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Weather and Climate Flashcards

1
Q

What is weather?

A

Temporary behavior of the atmosphere

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2
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What is the study of weather?

A

Meteorology

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3
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What is climate?

A

Long term behavior of the atmosphere

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4
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What type of cloud produces thunderstorms?

A

Cumulonimbus

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5
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What kind of weather usually occurs at the boundary of two unequal air masses?

A

Rain

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6
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What weather condition is likely to occur as a result of a high pressure system?

A

Fair/Clear Weather

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7
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As air rises in the atmosphere it cools and water vapor condenses forming a?

A

Cloud

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8
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What is Polar Climate?

A

90-60 degrees latitude
Cold year-round

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9
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What is Temperate Climate?

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60-30 degrees latitude
Variety of Climate

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10
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What is Tropical Climate?

A

30-equator
Warm year-round

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11
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What affects weather and Climate?

A

The Sun
The Water Cycle
Gravity
The Ocean

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12
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What warms the atmosphere?

A

The surface

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13
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How does the Sun affect weather?

A

Warms the land and ocean

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14
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What is water going from a liquid to a gas called?

A

Evaporation( gains energy from the sun)

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15
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What is water going from a gas to a liquid?

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Condensation( loses energy)

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16
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What is transpiration?

A

Evaporation of water from/out of plants

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17
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What is precipitation?

A

When water falls out from the atmosphere

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18
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What is the atmosphere?

A

Mixture of Gases

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19
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1st Layer:
2nd Layer:
3rd Layer:
4th Layer:
5th Layer:

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Trophosphere
Stratosphere
Mesosphere
Ionosphere
Exosphere

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20
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What is depostition?

A

Gas to a solid state
the dropping of sediment by wind, water, ice, or gravity

21
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What is an air mass?

A

Body of air with a certain temperature and moisture level

22
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What is a front?

A

Where air masses meet

23
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What are the types of fronts?

A

Warm Front
Cold Front
Occluded Front
Stationary Front

24
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How can you measure air pressure?

A

Barometer

25
Q

A storm with lightning, thunder, heavy rains, and string winds?

A

Thunderstorms

26
Q

A funnel-shaped cloud from a massive storm cloud?

A

Tornado

27
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A tropical storm that forms over warm waters?

A

Hurricane

28
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What is neither a cold air mass or a warm air mass moves at a frontal boundary?

A

Stationary Front

29
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A cold air mass collides and slides under a warm air mass

A

Cold Front

30
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A warm air mass is pushed up above 2 surrounding cold air masses

A

Occluded front

31
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A warm air mass collides and rides over a cold air mass

A

Warm Front

32
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What type of Pressure is in a tornado?

A

Very low

33
Q

What holds on to the sun’s heat the longest?

A

The Ocean and other bodies of water

34
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Which takes the longest to warm up?

A

The Ocean and other bodies of water

35
Q

If a cloud has nimbo or nimbus in the name it means?

A

It can cause precipitation

36
Q

The prefix alto means?

A

The cloud is in the middle of the atmosphere

37
Q

A cloud that has Cirro or Cirrus in the name means?

A

High in the atmosphere

38
Q

The Jet Stream is?

A

A river of air high in the atmosphere

39
Q

A layered cloud that covers the whole sky is?

A

Stratus cloud

40
Q

These clouds are puffy and found in the middle layer of the atmosphere?

A

alto cummulus

41
Q

The amount of water vapor in the air at a given time and place is called?

A

Humidity

42
Q

Water in gas form is called?

A

Water Vapor

43
Q

1st step
2nd step
3rd step
4th step

A

Evaporation
Condensation
Precipitation
Collection

44
Q

The clouds are puffy, white and flat at the bottom

A

Cumulus

45
Q

Warm, moist air…

A

Rises

46
Q

This type of cloud is found low to the ground

A

Fog

47
Q

What device measures wind speed?

A

Anemometer

48
Q

The more water vapor in the air, the higher the

A

Relative Humidity

49
Q

The hurricane below spins in a particular direction due to which global phenomenon that causes fluids to spin?

A

the Coriolis effect

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