical air mass- warm, moist air |
| cT | Cont. Tropical air mass- Warm Dry air |
| Westerlies | wind flowing toward the poles in the middle latitudes |
| Trade winds | Rising Winds flowing from the Equator towards the poles |
| polar easterlies | Falling winds flowing from the poles towards the equator |
| Heat absorption | Dark objects absorb more heat than light colored objects |
