Download I Science Weather Review

I Science Weather Review
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Exploring Earth’s Weather: Chapter 1
Topics:
-What are the four atmospheric factors that interact to cause weather?
-Heat energy: Where does it come from?
-What are the thre types of heat transfer?
-What is the greenhouse effect and why could it be a problem?
-Temperature: How is it measured? What causes it to vary at different lattitudes?
-Air Pressure: relationship between density and pressure
-What are the three factors that can cause air pressure to change?
-How is it measured? then and now?
-Wind: What causes it? Role of convection and the spining of the earth?
-Local vs. global: What are the names and locations of the global wind patterns?
-Jet stream: What is it and how does it effect weather?
-Moisture: What is relative humidity and how is it measured?
-Clouds: How and why do they form? What is the dew point?
-Precipitation: What types are there? How does water droplet size vary?-Air Masses: What are the four kinds and where do they originate?
-Fronts: What are the four types, what air masses are involved, what kind of weather is associated
with each?
Terms:
atmosphere
weather
convection
conduction
radiation
hygrometer
anemometer
Prevailing Westerlies
fronts
psychrometer
aneroid
dew point
land breeze
tropical
sea breeze
polar
Doldrums
continental
thermometer
maritime
barometer
cold front
Trade Winds
warm front
Polar Easterlies
occluded front
air mass
stationary front
jet stream