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One way to change air pressure is to.. - ANSWER-move up or down in the atmosphere Pressure decreases with.. - ANSWER-height Can a plane door really be opened while in flight? - ANSWER-Cant open the door, they open in first and then open out Air pressure outside of the plane is very low, the cabin pressure is much greater Adding cold air to an air column will.. - ANSWER-shorten the column Adding warm air to an air column will.. - ANSWER-expand/make the air column taller Horizont...

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Lightning, Thunder, and Tornadoes - ANSWER-Lightning, thunder, and tornadoes all come from storms resulting from moist convection. Ingredients for Thunderstorms - ANSWER-1. Moisture 2. Instability 3. A lifting mechanism 4. Wind shear (for some storms) Categories of Thunderstorms - ANSWER-1. Air mass thunderstorms (single cell) 2. Multi-cell thunderstorms -Squall-line thunderstorms -Mesoscale convective complexes 3. Supercell thunderstorms Characteristics of Thunderstorms - ANSWER...

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ATMO Final Exam UPDATED Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Weight - CORRECT ANSWER - Air pressure is a measure of the ______ of the air molecules over a given unit area a front - CORRECT ANSWER - On a weather map, sharp changes in temperature, humidity, and wind direction are marked by Summer and January - CORRECT ANSWER - If it is winter and january in North Carolina, what are the season and the month in Buenos Aires, Argentina

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ATMO Final Exam REVISED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Convective (Atmospheric Scale of Motion) - CORRECT ANSWER - 10 kilometers, hours Example: Cumulonimbus, Tornado Mesoscale (Atmospheric Scale of Motion) - CORRECT ANSWER - 100 kilometers, hours - days Example: Sea breeze, large storm

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ATMO Exam 4 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers 1. List four regions in North America where mid-latitude cyclones tend to develop or redevelop - CORRECT ANSWER - The Gulf of Mexico, the Atlantic Ocean east of the Carolinas, Alberta (eastern slopes of Canadian Rockies), Colorado (eastern slopes of U.S. Rockies)

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ATMOS Exam #1 UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers At night, as the air temperature falls, what typically happens to the relative humidity? - CORRECT ANSWER - It will increase Which of the following is not considered to be a basic property of the atmosphere? - CORRECT ANSWER - wind chil

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ATMO 1300 Exam Review UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers On a weather map, a line of constant temperature is known as a(n) ______________. On a weather map, a line of constant pressure is known as a(n) ______________. - CORRECT ANSWER - Isotherm, Isobar Greenhouse gases in earth's atmosphere are poor absorbers of visible radiation from the sun, but they are particularly good at absorbing and re

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ATMO Final Exam UPDATED ACTUAL Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers Which statement below is NOT correct concerning hurricanes? - CORRECT ANSWER - A hurricane moving northward over the Pacific will normally survive for a longer time than one moving north over the Atlantic. The Milankovitch Theory proposes that climatic changes are due to: - CORRECT ANSWER - variations in the earth's orbit as it travels through space

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ATMO Final UPDATED Actual Exam Questions and CORRECT Answers You are in upstate New York and observe the wind shift from easterly to southerly. This shift in wind is accompanied by a sudden rise in both the air temperature and dew-point temperature. This means a(n) ____ front passed - CORRECT ANSWER- Warm An upper-air front involves downward motion of the - CORRECT ANSWER- tropopause The word "frontogenesis" on a weather map would mean that - CORRECT ANSWER- a front is regenerating ...

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A ____ usually indicates clearing weather or fair weather. - ️️steadily rising pressure A gradient wind blowing around the low-pressure center is constantly accelerating because it is constantly changing directions. This acceleration is called ____. - ️️centripetal acceleration A ridge on an upper-air isobaric chart indicates ____. - ️️higher than average heights A surface low pressure center is generally associated with ____ on an upper-air isobaric chart. - ️️a though to its...

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Advection Fog - ️️When there is warm air with moderate moisture that passes over a cooler surface, the cold surface (via conduction) cools the air temperature down to the dew point and then creates fog. • Requires a light breeze for this process to occur. • Advection fog is common on the west coast of the U.S Describe how a sling psychrometer works. What does it measure? Does it give you dew point and relative humidity? Explain. - ️️A sling psychrometer is two thermometers mounted s...

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absorption spectrum - ️️the fraction or percentage of incident energy absorbed by an object as a function of the wavelength Adding an atmosphere raises the Earth's surface temperature from roughly 255 K to 288 K. How much more energy is emitted by the Earth's surface in the case with an atmosphere (expressed as a ratio or percentage)? - ️️E(no atmosphere)= sigma*(255^4)= 239.742 E(atmosphere)= sigma*(288^4)= 390.079 ratio = 0.6145 Does more soil moisture lead to higher or lower ai...

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