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30 Cards in this Set
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Weather
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Is the condition of the atmosphere in one place during a limited period of time
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Climate
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Isthe the term for the weather patterns that an area typically experiences over a long period of time
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Axis
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An imaginary line running from north pole to the south pole throug the planet's center.
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Temperature
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The measure of how hot or cold a place is
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Revolution
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Trip around the sun
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Equinox
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Equal night because daylight and nightime hours are equal
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Tropic of cancer
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at 23 and one half northernmost point on the Earth to recieve the direct rays of the sun
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Solstice
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Marks the beginning of summer in the northern Hemisphere
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Tropic of Capricorn
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Southern latitude of 23 and one half
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Greenhouse effect
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Earths would be too cold for most living things
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Global warming
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Is believed to be caused in part by human activities, such as the buring of coal, oil, and natural gas.
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Arctic Circle
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Latitude 66 i/2 North experiences continuous daylight or twilight.
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Antarctic Circle
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Experiences dayight or twilight for the other sx mouths of the year
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Low altitudes
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Between 30 degrees south and 30 degrees north latitude is a zone.
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High Latitude
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The earth polar areas, which strecth from 60 degrees North to 90 degrees north from 60 degrees south to 90 degrees north
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Midlatitudes
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The most variable on earth is found between 30 degrees north and 60 degrees south.
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Prevailing winds
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Global winds blow in fairly comnstant patterns
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Coriolis effect
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Prevailing winds to blow diagnolly rather than along strict north-south or east-west directions.
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Dolsdrums
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two narrow bands of calm air encircle the globe just north of the tropic of cancer and just south of the tropic of capricorn
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Currents
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Cold and warm streams of water, known as currents move through the ocean
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El nino
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It is a periodic in the pattern of ocean currents, water temperatures and weather in the mid-pacific region
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Tropics
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Tropical climates are found near the low latitudes. the two most widespread kinds of tropical climate regions are tropical west and tropical dry
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Sahara
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alone extends over almost the entire northern one-third of the African Continent
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Oasis
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n area of lush vegetation.
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Coniferous
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trees, most of which are evergreens have cones.
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Deciduous
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Trees, most of which have broad leaves change color and drop their leaves in autumn
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Prairies
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Inland grasslands, and forest of evergreen and dicduous trees
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Permaforst
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A frosen subsoil
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Hypothesis
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An educated guess
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Smog
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A visible chemical haze in the atmosphere that endangers people's health
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