| A | B |
|---|
| air pollutant | any airborne gas or particle capable of harming living things |
| conduction | the transfer of heat or another form of energy from one particle of a substance to another particle |
| convention | the transfer of heat energy in a liquid or gas through the circulation of currents |
| heat | the total kinetic energy of all of the particles of a substance |
| insolation | the solar radiation that reaches Earth |
| isotherm | a line drawn on a weather map through places having the same atmospheric temperature at a given time |
| mesosphere | the layer of the Earth's atmosphere that extends from the stratosphere to the thermosphere |
| ozone | a molecule of oxygen that consists of three oxygen atoms |
| radiation | the transfer of energy through space by electromagnetic waves |
| stratosphere | the layer of the Earth's atmosphere that extends from the troposphere to the mesosphere |
| temperature | the measure of the average kinetic energy of the atoms or molecules in a substance |
| temperature inversion | an increase in temperature with an increase in altitdue |
| thermosphere | the layer of the Earth's armosphere above the mesosphere |
| troposphere | the layer of the Earth's atmosphere where all of the weather occurs |
