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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 climate | the weather in some location averaged over some long period of time |
| weather | the meteorological conditions: temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation |
| catastrophic event | powerful, dramatic forces that have a major effect on our planet and all living things on Earth. |
| rainshadow | Area on the leeward slope of mountain range where percipitation is greatly reduced compared to the wind ward slope on the other side. |
| water cycle | the continuous process by which water moves from Earth's surface to the atmosphere and back |
| coriolis effect | The way Earth's rotation makes winds in the Northern Hemisphere curve to the right and winds in the Southern Hemisphere curve to the left. |
| proximity | the property of being close together |
| intensity | the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation) |
| particulates | a small discrete mass of solid or liquid matter that remains individually dispersed in gas or liquid emissions (usually considered to be an atmospheric pollutant) |
| sun angle | Angle formed between sunlight approaching the earth's surface and the surface itself |
| latitude | an imaginary line around the Earth parallel to the equator |
| el nino | (oceanography) a warm ocean current that flows along the equator from the date line and south off the coast of Ecuador at Christmas time |
| ice cores | pieces of ice used to track earths past weather |
| tree rings | tree growth is influenced by climate conditions, patterns in tree rings and isotopic composition of materin within each ring reflect variations in past climate |
| atmosphere | the mass of air surrounding the Earth |
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