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Environmental Studies
9th Grade
05/31/2016

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Term

118. Layers Of The Atmosphere

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Definition

Layers of the atmosphere is 6 different layers that are made up in the atmosphere which are Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere, and Exosphere.

 

Sentence: The layers of the atmosphere has 6 different layers.

Ex 1: Stratosphere

Ex 2: Mesosphere 

Term

119. Changing States of Water

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Definition

Changing States of Water is the states in which matter can exist: as a solid, liquid, or gas. When temperature changesmatter can undergo a phase change, shifting from one form to another.


Sentence: Changes of water is the which matter can exist.

Ex 1: solid

Ex 2: liquid

 
Term

121. Saturation Point 

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Definition

Saturation Point is the stage at where no more substance can be absorbed into a vapor or dissolved into a solution.

 

Sentence: When no more substance can absored into a vapor that is the stage of saturation point.

 

 

Ex 1: salt in water 

Ex 2: sugar in water

Term

122. Relative Humidity

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Definition

Relative Humidity is the amount of water vapor in the air, expressed as percentage of the maximum amount that the air could hold at he given temperature

Sentence: Relative Humidity is the amount of water vapor in the air.

Ex 1: air pressure

Ex 2: temperature

Term

123. Hygrometer

 

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Definition

Hygrometer is any instrument for measuring the water-vapor content ofthe atmosphere.


Sentence: Hygrometer is a instrument for measuring water vapor.
Ex 1: water vapor
Ex 2: water
 
Term

124. Dew Point 

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Definition

 Dew Point is the temperature to which air must be cooled, at a givenpressure and water-vapor content

 

Sentence: the temperature to which air must be cooled is dew point.

Ex 1: humidity

Ex 2: water

Term

125. Adiabatic Rates

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Definition

Adiabatic Rates is the rate at which atmosphere temperature decreases with increasing altitude in conditions of thermal equilibruim.

 

Sentence: Adiabatic Rates is when temperature decreases with increasing altitude.

Ex 1: Air passing over a cool surface loses energy through conduction

Ex 2: Dry adiabatic lapse rate calculator solving for change in temperature given change in altitude or elevation

Term

126. Clouds 

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Definition

Clouds is a visible mass of condensed water vapor floating in the atmosphere, typically high above the ground.

 

Sentence: There are different types of clouds like cirrus, cumulus, stratus etc.

 

Ex 1: cirrus

Ex 2: cumulus

Term

127. Air Mass

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Definition

Air Mass a body of air with horizontally uniform temperature, humidity, and pressure.

 

Sentence: Air Mass is a body of air horizontally uniform temperature.

 

Ex 1: humidity

Ex 2: pressure

Term

128. Air Pressure

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Definition

Air Pressure is the force exerted onto a surface by the weight of the air.

 

Sentence: Air pressure is forced exerted onto a surface by weight of air.

 

Ex 1: Air pressure in car tire 

Ex 2: Sucking a drink through a draw

Term

129. Barometer 

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Definition

Barometer is an instrument measuring atmospheric pressure, used espically in forecasting the weather and determining altitude.

 

Sentence: A barometer is an instrument measuring atmospheric pressure.

Ex 1: instrument

Ex 2: measuring

Term

131. Isobar Map

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Definition

Isobar Map is an imaginary line or a line on a map or chart connecting or marking places of equal barometric.

 

Sentence: Isobar Map is a line on a map correcting or marking places.

 

Ex 1: 

Ex 2:

Term

134. Cyclones 

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Definition

Cyclones is a system of winds rotating inward to an area of low atmospheric pressure, with a counterclockwise (northern hemisphere) or clockwise (southern hemisphere) circulation; a depression.


Sentence: cyclones is a system of winds rotating inward to an area.


Ex 1: Hooghly River Cyclone

Ex 2: India and Bangladesh

Term

135. Anticyclones

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Definition

Anticyclones a weather system with high atmospheric pressure at its center, around which air slowly circulates in a clockwise (northern hemisphere) or counterclockwise (southern hemisphere) direction. Anticyclones are associated with calm, fine weather.

Sentence: anticyclones is a weather system with high atmospheric.

Ex 1: During the year the anticyclone furnishes us with about sixty per cent.

Ex 2: barometer, on the other hand, is usually an indication of the fineweather associated with an anticyclone.

Term

136. Cold Front

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Definition

Cold Front is the boundary of an advancing mass of cold air, in particular the trailing edge of the warm sector of a low-pressure system.


Sentence: cold front is the boundary of advancing mass


Ex 1: cold air advancing

Ex 2: cold air

Term

137. Warm Front 

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Definition

Warm Front the boundary of an advancing mass of warm air, in particular the leading edge of the warm sector of a low-pressure system.


Sentence: the boundary of a advancing mass of warm air.


Ex 1: warm advancing air

Ex 2: warm air

Term

138. Stationary Front 

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Definition

Stationary Front is a stationary front is a pair of air masses, neither of which is strong enough to replace the other. 


Sentence: stationary front is a pair of masses that combine togther and create gentle rain or snow

 

Ex 1: rain

Ex 2: snow

Term

139. Occluded Front

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Definition

Occluded Front a warm air mass is caught between two colder air masses. The colder air moves under the warmer air pushing it up and then moves forward until it meets a mass that is warmer and pushes it up too.


Sentence: a front produced by occlusion.


Ex 1: cool temperatures 

Ex 2: large amounts of snow

Term

141. El Nino 

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Definition

El Nino an irregularly occurring and complex series of climatic changes affecting the equatorial Pacific region and beyond every few years, characterized by the appearance of unusually warm, nutrient-poor water off northern Peru and Ecuador, typically in late December.

Sentence: el nino is a complex of series of climatic changes affecting the equatorial Pacific region.

Ex 1: la nina

Ex 2: Pacific region

Term

142. La Nina 

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Definition

La Nina a cooling of the water in the equatorial Pacific that occurs at irregular intervals and is associated with widespread changes in weather patterns complementary to those of El Niño, but less extensive and damaging in their effects.

Sentence: a cooling of the water in the equatorial Pacific that occurs at irregular intervals.

Ex 1: El nino

Ex 2: Pacfic region

Term

143. Doppler Effect 

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Definition

Doppler Effect an increase (or decrease) in the frequency of sound, light, or other waves as the source and observer move toward (or away from) each other. The effect causes the sudden change in pitch noticeable in a passing siren, as well as the redshift seen by astronomers.

Sentence: an increase (or decrease) in the frequency of sound, light, or other waves as the source and observer move toward (or away from) each other. 

Ex 1: sound 

Ex 2: light

Term

144. Ozone Layer 

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Definition

Ozone Layer is a layer in the earth's stratosphere at an altitude of about 6.2 miles (10 km) containing a high concentration of ozone, which absorbs most of the ultraviolet radiation reaching the earth from the sun.

Sentence: a layer in the earth's stratosphere at an altitude of about 6.2 miles (10 km) containing a high concentration of ozone.

Ex 1: radiation

Ex 2: sun

Term

145. Greenhouse Effect

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Definition

Greenhouse Effect the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation from the sun than to infrared radiation emitted from the planet's surface.

Sentence: the trapping of the sun's warmth in a planet's lower atmosphere due to the greater transparency of the atmosphere to visible radiation.

Ex 1: visible radation 

Ex 2: sun

Term

146. Global Warming 

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Definition

Global Warming a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere generally attributed to the greenhouse effect caused by increased levels of carbon dioxide, chlorofluorocarbons, and other pollutants.

Sentence: a gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth's atmosphere.

Ex 1:carbon dioxide

Ex 2: ch2

 
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