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Weather

TermDefinition
1.Globe the earth.
2.Map a diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea showing physical features, cities, roads, etc.
3.Meterologist an expert in or student of meteorology; a weather forecaster.
4.Geologist a expert in the field of geology, the study of what the Earth is made of and how it was formed.
5.Seismologist is the scientific study of earthquakes and the propagation of elastic waves through the Earth or through other planet-like bodies.
6.Volcanologist is a geologist who studies the eruptive activity and formation of volcanoes, and their current and historic eruptions.
7.Vortex a spiral motion of fluid within a limited area, especially a whirling mass of water or air that sucks everything near it toward its center.
8.Hurricane a large tropical storm system with high-powered circular winds.
9.Tornado a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system.
10.Eye the region at the center of a hurricane about which the winds rotate, but which itself is relatively calm.
11.Funnel Cloud a rapidly rotating funnel-shaped cloud extending downward from the base of a cumulonimbus cloud, which, if it touches the surface of the earth, is a tornado or waterspout
12.Cyclone a large-scale, atmospheric wind-and-pressure system characterized by low pressure at its center and by circular wind motion, counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere, clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
13.Typoon a tropical cyclone or hurricane of the western Pacific area and the China seas.
14.Atmosphere the envelope of gases that surrounds Earth.
15.Carbon Dioxide a colorless, odorless, incombustible gas, in the atmosphere and formed during respiration, usually obtained from coal, coke, or natural gas by combustion.
16.Water Vapor water in the form of a gas.
17.Mesosphere the layer of earths atmosphere right above the stratosphere.
18.Exosphere the outer layer of the thermosphere.
19.Thermosphere the outermost layer of the earths atmosphere.
20.Tornado Alley a corridor that receives more than the average number of tornadoes, as in the Midwest; also called storm lane.
21.Nitrogen a colorless odorless unattractive gas that forms 70 % of the earths atmosphere.
22.Green house gasses gases in the atmosphere such as carbon dioxide, that trap solar energy.
23.Stratosphere the second lowest layer of the Earth's atmosphere.
24.Inosphere the lower part of the thermosphere.
25.Troposphere the lowest layer of the Earth's atmosphere.
26.Goes and Poes satellites that are sent into space by scientists that don't change their orbit around the earth unless they are told.
27.Isotherm Lines on a weather map joining places that have the same temperature.
28.Stable air mass when the air is calm and at a constant
29.Climate the composite or generally prevailing weather conditions of a region, as temperature, air pressure,and humidity over a series of years.
30.Isobar lines on a weather map joining places that have the same temperature unstable air mass- when a cold air mass slides under a warm one a lifts it up, this can create storms stable air mass- when the air is calm and at a constant
31.Weather the state of the atmosphere at a particular time and place
32.Convection the process by which heat moves efficiently through air or water
33.Unstable air mass when a cold air mass slides under a warm one a lifts it up, this can create storms
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