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WorksheetsWeather Study Guide f0r Final Exam
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 21mins
What are the three global wind belts? Where are they found on Earth? What direction do they blow?
Trade Winds: Close to the equator.East to West.
Prevailing Westerlies: Closer to North America. West to East.
Trade Westerlies: Closer to South America. North to South
Trade Winds: Close to the equator.East to West.
Prevailing Westerlies: Closer to North America. West to East.
Polar Easterlies: Canada to Antarctica. East to West.
What does rotation and revolution cause on Earth?
Rotation is spinning of Earth on its axis and cause the earth to experience day and night.
Revolution is orbiting of earth around the sun and causes the earth to experience a year.
Revolution is orbiting of earth around the sun and causes the earth to experience day and night.
Rotation is spinning of Earth on its axis and cause the earth to experience a year.
What causes wind and how does it move?
Wind is the horizontal movement of air brom areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure.
Wind is the horizontal movement of air brom areas of low pressure to areas of high pressure.
What are the three forms of heat transfer? Which way does heat go?
Heat moves from warmer objects to colder objects.
Radiation: through waves or rays
Conduction: through touch
Convection: through liquids
Heat moves from colder objects to warmer objects.
Convection:through liquids
Radiation:through liquids
Conduction:through waves or rays
What causes the climate at the equator to be the same through the whole year.
The sun's rays hit the earth directly at the equator which causes the same temperatures year round.
It is not the same tempature all year around.
What causes the seasons? How are they different in the Northern versus the Southern hemisphere?
The tilt of the Earth's axis causes the seasons.
Both seasons in both hemispheres are the same.
What type of weather is associated with Low Pressure? High Pressure?
Low Pressure= Lousy Weather
High Pressure= Happy Weather
Low Pressure= Happy Weather
High Pressure= Lousy Weather
What is humidity?
Humidity is the measure of how much water vapor is in the air.
Humidity is the tempature that water starts to condense.
What is dew point?
Dew point is the measure of how much water vapor is in the air.
Dew point is the temperature of which the water vapor starts to condense.
What are the four types of precipitation and what causes their differences?
The 4 types of precipitation are hail, snow, rain, and sleet. The thing that sets them apart are the different temperatures.
The 4 types of precipitation are thunder, rain, clouds, and lastly, rain. What causes them are the different qualities of each kind of precipitation.
What are the major air masses of the United States and waht kind of weather do they bring?
Maritime polar: Cold and moist weather
Maritime tropical: Warm and moist air
Continental polar: Cold and dry
Continental tropical: Hot and dry
Arctic Polar: Cold and dry
Continental tropical:Cold and dry
Maritime tropical:Hot and dry
Arctic Polar:Warm and moist air
Maritime polar:Cold and dry
Continental polar:Cold and moist weather
What are the four types of fronts and the weather that is associated with each?
Cold front: Thunderstorms then cold, dry weather. Cold air rises and over takes warm air.
Warm front: Light rain then warm, humid weather. Warm air mass overtakes a cold air mass.
Occluded front:Cloudy with rain or snow. Warm air mass caught between two cold air masses.
Stationary front: Days of rain or snow, and and clouds. Cold and warm air masses meat, but not one will move.
Cold front:Days of rain or snow, and and clouds. Cold and warm air masses meat, but not one will move.
Warm front:Thunderstorms then cold, dry weather. Cold air rises and over takes warm air.
Occluded front:Light rain then warm, humid weather. Warm air mass overtakes a cold air mass.
Stationary front:Cloudy with rain or snow. Warm air mass caught between two cold air masses.
What are isotherms and what do they look like on a map?
Isotherms are lines on a weather map that connect areas with the same temperature.
Isotherms are areas on a map that are opposite temperatures.
What is the difference between cyclones and anticyclones?
Cyclones occur in high pressure. Anticyclones occur in low pressure. Anticyclones rotate counter-clockwise. Cyclones rotate clockwise.
Cyclones occur in low pressure. Anticyclones occur in high pressure. Cyclones rotate counter-clockwise. Anticyclones rotate clockwise.
What fuels a hurricane? How o hurricanes move? What weakens a hurricane?
Warm water fuels the hurricane. Hurricanes are weakened by going over land or reaching colder water.
Hurricanes are strengthened by going over land or reaching colder water. They are weakened by warm water.
Which is an example of the enhanced fajita scale? select all that apply.
What is a sea breeze and what is a land breeze?
Sea breezes are when cool air comes from the ocean to the land. A land breeze is when the warmer air comes from the land onto the sea.
Sea breeze is when the warmer air comes from the land onto the sea. A land breeze is when cool air comes from the ocean to the land.
