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Sea breeze
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The breeze created when cooler moist air from over the water slides beneath the rising air on an ocean beach
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Offshore breezes or land breezes
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The breeze caused when the water stays warm and the land has cooled
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Heat
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Energy that flows from one object to a cooler object
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Specific heat
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Amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of one gram of a substance by one degree Celsius
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Weather box
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n organized collection of symbols used to represent weather data
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Isobars
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Lines on a weather map that connect Areas of equal barometric pressure
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Isotherms
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Lines on a weather map that connect areas of equal temperature
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Barometric pressure
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A measurement of force exerted on a given unit of space by the weight of air
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