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Chapters 24 and 25 Study Notes: Weather and Climate Chapters 24 Section 2: Fronts 1 ► Storms along a ____ cold front are usually violent short-lived and sometimes ______, while storms along a warm front produce precipitation over a _____ large area, and are sometimes violent. 2 ►A front that forms when a cold air overtakes a warm air mass and mass ________ lifts the warm air mass off the ground and over another air mass is called a occluded front. _______ 3 bend forms in a cold front, it a _____ begins the process of creating an area of low pressure with _______ rotating wind that moves toward the rising air of the central low-pressure region—a storm midlatitude cyclone. known as a _________ ► When 4 ►A weather event in which the air ____ sinks and flows outward from a center of high pressure, and that brings dry weather is an _________. anticyclone 5 ► Mature, _______, cumulus and dissipating are thunderstorms the stages of a ___________. 6 ►A _______ hurricane begins when warm, moist air rises rapidly and the moisture condenses, releasing energy in the form of _____ latent ____. heat 7 ►A tornado takes a ________ haphazard path if it touches down. Chapters 24 Section 4: Forecasting the Weather 8 ► Weather stations report data to collection centers. ________ 9 ► Weather centers all over the world exchange their data with other ________ centers. 10 ► Symbols and colors communicate station _____. model weather data on a ______ 11 ► Scientists use _____ colors and ______ symbols to convey information on a weather map. 12 map symbols H and L indicate pressure centers. air _______ ► Weather 13 ► Doppler radar and satellite images weather provide information to create _______ models ______. 14 ► ___________ Meteorologists use computer models to forecasts from data help them make _______ they have input into computers. 15 ► Meteorologists have tried to control hurricanes with freezing nuclei. ________ 16 ► Meteorologists have tried to control lightning and _________ precipitation hurricanes, _______, cyclones but not _______. 17 ► One weather event that scientists have NOT tried to control is ________. tornadoes ____ Chapters 25 Section 3: Climate Change 18 ► Sea-floor _______ sediment measures concentrations of 18O to determine past climate changes. 19 ► Thin tree rings indicate ____ cool weather less rainfall. and ____ 20 ► ______ Climate does NOT change as a result of general circulation models. 21 ► Changes in Earth’s ____, orbit tilt on axis, axis are factors that and wobbling on ____ could cause climate change according Milankovitch _____. theory to the _________ 22 ► Global _______, warming weather pattern precipitation changes, and increased _________ climate change. can all be caused by ______ 23 ► Changes in ___-_____, sea level precipitation, warming are all possible and global _______ impacts of climate change. 24 ► Using public __________ transportation , driving a hybrid car, and recycling will help _____ levels in the atmosphere. reduce CO2 _____ The End???