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weather part 1 vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Air pressure | The mesure of the force with which air molecules push on surffurce |
| Altiude | elevation height above sea level |
| troposphere | lowest layer of earths amostphear |
| Exosphere | the outer layer of the termsphere exstending outward into space |
| atmospher gasses | nitro gen makes up 78 percent 21 percent oxygen and remaning 1% is carbon dioxide water vapor and other gasses |
| nitrogen | most abundant gas in the atmospher |
| oxygen | gas that make up 21% of the airin earths atmostpher |
| carbon dioxide | a green house gas a gas that absorbs and radiates heat |
| trace gasses | gasses such as hydrogen helium carbon dixoid |
| water vapor | water in form of gass |
| fossil fules | a natrul substance formed from the burrier |
| greenhouse gasses | gasses such ass hydrogen helium carbon dixide and argon that exist in very small quaitties in the asmostpher |
| water cycle | the continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back |
| evaporation | the change of a substance from a liquid to a gas |
| condesation | The change from gass to liquid |
| precipitation | of any from to water and gass |
| transportation | evaporation of water from the leaves of a plant |
| crystilization | the process by which a substance becomes a solid, sort of like freezing |
| surff rounds | water that flows over land until it reaches lakes, rivers, or other areas |
| ground water flow | water that flows beeath eaths surface |
| dew | water that has condensed on a cool surface overnight from water vapor in the air |
| frost | ice formed when water vapor changes directly into ice crystals |
| ozone | part of Earth's upper atmosphere; it protects people by absorbing harmful rays from the sun. |
| greenhouse effect | a warming of Earth's surface and the air above it. It is caused by gasses in the air that trap energy from the Sun |