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| 7857614682 | Weather | The current condition of the atmosphere. | 0 | |
| 7857635856 | Climate | Weather averaged over the long term. | 1 | |
| 7857658886 | Solar Intensity | The amount of sunlight hitting the planets surface. Latitude is the North-South position on the planet. _________ varies with latitude based on the shape and angle of the planet. | 2 | |
| 7857802281 | Tropical Zone | Climate zone: 0°-30°, receive greatest amount of heat and light, warmest. | 3 | |
| 7857827142 | Temperate Zone | Climate zone: 30°-60°, receive moderate amount of heat and light, warm to cool. | 4 | |
| 7857845614 | Polar Zone | Climate zone: 60°-90°, Receive smallest amount of heat and light, coolest. | 5 | |
| 7857854690 | Seasons | Determined by the tilt of the Earth and the movement of the Earth around the sun. | 6 | |
| 7857878343 | Topography | Surface shape and features of an area. | 7 | |
| 7857951155 | Orographic Effect | The result of air ascending one side of a mountain, cooling, condensing, and bringing precipitation to the other side of the mountain as it descends. | 8 | |
| 7857956889 | Rainshadow | A dry region on the side of a mountain that is sheltered from the wind. |  | 9 |
| 7857964278 | Karst Topography | Landscape influenced by dissolution of the underlying carbonate rocks with water, resulting in caves and sinkholes. |  | 10 |
| 7858470491 | Nitrogen | Most abundant element in the atmosphere (78.084%). | 11 | |
| 7858473751 | Oxygen | Second most abundant element in the atmosphere (20.947%) | 12 | |
| 7858566342 | Altitude | Describes how high something is. | 13 | |
| 7858569389 | Latitude | Describes distance from the equator. | 14 | |
| 7858645733 | Exosphere | This is the outermost layer of the atmosphere. It ranges from the thermopause, which is the layer separating the thermosphere from the exosphere, to the area where the outer atmosphere merges with space. There is no clear boundary between the exosphere and space. 600 km+ | 15 | |
| 7858666672 | Thermosphere | This is the layer extending from the mesopause to the exosphere. Gases are thinner than in the mesosphere, and incoming ultraviolet radiation from the sun creates an increase in temperature as distance from Earth's surface increases. 85-600 km | 16 | |
| 7859501884 | Mesophere | This is the layer extending from the stratopause to the thermosphere in which oxygen becomes thinner and temperature decreases as altitude increases. 50-85km | 17 | |
| 7859514846 | Stratosphere | This is the layer extending from the tropopause, that warms as altitude increases due to ozone (O3) absorbing ultraviolet radiation from the sun. It protects us from this radiation, which can cause everything from sunburn to cancer. Human activities, including jet exhaust and chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), decrease the amount of ozone, and hence, protection. 12-50 km | 18 | |
| 7859575398 | Troposphere | This is the layer immediately above Earth's surface, which contains most of the mass of the atmosphere. We live in this layer and most of the pollution exists in this level. Temperature and pressure of gases decrease as altitude increases. 0-12 km | 19 | |
| 7859615500 | Convection | The movement caused within a fluid by the tendency of hotter and therefore less dense material to rise, and colder, denser material to sink under the influence of gravity, which consequently results in transfer of heat. | 20 | |
| 7859689100 | Hadley Cell | A cell that drives air around the tropical regions. | 21 | |
| 7859690382 | Ferrel Cell | A cell that moves air from 30 degrees to 60 degrees latitude. | 22 | |
| 7859694012 | Polar Cell | At around 60 degrees latitude, the warmer air collides with cold polar air, and warm air continues to rise and cold air continues to sink as polar easterlies to create a new cell. | 23 | |
| 7859710966 | Coriolis Effect | Deflection on moving objects due to Earth's rotation. | 24 |
