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Term | Definition |
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troposhere | lowest altitude, lowest layer, weather occurs, water vapor located |
shape of the earth | oblate spheroid |
thermosphere | layer with hottest temperatures |
Northwest | USA is located |
Mediterranean climate zone | hot, dry summers, mildy rainy winters, 30°-40° latitude, Italy |
particulates in atmosphere | come from nature, human resources, volcanic eruptions |
semiarid climate zone | found near desert , 10°-30° latitude, steps of Asia, sahel |
stratosphere | ozone layer loacted |
gradicule | earth's grid system |
all maps have | some kind of distortion |
atmospheric circulation | differences in air pressure & surface temp. |
23.5° | tilt of earth and cause seasons |
rotation of earth | cause Coriolis effect, gravitational pull, day and night |
marine west coast | rains most year, foggy, found west coast of continents |
tropical year | amount of time it take earth to revolve around sun |
8 map essentails | title, date, data source, legend, direction, scale, location, projection type |
interpolation | estimating between known data |
humid subtropical | ATL climate; hot, humid summers; east coast; 40" rain/year |
scale | map to ground; vebal, fractional, graphical |
Coriolis effect | cuases the wind currents (direction) on earth |
ocean currents | wind currents and shape of the ocean cause |
topographic | map type that shows elevation |
conformal maps | maintain shape distort size |
tropical wet/dry climate zones | near equator; tropical wet; mansoons |
atmosphere circulation | causes 80% of earth's heat transfer |
equivalent maps | maintain size distort shape |
tundra | permafrost; treeless; low precipitation |
gulf stream | warm ocean current that runs along east coast of USA |
deserts are located | 30° latitude; west coast of continents |