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1. angle earth's axis is tilted

2. When two air masses come together and are forced aloft

3. Which type of eclipse can occur during a new-moon phase.

4. Much of the weather in North America is influenced most by which two air masses

5. What causes low salinity?

6. The two words to describe temperature characteristics of air masses

7. sheets of grey rainy clouds

8. Processes that increase the density of seawater

9. What happens when to air temperature air is compressed

10. Wide dome of water that sweeps across the coast where a hurricane moves onto land

11. violent windstorms that take the form of a rotating column of air

12. The largest ocean

13. darker relatively smooth areas of the moon composed of ancient beds of basaltic lava

14. A city at a higher altitude and a nearby city at a lower altitude - who's summers are warmer?

15. Clouds that are associated with severe thunderstorms and rain or even hail

16. A lee city and a windward city at the same latitude- who's summers are warmer?

17. The temperature to which a parcel of air needs to be cooled to reach 100% relative humidity

18. most abundant gas in our atmosphere

19. When warm air moves into an area previously occupied by cold air

20. Processes that increase the salinity of seawater

21. method of heat transfer through matter by molecular activity

22. Why is the wet adiabatic rate of cooling lower than the dry adiabatic rate of cooling?

23. This is transparent and hollow and the stars travel daily around Earth on it (part of the Ptolemaic Model)

24. A cloud with its base on the ground

25. What is unique about the ecosystems at the hydrothermal vents?