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Its All Relative
Whats The Point?
That Air Mass is Massive (and windy)
Up Front
The Air Up There
100
The instrument used to find the dewpoint and relative humidity
What is a sling psychrometer
100
The barometric pressure if 923 is on a station model
What is 992.3 millibars
100
The reason for winds
What is differences in pressure
100
Triangles pointing in the same direction mean this
What is cold front
100
The two main gases that make up our atmosphere
What are Nitrogen and Oxygen
200
Relative humidity if the dry bulb is -6 degrees celsius and the wet bulb is -3 degrees celsius
What is 20 %
200
The dewpoint if the air temperture is 18 degrees celsius and the wet bulb temp is 11 degrees celsius
What is 4 degrees celsius
200
Why winds curve as they travel around the Earth
What is the coriolis effect
200
The weather when a cP and an mT air mass collide
What is tornados/severe weather (tornado alley)
200
This type of air can not hold much moisture
What is colder air
300
A percent of how much moisture is in the air
What is the relative humidity
300
The temperature that when reached will result in cloud formation.
What is the dewpoint temperature
300
cP will have these conditions and mT will have these
cP: cold and dry mT: warm and moist
300
Strong storms and fierce winds are often the result of these
What are cold fronts
300
The two layers of the atmosphere in which the temperature decreases wtih altitude.
What are the Troposphere and the Mesosphere
400
The capacity of air to hold moisture is greatest if the relative humidity is this
What is low or 0%
400
The dewpoint if the relative humidity is 71% and the dry bulb is 16 degrees celsius.
What is 11 degrees celsius
400
The reason why weather in the U.S. travels toward the East is due to these
What are the southwesterly winds or prevailing westerlies
400
Cirrus and stratus clouds will be found with this front
What is a warm front
400
How energy is transferred within the atmosphere
What is convection
500
The relative humidity if the dry air temperature is 12 degrees celcius and the dew point temperature is 8 degrees celcius
What is 78%
500
If the dewpoint is very far from the dry air temperature
What is nice weather, low relative humidity...
500
Low pressure is found at these latitudes
What is 0 degrees, and 60 degrees north and south
500
Bad weather is found in a pressure system that has this rotation of air
What are counter-clockwise and in
500
The reason for weather
What is the unequal heating of the Earth by the Sun or differences in density.