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Published on Nov 24, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

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Altitude
The distance above sea level

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Bacteria
Kingdom Bacteria includes microscopic single-celled organisms found in many environments. Can be associated with disease in other organisms

Coriolis Effect
The influence of Earth's rotation on objects that move over Earth

Dew Point
The temperature at which air with a given amount of water will reach saturation

Energy
The ability to do work or to cause a change

Fruit
The ripened ovary of a flowering plant that contains the seeds

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Generator
A device that converts kinetic energy, or the energy of motion, into electrical energy

Hurricane
A tropical low-pressure system with sustained winds of 120 kilometers per hour or more

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Isobar
A line on a weather map connecting places that have the same air pressure

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Jet Stream
A wind that flows in the upper troposphere from west to east over vast distances at great speeds

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Kingdom
One of the six large groupings of living things that have common characteristics. The kingdoms are Plantae, Animalia, Fungi, Protista, Archaea, and Bacteria

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Lever
A solid bar that rotates, or turns, around a fixed point; one of the six simple machines

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Meteorologist
A scientist who studies weather

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Newtons
Unit of force

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Organisms
An individual living thing, made up of one or many cells, that is capable of growing and reproducing

Pollen
Tiny multicellular grains that contain the undeveloped sperm cells of a plant

Qualitative
Describing the quality of something

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Radiation
Energy that travels across distances in the form of electromagnetic waves

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Species
A group of living things that are so closely related that can breed with one another and produce offspring that can breed as well

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Tornado
A violently rotating column of air stretching from a cloud to the ground

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Ultra violet Radiation
Radiation of higher frequencies than visible light, which can cause sunburn and other types of damage

Volume
An amount of three-dimensional space, often used to describe the space that an object takes up

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Wind
The horizontal movement of air caused by differences in air pressure

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X-Axis
The horizontal axis of a system of coordinates

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Y-Axis
The vertical axis of a system of coordinates

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Zebra
An African wild horse with black and white stripes

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