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Weather
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Latitude | measures the distance north or south of the equator. |
| Longitude | measures the distance east and west of the prime meridian. |
| Hemisphere | used to describe half of Earth. |
| Atmosphere | a jacket of gases that surrounds our planet. It keeps us warm, gives us oxygen to breathe, and it is where our weather happens. |
| Weather | what the sky and the air outside are like, such as cold and cloudy. |
| Climate | he weather found in a certain place over a long period of time. |
| Polar | the part of the Earth's surface forming a cap over a pole; characterized by frigid climate. |
| Continental | a climate characterized by hot summers, cold winters, and little rainfall, typical of the interior of a continent. |
| Maritime | characterized by cool summers and cool winters, with a narrow annual temperature range and few extremes due to maritime influence. |
| Coriolis Effect | a force that affects a moving object over a rotating body. |
| Trade Winds | just air movements toward the equator. They are warm, steady breezes that blow almost continuously. |
| Prevailing Westerlies | Between thirty and sixty degrees latitude, the winds that move toward the poles appear to curve to the east. |
| Polar Easterlies | The polar easterlies form when the atmosphere over the poles cools. |
| Cold Front | the boundary of an advancing mass of cold air, in particular the trailing edge of the warm sector of a low-pressure system. |
| Warm Front | the boundary of an advancing mass of warm air, in particular the leading edge of the warm sector of a low-pressure system. |
| Map | a flat, 2-dimensional drawing of land and water |
| Globe | a spherical scale model of the Earth |
| Cirrus | White wispy clouds that form at high altitudes and are always made of ice crystals. |
| Cumulus | fair weather clouds with white puffy tops and dark flat bottoms |
| Stratus | lowest clouds that cover the sky like a thick gray blanket. |
| Nimbus/Nimbo | precipitating cloud, such as nimbostratus or cumulonimbus cloud. |
| Cumulonimbus | a huge vertical cloud that can produce a thunderstorm |
| Land Breeze | a breeze blowing toward the sea from the land, especially at night, because the sea is warmer than the land. |
| Sea Breeze | a breeze blowing toward the land from the sea , especially during the day, because land is cooler than the sea. |
| Precipitation | water that falls to the Earth’s surface as rain, snow, sleet, or hail. |
| Evaporation | the process of changing from a liquid to a gas |
| Condensation | the process of changing from a gas to a liquid |
| Jet stream | a steady worldwide wind that blows from west to east high above Earth |
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