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Weather
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Globe | the earth |
| Map | a diagrammatic representation of an area of land or sea |
| Meteroligist | an expert or study of meteorology |
| Geoligist | is a scientist who studies the solid and liquid matter of the earth |
| Seismoligist | is the study of seismic waves or energy waves |
| Volcanoligist | a scientist who studies volcanoes |
| Vortex | A whirling cloud of fluid or wind |
| Hurricane | A huge whirling cloud with very violent wind |
| Tornado | a rotating vortex of violent winds |
| Eye | the calm region in the center of the hurricane |
| Funnel cloud | a rotating funnel shaped cloud forming the core of a tornado |
| Cyclone | a hurricane in the indian |
| Typhoon | a hurricane in the pacific ocean |
| atmosphere | the layer of air above the earth |
| nitrogen | a very cold gas that is the most in our atmosphere at 78% |
| carbon dioxide | carbon dioxide is a gas in ourair |
| greenhouse gases | water vapor and carbon dioxide |
| water vapor | a gas phase of water |
| stratosphere | the layer that contains the ozone layer |
| mesosphere | the layer above the stratosphere where meteors burn |
| ionosphere | the layer where electrically charged particles called ions form |
| exosphere | the outermost region of the atmosphere |
| troposhere | the layer where humans live in |
| thermosphere | the exosphere and the ionosphere combined |
| goes and poes sattilites | Goes Montier a certain spot.Poes Go around the north and south polar regions |
| tornado alley | where a lot of tornadoes form |
| isobar | a line connecting points to have the same air pressure |
| isotherm | a line on a map connecting points that have the same air tempature |
| climate | the weather conditions in a area at a given time |
| stable air mass | is the measure of the atmospheres tendency |
| unstable air mass | is the lowest layers of an air mass |
| weather | the state of an atmosphere in a place |
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