What is WEATHER? How much do you know?

1. What kind of clouds are these?

2. What is this (be specific)? Units?

What’s the relationship? Why? 3. Evaporation Humidity What’s the relationship? Why?

4. Why would a descending air mass tend to become drier?

5. What are the steps for cloud formation?

6. What’s happening here?

7. What does “nimbo” mean?

What’s the relationship? Why? 8. Humidity Density What’s the relationship? Why?

9. Is this a low pressure system or a high pressure system? How do you know?

10. What type of clouds are these?

11. What would we experience if the cloud base was at sea level?

12. What is the RH% and the dewpoint? 11. 12. What is the RH% and the dewpoint?

13. How could we have a day with no clouds?

14. Which compass direction do weather systems travel in the US? Why?

15. What kind of lines are these?

16. 17. What are they called? What do they measure?

What’s the relationship? Why? 18. Density Air pressure What’s the relationship? Why?

19. Define dewpoint

What’s the relationship? 20. Dewpoint Altitude What’s the relationship?

21. Describe the relationship pictured here.

What’s the relationship? What page ESRT? 22. In the troposphere: Altitude Temperature What’s the relationship? What page ESRT?

What’s the relationship? What page ESRT? 23. Altitude Air Pressure What’s the relationship? What page ESRT?

24. What’s the relationship?

25. What is this process called?

26. How is heat transferred in the atmosphere? What causes surface (planetary) winds?

27. Name the dates of A, C, E, and G Why is it important to know INSOLATION for weather? 27. Name the dates of A, C, E, and G 28. How many days does it take the Earth to move from C to E?

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30. 31. Describe the relationship between the two variables from 11 am -6pm August “10 #28

31. Where are the winds blowing the fastest? How do you know? What’s the formula to find gradient?

32. What type of front is this? 33. Write the air masses which might be found here 34. Write the air masses which might be found here

35. Yesterday, the sky looked like this: Today the sky looks like this: Describe why an observer might witness clouds in this sequence? What can I expect tomorrow?

38. Name the possible air masses at each location. 36. On which side of the cold front are clouds and precipitation generally found? Describe the clouds. 37. On which side of the warm front are clouds and precipitation generally found? Describe the clouds. 38. Name the possible air masses at each location.

40. Where do hurricanes usually originate? 39. Infer why weather forecasting has become more accurate. 40. Where do hurricanes usually originate? 41. What might endanger us in a hurricane? 42. What can we do to keep safe from the dangers of a hurricane?

43. Where might an observer find an “unstable” air parcel? Why? 44. Describe what may cause the phenomena pictured above 45. What kind of precipitation might happen here? 46. What does mean and how does it form?

47. Describe the weather at this location

49. Explain the direction of ocean currents.

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