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Study Guide Meteorology I
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What is glaze?
What is sleet?
What is ozone?
What layer of atmosphere contains weather?
Which layer of atmosphere is most thin?
What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere?
Put the following gases in order from most abundant to least: oxygen, nitrogen,
carbon dioxide, and argon
8. What is the tropopause?
9. The hot seat belt against skin is what form of heat transfer?
10. Earth receives energy from sun through which method?
11. Higher elevation have ________ temps.
12. What are isotherms?
13. Rain, snow, sleet and hail are examples of ____________.
14. Solid gas =
15. Gas  solid =
16. Air that has reached its water vapor capacity is _______.
17. Warm air/cold air can hold more water.
18. What is dew point?
19. What are examples of condensation nuclei?
20. Which cloud is cotton-like and puffy?
21. Low cloud that produces rain?
22. middle-height clouds have which prefix?
23. How are clouds and fog different?
24. What does supercooled water mean?
25. What are isobars?
26. What type of weather exists in a high pressure system?
27. What do closely spaced isobars indicate?
28. Which way do winds blow in a high pressure system?
(clockwise/counterclockwise; into/out of)
29. What 3 things influence winds?
30. What does the Coriolis effect influence about the wind?
31. Cyclones- low/high pressure? clockwise/counterclockwise?
32. Anticyclones- low/high pressure? clockwise/counterclockwise?
Study Guide Meteorology I
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
What is glaze?
What is sleet?
What is ozone?
What layer of atmosphere contains weather?
Which layer of atmosphere is most thin?
What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere?
Put the following gases in order from most abundant to least: oxygen, nitrogen,
carbon dioxide, and argon
8. What is the tropopause?
9. The hot seat belt against skin is what form of heat transfer?
10. Earth receives energy from sun through which method?
11. Higher elevation have ________ temps.
12. What are isotherms?
13. Rain, snow, sleet and hail are examples of ____________.
14. Solid gas =
15. Gas  solid =
16. Air that has reached its water vapor capacity is _______.
17. Warm air/cold air can hold more water.
18. What is dew point?
19. What are examples of condensation nuclei?
20. Which cloud is cotton-like and puffy?
21. Low cloud that produces rain?
22. middle-height clouds have which prefix?
23. How are clouds and fog different?
24. What does supercooled water mean?
25. What are isobars?
26. What type of weather exists in a high pressure system?
27. What do closely spaced isobars indicate?
28. Which way do winds blow in a high pressure system?
(clockwise/counterclockwise; into/out of)
29. What 3 things influence winds?
30. What does the Coriolis effect influence about the wind?
31. Cyclones- low/high pressure? clockwise/counterclockwise?
32. Anticyclones- low/high pressure? clockwise/counterclockwise?