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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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