The process by which energy is relocated from one system to another

• Earth System

• Water Cycle

• Energy Transfer

• Greenhouse Effect

The measure of the average kinetic energy of particles

• Thermosphere

• Temperature

• Heat

• Jet Stream

The energy that is transferred between objects that are at different temperatures.

• Convection Currents

• Geosphere

• Wind

• Heat

When heat moves through a solid through direct contact

• Radiation

• Convection

• Conduction

• Heat

When heat moves through a liquid or gas in a cycle of hot substance rising and cold substance sinking

• Convection

• Radiation

• Heat

• Conduction

When electromagnetic waves heat up an object without direct contact

• Heat

• Radiation

• Conduction

• Convection

All of the nonliving things, living things, and processes that make up the planet Earth, including solid Earth, the hydrosphere, the atmosphere, and the biosphere

• Water Cycle

• Ozone Layer

• Surface Current

• Earth System

The mostly solid, rocky part of earth

• Hydrosphere

• Geosphere

• Biosphere

• Cryosphere

All liquid water on Earth

• Hydrosphere

• Cryosphere

• Atmosphere

• Mesosphere

All solid water on Earth (ice)

• Atmosphere

• Biosphere

• Cryosphere

• Exosphere