Download Weather and Climate Review Chapters 1 and 2

Weather and Climate Review - Chapters 1 and 2
I)
The Air Around You
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What is the atmosphere?
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What is the composition of the Earth’s atmosphere? Include percentages.
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What is water vapor?
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Why is water vapor important to weather?
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How is the atmosphere important to living things?
II) Air Pressure
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What are some of the properties of air?
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What instruments are used to measure air pressure?
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What is altitude?
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What is the relationship between altitude and air pressure? Give examples.
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What is the relationship between air pressure and density? Give examples
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Describe what cool air is like in terms of pressure and density.
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Describe what warm air is like in terms of pressure and density.
III) Layers of the Atmosphere
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What are the four layers of the atmosphere, in order, as seen from earth?
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How are the layers of the atmosphere classified? (A.K.A. What changes as you move
from one layer to the next?)
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What are the characteristics of each layer?
o Troposphere –
o Stratosphere –
o Mesosphere –
o Thermosphere –
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What is the ozone layer and why is it important?
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True or False. If false, change the underlined word or words to make the statement
true.
o The layer of the atmosphere where weather occurs is the thermosphere.
o The mesosphere is the layer of the atmosphere that contains the ozone.
o The exosphere is the outer layer of the thermosphere.
o Most meteoroids burn up in the stratosphere.
IV) Heat Transfer
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In what form does energy from the sun travel to Earth?
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What happens to energy from the sun when it reaches the Earth?
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Define ultraviolet:
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What are the three ways heat transferred?
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What is the transfer of energy from a hotter object to a colder object?
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What instrument is used to measure temperature?
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What is the direct transfer of energy from one object to another that are in contact
(touching)?
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Define convection:
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What are the boiling and freezing points for both the Celsius and Fahrenheit?
IV) Winds
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What causes wind?
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What instruments are used to measure wind speed?
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What are the differences between local winds and global winds?
V)
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Where are the major global wind belts located?
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Why do land breezes occur?
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Why do sea breezes occur?
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Describe the Coriolis effect?
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What are doldrums?
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Where are the horse latitudes located?
Water in the Atmosphere
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What is humidity?
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Define relative humidity.
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What instrument is used to measure relative humidity? Describe the parts that make
this instrument up.
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How do clouds form?
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What are the three main types of clouds? Describe what they look like.
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In what types of clouds would a thunderstorm occur?
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Define precipitation.
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What is the process by which water molecules in liquid water escape into the air as
water vapor? (AKA process by which a liquid turns into a gas)