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weather/storms
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| globe | the earth |
| map | an area of land or sea showing physical features |
| meterologist | an expert in meteorology |
| geologist | an expert in geology |
| seismologist | someone who studys the earth and earthqaukes |
| volcanologist | someone who studys volcanos |
| vortex | fourcse puling an object in |
| hurricane | a storm will a lost of wind |
| tornado | a vortex of wing twisting around |
| eye | its where the winds rotate and it is calm |
| funnel cloud | a vortex forming in a cone funnle shape causeing a tornado and water spout |
| cyclone | an hurrican in the south |
| typhoon | a hurrican in the west |
| atmosphere | the envelope of gases surrounding the earth or another planet. |
| nitrogen | the chemical element of atomic number 7, a colorless, odorless unreactive gas that forms about 78 percent of the earth's atmosphere. |
| carbon dioxide | a colorless, odorless gas produced by burning carbon and organic compounds and by respiration |
| greenhouse gases | a gas that contributes to the greenhouse effect by absorbing infrared radiation |
| watervapor | |
| stratosphere | the layer of the earth's atmosphere above the troposphere |
| mesosphere | the region of the earth's atmosphere above the stratosphere and below the thermosphere |
| ionosphere | the layer of the earth's atmosphere that contains a high concentration of ions and free electrons and is able to reflect radio waves. |
| exosphere | the outermost region of a planet's atmosphere. |
| thermoshere | the region of the atmosphere above the mesosphere |
| goes and poes satelites | |
| tornado alley | an area of the Great Plains centered on eastern Kansas and Oklahoma and including parts of the surrounding states, where tornadoes are frequent. |