Meteorology Study Guide

Question 0

Do land breezes happen in Day Time or Night Time?

Answer 0

Night time

Question 1

What is wind speed calculated by?

Answer 1

An anemometer

Question 2

What phases of matter are involved in the water cycle?

Answer 2

Gasses, liquids, and solids

Question 3

Evaporation needs___ to happen.

Answer 3

Heat

Question 4

Condensation needs to _____ energy to turn gasses into liquids.

Answer 4

Lose

Question 5

What is dew point?

Answer 5

Dew Point the is the temperature air must cool to for the air to be saturated.

Question 6

Warm air holds ____ water vapor than cold air.

Answer 6

More

Question 7

How do I know how humid it will be?

Answer 7

The farther apart air temperature and dew point temperature, the less humidity.

Question 8

Ingredients to a cloud?

Answer 8

Water vapor, condensation nuclei, and temperature decrease

Question 9

What kind of clouds are there?

Answer 9

Cumulus( puffy), cirrus(wispy), stratus(layered)

Question 10

What do you use to measure humidity?

Answer 10

A sling psychrometer

Question 11

What is relative humidity?

Answer 11

Relative humidity compares the amount of water vapor in the air to how much it can hold in that temperature

Question 12

What is infiltration?

Answer 12

When water soaks into the ground

Question 13

What is percolation?

Answer 13

The moving water that is under ground

Question 14

How do air masses get its temperature and humidity?

Answer 14

Air masses get its temperature and humidity from the land or water it came from.

Question 15

Where does most of our weather come from?

Answer 15

Most weather comes from air masses.

Question 16

How is wind created?

Answer 16

It is created from air pressure differences, and those differences are created by the unequal heating of the earth.

Question 17

Why is the earth unevenly heated?

Answer 17

It is spherical, has seasons, differences in materials on earth, and different climate zones.

Question 18

Does wind move in a circle?

Answer 18

Wind isn’t moving in one big circle. The hot air rises at the equator and starts to cool. The cool air sinks at 30 degrees North and South. That causes a high pressure area near 30 degrees north and south. The sinking air at the pools gets warmer before getting to the equator and drops

Question 19

Why is the movement of wind curved?

Answer 19

Because of the earth’s rotation.

Question 20

What are global and local winds caused by?

Answer 20

They are caused by unequal heating and pressure differences.

Question 21

Where and how do local winds move?

Answer 21

Local winds move short distances and can blow from any direction.

Question 22

What are global winds apart of?

Answer 22

Global winds are part of a circular air pattern that moves across the earth.

Question 23

Why do trade winds curve?

Answer 23

They curve because of the Coriolis effect

Question 24

What are jet streams?

Answer 24

Narrow belts of high speed winds that blow in the higher parts of the troposphere and lower stratosphere.

Question 25

What are local winds dependent on?

Answer 25

They depend on the geographical features in that area.

Question 26

What can geography depend on?

Answer 26

Geography can be caused by temperature differences.

Question 27

What are the four types of local winds?

Answer 27

Land, sea, mountain, and valley.

Question 28

What is the main substance in our air?

Answer 28

Nitrogen

Question 29

What percent of the earths atmosphere is oxygen and nitrogen?

Answer 29

Oxygen- 21% Nitrogen- 78% Other- 1%

Question 30

What is air pressure?

Answer 30

A force of air pressing against a given area

Question 31

Is cool air more dense or less dense?

Answer 31

Cool air is more dense and has higher pressure

Question 32

How are winds and breezes named?

Answer 32

By the direction and material they come from

Question 33

What is the Coriolis effect?

Answer 33

The Coriolis effect happens as objects moving above a spinning earth curve to the northeast in the northern hemisphere.

Question 34

Which direction do westerlies move from?

Answer 34

West-east

Question 35

How are fronts named?

Answer 35

By the fastest moving air front. If cold air is moving faster, than its a cold front.

Question 36

Give two signs of an approaching warm front

Answer 36

Cold air before it, light precipitation (maybe)

Question 37

Two signs of an approaching cold front

Answer 37

Warm air before it, heavy precipitation (maybe)

Question 38

Weather in the U.S. Moves from ____ to _____

Answer 38

West to east

Question 39

What are the four factors that interact to make all types of weather?

Answer 39

Temperature, pressure, humidity, wind

Question 40

Why does unequal heating of the earth cause winds?

Answer 40

There are different temperatures in certain areas, so they have different densities. Those different densities cause winds.

Question 41

What layer of the atmosphere do we live in?

Answer 41

The troposphere

Question 42

What does the ozone layer do for us?

Answer 42

Protects us from the UV Rays