LACEMOPS acronym
L and A
C and E
M and O
P and S
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The L in LACEMOPS stands for
What is LATITUDE
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The farther you are from the equator the __________ and __________ it becomes.
What is COLDER and DRIER
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Why does water moderate the temperature?
What is Water takes longer to heat and cool than land
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What can stop storms and air masses?
What are Mountains
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What climate do you expect with High Air Pressure?
High air pressure means the area will generally be dry.
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The A in LACEMOPS stands for
What is Air Masses
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The only place to receive direct sunlight
What is the TROPICS
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What causes the vegetation, precipitation, and animals to change in the HIGHLANDS?
What is ELEVATION
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What does cold ocean currents create?
What is DRY CONDITIONS
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What do you expect in LOW PRESSURE
What is WARM AIR and PRECIPITATION
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The C in LACEMOPS stands for
What is CONTINENTALITY
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If you are in a High Latitude, what is the climate?
What is POLAR CLIMATE
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Which would have the highest variation in temperature, Close to the ocean or further inland away from the ocean
What is further inland away from the ocean
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What does warm ocean currents create?
What is wet conditions
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Where air rises, you get _________, so those areas tend to be ____________
What is RAIN and HUMID
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Which letter in LACEMOPS contains the RAIN SHADOW
What is M or Mountain Barriers
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What is an AIR MASS?
What is a large (usually thousands of miles across) volume of air where the temperature is the same across horizontal bands.
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What is continentality?
What is the effect of location on a continent
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How would you explain the formation of the Great Basin in the American Southwest?
What is Surrounded by Mountains
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Explain the CORIOLIS EFFECT
What is Earth’s winds would blow in straight lines, but since the earth rotates they are turned at an angle. BENDING of the WIND
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The O in LACEMOPS is
What is OCEAN CURRENTS.
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Why is the direction that cold air comes from flip flopped in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
What is the EQUATOR
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How much does the temperature decrease for every 1000 feet of elevation?
What is the temperature decreases 3.5°F for every 1,000 ft of elevation.
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how do you explain the existence of the desert region in southwestern Africa?
What is COLD OCEAN CURRENTS
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Northern Hemisphere cyclonic storms spin ________________________. In the Southern Hemisphere cyclones spin __________________________
What is Northern Hemisphere spin counter-clockwise. In the Southern Hemisphere cyclones spin clockwise
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