| A | B |
|---|
| Thermometer | device or sensor that measure temperature |
| Eye | calm inside part of a hurricane |
| Vortex | movement of a liquid or gas around a central axis |
| Catastrophic events | powerful dramatic forces that have a major effect on earth and living things on earth |
| Satallite | an instrument that orbits the earth taking pictures and collection information |
| Greenhouse effect | gasses in the atmosphere send heat back to the earth's surface |
| Climate | weather patterns over a period of time/years |
| Weather | the state of the atmosphere at a particular time and place |
| Atmosphere | thin blanket of air surrounding the earth; holds heat in to make earth livable and protects the earth from harmful radiation |
| Solar energy | comes from the sun; only 1/2 of the sun's energy is absorbed by the land and the oceans |
| Temperature | an indication or clue as to the amount of energy that has been absorbed by the material |
| Seasons | change due to the tilt of the earth on its axis |
| Gravity | holds the earth's atmosphere in place |
| Saffir/Simpson scale | measures the damage from hurricanes |
| Enhanced Fujita scale | measures the damage from a tornado |
| Tornado warning | a tornado has been spotted or detected by radar |
| Tornado | a violent windstorm that spirals around a rotating column of air |
| Thunderstorm | a disturbance in the earth's atmosphere with thunder and lightening |
| Nitrogen | makes up a majority of the earth's atmosphere |
| Oxygen | is the second largest gas in the atmosphere |
| Winter | when the sun is closest to the earth |
| Soil | absorbs heat faster that water; loses its heat more quickly than water |
| Water | water retains its heat longer than soil |
| Tornadoes | formed by thunderstorm; before a tornado, the sky is green, there is a thunderstorm, the clouds rotate and a wall cloud drops from below. |
| Hurricane | massive rotating storm; the center of the vortex is called the eye |
| Troposphere | where most of the earth's weather takes place |
| Stratosphere | contains the ozone layer |
| Mesosphere | has a low temperature of -90c |
| Thermosphere | has a high temperature of 1700c |
| Exosphere | satellites are located here |
