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vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| adiabatic process | a process by which no heat is lost or gained |
| clean air act | a U.S. federal law that controls air pollution on a national level |
| convection cells | a self-contained convective zone in a fluid |
| Doppler radar | a radar tracking system using the Doppler effect to determine the location and velocity of a storm |
| el nino | an irregularly occurring and complex series of climatic changes affecting the equatorial Pacific region and beyond every few years |
| global wind belts | general circulation" and the surface winds of each hemisphere are divided into three wind belts |
| guyot | a seamount with a flat top |
| seamount | a submarine mountain |
| watershed | an area or ridge of land that separates waters flowing to different rivers |
| abyssal plain | underwater plain on the deep ocean floor |