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Atmospheric Pressure - Answer-The force exerted by gas molecules on some rea of Earth's surface or any other body. Isobars - Answer-Lines drawn on maps joining areas of equal atmospheric pressure. Coriolis effect - Answer-The effect of Earth's rotation on the direction of winds and currents, ...

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Atmospheric Pressure - Answer-The force exerted by gas molecules on some rea of
Earth's surface or any other body.

Isobars - Answer-Lines drawn on maps joining areas of equal atmospheric pressure.

Coriolis effect - Answer-The effect of Earth's rotation on the direction of winds and
currents, which makes them appear to be deflected to the right.

Trade winds and westerlies - Answer-The air that descends and spirals out of the
subtropical high pressure belt

When is a sea breeze experienced? - Answer-During the day.

A Thermal high - Answer-The semi-permanent area of high pressure over the poles of
Earth

El Nino is - Answer-A warming of eastern equatorial Pacific waters

Rossby Waves - Answer-Waves in the jet stream pattern

Air which has decreased in density and temperature will - Answer-Have a lower air
pressure

The continuous interchange of our planet's water supply between Earth and the
Atmosphere is called what? - Answer-The Hydrologic cycle

The condition of the atmosphere when it contains as much water as it can hold at a
given temperature (state of total wetness) is known as what? - Answer-Saturation

There is an inverse relationship between temperature and relative humidity such that
relative humidity tends to be lowest and highest when? - Answer-Be lowest in the
afternoon and highest just before dawn

When atmospheric lifting results from the meeting of two air masses of different physical
properties (moisture and temperature), the resulting form of precipitation is what kind of
rainfall? - Answer-Frontal

The most conspicuous feature of the worldwide annual precipitation pattern is that
WHICH LOCATION contain the wettest areas of Earth? - Answer-Tropical Latitudes

, Condensation is not sufficient to explain large drop growth in warm clouds. What is the
primary process responsible for this? - Answer-Collision and Coalescence

In order to grow hail ina cloud, the cloud must have what? - Answer-Strong Updrafts

Which climate is the only true winterless climate? - Answer-Tropical Wet

Where is the Intertropical Convergence Zone responsible for high rainfall the whole
year? - Answer-Tropical Wet Climate

How is the distinction of the tropical monsoon climate shown? - Answer-With the
seasonality of it's rainfall pattern, spiking in Summer and dipping near zero in Winter.

What is the high diurnal temperature range in the subtropical desert associated with?
Torrential Summer Rainfall
Uneven solar insolation
Strong winds the whole year
Lack of cloudiness
Warm ocean currents - Answer-Lack of cloudiness

Most subtropical deserts coincide with the subtropical high pressure belt which is
responsible for _________, hence little uplift to cause rain. - Answer-Anticyclonic
subsidence of air

What is the climatic control party responsible for the midlatitude desert off the coast of
Chile in South America? - Answer-Ocean Currents

Which mild midlatitude climate which receives winter rainfall but rainless summers? -
Answer-Mediterranian

Why is the Southeastern US' citrus production limited to only 29deg North? - Answer-
Frequent incursions of cold waves in winter

What is associated with the great weather variability in the US and many other middle
latitudinal locations? - Answer-Air mass convergence in the context of midlatitude
cyclones.

What are the high annual temperature fluctuations in the severe midlatitude climates a
result of? - Answer-Continental dominance

Polar climates are extraordinarily dry, but classified as non-arid because: - Answer-
Evaporation is miniscule

How are cyclones and anticyclones shaped? - Answer-Pressure gradient, Coriolis
effect, and friction

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