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Atmosphere Practice Test
If necessary, review: Atmosphere Help Jet Stream, Pressure, Humidity, and Fronts ...
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Jet Stream, Pressure, Humidity, and Fronts Help
Jet Stream When watching the evening weather report, chances are good that you will hear something about the jet stream . This speedy current is commonly thousands of kilometers long, a few hundred kilometers wide, and only a few ...
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Clouds Help
Clouds Clouds are as varied as nature. They come in all sizes, colors, and shapes. Plus, they can change within minutes. While some clouds are happy just to be, others come with precipitation like mist, rain, sleet, hail, and snow. This makes ...
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Tornadoes and Hurricanes Help
Tornadoes Tornadoes are the children of severe thunderstorms. As speeding cold fronts smash into warm humid air, a convection of temperature and wind is formed. Winds can easily reach speeds of over 250km/hr. Large tornadoes stir up the ...
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Weathering and Topography Practice Test
If necessary, review: Weathering and Topography Help Rock Life Cycle ...
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Rock Life Cycle Help
Rock Life Cycle During weathering, rock is either worn away or shifted from one spot to another. In the course of geological time, rock goes through an entire life cycle or rock cycle . One rock’s lifetime might include being ...
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Soil Erosion Help
Soil Erosion Erosion converts soil into sediment. Chemical weathering produces clays on which vegetation can grow. A mixture of dead vegetation and clay creates soil which contains necessary minerals that plants need for growth.
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Topography Help
Topography Unlike what early people believed, the Earth is far from flat. Even in plains or deserts where you can see for miles, there are slight changes in the elevation of the land. A mountain like Pike’s Peak in the Colorado Rocky Mountain ...
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Climate and the Seasons Study Guide
Introduction The earth is a giant spherical ball whose shape is called an oblate spheroid, in space, lit by the sun. This fundamental, grand fact sets the environmental context for much of our lives, including the length of the day, the length and ...
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Atlantic and Pacific Oceans Help
Atlantic Ocean There are several differences between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, but here are some of the highlights. The Atlantic Ocean is divided into two sections by the Mid-Atlantic Ridge; the margins of the North ...
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