Meteorology B ( fall 2015)

Question 1

As you rise upward in the atmosphere air pressure…

Answer 1

decreases

Question 2

Where does the air pressure acting on the roof of your house come from?

Answer 2

all of the air above your roof

Question 3

Know the life of a hurricane from beginning to end (7 steps.)

Answer 3

Know the life of a hurricane from beginning to end, ( 7 steps.)

Question 4

Which direction does the corriolus effect deflect wind in the northern hemisphere

Answer 4

to the right

Question 5

What is the difference between a hurricane and a typhoon

Answer 5

there is no difference

Question 6

What is the damage from a category 1 hurricane?

Answer 6

no real damage to structures

Question 7

What is the damage from a category 2 hurricane

Answer 7

some roofing, roofing, door, and window damage, considerable damage to vegetation, mobile homes destroyed

Question 8

What is the damage from a category 3 hurricane?

Answer 8

complete roof failure on small residences; major erosion of beach areas; major damage to lower floors of structures near shore

Question 9

What is the damage from a category 4 hurricane?

Answer 9

Some building damages; mobile homes destroyed

Question 10

What is the damage from a category 5 hurricane?

Answer 10

completer roof failure on many residences and industrial buildings; some complete building failures

Question 11

Know what isobars are and how to read them on a map

Answer 11

Know what isobars are and how to read them on a map

Question 12

What is the criteria for a snowstorm to be classified as a blizzard

Answer 12

temperatures below -7 C. (20 F.)
Visibility below 1/4 mile
Winds greater than 35 mph

Question 13

What destroys a hurricane

Answer 13

It travels over a continent and it looses its flow of heat from the warm ocean below

Question 14

know wind direction

Answer 14

know wind direction

Question 15

___________ is when the Earth’s rotation makes global winds curve

Answer 15

coriolis effect

Question 16

Which direction does a hurricanes wind blow in the Northern hemisphere

Answer 16

counter clockwise

Question 17

Which direction does a hurricanes wind blow in the Southern Hemisphere

Answer 17

clockwise

Question 18

Isobars are lines on a map joining places that have the same ______

Answer 18

air pressure

Question 19

the average conditions over a period of time are called_____

Answer 19

climate

Question 20

A dome of water that sweeps across the coast where a hurricane lands is called_________

Answer 20

a storm surge

Question 21

Which weather cell has clear skies and cool weather for the season

Answer 21

high pressure cell

Question 22

Know the global winds

Answer 22

know the global winds

Question 23

Severe thunderstorms are developed along which weather front?

Answer 23

cold

Question 24

Which direction do the prevailing westerlies generally push the air?

Answer 24

west to east

Question 25

The day to day changes in the atmospheric conditions are an areas______

Answer 25

weather

Question 26

What instrument measures temperature?

Answer 26

thermometer

Question 27

What instrument measures wind speed?

Answer 27

anemometer

Question 28

What instrument measures humidity?

Answer 28

Slin PSychrometer

Question 29

What instrument measures conditions aloft from a balloon?

Answer 29

radiosonde

Question 30

What instrument bounces radio waves off raindrops to "see"?

Answer 30

doppler radar

Question 31

What instrument measures air pressure?

Answer 31

barometer

Question 32

What instrument measures the amount of snowfall?

Answer 32

meter stick

Question 33

What instrument measures the cloud cover across the nation?

Answer 33

weather satellite

Question 34

What kind of heat transfer is ... Heat from the inner Earth traveling up through the solid rock of the crust

Answer 34

conduction

Question 35

What kind of heat transfer is .. the wind blowing from hot areas to cold areas

Answer 35

convection

Question 36

What kind of heat transfer is ... Heat traveling from the sun to the Earth

Answer 36

radiation

Question 37

What kind of heat transfer is ... an ocean current carrying heat from the tropics to the artic

Answer 37

convection

Question 38

What kind of heat transfer is ... infrared heat leaving the planet back into space

Answer 38

radiation

Question 39

Thunderstorms are ______ developed clouds

Answer 39

vertical

Question 40

Wind on earth is a form of_______

Answer 40

convection

Question 41

The coriollus effect deflects wind in the southern hemisphere to the_____

Answer 41

left

Question 42

Air pressure is measured in____

Answer 42

millibars

Question 43

Temperature is measured in____

Answer 43

celsius

Question 44

Wind speed is measured in_____

Answer 44

kilometers per hour

Question 45

Relative humidity is measured in______

Answer 45

percentage with no unit

Question 46

Snowfall is measured in_______

Answer 46

centimeters

Question 47

When do clouds form?

Answer 47

When water vapor in the air becomes liquid water or ice crystals

Question 48

Know the names and how to identify clouds

Answer 48

Know the names and how to identify the clouds

Question 49

Why does air have pressure?

Answer 49

Because air has mass.

Question 50

True or False, Cloud cover keeps nights warmer?

Answer 50

True