Semester 2 Test Flashcards
Which pressure system moves in ward?
LP
Which pressure system sinks or rises?
HP
What effect does heat capacity do to nearby costal areas?
Gives them cool, moderate temps.
What heats up slowest?
Water
What heats up quickest?
Land
CHS latitude?
32 degrees N
Greenhouse effect?
Heat getting trapped close to earth by green house gases.
What did sailors rely on before advent of motors?
Winds and currents.
Relation between linear and latitude speed?
Both decrease as they get to the poles.
What is the relation between ocean currents temps. And the direction of travel?
Warm water to poles
Cool water to equator
How are winds and currents similar?
They mirror eachother
What cycle of ESNO are we in?
La Niña
Winds are beamed from where they come?
From
What pressure system moves out ward?
HP
How are the fronts and and LPS similar?
They are all LP
What kind of weather does HP bring?
Dry
What kind of weather does LP bring?
Wet
What does air move from?
HP to LP
What are the 3 major prevailing winds?
Polar east, prevailing west, and trade winds
What direction does the polar east travel from?
⬅️
What direction does the Prevailing west travel from?
➡️
What direction does the Trade winds travel from?
⬅️
What climate zone are they found in?
Temperate
What wind brings hurricanes to the us?
TW
What wind pushes hurricanes back out?
PW
What are the 4 fronts?
Cold, warm, stationary, and occluded
What are their colors?
Cold: blue, warm: red, stationary: blue and red, and occluded: purple
What do all the fronts bring?
Percipitation
What happens as you move up in elevation to temps?
Low
What happnes when you move up in elevation to pressures?
High
What is required to make a cloud?
Dew point, condensation nuclei, and water vapor.
Condensation?
Liquid
Evaporation?
Gas
Where does all weather occur?
Troposphere
Where does all weather stop?
Troposphere
mT
Maritime, tropical
cP
Polar, continental
What is the difference Between Capricorn and cancer
Cancer: is in the northern hemisphere
Capricorn: is in the Southern Hemisphere
Currents rotations
Clockwise in NS
counterclockwise in SH
What impact did the polar and tropical climate zones have on whether in the temperate zone
They blow stuff towards the temperate.