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| weather | the state of the atomesphere w/respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, cleaness or cloudiness |
| atmosphere | the air of a locality |
| climate | average course or condition of weather at a place usually over a period of yrs as ehibited by temperature |
| Greenhouse effect | warming of surface and lower atmosphere of a planet that is caused by conversion or solar radiation into heat in a process involving selective transmission of short wave soolar radiatiom as infared which is absorbed and partly reradiated back to the surface by atmospheric gases. |
| rotation | process of rotating on axis |
| axis | a straight line about which earth rotates on |
| revolution | the action by celestial body of going round in an orbit or eliptical course |
| length of a yr | 365.25 days |
| leap yr - date | every 4 yrs to make 4 the .25 of a day is on feb 29 |
| tropic of cancer | the parallel of latitude that is approximatly 23.5 degrees north of the equator and that is the northernmost latitude reached by the overhead sun |
| tropic of capricorn | the parallel of latitude is 23.5 degrees south of the equator and that is the southernmost latitude reached by the overhead sun |
| summer/winter solstice | seasons |
| spring / fall equinoxes | seasons |
| climate zones(tropical,temperate,polar) | every 23.5 degrrees is a new climate zone and each zone has special qualifications that qualify it as being a climate zone |
| precipitation | deposit on earth of hail,mist, rain, sleet, or snow |
| water cycle | the sequence of conditions through water passes from vapor in the atmosphere through precipitation upon land or water surfaces and ultimately back into the atmosphere as a result of evaporation and transpiration |
| convectional precipitation | hot air rises 4rm the earths surface, cools, loses ability to hold water, precipitation forms. Common near equator and tropix.. |
| orographical precipitation | warm air rises over landforms, cools at top, precitation forms |
| frontal precipitation | 2 fronts of diff temps meet, warmer rises and loses ability |
| fronts | air masses |
| evaporation | H2O is heated enough to into gas |
| 3 influences on climate | large bodies of water, elevation, nearby landforms |
