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Weather

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  • The gaseous mass or envelope surrounding a celestial body, especially the one surrounding the earth, and retained by the celestial body's gravitational field. The air or climate in a specific place.
    Atmosphere.
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  • An increase in the average temperature of the earth's atmosphere, especially a sustained increase sufficient to cause climatic change.
    Global Warming
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  • A colorless, odorless, incombustible gas, CO2, that is formed during respiration, combustion, and organic decomposition, is an essential component in photosynthesis, and is used in food refrigeration, carbonated beverages, inert atmospheres
    Carbon Dioxide
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  • To be changed from a solid to a liquid state especially by the application of heat.
    Melting (To Melt)
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  • Any of the atmospheric gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect.
    Greenhouse Gas
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  • A phenomenon in which the atmosphere of a planet traps radiation emitted by its sun, caused by gases such as carbon dioxide, water vapor, and methane that allow incoming sunlight to pass through but retain heat radiated back from the planet
    Greenhouse Effect
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  • the effect of an explosion, intensified in a particular direction.
    Cumulative Effect
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  • To take up a substance
    Absorb
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  • Abnormally long period of insufficient rainfall.
    Drought
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  • Attributed directly or indirectly to human activity that alters the composition of the global atmosphere and is in addition to natural climate variability over comparable time periods; often used to describe global warming with environmenta
    Climate Change
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  • The release of gases, liquids, and/or solids from any process or industry.
    Emissions
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  • Filling of ditches or covering of land with water during the raising of crops
    Flooding
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  • Periodic rise and fall of the ocean:
    Tide
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  • A raised line of water that moves across the surface of an area of water, especially the sea.
    Wave
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  • Resembling, flowing in, or forming torrents.
    Torrential
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  • Having a relatively great elevation
    High
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