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What happens to seasonality when axial tilt is increased?


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Seasons would be more intense colder winters hotter summers




What is a cloud negative feedback? How does it relate to the term "negative forcing"?

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It keeps the temperature stable




What is the subsolar point? What would happen to it if there were no axial tilt? What
would happen to it if axial tilt were 90°?


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The single point at which the Sun's rays are perpendicular to Earth's surface
at or near noon




What is a geographic grid? How are angular measurements used to form it?


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The coordinate system that uses latitude and longitude to identify locations
on Earth's surface




What are clouds composed of? Give the four major cloud categories.


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Clouds are composed of individual microscopic water droplets and ice
crystals that are visible only when they are grouped together in large
numbers
Cirrus, alto, stratus, cumulus

, Compare and contrast how rain and snow form through the collision-and-
coalescence and ice-crystal processes.


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Collision and coalescence is the process where cloud droplets merge and
form rain droplets and when they are heavy enough they drop ice crystal
process is ice crystals grow inside clouds to form snow




What are aphelion and perihelion and when do they occur?


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Aphelion- earth is farthest from the sun at July 4 and Perhelion- closest to
the sun at January 3




Primary Pollutants


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Pollutant that enters the air or water directly from its source




Why is condensation a warming process? What is being warmed?


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