heat transfer and energy interactions

Question 1

how can heat transferred be moved or transferred

Answer 1

throughout the atmosphere

Question 2

convection

Answer 2

heat transfers though fluid (gas and liquids) .Is the driving force behind weather

Question 3

how does convection work?

Answer 3

top (less dense, light, expands and rises)
bottom (more dense, heavy, contracts and sinks)

Question 4

what forms from convection

Answer 4

clouds, hot air balloons, etc form by convection

Question 5

conduction

Answer 5

heat transfer from solids

Question 6

how does conduction work?

Answer 6

energy is passed through the atomic collisions to molecular contact

Question 7

radiation

Answer 7

energy travels though space in the form of electromagnetic spectrum

Question 8

refract

Answer 8

waves pass through

Question 9

scatter

Answer 9

travel in all directions

Question 10

absorb

Answer 10

waves are taken in by a surface on earth

Question 11

a good absorber…

Answer 11

is a good radiator

Question 12

characteristics of absorb

Answer 12

dark in color, rough in surface, dull (black tops)

Question 13

reflect

Answer 13

waves redirected