Chapters 7-9 Review

Question 1

Lines of equal heat

Answer 1

Isotherms

Question 2

Measures and transmits meteorological data

Answer 2

Radiosonde

Question 3

The center of a hurricane

Answer 3

Eye

Question 4

Forms when falling balls of ice are swept up into higher altitudes

Answer 4

Hail

Question 5

Tornado that forms over water

Answer 5

Waterspout

Question 6

Ratio of solar radiation reflected

Answer 6

Albedo

Question 7

The outermost layer of the atmosphere

Answer 7

Exosphere

Question 8

High level clouds that look like wispy streamers or feathers

Answer 8

Cirrus

Question 9

when air expands with no heat gained or lost

Answer 9

Adiabatic cooling

Question 10

Compares weather throughout the whole country at once

Answer 10

Surface weather chart

Question 11

Produces heavy rains, strong winds and sometimes hail or tornados

Answer 11

Cumulonimbus

Question 12

Convection cell between equator and latitude 30

Answer 12

Hadley cell

Question 13

Comes from the top of thunderstorm

Answer 13

Positive cloud to ground lightning

Question 14

Reflected light from high altitude strikes in distant thunderstorms

Answer 14

Heat lightning

Question 15

Powerful radiation that heats the ionosphere

Answer 15

Cosmic rays

Question 16

Measures the distance from the ground to the base of clouds

Answer 16

Ceilometer

Question 17

The numbers and symbols on a weather map that indicate observations at a certain weather station

Answer 17

Station model

Question 18

measures the amount of rainfall

Answer 18

Rain gauge

Question 19

A single updraft system in a thunderstorm

Answer 19

Cell

Question 20

Powerful computer used to generate weather forecast

Answer 20

Supercomputers

Question 21

Air circulating as it rises and sinks

Answer 21

Convection current

Question 22

Colorful displays from solar wind particles

Answer 22

Auroras

Question 23

Change in wind direction from Earth’s rotation

Answer 23

Coriolis effect

Question 24

warm, dry winds that go down mountain slope

Answer 24

Foehns

Question 25

A major factor in weather

Answer 25

Water vapor

Question 26

Surface winds that blow toad equator

Answer 26

Trade winds

Question 27

movement of water from the earth to air, and back

Answer 27

Hydrologic cycle

Question 28

The most destructive part of a hurricane

Answer 28

Wind

Question 29

Cloud that is almond shaped

Answer 29

Lenticular

Question 30

Heat by electromagnetic waves

Answer 30

Radiation

Question 31

Measures wind speed

Answer 31

Anemometer

Question 32

Is indicated by the start of precipitation

Answer 32

Mature stage

Question 33

When water vapor touches the cool ground and turns into a liquid

Answer 33

Dew

Question 34

Where the solar wind pushed on Earth’s magnetic field

Answer 34

Magnetopause

Question 35

What atmospheric conditions limit how high rising air can travel

Answer 35

Stable

Question 36

The farthest distance when objects can be distinguished

Answer 36

Visibility

Question 37

A tropical cyclone with speeds from 39-74mph

Answer 37

Tropical storm

Question 38

The most intense type of downburst

Answer 38

Microburst

Question 39

A prediction of future weather

Answer 39

Forecast

Question 40

Elevated water level caused by a hurricane

Answer 40

Storm surge

Question 41

When the relative humidity is 100% the air is,

Answer 41

Saturated

Question 42

Classifies tornadoes

Answer 42

Enhanced Fujita scale

Question 43

Classifies hurricanes

Answer 43

Saffir-Simpson scale

Question 44

The process of large water droplets hitting other water droplets and merging together

Answer 44

Collision-coalescence

Question 45

A low pressure system without rotating winds

Answer 45

Tropical disturbance

Question 46

A flexible, airtight metal box that measures atmospheric pressure

Answer 46

Aneroid barometer

Question 47

The most abundant gas in the atmosphere

Answer 47

Nitrogen

Question 48

The type of drought that affects the groundwater (Streams, lakes reservoirs)

Answer 48

Hydrological drought

Question 49

A wind that reverses its direction from season to season

Answer 49

Monsoon

Question 50

The downward stream of electrons that cause a single lightning bolt to make a second strike

Answer 50

Dart leader

Question 51

What portion of a lightning bolt produces thunder

Answer 51

Return stroke

Question 52

Indicates that a frontal cyclone has reached full strength

Answer 52

Formation of an occluded front

Question 53

Radiation fog that is only 6ft above the ground

Answer 53

Shallow fog

Question 54

Hot and dry weather

Answer 54

Continental tropical

Question 55

The coldest point in the atmosphere

Answer 55

Mesopause