Unit 3 Vocabulary

3. The trapping of heat near Earth by certain gases in Earth's atmosphere.
4. The transfer of thermal energy from a liquid or a fluid. Hot goes up, cold sinks down.
6. Energy created by electromagnetic waves.
9. The high band winds that occur about 10 km above Earth's surface.
10. Kinetic + Potential Energy
13. The weather event that causes cold, snowy winters in North America.
14. A form of potential energy that is stored between chemical bonds of atoms.
16. The ability to do work or change.
18. The horizontal movement of air from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure.
19. The energy of electric charges.
23. The flow of air from land to a body of water.
24. Energy that an object has due to its motion.
25. A change from one form of energy to another.

1. The rule that energy can cannot be created or destroyed.
2. Stored energy.
5. The effect of Earth's rotation on the wind and the currents.
7. A wave that can transfer electric and magnetic energy through the vacuum of space.
8. The transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves.
11. The weather phenomenon that occurs every 2-7 years that causes warm wet winters in North America.
12. The transfer of energy from one object to another through contact.
15. The force that 2 forces exert on each other.
17. The potential energy stored within the nucleus of an atom.
20. A large stream of moving water that flows through the ocean.
21. The flow of cooler air from a body of water to land.
22. The total kinetic and potential energy of all of the particles of an object.