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In which of the following areas is wind a major erosional agent? - ✔️✔️Deserts
Which of the following happens when a river enters a large body of water? - ✔️✔️The river water
slows down and deposits large amounts of sediments
There can be no stream erosion or glacial erosion without - ✔️✔️Gravity
Where is wind erosion least likely to take place? - ✔️✔️Prairies
What is formed when two cirques on opposite sides of a valley meet? - ✔️✔️Arete
What makes a kame different from an esker? - ✔️✔️It's shape
Glaciers cover 30 percent of the earth during the last ice age that began about - ✔️✔️1.6 million
years ago
What is the missing kelvin value? - ✔️✔️298 (273+25)
What is the Celsius scale based on? - ✔️✔️The freezing and boiling points of water
Which clouds would be considered low clouds? - ✔️✔️A(1850m) and D(1200m)
What type of precipitation occurs as rain droplets move up and down through freezing and no
freezing air? - ✔️✔️Sleet
, Earths atmosphere contains more ______ than any other substance - ✔️✔️Nitrogen and oxygen
When the temperature in the atmosphere reaches _____, condensation occurs - ✔️✔️Dew point
In orographic lifting, clouds form when most winds - ✔️✔️Encounter mountains
What is the constant movement of water between the atmosphere and Earths surface? -
✔️✔️Water cycle
At what point do scientists classify and areas weather as its climate? - ✔️✔️30 years
What front is being forecast in the state? - ✔️✔️Stationary front (triangle on top, half circle on
bottom)
Current, short-term variations in the atmosphere are referred to as - ✔️✔️Weather
The Coriolis effect is due to the ______ of earth - ✔️✔️Rotation
Low-pressure systems are usually associated with ________ weather - ✔️✔️Cloudy and rainy
An ________ forecast involves comparing current weather patterns to patterns that took place
in the past - ✔️✔️Analog
A balloon-borne package of sensors that gathers upper-level temperate, air pressure, and
humidity is ______ - ✔️✔️A radiosonde
A record of weather data for a particular site at a particular time is a - ✔️✔️Station model
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