Weather And Climate

Question 1

Two conditions required for cloud formation:

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Cooling of air and the presence of particles in the air

Question 2

Ms. Relyea was taking a hike, when she looked up into the sky, she saw high, thin white clouds. What is the most likely type of cloud she saw?

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Cirrus

Question 3

Places shown on a weather map they have the same temperature are connected by

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Isotherms

Question 4

A cloud cover symbol that is 3/4 black and 1/4 white represents

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70-80% cloud cover

Question 5

If a cold, dry air mass moves over a region, barometric pressure readings in the area will

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Increase

Question 6

The prevailing westerlies, the major wind belts over the continental US, generally push air masses from

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West to east

Question 7

During an ice age, earths sea level

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Lowers

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Cool air tends to

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Be more dense and flow under warm air

Question 9

The temperature at which water vapor in the air would condense is called

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Few point

Question 10

Over the past 200 years, the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has

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Increased steadily

Question 11

Some of the factors that effect climate would be ranked in the following order of importance

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Latitude, elevation, ocean currents

Question 12

Earths rotation makes global winds curve; this is called the

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Coriolis effect

Question 13

When comparing the atmospheres of Venus and Mars to the Earths atmosphere, what happens?

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Venus had a denser and Mars grade a less dense atmosphere

Question 14

Isobars are lines on a map joining places that have the same

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Air pressure

Question 15

High clouds tend to be made of ________ due to temperature

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Ice particles

Question 16

The average year-after-year conditions of temperature, precipitation, winds, and cloud in an area known as it’s

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Climate

Question 17

How does lake-effect snow form?

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Cold, dry air blows over large lakes then over land

Question 18

The climate on the leeward side of a mountain differs from that on the windward side mostly in

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The amount of rainfall

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Explain rainshadow

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Air masses that lose moisture due to elevation change

Question 20

Large clouds what often produce thunderstorms are called

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Cumulonimbus clouds

Question 21

Small lines at the end of the shaft that represents wind direction on a weather map indicates

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Wind speed

Question 22

El Niño is a weather pattern that forms in the _______ and causes _________ weather pattern

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Tropical Pacific Ocean; a stormier

Question 23

The greenhouse effect is

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The process by which gasses hold heat in the atmosphere

Question 24

The layers of the atmosphere are classified according to changes in

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Temperature

Question 25

As you rise upwards in the atmosphere, air pressure

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Decreases

Question 26

In North America, a cold dry air mass might originate from ______, while a warm moist air mass might originate from _______

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Canada and Alaska; Gulf of Mexico

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The farther you live from an ocean, the more likely your climate will be a

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Dry climate

Question 28

Chlorine atoms in the stratosphere from chemicals like CFCs

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Break down ozone into oxygen atoms

Question 29

Climates are classified according to two major factors

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Precipitation and temperature

Question 30

When a rapidly moving cold air mass overtakes a slow-moving warm air mass, the result is a

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Cold front

Question 31

What percent of our atmosphere is made up of the gases oxygen and nitrogen?

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78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen

Question 32

Typical albedo values are ~0.2 for trees and up to 0.9 for dry snow. Albedo is important in understanding climate and climate change because

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It indicates the amount of solar radiation reflected off the surface

Question 33

Ozone is normally found most concentrated in the ________ layer of the atmosphere

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Stratosphere

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Ozone is

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A form of oxygen with 3 oxygen atoms in each molecule

Question 35

From earth to space, the main layers in our atmosphere are

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Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere

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Warm fronts

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Advancing warm air displaces cold air

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Two air masses meet and neither advances into the others territory

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Stationary fronts

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Occluded fronts

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Cold air masses overtaking a warm front, wedging the warm air upward