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chapter 2 vocab
Term | Definition |
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weather | the condition of the bottom layer of the earths atmosphere in one place over a short period of time |
climate | the term used for the weather patterns that an area typically experiences over a long period of time |
rotation | the spinniung motion of the earth like a top on its axis as it travels through space |
revolution | one complete orbit of the earth around the sun. the earth completes one revolution every 365 1/4 days, or one year |
solstice | either of the two times a year when the sun appears directly over head at the tropics of cancer and capicorn |
equinox | either of the two times each year spring and fall when day and night are nearly equal length everywhere on earth |
precipitation | all the forms of water that fall to earth from the athosphere including rain and snow |
front | the boundary between two masses of air that differ in density or temperature |
continental | a boundary or are of high ground that separates rivers flowing toward the opposite sides of a continent. |
climate | the term used for the weather patterns that an area typically experiences over a long period of time |