A front along which a cold air mass thrusts beneath a warmer air mass
What is Cold Front
100
A climate generally located on the eastern side of the continent and characterized by hot, sultry summers and cool winters.
What is Humid subtropical climate
100
A fraction of total radiation that is reflected back by a surface?
What is Albedo
100
The condition of air that is more highly concentrated than is normally possible under given temperature and pressure conditions; when describing humidity, it refers to a relative humidity that is greater than 100%
What is Supersaturated Air
100
The rate of adiabatic cooling or warming in un saturated air. The rate of temperature change is 1 C per 100 meters.
What is Dry adiabatic rate
200
A plate boundary in which two pieces of continental lithosphere converge creating uplift and forming mountains
What is Continental plate boundary
200
A climate found on windward coasts from latitudes 40 to 65 degrees and dominated by maritime air masses. Winters are mild and summers are cool.
What is Marine west coast climate
200
A theory that relates the formation of precipitation to supercooled clouds, freezing nuclei, and the different saturation levels of ice and liquid water?
What is Bergeron Process
200
The rate of adiabatic temperature change in saturated air, the rate of temperature change is variable but it is always less than the dry aqdiabatic rate
What is Wet adiabatic rate
200
A system classifying climate that is based on mean monthly annual values of temperature and precipitation.
What is Koippen climate classification system
300
A boundary in which two plates move together
What is Convergent Boundary
300
A front formed when a cold front overtakes a warm front; it marks the beginning of the end of a mid-latitude cyclone.
What is Occluded front
300
A theory of raindrop formation in warm clouds in which large cloud droplets collide and join together with smaller droplets to form a raindrop.
What is Collision-coalescence process
300
A situation in which the surface position of a front does not move; the flow on either side of such a boundary is nearly parallel to the position of the front
What is Stationary Front
300
A more precise measure of earthquake madnitude than the Richter scale, which is derived from the amount of displacement that occurs along a fault zone and estimates the energy released by an earthquake
What is Moment Magnitude
400
The transfer of heat by the movement of a mass or substance; it can take place only in fluids
What is Convection
400
A plate boundary in which two pieces of oceanic crust converge; features associated at this boundary include ocean trenches and volcanic island arc.
What is Oceanic plate boundary
400
Tiny bits of particulate matter that serve surface on which water vapor condenses.
What is Condensation nuclei
400
A boundary in which two plates slide past each other without creating a destroying lithospere.
What is Transform fault boundary
400
Mountains acting as barriers to the flow of air, forcing the air to rise; the air cools adiabatically and clouds and precipitation may result
What is Orographic lifting
500
A region where the rigid plates are moving apart, typified by the oceanic ridges
What is Divergent Boundary
500
The stromy frontal zone separating cold air masses of polar orgin from warm air masses of tgropical orgin.
What is Polar Front
500
The apparent deflective force of Earth's rotation on all free moving objects, including the atmospere and the oceans; deflection is to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere.
What is Coriolis effect
500
A climate that is transitional between the wet tropics and the subtropical steppes.
What is Tropical wet and dry climate
500
The study of changes in Earth's magnetic field, as shown by patterns of magnetism in rocks that have formed over time