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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.

Convection

The movement caused within a fluid by the tendency of hotter and therefore less material to rise

Radiation

The emission of energy as electromagnetic waves or as moving subatomic particles, especially high-energy particles that cause ionization

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

Atmosphere

The envelope of gases surrounding the earth or other planet

Geosphere

Matter that make up the earth and its atmosphere

Hydrosphere

All the waters on the earths surface

Biosphere

The regions of the surface, atmosphere, and hydrosphere of the earth occupied by living organisms

Core

Made up primarily of nickel and iron and has two parts the inner and outer core

Mesosphere

The region of the earths atmosphere above the stratosphere and below the thermosphere