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5th period
world geo chaptor two vocab
Term | Definition |
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1.weather | the condiction of the bottom layer of the earths atmoshere in on place over a short period of tiem |
2.climate | the term used for the weather patterns that an area typically experiences over long period of time one compleat |
3.rotation | the spining motion of the earth like a top on its axis as it travels through space |
4.revolution | one complete orbit around the earth around the sun earth completes one revolutio every 365 1.4 days a one year |
5.solstice | ehtier of the two times a year when the sun appers directly over head at the tropics of cancer and capricorn |
6.equionx | ethier of the two time each year spring and fall when dad and night are of nearly equal lwnth every were on earth |
7.precopitaion | all the forms of water that fall to earth from the atmosphere including rain and snow |
8.front | the boundray between two masses of air that differ in density or temperature |
9.continental climate | the type of climate found in the great central areas of continets in the northern hemishphere characterized by cold snow winters and warm or hot summers |