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Dangers of Dust
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| The weather conditions that typically exist in one area, in general, or over a long period. | Climate |
| The height or altitude at which something exists. | Elevation |
| A moon orbiting a planet or a vehicle or other manufactured object that orbits some celestial body in space. | Satellite |
| A fast-flowing, high-altitude air current. On Earth, the major jet streams flow from west to east in the mid-latitude regions of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. | Jet Stream |
| A slow-moving river of ice hundreds or thousands of meters deep. Glaciers are found in mountain valleys and also form parts of ice sheets. | Glacier |
| A tiny solid or liquid particle suspended in air or as a gas. Aerosols can be natural, such as fog or gas from volcanic eruptions, or artificial, such as smoke from burning fossil fuels. | Aerosol |
| The rainwater that runs off of land into rivers, lakes and the seas. As that water travels through soils, it picks up bits of dirt and chemicals that it will later deposit as pollutants in streams, lakes and seas. | Runoff |
| The planet’s highest plateau, it has an average elevation of 4,500 meters. Known as the Roof of the World, the “third pole”, and the Asian water tower, it is a cold, snowy region in southwestern China that includes all of Tibet. | Tibetan Plateau |
| A range of mountains that looks like a rugged spine. It runs through west-central Russia and has in the past served as a physical boundary between Europe to the west and Asia to the east. | Urals |
| A mountain system in Asia that divides the Tibetan Plateau to its north from the plains of India to the south. Containing some of the highest mountains in the world, the Himalayas include more than 100 that rise at least 7,300 meters above sea level. | Himalayas |
| A flat area of land, high above sea level. It’s sometimes referred to as “tableland.” Several of its edges tend to be steeply sloped. | Plateau |
| Also known as black carbon, it's the sometimes oily residues of incompletely burned materials, from plastics, leaves and wood to coal, oil and other fossil fuels. Soot particles can be quite small — nanometers in diameter. | Soot |
| Having to do with the sun or the radiation it emits. It comes from sol, Latin for sun. | Solar |
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