| A | B |
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| WEATHER | Condition ofatmosphere at a particular time and place |
| WIND | air moving horizontally |
| GLOBAL WIND | winds traveling great distances in patterns |
| CORIOLIS EFFECT | curving of global winds due to earth's rotation |
| JET STREAM | wind in troposphere travelling from west to east |
| MONSOON | wind that changes direction with the seasons |
| DOLDRUMS | low pressure zone near equator |
| HORSE LATITUDES | high pressure zones n&s of equator |
| TRADE WINDS | winds blow east from horse latitudes to equator |
| CYCLONE | spiral of wind rotating around a region of low pressure |
| ADIABATIC | process by which temperature drops as a gas expands, without addition of heat |
| AURORAS | northern and southern lights |
| METEROLOGY | study of the atmoshpere |
| UVC | type of ultraviolet radiation that is most dangerous |
| 14.7 | pounds per square inch (psi) at sea level of atmospheric pressure |
| GREENHOUSE EFFECT | trapping of heat in the earth's atmoshpere by certain gases |
| OZONE | harmful ultraviolet radiation from the sun is blocked in the oxide layer of the upper stratosphere |
| MESOPAUSE | coldest point in the atmoshpere |
| ITCZ | belt of warm rising air that straddles the equator, where the winds from the tropics converge |
| HOMOSPHERE | lower portion of the atmoshphere due to uniform mixture of gases |
| TROPOSPHERE | lowest layer of the atmosphere |
| STRATOSPHERE | second layer of the atmosphere known for few changes in weather |
| IONOSPHERE | portion of the mesosphere and thermosphere known for its ability to bounce radio signals |
| THERMOSPHERE | sparse layer of the upper atmosphere with very high termperatures |
| EXOSPHERE | outermost layer of atmosphere |
