The air in the balloon on the right will have more heat energy if the temperature of air in the two balloons is the same. Heat vs. Temperature toms in air are in constant motion, the energy of their motion is known as kinetic energy . Kinetic energy increases as the speed of atomic motion increases. The more atoms present, the greater the heat.
Temperature represents the average kinetic energy of the atoms in a substance.
A few atoms with rapid motion will have a higher temperature than many atoms with slow motion. The thermal characteristics of the atmosphere are determined by contrasts in heat and temperature within four atmospheric layers . The composition of the air remains constant through the lower three layers up to altitudes of approximately 80 km. The lower boundary of the atmosphere lies on the earth's surface, the upper boundary is the gradational transition into the vacuum of space. A few stray gas molecules exist more than 100 km above the planet's surface and spacecraft exiting Earth's atmosphere still feel the effects of frictional drag until they reach the exosphere , space beyond our atmosphere, at altitudes above 500-600 km.