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| climate | general weather patterns over a long period of time |
| climatology | the study of weather patterns over a long period of time |
| continent | any of Earth’s main continuous areas of land, such as Africa- Asia- and North America |
| El Niño | a climate pattern where water near the equator gets hotter than usual and affects the weather around the world |
| energy | the ability to make things move or change |
| equator | the imaginary line that divides Earth into northern and southern hemispheres |
| gyre | giant pattern of moving water that spans whole oceans and moves water from place to place in a circle |
| latitude | the distance of a place north or south of Earth’s equator |
| longitude | the distance of a place east or west of Earth’s prime meridian |
| ocean current | ocean water flowing in a continuous path |
| prevailing winds | winds that move in one direction and are strong enough to push ocean currents |
| scientific community | scientists around the world who share information and ideas |
| solar | related to the sun |
| surface | the outside or top layer of something |
| temperature | a measure of how hot or cold something is |
| transfer | to move from one object to another or one place to another |
| upwelling | process in which deep, cold water rises toward the surface of the ocean |
