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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| One harmful effect of temperature inversions is? | show 🗑
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| show | radiation
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| show | Thermal
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| Average temperatures are lower near the poles because sunlight strikes the ground at an angle? | show 🗑
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| show | Breezes
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| The Trade winds of the Northern and Southern Hemispheres meet at the equator in a narrow zone of weak variable winds called? | show 🗑
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| What kind of winds blows cool air from land to water? | show 🗑
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| show | jet streams
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| Albedo is the fraction of solar radiation reaching Earth that is? | show 🗑
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| show | East
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| Interactions between solar radiation and the ionosphere cause? | show 🗑
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| show | Condensation and precipitation
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| About how much of the solar energy that reaches Earth is absorbed by the land, oceans, and atmosphere? | show 🗑
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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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| an instrument that measures relative humidity with two identical thermometers is an? | show 🗑
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| show | equals the rate of evaporation
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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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| precipitation in the form of lumps of ice is? | show 🗑
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| the diameter of a normal raindrop is? | show 🗑
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| show | snow
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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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| show | The water will change to a gas
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| Compared to the rate for clear air, the adiabatic lapse rate for cloudy air is | show 🗑
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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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| show | rain-producing
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| Clouds that often bring thunderstorms are | show 🗑
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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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| Based on results from cloud seeding so far, meteorologists will most likely | show 🗑
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| show | Doppler radar
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| show | Hawaii
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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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| Which is not a thunderstorm stage: mature, fading, cumulus, dissipating? | show 🗑
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| show | haphazard
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| A hurricane begins when warm, moist air rises rapidly and the moisture condenses, releasing energy in the form of | show 🗑
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| Radiosonde instruments measure what? | show 🗑
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| show | computer
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| show | track global weather patterns
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| Marine weather conditions are monitored by | show 🗑
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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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| show | station model
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| show | air pressure centers
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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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| 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) | show 🗑
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| show | storing weather data, storing records for quick retrieval, solving mathematical equations
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| show | exchange it with other centers
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| show | colors and symbols
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| What types of weather have meteorologists tried to control? | show 🗑
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| show | computer models
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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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