Layers of the Earth/Thermal Energy Transfer

You wake up on a Saturday morning and are glad you don’t have to go to school. You sit outside in the sun because you don’t really feel like doing anything at all. The heat from the sun is starting to make you sweat.

• conduction
• convection 
• radiation

You climb out of the pool and lie on the warm concrete to warm your body back up.

• conduction
• convection
• radiation

What is the second layer of the atmosphere? 

• stratosphere 
• troposphere 
• mesosphere 
• thermosphere 

The heat from a hot burner to a pot is transferred by ______.

• convection
• insulation
• radiation
• conduction

What is the function of the ozone layer?

• to allow UV rays to get to Earth
• to block UV rays from getting to Earth
• To keep oxygen in
• to allow meteors to get to Earth

Warm air _________ and cool air ___________.

• rises/sinks
• sinks/rises

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

21% of the air is made up of this gas.

• Nitrogen
• Argon
• Oxygen
• Carbon Dioxide

The composition of the air is 78% 

• Oxygen
• Argon
• Carbon Dioxide
• Nitrogen

Where weather occurs.

• stratosphere
• thermosphere
• troposphere
• mesosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

What does the earth's atmosphere do?

• help to regulate the temperature on Earth
• Help UV rays to reach the Earth's surface
• Creates meteors in the sky
• Keep ocean waters cold

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6