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This water is more dense so it sinks.
What is cold water?
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This is the day-to-day variation in atmospheric variables.
What is weather?
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The two variables, average temperature and precipitation, are used to find this.
What is climate?
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The amount of space between soil particles
What is porosity?
100
Energy from the sun gets to earth in this way
What is by radiation (using electromagnetic waves to transfer the heat)?
200
This water is less dense so it rises.
What is warm water?
200
This pressure system produces cloudy and rainy weather.
What is low pressure?
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The climate of this elevated location is is cooler and higher in precipitation than other places of the same latitude.
What is mountains?
200
The name of the process that explains how water enters the ground.
What is infiltration?
200
Weather in the United States generally moves from...
What is west to the east? (The westerly winds!)
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created by wind, rotation (the Coriolis Effect) and the shape of ocean basins
What are surface currents?
300
a stalled front; long period of rain
What is a stationary front?
300
the warming of water in the Pacific Ocean due to a weakening of winds; brings storms and flooding; disrupts ocean food chains
What is El Niño?
300

This happens to an aquifer when there is a decrease in the amount of recharge.

What is a decrease in the water table?

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This would likely occur if NC implemented more wind energy on it's breezy coast.

What is a decrease in greenhouse gas emissions?

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driven by differences in salinity and temperature of water masses
What are density currents?
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This is created when you have low pressure systems in the tropics, high evaporation rate over open water, sea surface temperatures in excess of 26.5°C, and the convergence of air along a boundary between warm and cold air masses.
What is a hurricane?
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the trapping of EMR (electromagnetic radiation) by greenhouse gases leads to higher temperatures
What is the greenhouse effect?
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During a storm, a flood is most likely to occur on top of a soil that has____ permeability and _____ porosity.
What is low?
400

The two main gases in the atmosphere

What are nitrogen and oxygen?

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This renewable energy source would be best on NC beaches where there is a consistent land and sea breeze.

What are wind turbines or wind energy?

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This front makes it warmer and more humid.
What is a warm front?
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The largest contributor to the increasing amount of carbon dioxide (a greenhouse gas) present in the atmosphere
What is the use of fossil fuels? (Energy production like coal plants for example...)
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Areas of high _________ usually separate one river basin from the next.
What is elevation?
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measures wind speed
What is anemometer?