Semester 2 Test

Question 1

Which pressure system moves in ward?

Answer 1

LP

Question 2

Which pressure system sinks or rises?

Answer 2

HP

Question 3

What effect does heat capacity do to nearby costal areas?

Answer 3

Gives them cool, moderate temps.

Question 4

What heats up slowest?

Answer 4

Water

Question 5

What heats up quickest?

Answer 5

Land

Question 6

CHS latitude?

Answer 6

32 degrees N

Question 7

Greenhouse effect?

Answer 7

Heat getting trapped close to earth by green house gases.

Question 8

What did sailors rely on before advent of motors?

Answer 8

Winds and currents.

Question 9

Relation between linear and latitude speed?

Answer 9

Both decrease as they get to the poles.

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Warm water to poles
Cool water to equator

Question 11

How are winds and currents similar?

Answer 11

They mirror eachother

Question 12

What cycle of ESNO are we in?

Answer 12

La Niña

Question 13

Winds are beamed from where they come?

Answer 13

From

Question 14

What pressure system moves out ward?

Answer 14

HP

Question 15

How are the fronts and and LPS similar?

Answer 15

They are all LP

Question 16

What kind of weather does HP bring?

Answer 16

Dry

Question 17

What kind of weather does LP bring?

Answer 17

Wet

Question 18

What does air move from?

Answer 18

HP to LP

Question 19

What are the 3 major prevailing winds?

Answer 19

Polar east, prevailing west, and trade winds

Question 20

What direction does the polar east travel from?

Answer 20

⬅️

Question 21

What direction does the Prevailing west travel from?

Answer 21

➡️

Question 22

What direction does the Trade winds travel from?

Answer 22

⬅️

Question 23

What climate zone are they found in?

Answer 23

Temperate

Question 24

What wind brings hurricanes to the us?

Answer 24

TW

Question 25

What wind pushes hurricanes back out?

Answer 25

PW

Question 26

What are the 4 fronts?

Answer 26

Cold, warm, stationary, and occluded

Question 27

What are their colors?

Answer 27

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

Question 28

What do all the fronts bring?

Answer 28

Percipitation

Question 29

What happens as you move up in elevation to temps?

Answer 29

Low

Question 30

What happnes when you move up in elevation to pressures?

Answer 30

High

Question 31

What is required to make a cloud?

Answer 31

Dew point, condensation nuclei, and water vapor.

Question 32

Condensation?

Answer 32

Liquid

Question 33

Evaporation?

Answer 33

Gas

Question 34

Where does all weather occur?

Answer 34

Troposphere

Question 35

Where does all weather stop?

Answer 35

Troposphere

Question 36

mT

Answer 36

Maritime, tropical

Question 37

cP

Answer 37

Polar, continental

Question 38

What is the difference Between Capricorn and cancer

Answer 38

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

Question 39

Currents rotations

Answer 39

Clockwise in NS counterclockwise in SH

Question 40

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

Answer 40

They blow stuff towards the temperate.