Geography Chapter 2 2
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- Water vapor
- water in the form of gas
- water cycle
- the process of water moving from oceans to the air to the ground and finally back to the oceans
- evaporation
- heat turns water into vapor
- groundwater
- freshwater that fills cracks and holes in the layers of rock below the surface of the earth
- aquifer
- underground rock layer where water flows through it
- tropics
- The area of land between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn
- currents
- moving streams of water in the ocean
- hurricanes
- violent tropical storms that form over the Atlantic Ocean
- Typhoons
- hurricanes that form in the Pacific Ocean
- monsoons
- seasonal winds that bring rain for crops in South Asia
- tropical rain forest
- tropical areas where heat and rain produce lush vegetation
- tropical savanna
- tropical areas where there is a wet season and a season that is hot and dry (southern India and eastern Africa)
- permafrost
- lower layer of soel that stays frozen permanently
- timberline
- the elevation on Moutains above which no trees grow
- steppes
- partly dry grasslands with only 10 to 20 inches each year