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Weather
Term | Definition |
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Latitude | measures the distance north or south of the equator. |
Longitude | measures the distance east and west of the prime meridian. |
Hemisphere | used to describe half of Earth. |
Atmosphere | a jacket of gases that surrounds our planet. It keeps us warm, gives us oxygen to breathe, and it is where our weather happens. |
Weather | what the sky and the air outside are like, such as cold and cloudy. |
Climate | he weather found in a certain place over a long period of time. |
Polar | the part of the Earth's surface forming a cap over a pole; characterized by frigid climate. |
Continental | a climate characterized by hot summers, cold winters, and little rainfall, typical of the interior of a continent. |
Maritime | characterized by cool summers and cool winters, with a narrow annual temperature range and few extremes due to maritime influence. |
Coriolis Effect | a force that affects a moving object over a rotating body. |
Trade Winds | just air movements toward the equator. They are warm, steady breezes that blow almost continuously. |
Prevailing Westerlies | Between thirty and sixty degrees latitude, the winds that move toward the poles appear to curve to the east. |
Polar Easterlies | The polar easterlies form when the atmosphere over the poles cools. |
Cold Front | the boundary of an advancing mass of cold air, in particular the trailing edge of the warm sector of a low-pressure system. |
Warm Front | the boundary of an advancing mass of warm air, in particular the leading edge of the warm sector of a low-pressure system. |