Weather Concepts
The strength of winds depends on the distance of the high from the low and difference in ___?_____ between the two areas.
What is Gradient
The ability of an object to float in a fluid.
What is buoyancy?
The lowest layer of Earth's atmosphere where weather occurs.
What is the troposphere?
When warm and cold air masses come together, the boundary between them is call a _____________?
Front or a Weather Front
__________ satellites hover 22,300 miles above the equator and photograph an entire hemisphere every half hour.
What is a geosynchronous satellite?
A Petty Officer in the Navy whose duties include observation of weather, and preparation of weather and surf forecasts?
Aerographers Mate
This device is used for measuring Tempature
What is a Thermometer
At 100% Relative Humidity what occurs?
Precipitation
A body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the body
What is Archimedes' Law?
The layer of the atmosphere above the troposphere, containing the ozone layer.
What is the stratosphere?
What are the two types of weather forecasting?
Local and long-range forecasting.
An orbit in which a satellite passes above or nearly above both poles of the body being orbited?
What is a polar orbit?
On ships without an aerographer mate and meteorological officer, who carries out the weather observation and reporting?
Navigator
Any instrument used to measure wind speed?
What is an Anemometer?
Regions of high pressure located around 30 degrees north and south of the equator where winds are calm.
What are Horse Latitudes?
Complete the Sentence
Anything with a density less than water
Will always float
The layer of the atmosphere above the stratosphere, where temperatures decrease with altitude.
What is the mesosphere?
What is a local forecast?
A weather prediction for a specific area over a short period, usually 1-3 days.
A geocentric orbit which combines altitude and inclination in such a way that an object on that orbit ascends or descends over any given Earth latitude at the same local mean solar time
What is a sun-synchronous orbit?
Working in the profession of the science dealing with the atmosphere and its phenomena, including weather and climate?
Meteorologist
Any instrument that measures atmospheric pressure is called what?
What is a Barometer
What does NOAA stand for?
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
What happens to a stone with a true weight of 4900 newtons in air, with a volume of half a cubic meter, when it is submerged in water, displacing 9800 newtons of water?
It floats
The layer of the atmosphere above the mesosphere, characterized by high temperatures.
What is the thermosphere?
What is a long-range forecast?
A weather prediction that extends beyond a few days, often up to a month or more.
Of or pertaining to a satellite traveling in an orbit 22,300 miles above the Earth’s equator; at this altitude, the satellites period of rotation, 24 hours, matches the Earth and the satellite always remains in the same spot over the Earth
What is a geostationary orbit?
Who is responsible for describing buoyant force?
Archimedes
A __________________ is any instrument for measuring the water-vapor content of the atmosphere.
Hygrometer
The Northern Hemisphere winds curve to the right and the Southern Hemisphere to the left. This is called what
What is the Coriolis Effect?
What force tends to right the ship as it rolls?
What is Torque?
The outermost layer of the Earth's atmosphere where atmospheric particles are extremely sparse.
What is the exosphere?
A notification that severe weather is imminent or occurring in the area is what kind of warning?
What is a Storm Warning?
Weather satellites began service in 1960, with what satellite?
TIROS 1
______________________ invented the first simple thermometer.
Galileo Galilei
What invention is regarded as the first step in the development of meteorology as a science.
What is a Thermometer