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global warming |
an increase in temperature all over the world |
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humidity |
a measure of the amount of moisture in the air |
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hurricanes |
the most powerful storms that develop on earth, they are large swirling low pressure systems that form over tropical oceans with wind speeds of at least 120 km per hour |
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jet streams |
fast flowing relatively narrow air currents found in the atmosphere at around 36,000 feet about the surface of the earth (mainly in the stratosphere). the major jet streams are westerly winds flowing from west to east |
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mesophere |
a layer of earth's atmosphere located about the stratosphere where air temperature decrease with increasing height |
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meteorologist |
scientist who studies weather patterns to produce a forecast or predictions of daily weather |
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occluded front |
two cool air masses meet and force warmer air between them to be pushed up, often this causes strong winds and heavy precipitation |
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ocean currents |
mass of water moving in one direction in the ocean, either at the surface or flowing along the bottom or between the bottom and the surface. ocean currents can carry seeds and plants from one continent to another and can affect the climate. the gulf stream is an ocean current off the coast of MA |
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ozone |
a layer of gas in the stratosphere that protects life on earth from harmful unltraviolet rays of the sun, holes in the ozone layer could result in increased cases of skin cancer in people |
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pollutants |
any materials that harm living things by interfering with life processes, some are released by natural events such as erupting volcanoes and others are produced by human activities such has burning fossil fuels, haze, smog and smoke are examples |
