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Conduction |
The process by which heat or electricity is directly transmitted through a substance when there is a difference of temperature or of electrical potential between adjoining regions.
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Convection |
The movement caused within a fluid by the tendency of hotter and therefore less material to rise |
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Radiation |
The emission of energy as electromagnetic waves or as moving subatomic particles, especially high-energy particles that cause ionization |
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Equator |
An imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0 |
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Atmosphere |
The envelope of gases surrounding the earth or other planet |
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Geosphere |
Matter that make up the earth and its atmosphere |
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Hydrosphere |
All the waters on the earths surface |
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Biosphere |
The regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth occupied by living organisms |
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Core |
Made up primarily of nickel and iron and has two parts the inner and outer core |
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Mesosphere |
The region of the earths atmosphere above the stratosphere and below the thermosphere |