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