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| show | toxic, colorless gas formed from oxygen, found in the ozone layer
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| Troposphere | show 🗑
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| show | above the troposphere, planes fly here, ozone layer found here
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| show | above the stratosphere, meteors burn up here
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| show | thin air, hot tempertures, above the mesosphere, outermost layer
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| show | heat transfer through direct contact
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| show | warm air rises while cold air sinks because warm air is less dense
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| show | heat energy transferred in waves
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| show | throwing back energy without absorbing it
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| show | when electromagnetic radiation is diffused
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| Greenhouse Effect | show 🗑
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| show | the proportion of the incident light or radiation that is reflected by a surface, typically that of a planet or moon
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| Isotherms | show 🗑
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| show | rain, snow, sleet, hail
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| Latent Heat | show 🗑
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| show | when a gas turns into a liquid
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| Sublimation | show 🗑
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| show | the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere
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| Saturated | show 🗑
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| show | atmosphereic temperature
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| show | used to measure the density of water
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| show | a boundary separating air masses of different density
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| Condensation nuclei | show 🗑
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| Cirrus | show 🗑
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| show | rounded masses heaped on each other, low altitude
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| Stratus | show 🗑
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| show | increased concentration
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| show | pressure excerted by air
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| Barometer | show 🗑
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| show | an effect where a mass in a rotating system experiences force perpendicular to the motion direction and axis of rotation. On earth, the effect deflects moving objects to the right in the NH and to the left in the SH. Cylonic weather fomation.
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| Jet stream | show 🗑
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| Cyclone | show 🗑
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| show | wind blowing gradually flowing through the equator from NE in the NH or SE in the SH, mostly at sea. 2 belts of trade wind encircle the earth blowing from the tropical high-pressure belts to the low-pressure zone at the equator.
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| show | winds blowing from the west
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| show | equipment that measures speed of wind
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| show | irregularly occuring and complex series of climatic changes that affects the equator pacific region
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| show | body of air with horizontally uniform temperature, humidity, and pressure.
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| Stationary front | show 🗑
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| show | a composite front produced by occlusion
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| show | the rising of the sea as a result of atmospheric changes and winds associated with storms
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