UTA GEOL-1340 Final Review

How is weather different from climate

• Weather is day to day while climate is long-term averages in weather

• Weather is easier to predict than climate

• Climate is always getting warmer but weather can be warmer or colder

• Weather includes precipitation while climate does not

The Earth's climate system is composed of

• Core, mesosphere, asthenosphere, oceans, and lithosphere

• Core, cryosphere, atmosphere, biosphere, and lithosphere

• Core, asthenosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere

• Oceans, atmosphere, biosphere, cryosphere, and geosphere

• Stratosphere, asthenosphere, biosphere, and magnetosphere

Isobars are lines of equal__________

• Pressure

• Temperature

• Density

• Height

• Geopotentials

Viewed from space in the Northern Hemisphere, winds in the friction-free atmosphere on a rotating Earth blow_______ about/around the center of a low pressure system.

• Clockwise and angled toward higher isobars

• Counterclockwise and parallel to the isobars

• Clockwise and parallel to the isobars

• Counterclockwise and perpendicular to the isobars

_____is used to describe the weight of the overlaying air

• Relative humidity

• Dewpoint

• Pressure

• Temperature

____-pressure systems are usually accompanied by fair weather and ____-pressure systems are usually accompanied by stormy weather.

• High, low

• Low, high

• High, low

• Low, high

An air mass is a huge volume of air that is relatively uniform horizontally in______.

• Temperature

• Humidity

• All of the above are correct

• Neither

Often associated with a front is (are)

• Cloudiness

• Precipitation

• Ascending air

• Both cloudiness and precipitation

• All of the above are correct

At the same humidity, (water vapor concentration), a cold air mass is_______ a warm air mass.

• Denser than

• Less dense than

• Equally dense as

• IDK

North-South position in an Earth coordinate system is determined by

• Time

• Longitude

• Latitude

• Elevation