Vocabulary

Vocabulary

Weather and Climate


 * acid precipitation
 * air mass
 * source region
 * maritime
 * continental
 * tropical
 * polar
 * atmospheric pressure
 * barometer
 * atmospheric transparency
 * calorimeter
 * capillary action
 * climate
 * climate change
 * condensation, nuclei
 * electromagnetic spectrum
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">front
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">cold front
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">warm front
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">occluded front
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">stationary front
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">greenhouse effect
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">greenhouse gases
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">groundwater
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">hazard
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">heat
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">heat energy
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">conduction
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">convection
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">radiation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">specific heat
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">condensation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">evaporation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">melting
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">freezing
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">sublimation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">transpiration
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">vaporization
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">hurricane
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">monsoons
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">out gassing
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">planetary wind belts
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">precipitation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">rain
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">snow
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">sleet
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">hail
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 13px;">blizzard
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">pressure gradient
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">psychrometer,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">hydrologic cycle
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">infiltration,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">insolation,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">angle of insolation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">jet stream
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">leeward
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">levee
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">permeability
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">porosity
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">reflection,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">refraction,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">runoff,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">saturated
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">smog
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">stream drainage pattern,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">terrestrial radiation
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">water vapor,
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">weather
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">station model
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">thermometer
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">dew point temperature
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">relative humidity
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">cloud
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 12.8000001907349px;">cyclonic system
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">windward

Polaris, altitude, lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, latitude, meridians, longitude, equator, prime meridian, isoline, isotherm, isobar, gradient, contour map, contour line

topographic map

Words on the Regent's test Abundance <span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Affect Altitude Apparent <span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Atmospheric Axis Cementation Compaction Comparison Compass direction Composed Composition Compression Concentration Converge <span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Cosmic Cosmic Cross section Cyclic <span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Determine Direct (result) Diverge <span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> <span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Effect Equatorial Expansion Gradient Horizon Horizontal Indication Indirect Inferred Inorganic Intensity Interface Internal arrangement (when referring to minerals) Interpret Interpretation Intruded Inverse Landscape Marine Meandering Molten Not to scale Observer (when not clarified) Occurrence Organic Origin Overturning Parallel Pendulum Phenomena Potential Predictable Prevailing <span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Profile <span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Rate Regional (when referring to metamorphism) Relative <span style="font-family: 'Droid Sans',Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> Resource Sequence Slope Solidification Sorted Spherical Subdivision Subjected Terrestrial Texture (multiple uses) Topography True scale drawing Undergone Vapor Vaporization Variation

absolute age, bedrock, cross-cutting, cross-section, nuclear decay, evolution, extinction, extrusion, fossil evidence, geologic time scale, half-life index fossils, isotope, outcrop, intrusion, radioactive decay, relative age dating, superposition, unconformity, decay,

geology

Sediment, escarpment, abrasion, biologic activity, chemical change, chemical weathering, frost wedging, mechanical weathering, physical weathering, residual soil, soil horizon, transported soil, weathering, agent of erosion, bed load, deposition, dune, dynamic equilibrium, erosion, graded bed, horizontal/vertical sorting, suspension, meander, discharge, runoff, tributary, delta, watershed, landscape, relief, plateau, plains, continental glacier, valley glacier, drumlins, kettle, moraine, outwash, striations, till, barrier island, striation, ocean current, finger lakes, sandbar

Supporting - Bedrock, infiltration, soil, flotation, floodplain, erratic’s, grooves, terminal moraine

celestial body, celestial, celestial motion, celestial object, celestial phenomena, apparent motion, apparent path, rotation, revolution, orbit, phases, of the moon, Foucault pendulum, coriolis effect, ellipse, eccentricity, gravitational attraction, period of revolution, geocentric model, heliocentric model, universe, big bang theory, nuclear fusion, red shift, galaxy, milky way, asteroid impact, moon, planet, comet, meteor, impact crater, terrestrial planets, Jovian planets, inertia