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Term | Definition |
Cilmate | Usual predictable pattern of weather over a ong period of time. |
Current | Moving streams of water in the world's oceans; affects cilmate. |
Drought | Long period of extreme dryness and water shortage. |
Hurricane | Violent tropical storm woth high winds and heavy rainfall. |
Hight-latitude cilmate | Cold cilmate lie from 60 degrees north to the Nrof h Pole and from 60 degrees south to the South Pole. |
Highland cilmate | Cool or cold cilmate that varies with elevation (like high up in the mountains). |
Tropical cilmate | Warm year round extends from the equator to the Tropical of Cancer (23 1/2 degrees north) and from the equator to the Tropic of Capricorn (23 1/2) degrees south). |
Mid-latitude cilmate | Temperate cilmate extend from (23 1/2 degrees north) to 60 degrees north and from (23 /12 degrees south) to 60 degrees south. |
Prevailing wind | Movements of air that travel around the earth in a typical patten. |
El Nino | Caused by the combination of temperature wind and water formed when cold winds forms the north are weak. Pacific Ocean gets warmer. |
La Nina | Eastern winds become strong and the opposite of El Nino occurs-Pacific Ocean gets cooler. |
Dry cilmate | Dry to partially dry areas with little to no rain; temperatures can range from very cold to very hot. |
Typhoon | Name for a hurricane in Asia. |
Tornado | Funnel-shaped windstorm; something forms during a thunderstorm. |
Tropics | Low latitude region between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. |
Monsoon | Seasonal wind that blows over a continent for a long period of time. |
Weather | Unpredictable changes in the air that take place in a short period of time. |
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