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| HEAT TRANSFER BY CURRENTS RISING WITHIN THE HEATED MATERIAL. |
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ADDED TO THE AIR BY BURNING FOSSIL FUELS-ONE OF THE TWO MAIN GREENHOUSE GASES.
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| THIS AIR VARIES DUE TO EARTH'S ROUNDNESS. |
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| CONDITION IN WHICH THE BOTTOM LAYER OF THE AIR IS COLDER THAN THE AIR ABOVE IT. |
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| LAYER OF THE ATMOSPHERE WHERE WEATHER OCCURS. |
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| THE ENERGY THE EARTH RECIEVES FROM THE THE SUN'S RAYS. |
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| THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE HIGHEST AND LOWEST TEMPERATURES---SMALLER ON CLOUDY DAYS. |
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| ABSORBS THE SUN'S ULTRAVIOLET WAVES TO PROTECT LIFE ON EARTH. |
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| USES THE PRINCIPLE THAT A RISE IN TEMPERATURE CAUSES MOST MATERIALS TO EXPAND. |
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| STUDY OF WEATHER AND THE ATMOSPHERE |
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| NORMAL LAPSE RATE/ADIABATIC |
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| THE RATE AT WHICH THE TROPOSPHERE COOLS WITH ALTITUDE. |
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| HEAT TRANSFER BY DIRECT CONTACT |
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| LINE ON A MAP CONNECTING PLACES WITH THE SAME TEMPERATURE. |
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| A SLOW CONDUCTOR OF HEAT, TAKES LONGER TO WARM, EXISTS IN 3 FORMS IN OUR ATMOSPHERE. |
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| DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURES OF THE WARMEST AND THE COLDEST MONTHS. |
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| HEAT TRANSFER IN THE FORM OF INFARED RAYS. |
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| MOST OF IT IS FOUND IN THE TROPOSPHERE AND IT IS COMPOSED MAINLY OF NITROGEN AND OXYGEN. |
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| THE TEMPERATURE THE BODY FEELS WHEN THE WIND IS BLOWING. |
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| TRAPPING OF THE SUN'S ENERGY/HEAT BY THE ATMOSPHERE, ESPECIALLY THE GASES CARBON DIOXIDE AND WATER VAPOR. |
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| THIS LAYER OF THE ATMOSPHERE REFLECTS RADIO WAVES, BUT NOT TELEVISION WAVES AND IS MADE UP OF LAYERS OF INDIVIDUAL ATOMS OF GAS. |
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| MEANS "WANDERER" IN THE ORIGINAL GREEK LANGUAGE. |
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| GASES WHICH THREATEN TO DESTROY THE OZONE LAYER. THEY COME FROM STYROFOAM PRODUCTION, REFRIGERANTS IN AIR-CONDITIONING UNITS AND ARE USED AS PROPELLANTS IN AEROSOL CANS. |
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| UPPER LAYER OF THE ATMOSPHERE WHERE TEMPERATURES CAN REACH 600 DEGREES ABOVE ZERO. |
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| WATER BELOW ZERO THAT DOES NOT FREEZE. OFTEN CALLED LIQUID ICE. |
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| THE CHANGE FROM LIQUID WATER TO WATER VAPOR. |
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| THE CHANGE FROM WATER VAPOR TO LIQUID WATER. |
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| THE AMOUNT OF WATER VAPOR ACTUALLY PRESENT IN THE AIR. |
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| USED TO COMPARE THE ACTUAL AMOUNT OF WATER VAPOR IN THE AIR WITH THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF WATER VAPOR THE AIR CAN HOLD AT THAT TEMPERATURE. |
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| USED TO MEASURE RELATIVE HUMIDITY BY USING TWO THERMOMETERS, ONE WET BULB AND ONE DRY BULB. |
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| THE TEMPERATURE AT WHICH SATURATION OCCURS. |
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| WATER VAPOR THAT CONDENSES ON SURFACES SUCH AS GRASS. |
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| TINY PARTICLES ON WHICH WATER VAPOR CONDENSES |
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| TRANSFER/MOVEMENT OF WARM OR COLD AIR BY HORIZONTAL WINDS. |
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| FORMED BY VERTICALLY RISING AIR CURRENTS AND ARE PILED IN THICK, PUFFY MASSES. |
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| LOW SHEETS OR LAYERS OF CLOUDS. |
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| THIN, OR FEATHERY CLOUDS THAT ARE VERY HIGH AND ARE ALWAYS MADE OF ICE CRYSTALS. |
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| HEIGHT OF FLAT CLOUD BASE WHICH SHOWS WHERE THE WATER VAPOR BEGINS TO CONDENSE. |
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| BEGINS AS A FROZEN RAIN DROP OR SMALL DENSE CLUMP OF ICE CRYSTALS AND GROWS BY COLLECTING SMALLER ICE PARTICLES, CLOUD DROPLETS AND SUPER-COOLED WATER, UNTIL IT IS TO HEAVY TO BE KEPT ALOFT BY STRONG UPDRAFTS. |
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| RAINDROPS THAT FALL THROUGH THE FREEZING AIR TURNS INTO PELLETS OF ICE THAT FALL TO THE GROUND. |
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| THAT AREA ON THE LEEWARD SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN WHERE LITTLE RAIN FALLS. |
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| WATER VAPOR THAT HAS CONDENSED ON SULFATE AND NITRATE PARTICLE NUCLEI THAT FORMS SULFURIC AND NITRIC ACIDS. |
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| THE WEIGHT OF THE ATMOSPHERE PER UNIT AREA |
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| AN INSTRUMENT USED TO MEASURE AIR PRESSURE. |
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| ONE UNIT USED TO MEASURE AIR PRESSURE. |
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| THIS IS AN AREA WHERE ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE IS HIGHER THAN THE SURROUNDING AIR. |
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| A WIND THAT MOVES FROM A BODY OF WATER TO THE LAND AREA NEAR IT. |
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| DUE TO THE EARTH'S ROTATION WHICH MOVES AIR TOWARD OR AWAY FROM THE EQUATOR AND THE WINDS ARE TURNED TO THE RIGHT IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE. |
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| INSTRUMENT USED TO MEASURE WIND SPEED NEAR THE SURFACE OF THE EARTH. |
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| RAINFALL THAT RESULTS WHEN A COLD FRONT ENCOUNTERS WARM MOIST AIR AND PUSHES UNDER IT CAUSING THE WARM AIR TO RISE AND CONDENSE IN THE COLDER UPPER AIR. |
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| CONVENTIONAL PRECIPITATION |
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| RAIN WHICH FALLS WHEN HOT MOIST AIR RISES AND ENCOUNTERS COLD AIR IN THE UPPER ATMOSPHERE WHERE IT CONDENSE AND FALLS. |
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| RAIN WHICH FALLS AS WARM MOIST RAIN RISES OVER A MOUNTAIN WHERE IT COOLS AND FALLS. |
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| A WIND THAT BLOWS FROM A VALLY UP THE SIDE OF THE MOUNTAIN. |
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| A WIND THAT BLOWS FROM THE MOUNTAIN DOWN INTO A VALLEY BELOW IT. |
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