As the weather warms in - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

1 ATSC SAILING EXAM | QUESTIONS & ANSWERS (VERIFIED) | LATEST UPDATE | GRADED A+ What are the three factors that affect wave formation? Correct Answer: wind velocity, fetch, and duration what is wind velocity for wave formation Correct Answer: the speed of the wind what is fetch for wave formation Correct Answer: the distance over the water that the wind can blow uninterrupted (which can be huge distances out at sea) what is duration for wave formation Correct Answer: the amount ...

Global Climate Change Correct Answer Modificaations in Earth's climate, changes globally in temperature, precipitation, sorm frequenct, etc. Climate Correct Answer And area's long-term atmospheric conditions over large geographic regions (years, decades, centuries) Weather Correct Answer Short trem atmospheric conditions (hours, days) within small geographic areas Global Warming Correct Answer Refers specifically to increase in Earth's average surface temperature. Not to be confused ...

climate - correct answer overall weather in an area over a long period of time weather - correct answer is on a day to day basis similarity between weather and climate - correct answer it is meteorological events that happen in the atmosphere latitude - correct answer generally speaking the further you are from the equator the colder it gets sun - correct answer suns direct rays pass through less air and therefore are stronger further from the equator the rays must pass through mor...

Bed Bugs will bite Ξ -:- humans,dogs,cats, Crickets lay their eggs Ξ -:- in soil Argentine ants are very adaptable and nest in variety of conditions where __________ is preset Ξ -:- Water All ants are social (Have a caste system) Ξ -:- True which ant has multiple queens Ξ -:- Argentine Ants As weather warms, insects Ξ -:- increase reproduction Ticks can spread diseases such as Ξ -:- Lyme disease Lyme Disease is carried by Ξ -:- The black legged deer Tick E x c e l l e n c...

WX 201 - Exam 2 Chapter 6-10 Questions and Answers The elevation where clouds form is called ____ level. condensation If the environmental lapse rate is 5 ° C per 1,000 m and the temperature at Earth's surface is 25 ° C, then the air temperature at 2,000 m above the ground is 15°C. What transfers heat upward into the atmosphere? thermals Just above cumulus clouds, you would expect to find a stable layer. If an air parcel is given a small push upward and it falls back...

ATSC 113 final exam Questions and Answers Already Graded A FLYING SECTION: normal clouds - classified into two categories 1. convective clouds/ cumuliform clouds (Cu) - look like stacks of cotton balls -- are associated with updrafts 2. layer clouds/ stratiform clouds (St) - look like sheets or blankets that can extend hundreds of kilometers horizontally. cumuliform clouds cumuliform continued - form when warm humid air rises through cooler surrounding air in the atmosphere - the buoyancy ass...

Broward College EVR1009 Exam 2 Questions and Answers 100% Pass The San Andreas fault is an example of a transform boundary The atmosphere's second layer above Earth is called the stratosphere Identify the term that describes the blanket of gases surrounding the earth! atmosphere Harmful UV radiation can cause skin cancer, eye cataracts, immune system damage, sunburn When a continental plate and an oceanic plate collide they can form ___________; this type of boundary is called a/an ________...

ATSC 113 Final Study Questions and Answers Graded A Three main factors affecting wave formation: Wind velocity, fetch, duration. Catellanus Cloud small castle torrents, unstable airloft, thunderstorms possible later in the day Billow clouds waves in a cloud, unstable airloft, indicate wind shear and create CAT, relate to K-H waves Lenticular clouds "bubble shape" little UVO's, strong mountain waves, wind oscillations Rotor clouds ragged looking under mountain, strong winds across mountain...

The Water molecule and basic atomic structure? - 2 positive end hydrogen and one negative end oxygen what makes up the water molecule, the charges, the bond angle? - H end- positive charge O end- negative charge looks like a mickey mouse head What's so peculiar about this molecule? - The fact that is has hydrogen bonds which are independent of the covalent bonds as well as it being a polar molcule H- The kinds of bonds in the water molecule? The kinds of bonds connecting all the wa...

WX 201 Final ERAU Exam Questions and Answers The Atmosphere aerosol (a.k.a. particulates) rain, drizzle, fog, snow, ice crystals, cloud droplets Permanent gas Nitrogen [N2]=78% Oxygen [02]=21% Others (Ar, Ne, He, Kr, H)=1% Variable gas [H2O] -0 to 4% (highly variable) -Most abundant variable gas• [CO2] -0.039% and rising [O3] -Highly variable, reactive gas -Upper atmosphere: protects life from UV light -Occurs naturally, absorbs harmful ultraviolet light from sun ...