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Air, Climate weather
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| climate | The average weather conditions in an area over a long period of time |
| weather | The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place. |
| land breeze | the flow of air from land to a body of water when at night when cooler air from above the land moves over the water, forcing the heated, less dense air above the water to rise |
| sea breeze | movement of air from sea to land during the day when cooler air from above the water moves over the land, forcing the heated, less dense air above the land to rise |
| Coriolis effect | Causes moving air and water to turn left in the southern hemisphere and turn right in the northern hemisphere due to rotation of the earth's axis |
| convection currents | the upward movement of warm air and the downward movement of cool air |
| Latitude | distance north or south of the Equator, measured in degrees |
| Longitude | Distance east or west of the prime meridian, measured in degrees |
| Equator | an imaginary line drawn around the earth equally distant from both poles, dividing the earth into northern and southern hemispheres and constituting the parallel of latitude 0°. |
| Earth's axis | point earth spins on and when this changes so do the seasons |
| Heats up faster | land |
| Cools down slowly | water |
| The suns rays are more direct at the | equator |
| Sun's rays just graze by at the | poles |
| Air deflects to the right in the | northern hemisphere |
| Air deflects to the left in the | southern hemisphere |
| Area on the earth that has seasonal variation | middle latitudes |
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