test #7
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| The term "weather" refers to what? | show 🗑
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| What is climate? | show 🗑
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| What 3 principle factors affect weather? | show 🗑
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| show | Cumulus, stratus, cirrus and lenticular
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| show | fluffy piles of clouds
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| show | layers of clouds:form at lower altitudes
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| show | high altitude wispy clouds
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| show | lens-shaped clouds
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| Each type of cloud is found at a characteristic altitude but what does a prefix of "alto" added to the cloud name indicate? | show 🗑
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| What does the prefix nimbo or nimbus mean added to the name of a cloud and what does this type of cloud usually bring? | show 🗑
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| show | unusually large upward moving wind currents; thunder clouds
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| show | ice instead of liquid water
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| What are precipitation - producing stratus clouds typically called? | show 🗑
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| Clouds that look like part cirrus/part cumulus clouds are called what? | show 🗑
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| show | stratocumulus clouds
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| Clouds that have the feathery appearance of cirrus clouds but form flat layers like that of stratus clouds are called what? | show 🗑
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| show | light that comes to the earth from the sun; incoming solar radiation
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| What 2 thing affect how much insolation a region of the earth gets? What can reduce this? | show 🗑
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| show | the earth's orbiting the sun in an oval pattern
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| When is the earth the farthest it will ever be from the sun? When is it the closest to the sun? | show 🗑
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| When the earth is at it's aphelion, because of the earth's axial tilt what part of the earth gets more direct sunlight? What season is it? | show 🗑
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| When the earth is at it's perihelion, because of the earth's axial tilt what part of the earth gets more direct sunlight? What is the season | show 🗑
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| show | 12 hours
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| What causes the days in the northern hemisphere to get shorter than 12 hours and getting shorter?What happens to the days in the southern hemisphere? | show 🗑
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| When are the days in the northern hemisphere shorter than 12 hrs and getting longer? What happens to the days in the southern hemisphere? | show 🗑
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| show | April
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| show | because missionaries tried to link it to a pagan holiday that was called the birthday of the sun.
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| show | lines of longitude
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| show | Lines of latitude
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| show | the equator; increases
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| What is the longitude at "0"? What part of what country does it run through? | show 🗑
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| show | increases
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| Does hot air rise or sink? What does this create? | show 🗑
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| When cold air sinks it creates a region of high or low pressure? | show 🗑
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| The effects of high and low pressure regions,causes loops of winds to develop as air tries to move from where to where? These winds are bent by the what? | show 🗑
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| show | stems from the fact that different parts of the earth move at different speeds.
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| What is the result of the coriolis effect? | show 🗑
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| show | northeast of its launch site;southwest of it's launch site
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| Is the coriolis effect strong enough to significantly affect how water drains in a basin? | show 🗑
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| show | local winds; sea breezes near the ocean shore which blow during the day and land breezes which blow near the ocean shore during the night.
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| What is an air mass? a large body of air with relatively uniform pressure, temp, and humidity | show 🗑
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| show | arctic, polar and tropical
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| What are the characteristics of arctic air masses? | show 🗑
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| show | warm and moist
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| What are the characteristics of maritime polar air masses? | show 🗑
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| What are the characteristics of continental tropical air masses? | show 🗑
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| show | cold and dry but not as cold as arctic air masses
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| show | a boundary between two air masses; cold, warm, stationary, and occluded
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| show | cumulonimbus clouds are formed by the warm air rising in response to the cold air mass, temp decreases
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| show | Cold fronts
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| show | warm air tends to rise above the cooler air that was in the region causing a progression of clouds from cirrus to cirrostratus to stratus to nimbostratus which generally heralds a slow and steady rain as well as increased temp
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| show | when a cold front meets up with a slower moving warm front they usually result in slow steady rains followed by thunderstorms
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| What kind of front results in weather that doesn't change much for a long period of time? | show 🗑
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| What is aphelion? | show 🗑
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| show | the pt at which the earth is closest to the sun
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| What is the coriolis effect? | show 🗑
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| What is an air mass? | show 🗑
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| What is a weather front? | show 🗑
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| of the 3 main factors that influence weather which is mostly responsible for winds? | show 🗑
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| show | thermal energy, uneven distribution of thermal energy and water vapor in the atmosphere
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| What are drk cumulus clouds called? | show 🗑
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| If an area receives a large amount of insolation is it likely to be warm or cold? | show 🗑
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| show | Less than 12 hrs, increasing
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| show | nw
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| Without 2 specific factors, the global wind patterns would be simple. They would blow from the poles to the equator. What 2 factors shape the global winds into the complex patterns that we actually see? | show 🗑
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| What causes the wind in a certain region to be different from what we expect based on the global patterns we see? | show 🗑
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| An air mass is dry and warm. What kind of air mass is it? | show 🗑
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| show | long, lighter rain
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