Chapter 19

Question 1

Wind typically blow from areas of _____ to areas of ______.

Answer 1

High pressure to low pressure

Question 2

The paths winds follow between cyclones and anticyclones are not due to

Answer 2

Temperature differences

Question 3

The global winds that drive most weather in the USA

Answer 3

Prevailing Westerlies

Question 4

Sea breezes are caused by

Answer 4

Land absorbing the suns energy more quickly than water does

Question 5

Water cannot enter the atmosphere by

Answer 5

Condensation

Question 6

What is the prefix used to describe mid altitude cloud types?

Answer 6

Alto

Question 7

What types of cloud never rains?

Answer 7

Cirrus

Question 8

What is not associated with Cirrus clouds?

Answer 8

Supercooled water

Question 9

What type of cloud usually produce hail?

Answer 9

Cumulonimbus

Question 10

What is not a form of precipitation?

Answer 10

Dew

Question 11

Natural unpolluted rain water?

Answer 11

Acidic

Question 12

Winds tend to curve over great distances because of

Answer 12

The Coriolis Effect

Question 13

The air within a cyclone in the northern hemisphere moves what direction?

Answer 13

Counter clockwise

Question 14

The dew point is the temperature when the relative humidity reaches?

Answer 14

100%

Question 15

Liquid water below the freezing point

Answer 15

Supercooled water

Question 16

The shapes of clouds

Answer 16

Sheets=stratus, piles=cumulus, curls=cirrus

Question 17

Large raindrops collecting other raindrops is called?

Answer 17

Coalescence

Question 18

3 types of solid precipitation

Answer 18

Sleet, snow, and hail

Question 19

What do the common reference point of Fahrenheit and Celsius point to?

Answer 19

Boiling and freezing

Question 20

What measures in C or F?

Answer 20

Temperature

Question 21

What measures in mm water?

Answer 21

Rain gauge

Question 22

What measures in kts?

Answer 22

Anemometer

Question 23

What measures in compass degrees?

Answer 23

Wind vane

Question 24

What measures in psi, Pa, and other units?

Answer 24

Barometer

Question 25

What measures in percentages?

Answer 25

Hygrometer

Question 26

Snow forms in what 2 environments?

Answer 26

High clouds and mid level clouds

Question 27

Fog develops near the?

Answer 27

Ground

Question 28

Frost forms on the?

Answer 28

Ground

Question 29

Hailstones form up high or down low?

Answer 29

Up high

Question 30

True or False: a northeast wind is one that blows towards the northeast

Answer 30

False

Question 31

True or False: the higher the temperature of air the more moisture it can hold

Answer 31

True

Question 32

True or False: The Coriolis effect increases as latitude increases?

Answer 32

True

Question 33

True or False; The horse latitudes exist in the northern hemisphere?

Answer 33

False

Question 34

True or False:Some butterflies migrate from Canada to Mexico

Answer 34

True

Question 35

True or False: Nimbus type clouds often bring rain

Answer 35

True

Question 36

True or False; Dew form when warm air cools below the freezing point

Answer 36

False

Question 37

The scientific study of the atmosphere

Answer 37

Meteorology