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Week VII Question 1 Air masses are classified according to their ____. Answer longitude latitude source region relation to the equator Question 2 The warmest part of the hurricane is located where? Answer northeast quadrant southwest quadrant eye 25-30 miles from the center of the eye Question 3 If earth were not rotating ____. Answer it would lose its atmosphere air would move directly from high to low pressure all air would move in one direction only friction would be eliminated Question 4 Which of the following statements is false? Answer Studies have shown that at least half of the hurricanes that make landfall produce at least one tornado. Most tornado injuries and deaths result from flying debris. When a cyclone’s strongest winds do not exceed 38 mph, it is called a tropical depression. Because hurricanes strengthen as they move inland most of the damage occurs within 200 miles from the coast. Question 5 When an active cold front overtakes a warm front and results in complex weather it is called ____. Answer overrunning wind shear lake effect snows occluded front Question 6 Which of the following statements is true? Answer Tornadoes are cyclonic while hurricanes are anticyclonic. A tornado watch is issued by the National Weather Service after a tornado has been sighted in an area. Thunderstorms are usually associated with nimbostratus clouds. Hurricanes form between the latitudes of 5 degrees and 20 degrees. Question 7 Lines on a weather map connecting places of equal air pressure are called ____. Answer isovectors isobars isotherms isogrids Question 8 When the pressure gradient force is balanced and winds blow parallel to the isobars, this is called ____. Answer jet streams anti-cyclones westerlies geostrophic winds Question 9 Standard sea level pressure in inches of mercury is ____inches. Answer 7.52 14.70 28.70 29.92 Question 10 Who said “Every wind has its weather”? Answer President Grant Coriolis Gilbert Sir Francis Bacon Question 11 “Perhaps more than any other single measurement, atmospheric pressure is the best indicator of current and changing weather conditions.” Explain and discuss why this statement is correct. Provide some examples. Answer Question 12 Regarding the issue of climate change and global warming: NOTE: This essay will have a minimum word requirement of 250 words. I. Briefly define and describe the terms climate change and global warming, then…. II. In trying to balance the pros and cons on the respective sides of this issue, provide one scientific statement and/or argument for your posi discussion for both positions. Please make sure that you include where you obtained your resource material. Example: On one side Al Gore tells us that “a new scientific study shows that, for the first time, polar bears have been drowning in significant numbers. Bear Specialist Group of the World Conservation Union that of the twenty distinct sub-populations of polar bears, one or possibly two were d stable. In addition, there were two subpopulations that were actually increasing around the Beaufort Sea. (These would be your two opposin Lomborg, Bjorn. (2007). Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming. New York, New York. Vintage Books. The above example was taken from “Cool It, The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming” by Bjorn Lomborg, a scientifically w perspectives on these issues. www.pewresearch.org; www.climatescience.gov; www.nrdc.org; www.sciencemag.org; www.greenpeace.org; www.usgs.gov; www.eia.doe.g Week VIII Question 1 When medium-mass stars collapse from red giants to white dwarfs, the remaining illuminated gas cloud is often referred to as a _____. Answer supernova neutron stars planetary nebulae pulsar Question 2 What is the innermost of the Galilean moons? Answer Ganymeade Callisto Io Metis Question 3 This scientist explained the force that keeps the planets from going in a straight line out into space. Who is he? Answer Galileo Brahe Kepler Newton Question 4 The largest known volcano in the solar system is ____________. Answer Mauna Loa, Hawaii, on Earth Vulcan on Venus Solfatara on Jupiter Mons Olympus on Mars Question 5 The spherical shell around the solar system that produces comets, which rarely have orbits that bring them to the inner solar syste Answer Belt of Orion Planetesimals Regoliths Oort cloud Question 6 Which main-sequence stars are the least massive? Answer red orange yellow blue Question 7 According to the Ptolemaic (Greek) model of the universe, how many "heavenly" bodies could be observed wandering along the b Answer one two five seven Question 8 The discovery that the universe appears to be expanding led to a widely accepted theory called __________. Answer The Big Bang Hubble’s Law Einstein’s Law The Doppler effect Question 9 This property of a star can be determined from its color. Answer mass stellar distance volume surface temperature Question 10 The final stage in the evolution of the most massive stars is a ___________. Answer black hole main-sequence star red giant white dwarf Question 11 How do we calculate or determine the distances to stars? What units do we use and what are the limitations (if any) of the method used for such calculations? Answer Question 12 Describe the Hertzsprung-Russel diagram. Where on an H-R diagram does a star spend most of its life?
