Weather

Question 1

Turbulent layer of atmosphere, clouds storms and rain are found

Answer 1

Troposphere

Question 2

An example of microclimate

Answer 2

Greenhouse effect

Question 3

Are of calm found along the equatorial law pressure belt

Answer 3

Doldrums

Question 4

Cirrus clouds are:

Answer 4

Clouds that contain ice crystals , they indicate warm front

Question 5

Dry side of a mountain range

Answer 5

Leeward

Question 6

What is a high pressure center ?

Answer 6

Anticyclone

Question 7

Cloud is the rainmaker along a warm front

Answer 7

Nimbostratus

Question 8

Air that has reached 100% relative humidity is _________

Answer 8

Saturated

Question 9

What is a typhoon?

Answer 9

A type of hurricane formed in the China Sea

Question 10

Which instrument measures atmospheric pressure ?

Answer 10

Barometer

Question 11

A storm surge causes______

Answer 11

Much flooding in a hurricane

Question 12

The part of our atmosphere that contains the ozone layer :

Answer 12

Stratosphere

Question 13

A low pressure center May be referred to as a ___________ or a __________.

Answer 13

Depression or a cyclone

Question 14

Precipitation created when air is forced to climb over a mountain range

Answer 14

Orographic

Question 15

The amount of water vapour present in a body of air

Answer 15

Absolute humidity

Question 16

Excessive heating of a land along the ocean shore in the summer months results in a

Answer 16

Sea breeze

Question 17

A large body of air that has consistent moisture and temperature conditions is known as an ____.

Answer 17

Air mass

Question 18

A white fluffy cloud that may have a dark flat base

Answer 18

Cumulus

Question 19

Condensed water vapour is ____.

Answer 19

Dew

Question 20

Instrument that measures wind speeds

Answer 20

Anemometer

Question 21

Fast moving upper atmosphere air that flows west to east

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Jet stream

Question 22

Incoming solar radiation from sun

Answer 22

Insolation

Question 23

The gaseous form of water

Answer 23

Water vapour

Question 24

What is albedo?

Answer 24

The amount of solar radiation absorbed or reflected by a surface

Question 25

Process of heat transfer from a warm surface to a cooler one

Answer 25

Conduction

Question 26

Air that has 100% relative humidity has reached

Answer 26

Dew point

Question 27

The rainy side of a mountain range

Answer 27

Windward

Question 28

A vertical clouds that may produce localized rain, thunder and lighting and hail

Answer 28

Cumulonimbus

Question 29

The leading edge of a cold Arctic air is

Answer 29

Polar front

Question 30

This instrument measures air temp

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Thermometer

Question 31

This gas absorbs large amounts of incoming harmful solar radiation

Answer 31

Ozone

Question 32

________ refers to the compass direction that a slope faces

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Aspect

Question 33

During summers months along the ocean shores the land cools rapidly at night and the air over the ocean is warmer than the air over the land and this temp results in a ________.

Answer 33

Land breeze

Question 34

Can be thought of as the first step in the hrydologic cycle :

Answer 34

Evaporation

Question 35

Curving of global winds

Answer 35

Coriolis Effect

Question 36

As _________ increases, air pressure and temp decreases

Answer 36

Altitude

Question 37

___________ refers to the dryness of leeward mountain slopes

Answer 37

Rainshadow