Water and Atmospheric Moisture
Weather
Water Resources
Global Climate System
Global Climate Change
100
Water covers approximately_______% of the earth.
What is 71%?
100
The short term condition of the atmosphere.
What is weather?
100
Has the highest levels of evaporation and precipitation.
What are the oceans?
100
The long-term atmospheric condition.
What is climate?
100
The absorption and re-emission of of infrared radiation.
What is the Green House Effect?
200
Water molecules bind tightly to one another as the result of______.
What is hydrogen bonding?
200
The faster, stronger of the frontal storms.
What is a cold front?
200
POTET-DEFIC is used to calculate it.
What is ACTET?
200
A climate classification based on causative factors compared to a classification based on statistics.
What is genetic classification, empirical classification.
200
Based on statistical 3-d boxes that characterize the atmosphere and oceans.
What are General Circulation Models?
300
The number of calories needed to melt 1 gram of ice.
What is 80 calories?
300
A weather effect that warms and humidifies an air mass resulting in heavy snow on the leeward side of a body of water.
What is the Lake Effect?
300
POTET is greater then ACTET in these areas.
What is a desert?
300
A climate with poor soil due to fast decomposition and high precipitation.
What is the tropical rain forest?
300
Cause the increase of infectious diseases and increase the severity of extreme weather events.
What is global climate change?
400
As an air mass rises orographically, the pressure_______ due to __________.
What is decreases, expansion?
400
The 5 air masses associated with North America.
What is mT, mP, cT, cP, and cA?
400
The withdraw of water faster than it can be replaced.
What is ground water mining?
400
The sequence of climates from the equator to the poles.
What is tropical, desert, mesothermal, microthermal, and polar
400
An increase in average global temperatures 0.8c, the highest recorded temperatures in the past 2 decades, and the Arctic being most effected.
What are facts about global climate change?
500
These are the four cloud classes.
What is low, middle, high, and verticle?
500
The 4 stages of a midlatitude cyclone.
What is cyclogenesis, open stage, occluded stage, and dissolving stage ?
500
Water caught on the surface of vegetation.
What is interception?
500
The climate with the highest human populations.
What is the mesothermal climate?
500
Industrialization, deforestation, and increased pollution.
What are anthropogenic impacts?
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