Unit 4- Energy and Earth's Cycles Study Guide

The process by which heat becomes trapped in the atmosphere by gasses such as; water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and ozone

• Water Cycle

• Convection

• Greenhouse Effect

• Evaportaion

Th direct transfer of heat energy through space by electromagnetic waves

• Conduction

• Precipitation

• Convection

• Radiation

The direct transfer of heat energy from one substance to another as the two substances are touching

• Conduction

• Convection

• Condensation

• Radiation

The transfer of heat energy by the movement of a liquid or gas

• Radiation

• Convection

• Infiltration

• Conduction

A continueuous process by which water moves from bodies of water, land, and living organisms

• Groundwater

• Condensation

• Surface Runoff

• Water Cycle

Molecules of liquid water escape into the air as water vapor

• Evaporation

• Nitrogen Fixation

• Greenhouse effect

• Radiation

The evaporation of water from plants

• Condesation

• Precipitation

• Transpiration

• Evaporation

Molecules of water in the air become liquid water

• Precipitation

• Evaporation

• Ground water flow

• Condensation

Water molecules, in any form, fall from clouds and reach Earth's surface

• Radiation

• Nitrogen Fixation

• Precipitation

• Water Cycle

Precipitation that runs off a land and eventually flows back into oceans

• Surface Runoff

• Greenhouse Effect

• Groundwater Flow

• Carbon dioxide