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cataostrophic events
Weather
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Eye | The very center of a hurricane |
| Map | A representation of the earth or a part of the earth |
| Hurricane | A massive system of rotating winds that forms over warm tropical waters |
| Globe | A representation of the earth on a sphere |
| Tornadoes | A violent windstorm that spriles around a rotating column of air and moves in a narrow path over land |
| Typhoon | A hurrcain that forms north of the equator in the western pacific ocean |
| Funnel Cloud | A rapidly rotating cloud can become visible as a funnel at the base of the thundercloud |
| Cyclone | When a hurrcain forms over the Indian ocean off the coast of Austrialia also a swirling center of low air pressure |
| Weather | State of atmosphere at a partcular time and place |
| Important elements of weather | Moisture,temp. wind speed, and atmospheric pressur |
| Climate | Refers to weather pattrens |
| Energy from the Sun | Solar energy |
| Process of absorbing energy | Radiation |
| How much radiation reaches earth | Half |
| Same rate of absorbing and reflecting | No examples: soil rock and water |
| Atmosphere protects | Harmful radation |
| Everyone Is Making Sweet Tea | Exosphere Ionosphere Mesosphere Stratosphere Troposphere |
| Troposphere | Weather and air we bearth and live in |
| Stratosphere | Ozone layer and planes fly here |
| Mesosphere | Middle of atmosphere , metor tails burn up |
| Ionosphere | Northern light are made here and ions arehere |
| Exosphere | Space satolights orbet here and exits earths atmosphere |
| Invisibly force | Gravity |
| Greenhouse gases | Water vapor and carbon dioxied |
| Gases | Nitrogen78% oxygen 21% othergases1% |
| Maritime tropical | Over ocean, warm, cold |
| Maritime polar | Over oceans, cold, moist |
| Contiental tropical | over land, warm, dry |
| Contiental polar | over land, old, dry |
| Air masses | a huge body of air that has similar temp. humidity, and air pressure at a given hight |
| Tropical | air masses form in the tropics and have low pressure |
| Maritime | air masses that form over oceans |
| Polar | ari masses from 50 degrees north laitude and 50 degrees south laitude |
| Front | an area where air masses meet and do not mix |
| Contiental | air masses form over land and in the middle of continents |
| Occlude | warm air masses that is cut off from th ground |
| Anticyclones | high pressure center of dry air |
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Halloween29
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