Clouds
Temperature Inversions
Weather
Geologic History
Miscellaneaous
100
A cloud that forms near the base of the ground
What is fog
100
What happens to air temperature as you increase in altitude?
What is the temperature changes with altitude
100
Air temperature along South America does what during El Nino?
What is becomes warmer
100
One side of a mountain gets cool temperatures and plenty of rainfall, we would expect the other side of the range to be like what?
What is a dry desert like area
100
Most Low Pressure Systems move where?
What is clockwise
200
When humidity is higher what is higher?
What is precipitation
200
What do temperature inversions do to air pollutants?
What is trap pollutants
200
Why do Northern Africa and Southwest United States have similar desert climates?
They on the same latitude line on 30' N
200
Most rainforests are found along what latitude?
What is the equator
200
After a low pressure storm, where does it move?
What is east
300
When water droplets become to heavy/dense in the clouds, what happens?
What is precipitation
300
In temperature inversions, why are mixing depths usually greater during the afternoon hours?
What is earths surface is hottest during the afternoon
300
Storms that usually occur in the west move where during El Nino?
What is east towards South America
300
How was Death Valley formed?
What is Orographic Lifting
300
Although latitude lines around 30' S already include Hadley Cells, they also include what?
What is a rainforest
400
Name 3 low clouds
Stratus, Stratocumbus, or Nimbostratus
400
When would a temperature inversion develop close to the ground?
What is a clear/calm night
400
With the onset of El Nino, warm water blocks the upwelling of what?
What is coldwater
400
Most deserts are found around what latitude?
What is 23.5' N and 23.5' S
400
What do we know about the relationship between the sun and air/ temperature movements?
High pressure cold air and Low pressure warm air move in a circular pattern in the atmosphere
500
Name 3 high clouds
Cirrus, Cirrostratus, Cirrocumulus
500
In temperature inversions, what happens to air temperature when air sinks to lower altitudes and is compressed?
What is temperature rises
500
What is the name of the weather system that occurs every three to seven years and warms the ocean and affects the eastern tropical pacific?
What is El Nino
500
How do wind patterns create global band of rainforests?
Trade winds carry water vapor towards the equator where they collide and create low pressure systems
500
What type of air do Hadley Cells at 60' N and 60' S contain?
What is rising air that expands and cools
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