Study Guide Meteorology I Name ______

1. What is ozone?

2. What layer of atmosphere contains weather?

3. Which layer of atmosphere is most thin?

4. What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere?

5. Put the following gases in order from most abundant to least: O2, N2, CO2, and Ar

6. Increased altitudes have ______pressure because ______.

7. Higher elevations have ______temps.

8. Solid gas = ______Gas  solid = ______

9. Air that has reached its water vapor capacity is ______.

10. Which can hold more water vapor… Warm air or cold air?

11. What is dew point?

12. Walking across hot pavement, warming your feet, is what form of heat transfer?

13. Hand receiving energy from a fire is heat transfer through which method?

14. Heat flow that cycles (heat rises & cold sinks) is which form of heat transfer?

15. Which cloud is… cotton-like & puffy=______Low & rainy=______

16. Which cloud is… middle-altitude & layered =______High & wispy=______

17. How are clouds and fog different?

18. How does being near the ocean impact temperature fluctuations? Give an example.

19. How does having clouds impact daytime temperatures?

20. How does having clouds impact nighttime temperatures?

21. What does supercooled water mean?

22. Rain, snow, sleet and hail are examples of ______.

23. What is glaze?

24. What is sleet?

25. What type of weather exists in a high pressure system? ______Low Pressure? ______

26. What are isotherms? 27. What are isobars?

28. What do closely spaced isobars indicate?

29. What does Pressure Gradient influence about wind? ______Coriolis Effect? ______

30. Explain this flow diagram: Sun  Temperature  Pressure  Wind

31. Cyclones- low/high pressure? clockwise/counterclockwise?

32. Anticyclones- low/high pressure? clockwise/counterclockwise?

33. Label each diagram to the right as either… a. RISING or SINKING air b. HIGH or LOW pressure c. CLOUDY or CLEAR weather d. NORTHERN or SOUTHERN hemisphere

34. Fill in the chart below with an estimate of what the relative humidity would be, and predict if frost, dew, or neither would form.

Temperature Dew Point Relative Humidity Frost / Dew / Neither 50 45 65 35 48 48 30 30

35. Predict the temperature of Richmond, Greensboro, Louisville, and Philadelphia.