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| Name three types of percipatation | rain sleet snow |
| What is a large body of air that has the same properties as the surface over which it develops? | air mass |
| What is a violent whirling wind storm that moves over a narrow path on land? | tornado |
| Name one cause of deforstation. | global warming |
| What is a front ? | When two air masses meet |
| Where do thunderstorms form most? | along a cold front |
| What is a large storm with tigh winds that form over tropical oceans. | a hurrican |
| What is the amount of water vapor in the air is known as? | humidity |
| What percentage of ocean water is salt? | 3.5% |
| What causes surface currents? | wind |
| What is a low area that holds water? | a basin |
| What generates electricity when water pushes sgainst their blades? | a turbine |
| What are movements in which water alternatly rises and falls? | waves |
| What is the difference between high tide and low tide? | tidal range |
| A ______ _______ runs of water runs parallel to the shore. | longshore current |
| _____ is the basiccompound all living things. | water |
| What is the system of cracks on the ocean floor ? | rift zone |
| What are large animals that can swim? | neckton |
| What is the process plants and algae use to make food ? | photosynthisis |
| What two shorelines exist on earth? | sandy beaches and rocky shorelines |
| When the top of a wave outruns the bottom of a wave due to friction on the bottom of the wave is a ________. | breaker |
| The Coriolis effect causes most currents north of the eqater to move a ________ direction. | clock-wise |
| The energy in a wave moves _______. | forward |
| What is the measure of solids such as salt dissolved in sea water. | salinity |
| A long wave that results in a change of the surface level of the oceans is called a __________. | tide |
| A process when oxygen is combined with food and oxygenis ___________. | chemosynthosis |
