ESSENTIALS OF METEOROLOGY AN INVITATION TO THE ATMOSPHERE ACTUAL TEST QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW PACKAGE

ESSENTIALS OF METEOROLOGY AN
INVITATION TO THE ATMOSPHERE
ACTUAL TEST QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS
COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW PACKAGE

●● Climate
Answer: The average weather in terms of mean and variability over a
period of time and over a geographical region


●● Weather
Answer: The condition of the atmosphere at any particular time and
place


●● Temperature
Answer: Degree of hotness and coldness


Amount of Kinetic energy


●● Humidity
Answer: Amount of water vapor


●● Precipitation

,Answer: Liquid or solid water that falls and reaches the ground


●● Visibility
Answer: Distance one can see


●● Pressure
Answer: Force/area


●● Permanent gases in the air
Answer: Nitrogen - 78%
Oxygen - 21%
Argon -1%


●● Homosphere
Answer: The lower area of Earth's atmosphere.


●● Heterosphere
Answer: The upper portion of the Earth's atmosphere, in which gases are
fractionated according to their molecular weight. It lies above the
homosphere, where chemical constituents are well mixed. On average
the heterosphere begins at an altitude of about 80 km.


●● Aerosol

, Answer: A combination of solid and/or liquid suspended particles are
called aerosols


Dust and soil particles in the atmosphere


Salt particles suspended (from evaporating ocean water)


Volcanic ash particles


Good O3- stratospheric O3


Bad O3-sunface O3


●● Density
Answer: Mass/Volume


●● Lapse Rate
Answer: Change in temp with a change in height


●● Radiosonde
Answer: an instrument carried by balloon or other means to various
levels of the atmosphere and transmitting measurements by radio.