Solar system, The universe, Climate change study guide, Climate – Flashcards
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What are the terrestrial planets
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Closest to the sun
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List 3 way terrestrial planets similar to each. Other
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Have solid rock Are made of havey elements Formed in the warmer region close to the sun
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How are terrestrial planet so similar
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They have rocks in there are they are all close to the sun
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List three-way gas giant or similar to each other
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No solid surface Low density Made of gas
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Where is gas gaints so similar
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They are all made out of gas and liquid
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What are the gas giant
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They are planets that are all away from the sun and they're made out of gas and liquid
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How did the solar system formed
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Cloud of gas does this place were distributed maybe explosive nebula star
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Explain why guess change and terrestrial planets are so different from each other
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Gas giants or meet at a gas and liquid and they are away from the sun Terrestrial planets are close to the sun and made out of solid rock
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What is the name of the nebula made out of
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Mira clouds of gas and does it come to go to condensed
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How old is the solar system
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4.6 billion years
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How old do we know how to Rock
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Sedimentary rock layers
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What is the half-life
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Time taking for the radioactive of a specified
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How did earths oceans from
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The form by comments hitting the earth and by volcano releasing team and then the steam calling and rainfall
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How do the atmosphere form
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Gases from volcanoes hydrogen and methane methane
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How did the development of life affect the atmosphere
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Adding oxygen through photosynthesis
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When did life evolved on earth
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3.8billion years
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What is an ellipse
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And oval orbit to center/foci
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What is located at focus of the planets ellipses
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Two points called foci
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How does the speed of a point to change it has its orbit around the sun
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Increases goes faster
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Why does the speed change
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Speed changes when it's the hitsor gets closer to the sun
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What is gravity
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Traction between two objects balance points
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How does mass affect gravity
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Gravitational force between two objects
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How did the distance between objects affect gravity
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Gravitational force
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Where do you find 99% of the matter in the solar system
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The sun plasma
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Kelper law 1
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An ellipse orbit
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Kepler's Second Law
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Equal Arcus a line joing planets
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Kepler 3
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Compares the orbital periods how long they go round
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73% hydrogen 25% helium
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What element is the sun composed
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All type of light energy
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What is the electromagnetic spectrum
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It's distance
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What is learn about a star from his visibility spectrum
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Can see invisible part of the spectrum
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Wire radio x-ray UV and gamma telescope used to study the universe
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For hydrogen protons come together
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What is the process of hydrogen fusion
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When light atoms fuse together
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How is energy created by fusion
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A parent is brightness in objects as seen on earth Is the brightness of an object as seen from
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What is the difference between apparent and absolute magnitude
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By the color of the star
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How do astronomers determine the temperature of the store
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Galaxy that are moving away from Earth
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Which galaxies have the most red shift
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Dars they have a relationship between temperature in the luminositL
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What are main sequence stars
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mass
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What determines the star size
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A contracted region with a nebula
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Why does a nebula becoming prostar
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Begins to collapse and it begins to heat up due to pressure
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Why does the prostar are becoming me sequester
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Larger and read low temperature
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Why does the main sequence star become a supergiant or a guest checking
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Explosion of a supergiant that completely destroys it
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What is the supernova
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Extended region glowing gas surrounded an intensely hot center
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What is the planetary nebula
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After fusion and in a red giant
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How does a planetary nebula form
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Leftover core of your red giant small and high your temperature
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What is a white dwarf
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A massive star explode in word
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What is the black hole
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Surrounding material by the force of gravity disc around the black hole
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How are black hole detected
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Left over a quarter of a supergiant after he stupid giant load the gift of radio waves
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What is the neutral star
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Spa begin to rapidly expanding cool
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How do you do you discovery of red shift lead to the Big Bang theory
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14 billion years old
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How old is the universe
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Electromagnetic radiation from the sky with no discrenible
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What is a cosmic background radiation
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Adam form will still be all around the universe universe like radiation
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How did the discovery of cosmic background radiation support the big bang boom
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There was lots of energy it took hundreds thousands of years of cool after 1 billion year subscription
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Describe the big bang theory
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Where does the evidnec come from that shows earths temperature has changed over time
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Settlement and ice cores
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Where the difference between glaciers Ice Age an inter-glacier times
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CJ when the world is covered in ice and enter glacier is there's a warm period of
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What do we get from the ice cores
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Two isotopes of oxygen Atom 16 18
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How do fossils provide evidence for changes in temperature
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Organisms live at Pacific temperature we must determine past temperature
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What are the milankovitch cycle
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Eccentricity :close of a circle the herbage Orbits around Orbit tilt how strong the season are Precession change in direction of orbit tilt
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Why are milankovitch cycles important to earth's temperature
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Cause ice age
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How do I sheet/glaciers grow during ice age
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They grow because not enough heat
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How did the evolution of life changed earths temperature
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Co2 becomes rich in oxygen
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How does the ocean circulation affect carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere
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It changes it to be a rich in oxygen
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What is the relationship between carbon dioxide gas in the atmosphere and global temperatures
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Higher co 2 =higher global temperature
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Where the larger reservoirs in the carbon cycle
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Sedimentary rock
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What are the smaller reservoirs in the carbon cycle
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Biota mostly plants some animals
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Which reservoirs have short average residence time
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The atmosphere... Three years
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Which reservoirs have a long average residence time
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Set a Mentry rock 150 million years Ocean 350 years Fossil fuels 65o years
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What process moving carbon into the atmosphere
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Fossil fuel's
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Will process removes carbon from the atmosphere
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Sequester
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What are the two main gases responsible for global climate change
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Carbon dioxide methane
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What process in the carbon cycle to humans directly affect
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Burning fossil fuels
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What are the natural ways methane enter the atmosphere
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Decommissioning and wetlands
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What are the anthropogenic causes of methane
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34% livestock .18% landfill 9% growing rice
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What are the two main uses of fossil fuel's
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Electricity and transport gasoline
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Describe how climate scientist use general circulation models
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Transported energy around planet
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Where on earth are the greatest increase in temperature is predicted to
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Close to the poles
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To cause the rising sea level
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A:Glacier melting B:ocean water exption
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How will melting ice on land effect ocean circulation
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Shut down thermonaline circulation Ice Age
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How is climate change predicted to affect precipitation
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Increase in some areas
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How will livid things expected to be affected by global climate change
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Extinction of many species Loss home
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List five things that can be done to reduce greenhouse gas in missions
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Efficient car seat 3 to 6 tons Eat one half of me. 75 tons plant a tree one ton of carbon vegan diet 1.5 tons cut electricity by 25% to 2/3tons
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What are the effects of human land use on temperature
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Burning forest deforestation agriculture
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What is climate
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Average daily temperature and precipitation
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What is the main factor that causes climate
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Latitude
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What is solar insolation
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Amount of solar radiation
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How does the angle of in Insolation five temperature
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Angles with more Insolation absorb more energy from the sun
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At what latitude is the angle Insolation of the highest
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90 equator
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Why does the angle Insolation of change throughout the year
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Spins on a tilted axis
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What is the difference between the angle Insolation of the summer and winter
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Summer is at 90° Northern hemisphere and in the winter it's in the Southern Hemisphere
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Well cost of the earth seasons
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Rotation earth
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What is the inner tropical convection zone
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Near the equator where the north and the south winds come together
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What causes the intertropical convection zone move other a year
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Seasons earth spins
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What is tropical climate
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They are found near the equator
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What is the middle latitude
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Therefore near the equator
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What are polar climate
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Or form near the south an borth pole
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How does elevation affect temperature
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Because of the adiabatic cooling higher temperatures
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What is a rain shadow
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Area of dryness created by mountains
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Describe adiabatic changes in temperature
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Coolest causing condensation and rain near the parks
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How do I warm ocean currents affect precipitation
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Evaporation of water increases at vapor in the air
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How do large parts of waters affect temperatures
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Make the temperature less extreme warm areas will be cool and cool there is will be warmed
