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Term | Definition |
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low pressure | cloudy,rainy,stormy |
high pressre | clear,fair,no clouds,sunny |
warm front | warm air moves in temp goes up |
cold front | cold air moves in and temp goes down |
stationary front | warm and cold front meet-stays for days |
El nino | an unusual warming of surface water in the eastern pacific near the equator |
La nina | an unusual cooling of the surface water in the eastern pacific near the equator |
equator | an imaginary line that divides the earth in half herizontaly |
hemisphere | one half of earth |
sea breeze | air that moves from water to land-cool |
land breeze | air that moves from land to water-warm |
jet stream | an air current in the upper atmosphere that flows from west to east |
gulf stream | a warm ocean current in the Atlantic ocean |
westerlies | direction winds blow across the U.S |
wind | causes by uneven heating of the earth |