CHAPTER 1 A south wind o Blows from the south A towering cloud or cluster of clouds accompanied by thunder lightning and strong Almost all of the earth s weather occurs in the Areas of high atmospheric pressure are also known as gusty winds is a o Anticyclone o Troposphere o Anticyclones o Bursts As a radiosonde balloon ascends through the atmosphere the balloon At night when the weather is extremely cold and dry o Atmospheric pressure decreases with increasing altitude At the 500 mb level the amount of oxygen inhaled in a single breath is of that inhaled at sea level o About one half Clouds often form in the o Troposphere Condensation is more likely to occur o When the air cools o West East o 5 times In a temperature inversion Generally weather in the middle latitudes tends to move from to If you were to take a breath of pure oxygen from a tank you d be getting about the amount of oxygen you d get by taking a normal breath of our atmosphere o Air temperature increases with increasing height In a volume of air near the earth s surface occupies 78 percent and nearly 21 percent o Nitrogen oxygen o Aerosols In the atmosphere tiny solid or liquid suspended particles of various composition are called In the middle latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere surface winds tend to blow and around an area of surface low pressure o Counterclockwise inward In the middle latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere surface winds tend to blow and around an area of surface high pressure o Clockwise outward In the stratosphere the air temperature normally o Increases with increasing height Meteorology is the study of o The atmosphere and its phenomena Most of the ionosphere is found in what atmospheric layer o Thermosphere Much of Tibet lies at altitudes over 18 000 feet where the pressure is about 500 mb At such altitudes the Tibetans are above roughly o 50 of the air molecules in the atmosphere On a weather map sharp changes in temperature humidity and wind direction are marked by o Front Ozone in the stratosphere o Protects life from harmful ultraviolet radiation Since the turn of this century CO2 in the atmosphere has o Been increasing in concentration The amount of force exerted over an area of surface is called The atmospheric layer in which we live is called the o Pressure o Troposphere o 1mb and 10mb o Air temperature o Ionosphere The difference in altitude i e the thickness is greatest in the layer bounded by The earth s atmosphere is divided into layers based on the vertical profile of The electrified region of the upper atmosphere is called the The gas responsible for the greenhouse effect on Venus is o Carbon dioxide CO2 The gas that absorbs most of the harmful ultraviolet radiation in the stratosphere is The gas that shows the most variation from place to place and from time to time in the lower atmosphere is which of the following o The ozone o Carbon dioxide CO2 The greenhouse gas that has been increasing in concentration at least partly due to deforestation is o Carbon dioxide CO2 The hottest atmospheric layer is the o Thermosphere The instrument that measures temperature pressure and humidity at various altitudes in the atmosphere is the o Radiosonde The ionosphere is an atmospheric layer that contains a high concentration of ions An ion is o An atom of molecule that has lost or gained an electron The most abundant gases in the earth s atmosphere by volume are The most abundant greenhouse gas in the earth s atmosphere is o Nitrogen and oxygen o Water vapor H2O The number or mass of air molecules in a given space or volume is called The only substance near the earth s surface that is found naturally in the atmosphere as a solid liquid and a gas is o Density o water The primary source of oxygen for the earth s atmosphere during the past half billion years or so appears to be The rate at which temperature decreases with increasing altitude is known as the o Photosynthesis o Lapse rate The temperature of the tropopause o Is much colder than the temperature at the earth s surface The wind direction is o The direction from which the wind is blowing There is a lot of mixing and overturning of air in which of the following atmospheric layers Typically water vapor occupies about what percentage of the air s volume near the earth s surface o Troposphere o Less than 4 Where cold surface air replaces warm air the boundary separating the different bodies Warming in the stratosphere is mainly caused by o Absorption of ultraviolet radiation by the ozone Which latitude belt best describes the middle latitudes of air is o A cold front o 30 to 50 degrees o Newtons Which of the following are NOT units of pressure Which of the following equations is correct o Weight mass X gravity Which of the following is MOST likely associated with fair weather Which of the following is considered a variable gas in the earth s atmosphere Which of the following processes remove CO2 from the atmosphere Which of the following weather elements ALWAYS decreases as we climb upward in the o High pressures are o Water vapor o Photosynthesis atmosphere o Pressure o gravity holds a planet s atmosphere close to its surface CHAPTER 2 A good absorber of a given wavelength of radiation is also a good emitter of that wavelength This is a statement of A change of one degree on the Celsius scale is a change of one degree on the o Selectively scatters red wavelengths of visible light and absorbs the rest According to Wein s displacement law the wavelength at which maximum radiation o S inversely proportional to the temperature An increase in albedo would be accompanied by in radiative equilibrium Charged particles from the sun that travel through space at high speeds are called Clouds infrared radiation and visible radiation Electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths between 0 4 and 0 7 micrometers is called o Kirchhoff s law Fahrenheit scale o Larger than A red shirt occurs temperature o A decrease o Solar flares o Absorb reflect o Visible light Energy of motion is also known as o Kinetic energy Evaporation is a process o cooling Heat is energy in the process of being transferred from o Hot objects to cold objects How do red and blue light differ o Red has a higher wavelength and lower frequency blue has a lower wavelength How much radiant energy will an object emit if its temperature is at absolute zero o none If the amount of energy lost by the earth to space each year were not approximately equal to that received o The atmosphere s
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