Vocabulary
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| wind | The perceptible natural movement of the air,especially in the form of a current of air blowing from a particular direction
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| air pressure | air pressure is the force exerted onto a surface by the weight of the air
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| high pressure system | A high pressure system is a whirling mass of cool,dry air that generally brings fair weather and light winds
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| low pressure system | A low pressure system is a whirling mass of warm, moist air that generally brings stormy weather with strong winds
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| westerlies | A wind blowing from the west
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| easterlies | A wind blowing from the east
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| trade winds | A wind steadily toward the equator
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| global winds | wind patterns
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| doldrums | sudden storms
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| energy | mental activity
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| coriolis effect | an effect whereby a mass moving in a rotating
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| sea breeze | a breeze blowing toward land
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| land breeze | a breeze blowing toward sea
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| jet stream | a narrow westerly air current
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| hurricane | a storm with a violent wind
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| tornado | a mobile, destructive vortex of wind
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| vortex | a mass of whirling air
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| focus | the center of interest or activity
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| tectonic plates | two sub-s that move
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| normal fault | occur where two blocks of rock are pulled apart
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| reverse fault | occur where two blocks of rock are forced together
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| strike-slip fault | a fault in which strata are mainly in a horizontal direction
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| p-waves | a longitudinal earthquake wave
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| s-wave | a motion in a solid medium where the medium moves perpendicular to a direction of a travel of a wave
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| Richter scale | a numerical scale for expressing the magnitude of an earthquake on the basis of seismograph oscillations
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| epicenter | the point on the earth's surface vertically above the focus of an earthquake.
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