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Weather/Storms

TermDefinition
Globe The Earth and is round like a sphere.
Map Is a representation of the Earth or a part of the Earth, usually on a flat surface.
Meteorologist Study the Earth's Atmosphere and forecast the weather.
Geologist Study the Earth or rocks.
Seismologist Study Earthquakes and trenches.
Volcanologist Study volcanoes and internal heat.
Vortex The swirling water in a hurricane.
Hurricane Atlantic Ocean and eastern Pacific Ocean. forms over warm water
Tornado Is a violent windstorm that spirals around a rotating column of air and moves in a narrow path on land.
Eye Center of Hurricane
Funnel Cloud Rapidly rotating clouds can be visible as a funnel at the base of a thunderstorm. A tornado can drop out.
Cyclon India Ocean or off the coast of Australia.
Typhoon Western Pacific Ocean.
Atmostphere blanket of air that keeps us warm.
Nitrogen is a greenhouse gas and in the atmosphere.
Carbon Dioxide is one of the two greenhouse gasses.
Greenhouse Gases Are gases that help flowers grown and butterfly's stay alive. Is gas.
Water Vapor is one of the two greenhouse gasses.
Stratosphere this is where air planes fly. You can find the ozone layer here.
Mesosphere meteors are.
Ionosphere you can find electrically charged particles called ions.
Exosphere Space satellites orbit here. go to space.
Troposphere We live in it.
Theremosphere Together the ionosphere and exosphere make this one layer.
Goes and Poes Satellites Orbit around the Earth.
Tornado Alley This is where tornadoes start.
Radiation When solar energy makes it's way through the vacuum of space to planet Earth.
Weather The state of the atmosphere at a particular place or time.
Three Elements Moister, Temperature, wind speed, and also atmosphere pressure.
Climate Refers to weather patterns that are characterized of a region or place for many years.
Energy from the sun solar enery
Isorbar a line on a map connecting points having the same atmospheric pressure at a given time or on average over a given period.
Isotherm a line on a map connecting points having the same temperature at a given time or on average over a given period.
Unstable Airmass Moist convection
Stable Arimass is a measure of the atmosphere's tendency to encourage
Weather the state of the atmosphere at a place and time as regards heat, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc.
Climate the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period.
Convection the movement caused within a fluid by the tendency of hotter and therefore less dense material to rise, and colder, denser material to sink under the influence of gravity, which consequently results in transfer of heat.
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