Environmental Science Questions
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__________ is precipitation caused by ice crystals.
Wind flows from ____ pressure to ____ pressure
This shows everything in the sky from weather to birds, and everything else.
Area where cool, dry, high-pressure air sinks and is replaced by warm, wet, low-pressure air
if the wind is coming from the southwest which way would the arrow of the vane be pointing
Prevailing winds that blow from east to west from 30 degrees latitude to the equator in both hemispheres are called
The Coriolis Effect is less noticeable near the ___ than it is _____.
Between the Equator and 30 degrees north or south latitude, the winds blow ____.
Winds that blow at speeds of less than 50 km/h are
About how much of the solar energy that reaches Earth is absorbed by the land, oceans, and atmosphere?
What is the name for the effect that is produced when warm air near Earth's surface bends light rays
Because of the Coriolis effect, an object that travels north from the equator
Atmospheric pressure is measured with a(n)
The solar radiation least absorbed by the layers of the atmosphere before reaching Earth is
Given that friction is not important, winds aloft are a function of two forces
you are flying in an airplane at 36k ft above sea level you see lighning outside your plane window the cloud that is close by is A) altocumulus B) cirrusC)cumulonimbus D) stratus E) cumulus
thunder and lighnting are associated with the _______ cloud A) nimbostratos B) cirrusC) altrostratus D) cirrostratos E) cumulonimbus
the proccess of clouding seeding is based on the theroy that:A) it is impossible to add too many freezing nuclei; the more you add the more rain will fallB) silver iodide crystals make dropplets heavier then usual so that they fall to the ground C) warm clouds will produce more rain if dropplets are encouraged to freeze inside the cloudD) silver iodide crystals act as freezing nuclei and enhance the bergeron process
rain that evaporates before it hits the ground, forming chartitics streaks below clouds is known asA) fractusB) graupelC) virgaD)uncinus
Hail is most commonly associated with:A) cirrocumulus cloudsB) cumulonimbusC) nimbostratus cloudsD) altostratus cloudsE) cirrus clouds