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Meterology Final
This is a review for the Meterorology Final Exam
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is an effect of air pollution? | Destruction of the ozone layer |
| One harmful effect of temperature inversions is? | Smog |
| Energy from the sun travels to Earth as? | radiation |
| After Earth absorbs infrared rays that heat the ground, what kind of energy does the atmosphere absorb from the ground? | Thermal |
| Average temperatures are lower near the poles because sunlight strikes the ground at an angle? | Smaller than 90 degrees |
| Winds that extend over distances of less than 100 km are? | Breezes |
| The Trade winds of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres meet at the equator in a narrow zone of weak variable winds called? | Doldrums |
| What kind of winds blows cool air from land to water? | land breeze |
| Narrow bands of high-speed winds that blow in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere are called? | jet streams |
| Albedo is the fraction of solar radiation reaching Earth that is? | destroyed |
| Because of the Coriolois Effect, an object that travels north from the equator will curve to the? | East |
| Interactions between solar radiation and the ionosphere cause? | Auroras |
| Which processes remove water vapor from the air? | Condensation and precipitation |
| About how much of the solar energy that reaches Earth is absorbed by the land, oceans, and atmosphere? | 70 percent |
| the warming of the surface and lower atmosphere of Earth that occurs when carbon dioxide, water vapor, and other gasis in the air absorb and reradiate infrared radiation is known as? | Green house Effect |
| The mass of water vapor contained in a given volume of air is? | absolute humidity |
| an instrument that measures relative humidity with two identical thermometers is an? | psychrometer |
| The dew point is the temperature at which the rate of condsenation? | equals the rate of evaporation |
| what must be present in order for clouds to form? | Condensation Nuclei |
| the process by which the temperature of an air mass decreases as the air mass moves over a cold surface is? | Advective Cooling |
| Upslope fog forms through | lifting and cooling |
| precipitation in the form of lumps of ice is? | hail |
| the diameter of a normal raindrop is? | between 0.5-5 mm |
| the most common form of solid precipitation | snow |
| Fog that is common along coasts, where warm, moist air over the water moves over land is | advection fog |
| What might happen if enough energy is absorbed by liquid water? | The water will change to a gas |
| Compared to the rate for clear air, the adiabatic lapse rate for cloudy air is | slower |
| Some clouds form when a body of moist air combines with another body of air with a different temperature is a process called | mixing |
| A cloud whose name has the prefix nimbo- or the suffix -nimus is | rain-producing |
| Clouds that often bring thunderstorms are | cumulonimbus |
| Sometimes, a solid will change directly into a gas in a process called | sublimation |
| Condensation nuclei are | ice and dust particles |
| What cloud type occurs at the highest altitude? | cirrus |
| Based on results from cloud seeding so far, meteorologists will most likely | continue experimenting because the results are mixed |
| Technology that can save lives by warning people of an approaching storm is | Doppler radar |
| Where would the air contain the most moisture: Hawaii, Arizona, Arctic Circle, Rocky Mountains? | Hawaii |
| As lower layers of air are warmed | the air rises |
| What air masses generally move eastward, toward Europe? | maritime polar Atlantic |
| Continental polar, maritime polar, continental tropical, and maritime tropical are types of... | air masses |
| Which is not a thunderstorm stage: mature, fading, cumulus, dissipating? | fading |
| What type of path does a tornado take if it touches down? | haphazard |
| A hurricane begins when warm, moist air rises rapidly and the moisture condenses, releasing energy in the form of | latent heat |
| Radiosonde instruments measure what? | dew point, temperature, wind velocity |
| What tool do meteorologists use to solve mathematical equations and store data? | computer |
| Scientists study upper atmospheric conditions to | track global weather patterns |
| Marine weather conditions are monitored by | weather satellites |
| Doppler radar and satellite images provide information to create | weather models |
| Weather stations report data to | collection centers |
| Freezing nuclei has been tried by meteorologists to control what type of weather | hurricanes |
| A pattern of meteorological symbols that represent the weather at a particular observing station is a... | station model |
| Weather map symbols H and L indicate | air pressure centers |
| When air moves slowly, it takes on the temperature and humidity of its region, becoming a(n) | air mass |
| When a bend forms in a cold front, it begins the process of creating an area of low pressure with rotating wind that moves toward the rising air of the central low-pressure region- a storm known as a(n) | midlatitude cyclone |
| Meteorologists use supercomputers for what purpose(s)? | storing weather data, storing records for quick retrieval, solving mathematical equations |
| What do weather centers all over the world do with the information they collect? | exchange it with other centers |
| What do scientists use to convey information on a weather map? | colors and symbols |
| What types of weather have meteorologists tried to control? | precipitation, lightning, hurricanes |
| What do meteorologists use to help them make forecasts from data they have input into computers? | computer models |
| Storms along a cold front are usually short=-lived and sometimes violent, while storms along a warm front... | produce precipitation over a large area, and are sometimes violent |
| Lines that connect points of equal temperature on a weather map are called | isotherms |
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