Semester 2 Test Flashcards

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1
Q

Which pressure system moves in ward?

A

LP

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2
Q

Which pressure system sinks or rises?

A

HP

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3
Q

What effect does heat capacity do to nearby costal areas?

A

Gives them cool, moderate temps.

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4
Q

What heats up slowest?

A

Water

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5
Q

What heats up quickest?

A

Land

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6
Q

CHS latitude?

A

32 degrees N

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7
Q

Greenhouse effect?

A

Heat getting trapped close to earth by green house gases.

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8
Q

What did sailors rely on before advent of motors?

A

Winds and currents.

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9
Q

Relation between linear and latitude speed?

A

Both decrease as they get to the poles.

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10
Q

What is the relation between ocean currents temps. And the direction of travel?

A

Warm water to poles
Cool water to equator

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11
Q

How are winds and currents similar?

A

They mirror eachother

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12
Q

What cycle of ESNO are we in?

A

La Niña

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13
Q

Winds are beamed from where they come?

A

From

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14
Q

What pressure system moves out ward?

A

HP

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15
Q

How are the fronts and and LPS similar?

A

They are all LP

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16
Q

What kind of weather does HP bring?

A

Dry

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17
Q

What kind of weather does LP bring?

A

Wet

18
Q

What does air move from?

A

HP to LP

19
Q

What are the 3 major prevailing winds?

A

Polar east, prevailing west, and trade winds

20
Q

What direction does the polar east travel from?

A

⬅️

21
Q

What direction does the Prevailing west travel from?

A

➡️

22
Q

What direction does the Trade winds travel from?

A

⬅️

23
Q

What climate zone are they found in?

A

Temperate

24
Q

What wind brings hurricanes to the us?

A

TW

25
Q

What wind pushes hurricanes back out?

A

PW

26
Q

What are the 4 fronts?

A

Cold, warm, stationary, and occluded

27
Q

What are their colors?

A

Cold: blue, warm: red, stationary: blue and red, and occluded: purple

28
Q

What do all the fronts bring?

A

Percipitation

29
Q

What happens as you move up in elevation to temps?

A

Low

30
Q

What happnes when you move up in elevation to pressures?

A

High

31
Q

What is required to make a cloud?

A

Dew point, condensation nuclei, and water vapor.

32
Q

Condensation?

A

Liquid

33
Q

Evaporation?

A

Gas

34
Q

Where does all weather occur?

A

Troposphere

35
Q

Where does all weather stop?

A

Troposphere

36
Q

mT

A

Maritime, tropical

37
Q

cP

A

Polar, continental

38
Q

What is the difference Between Capricorn and cancer

A

Cancer: is in the northern hemisphere
Capricorn: is in the Southern Hemisphere

39
Q

Currents rotations

A

Clockwise in NS
counterclockwise in SH

40
Q

What impact did the polar and tropical climate zones have on whether in the temperate zone

A

They blow stuff towards the temperate.