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Title: chapter 3 vocab
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    • Side 3
    • weather
    • condition of the atmosphere
    • climate
    • weather patterns
    • axis
    • imaginary line through the north and south pole
    • temperature
    • measures how hot or cold somewhere is
    • revolution
    • travling around the sun
    • equinox
    • daytime and nighttime have equal hours
    • tropic of cancer
    • northernmost part of the earth that gets hit with the most rays from the sun
    • solstice
    • begining of summer in the northern hemisphere
    • tropic of capricorn
    • begining of the winter solstice
    • greenhouse effect
    • the Earth would be too cold for most living things
    • global warming
    • caused by human activities
    • low latitudes
    • includes tropic of capicorn, the equator, and tropic of cancer
    • high latitude
    • eithe rwhen the northern or southern hemisphere is tilted toward the sun
    • arctic circle
    • countinuous daylight or twilight
    • anarctic circle
    • daylight or twilight for the other six months of the year
    • midlatitudes
    • between 30 and 60 degrees north in nnorther hemisphere ans 30 and 60 degrees south in the southern hemisphere
    • prevailing winds
    • global winds blow in a pattern
    • coriolis effect
    • causes prevailing wind to blow diagonally
    • doldrums
    • windless band
    • currents
    • move through the ocean
    • E1 Nino
    • its a periodic change in the pattern of ocean currents
    • windward
    • the side of the mountain range facting the wind
    • leeward
    • side of the mountains
    • rain shadow
    • often causes dry areas
    • natural vegetation
    • the origanal plant life growing in an area
    • tropics
    • found in near or in low latitudes
    • sahara
    • alone extends over almost the entire northern one-third of the african continent
    • oasis
    • an area of lush vegetation
    • coniferous
    • most of which are evergreens have cones
    • deciduous
    • broad leaves change color and fall in autumn
    • mixed forests
    • has both kinds of trees
    • prairies
    • in land grasslands and forests of everygreen and seciduous trees
    • permafrost
    • permanently frozen subsoil
    • hypothesis
    • is a scientific explanation
    • smog
    • a visible chemical haze in the atmosphere that endangers people's health