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| The total quantity of water vapor that can be 'held' by the air has a definite limit. |
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| Amount of water vapor in the air. |
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| Ratio expressed as a percent of water vapor present in the air to the maximum quantity possible for saturated air at the same temperature. |
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| Process of change of water vapor to either a liquid or a solid state. |
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| Critical temperature at which air becomes saturated during cooling-below the dew point, condensation usually sets in and the result is dew, fog or frost. |
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| Denotes actual quantity of moisture present; water vapor contained in a given mass of air. |
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| Change of temperature within a gas because of compression of expansion, without gain or loss of heat from the outside. Expansion=cooling, Compression=warming. |
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| Heat absorbed and held in storage in a gas or liquid during the process of evaporation or melting respectively. |
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| Heat measured by a thermometer-heat you can feel. |
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| Process in which water in a liquid or solid state passes into the vapor state. |
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| Process in which water vapor passes directly into a solid state as ice and the reverse. |
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| Amount of heat required at a pressure of one atmosphere to raise the temperature on one gram of water one degree centigrade. |
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| A dense mass of water or ice particles ranging in diameter from 20-50 microns. |
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10=consists entirely of water
10 to -20= mix of water and ice
Below -20= mostly ice
Below -40= all ice |
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| Rain clouds covering a large area, yields substantial amounts of rain. |
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| Solid and liquid particles capable of residing for long periods in the atmosphere (dust and smoke). |
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| Compounds in the gaseous state, CO, SO2, NO, NO2, NO3 |
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| Particles and chemical pollutants are present in considerable density over an urban area. |
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| Concentrations of smog are less dense, still obscuring vision. |
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| Rainwater having an abnormally high content of the sulfate ion and showing pH between 2 and 5 as a result of air pollution by combustion products of fuels having high sulfur content. |
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| In dry weather, sulfates and oxides fall from the atmosphere and coat soils. |
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| Combination of acid rain and fallout of acid particles from the atmosphere. |
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| Center of low atmospheric pressure. |
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| Intense weather disturbance within a moving cyclone generating strong winds, cloudiness, and/or precipitation. |
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| Thunderstorm clouds, small masses no higher than wide. |
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| A cloud layer in contact with the land or sea. |
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| Formed at night when temperature of the stagnant basal air falls below the dew point. |
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| Results from the movement of warm, moist air over a cold or snow-covered ground surface. |
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| A belt of dry climate existing on the lee side of a mountain range. |
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| Dry, warm occurring on the lee side of many mountain ranges. |
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| An intense, local convection storm. |
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| Midlatitude and arctic zones. Ranges in severity from a weak disturbance to a powerful storm. |
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| Tropical and subtropical areas. Ranges from a mild disturbance to highly destructive hurricane or typhoon. |
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| Although very small, it is an intense cyclonic vortex of enormously powerful winds. |
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| Body of air in which the upward gradients of temperature and moisture are fairly uniform over a large area. |
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| Surface contact between two unlike air masses. |
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| Land or ocean which strongly affect the characteristics of air masses. |
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| Wedged shaped front invading a warm air mass. |
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| Moving weather front along which a warm air mass is sliding up over a cold air mass. |
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| Weather front along which a moving cold front has overtaken a warm front, forcing the warm air mass aloft. |
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| Tropical Rainy Climates-M.M. temp > 64.4*F, water surplus |
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| Dry Climates-Water deficiency, no perennial streams originating here. |
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| Mild Humid (Subtropical)-Coldest M.M. 26.6 50. Has seasons. |
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| Snowy Forests (Temperate) Climates. Coldest M.M. < 26.6. Warmest M.M. > 50. |
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| Polar Climates. Warmest M.M. < 50. No true Summer. |
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| Monsoon (rainforest climate) |
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| Shifting line of contact between water and land. |
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| Zone in which coastal processes operate or have a strong influence. |
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| Waves reach shallow water, the drag on the bottom slows and steepens the wave until it leaps forward and collapse. |
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| A steep bank formed by wave erosion. |
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| Continued wave abrasion causing the sea cliff to retreat landward. |
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| Thick, wedge shaped accumulation of sand |
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| Return flow pouring toward beach. |
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| A foamy turbulent sheet of water riding up a beach slope. |
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| Set up parallel to the shore in a direction away from the wind. |
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| Longshore current capable of moving sand along the sea bottom in a direction parallel to shore. |
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| Undertow that can build and be strong enough to sweep swimmers off their feet and carry them seaward. |
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| Transport of sediment parallel with the shoreline by the combined action of beach drift and longshore transport. |
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| Crescent-shaped beach created by erosion. |
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| The widening and building shoreward of a beach. |
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| The narrowing of the beach with the shoreline moving landward. |
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| Wall or embankment built at right angles to the shorline. |
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| Flow is seaward when the tide begins to fall. |
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| Barren expanses of silt and clay exposed at low tide but covered at high tide. |
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| Tide begins to rise with landward flow. |
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| Deeply embayed coast resulting from submergence of a land mass dissected by stream; has many offshore islands. Submergence |
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| Deeply indented by steep-walled fiords, which are submerged glacial troughs. Submergence |
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| Associated with a recently emerged coastal plain, usually has a lagoon behind it. Emergent |
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| Coast effected by delta-sediment deposit built by a stream entering a body of water and formed of the stream load. New Land |
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| Formed by the eruption of volcanoes and lava flows. New Lan |
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| Coral Reef Coast, 3 types |
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Reef building corals create new land.
1) Fringing-built as platforms attached to shore.
2) Barrier-Lie out from shore separated from mainland by the lagoon.
3) Atolls-Coral Reefs enclosing a lagoon but without any land inside. |
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| Down faulting of a coastal margin of a continent can allow a shoreline to come to rest against a fault scarp. New Land |
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| Loose particles lying on the ground surface lifted into the air or rolled or bounce along the ground by the wind. |
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| Sand and dust particles driven by wind against exposed rock or soil. |
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| A shallow depression caused by deflation. |
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| A residual concentration of wind polished closely packed pebbles and other rock fragments, mantling a desert surface where wind has removed smaller particles, usually protecting the underlying material from further deflation. |
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| Great qualities of fine dust densely formed in the air. |
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| Any hill of loose sand shaped by the wind. |
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| Isolated sand dune having a crescent outline. On lee side is a dune slope called a slip face. |
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| Steep face of an active sand dune receiving sand by saltation over the dune crest and repeatedly sliding down because of oversteepening of the dune crest-source of migration/movement. |
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| Sediment transport in which particles are moved forward in a series of short leaps or bounces. |
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| Take the form of wavelike ridges separated by though-like furrows, form at right angle to the wind. |
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| landscape of the Sahara Desert, a sand sea |
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| large hill of sand whose base resembles a many-pointed star. Radial ridges of sand rising toward the dune center. |
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| On semiarid plains and drawn out into hairpins. |
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| Consists of long, narrow ridges oriented parallel with the direction of the prevailing wind and may many miles long and only a few yards high |
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| 400 yard high longitudinal dune. |
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| Ridge of irregularly shaped sand dunes typically found adjacent to beaches on low-lying coasts and bearing a partial cover of plants. |
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| Landforms shaped by running water. |
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| Total action of all processes by which the exposed rocks of the continents are worn away and the resulting sediments are transported to the sea by the fluid agents. |
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