Download Midterm Review Sheet - Meterology

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Physics of the Earth CP – Midterm Review
Meteorology
1. What is meteorology?
2. What two gases make up the majority of the atmosphere and what are their percentages?
3. What is latitude? What is the latitudinal reference point?
4. What is longitude? What is the longitudinal reference point?
5. How are the layers of the atmosphere classified?
6. What is the layer of the atmosphere that is closest to the Earth’s surface? What is unique
about this layer?
7. Which layer of the atmosphere is increasing in temperature due to the ozone layer?
8. Describe what makes the mesosphere unique.
9. Which layer of the atmosphere is the outermost layer? What are the names of the two
smaller layers that make up this layer?
10. What is a pause?
11. Describe how conduction transfers heat.
12. Explain how convection currents form.
13. Describe how radiation transfers heat.
14. What global wind pattern affects the United States?
15. What is the Coriolis Effect?
16. What is a front?
17. Draw a cold front and label the warm and cold air.
18. Draw a warm front and label the warm and cold air.
19. Draw a stationary front and label the warm and cold air.
20. Draw an occluded front.
21. Contrast weather and climate.
22. What are normals?
23. What are examples of long term and short term climate change?
24. What is a hurricane?
25. What are the wind speeds necessary for a tropical depression and a tropical storm?
26. What are the conditions necessary for a hurricane to form? (pressure, wind speed, and
ocean temperature)
27. What category classifies hurricanes?
28. What are the three parts of a hurricane? Describe each.
29. When is hurricane season in the Northern Hemisphere?
30. What conditions are necessary for a thunderstorm to form?
31. What are the stages of development for a thunderstorm?
32. What is thunder? Lightning? Why do I see lightning and THEN hear thunder?
33. List some lightning safety tips.
34. What is a tornado? Funnel cloud?
35. How are tornadoes classified?
36. Where do most tornadoes occur?