This is a review for the Meterorology Final Exam
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What is an effect of air pollution? | show 🗑
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show | Smog
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Energy from the sun travels to Earth as? | show 🗑
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After Earth absorbs infrared rays that heat the ground, what kind of energy does the atmosphere absorb from the ground? | show 🗑
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show | Smaller than 90 degrees
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show | Breezes
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show | Doldrums
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show | land breeze
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show | jet streams
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show | destroyed
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show | East
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show | Auroras
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Which processes remove water vapor from the air? | show 🗑
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show | 70 percent
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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? | show 🗑
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show | absolute humidity
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show | psychrometer
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The dew point is the temperature at which the rate of condsenation? | show 🗑
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what must be present in order for clouds to form? | show 🗑
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show | Advective Cooling
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Upslope fog forms through | show 🗑
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show | hail
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the diameter of a normal raindrop is? | show 🗑
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the most common form of solid precipitation | show 🗑
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Fog that is common along coasts, where warm, moist air over the water moves over land is | show 🗑
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What might happen if enough energy is absorbed by liquid water? | show 🗑
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show | slower
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Some clouds form when a body of moist air combines with another body of air with a different temperature is a process called | show 🗑
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A cloud whose name has the prefix nimbo- or the suffix -nimus is | show 🗑
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show | cumulonimbus
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Sometimes, a solid will change directly into a gas in a process called | show 🗑
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show | ice and dust particles
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show | cirrus
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show | continue experimenting because the results are mixed
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show | Doppler radar
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Where would the air contain the most moisture: Hawaii, Arizona, Arctic Circle, Rocky Mountains? | show 🗑
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As lower layers of air are warmed | show 🗑
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show | maritime polar Atlantic
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Continental polar, maritime polar, continental tropical, and maritime tropical are types of... | show 🗑
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show | fading
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show | haphazard
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show | latent heat
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Radiosonde instruments measure what? | show 🗑
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show | computer
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Scientists study upper atmospheric conditions to | show 🗑
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show | weather satellites
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Doppler radar and satellite images provide information to create | show 🗑
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show | collection centers
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show | hurricanes
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A pattern of meteorological symbols that represent the weather at a particular observing station is a... | show 🗑
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Weather map symbols H and L indicate | show 🗑
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When air moves slowly, it takes on the temperature and humidity of its region, becoming a(n) | show 🗑
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show | midlatitude cyclone
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Meteorologists use supercomputers for what purpose(s)? | show 🗑
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What do weather centers all over the world do with the information they collect? | show 🗑
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What do scientists use to convey information on a weather map? | show 🗑
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show | precipitation, lightning, hurricanes
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What do meteorologists use to help them make forecasts from data they have input into computers? | show 🗑
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Storms along a cold front are usually short=-lived and sometimes violent, while storms along a warm front... | show 🗑
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show | isotherms
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