6.3 Solar Energy Vocabulary

6.3 The student will investigate and understand the role of solar energy in driving the most natural processes within the atmosphere, hydrosphere, and in Earth’s surface. Key Ideas include: a) Earth’s energy budget; b) the role of radiation and convection in the distribution of energy; c) the motion of the atmosphere and the oceans; d) could formation; and e) the role of thermal energy in weather-related phenomena including thunderstorms and hurricanes.