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Study Guide Meteorology I
Name _____________________________________________________
1. What is ozone?
2. What layer of atmosphere contains weather?
3. Which layer of atmosphere is most thin?
4. What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere?
5. Put the following gases in order from most abundant to least: O2, N2, CO2, and Ar
6. Increased altitudes have _____________ pressure because _________________________________.
7. Higher elevations have ________ temps.
8. Solid gas = ______________________
Gas  solid = ______________________
9. Air that has reached its water vapor capacity is _____________________.
10. Which can hold more water vapor… Warm air or cold air?
11. What is dew point?
12. Walking across hot pavement, warming your feet, is what form of heat transfer?
13. Hand receiving energy from a fire is heat transfer through which method?
14. Heat flow that cycles (heat rises & cold sinks) is which form of heat transfer?
15. Which cloud is… cotton-like & puffy=_____________________
Low & rainy=__________________
16. Which cloud is… middle-altitude & layered =________________
High & wispy=_________________
17. How are clouds and fog different?
18. How does being near the ocean impact temperature fluctuations? Give an example.
19. How does having clouds impact daytime temperatures?
20. How does having clouds impact nighttime temperatures?
21. What does supercooled water mean?
22. Rain, snow, sleet and hail are examples of ____________.
23. What is glaze?
24. What is sleet?
25. What type of weather exists in a high pressure system? ______________ Low Pressure? ___________
26. What are isotherms?
27. What are isobars?
28. What do closely spaced isobars indicate?
29. What does Pressure Gradient influence about wind? _____________ Coriolis Effect? ______________
30. Explain this flow diagram: Sun  Temperature  Pressure  Wind
31. Cyclones- low/high pressure? clockwise/counterclockwise?
32. Anticyclones- low/high pressure? clockwise/counterclockwise?
33. Label each diagram to the right as either…
a. RISING or SINKING air
b. HIGH or LOW pressure
c. CLOUDY or CLEAR weather
d. NORTHERN or SOUTHERN hemisphere
34. Fill in the chart below with an estimate of what the relative humidity would be, and predict if frost,
dew, or neither would form.
Temperature
Dew Point
50
45
65
35
48
48
30
30
Relative Humidity
35. Predict the temperature of Richmond, Greensboro, Louisville, and Philadelphia.
Frost / Dew / Neither