The Atmosphere
Weather
Weather History
Flight
Your Body
100
This gas makes up 78 percent of the atmosphere
What is Nitrogen
100
This is created by a low-pressure area next to a high-pressure area
What is wind?
100
We began flying in this region of the atmosphere to avoid weather.
What is the Stratosphere?
100
Three things that can seriously degrade a pilots performance
What are cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs?
100
This nerve system sends signals from the skin, joints, and muscles to the brain
What is the somatosensory system?
200
The layer of the atmosphere where most weather takes place
troposphere
200
Two things that determine stability in the atmosphere
What is moisture and temperature?
200
Early weather forecasts mostly supported these in the beginning?
What are Government Flights and the Military
200
What happens if an aircraft’s pressurization system fails or the fuselage suffers serious structural damage.
What is a loss of pressure?
200
What causes gases in the human body to expand when an aircraft climbs.
What is the drop in atmospheric pressure?
300
The most common form of precipitation
What is rain?
300
The most dangerous types of wind shear
What is a microburst?
300
In 1948, this agency issued the first Tornado warning
What is the Air Force Weather Agency?
300
The systems(s) that protect aircrews from the risks of decompression.
What is Oxygen equipment?
300
A headache, sweating, dizziness and lightheadedness, tingling in the fingers/toes and poor coordination
What are symptoms of hypoxia?
400
What happens when air masses meet other air masses of different temperature and moisture characteristics
What are fronts?
400
Reflectivity—the strength of a returned signal.
How does radar gauge a storm’s intensity?
400
We have discovered that a plane particularly vulnerable to wind shear and microbursts during these two phases of flight
What are takeoffs and landings?
400
This RADAR-equipped modified Boeing 707 is the greatest aircraft ever produced.
What is the E-3 AWACS?
400
The main purpose of this biological system is to oxygen and remove carbon dioxide.
What is the respiratory system?
500
What air pressure, temperature changes, and the Coriolis force work together to create
What is motion in the atmosphere?
500
1. Enough water vapor
2. Unstable lapse rate
3. A lifting action that powers up the storm process
What are the three things needed for a Thunderstorm?
500
In 1975 two federal agencies joined forces to launch, operate, and monitor a new kind of weather satellite; the satellite was the _____________ Operational Environmental Satellite.
What is geostationary?
500
These in-flight forces act along three different axes that are perpendicular to one another
What are the three types of g-forces?
500
The main functions of this system is to use blood as a way to carry oxygen from the lungs to organs or body tissue.
What is the cardiovascular system?