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| Most abundant elements in seawater |
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| The difference between high and low tide |
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| A rise and fall in sea level |
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| Bacteria use sulfur to create food |
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| Vertical distance between the crest and trough |
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| The horizontal distance between the crests and/or troughs. |
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| A current that brings deep, cold h2o to the surface |
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| A rhythmic movement that carries energy through water |
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| A measure of solids dissolved in seawater |
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| Wind blowing h20 from Peru's coast, slows down and causes the eastern Pacific to warm up. |
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| Most abundant dissolved gas in seawater. |
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| A 100 km wide warm water current |
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| Forms when more dense seawater sinks beneath less dense seawater |
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| Plants use sunlight, h2o, co2, to make food+o2 |
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| Begins at 200 m, temp drops quickly with increased depth. |
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| Meteorologist; Predictions |
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| _____ gather information about the current weather and use computer programs to make_____about future weather patterns. |
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| Part of the cloud that forms a tornado. |
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| Fujita and Pearson developed the scale so estimating tornado_____would be easier |
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| Hurricane season in the Atlantic begins_____and ends_____. |
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| The state of the atmosphere at a specific time and place. |
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| Air moving in a specific direction |
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| The amount of water vapor in the air |
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| The amount of water vapor in the air compared to what it can hold at a specific temperature. |
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| The temperature at which air is saturated and condensation forms. |
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| Smooth, even sheets or layers at low altitudes. |
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| Puffy, white clouds, often with flat bases |
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| High, thin, white, feathery clouds made of ice crystals |
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| Clouds that are dark and full of water that sunlight can't penetrate them |
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| Water falling from the clouds |
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| Weather refers to the state of the atmosphere at a specific_____ and _____ |
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| Used to measure wind speed |
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| A large body of that has properties similar to the part of the Earth's surface over which it was developed |
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| Large, swirling areas of low pressure |
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| A boundary between 2 different air masses of different density; Thunderstorms also occur along the warm, moist air masses and at_____ |
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| Cloudiness; Precipitation; Storms |
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| Sometimes occur at frontal boundaries |
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| A Stationary front occurs when a boundary between air masses stop_____ |
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| Air pressure is measured by this |
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| Lightning super heats the air, causing it to expand rapidly and then contract forming sound waves |
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| A violent, whirling wind that moves in a narrow path over land |
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| A large, swirling, low-pressure system that forms over tropical oceans |
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| A winter storm with strong winds, cold temperature, and low visibility, that last more that 3 hours |
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| A _____ means that severe weather conditions already exist |
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| A _____ means that severe weather conditions already exist |
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| The National Weather Service makes _____ |
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| Show weather conditions at a specific location |
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| Lines on a weather map connecting points of equal temperature |
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| Lines on a weather map that connect points of equal atmospheric pressure |
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| Weather fronts move from _____ to _____ |
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