Weather and Climate
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- Precipitation
- any sort of water the falls from the sky
- Global warming
- the gradual heating of the earth
- Climate
- Average weather over a long period of time
- Air pressure
- the force of which air molecules press on a surface
- green house effect
- warming of the atmosphere due to CO2
- wind
- caused by the unequal heating of the earth
- Atmosphere
- a blanket of gasses that surrounds the earth
- ozone layer
- upper atmosphere that protects UV rays
- humidity
- the amount of water vapor in the air
- Thin air
- air with few oxygen molecules
- weather
- the temperature and wind and clouds and precipitation