3.1 Test is on 12/5 (A) 12/6 (B)
1.What is the primary cause of winds?
2.Describe the wind direction around high and low pressure centers
3.What do isobars that are close together tell us?
4.Why do clouds form at a cold front? At a warm front?
5.How do weather patterns differ for cold and warm fronts (temp., precip.)?
6.Describe the temperature and moisture content of the following air masses
a. Continental polar (cP)
b. Maritime polar (mP)
c. Continental tropical (cT)
d. Maritime tropical (mT)
7.What are land breezes? Sea Breezes?
8.What direction do weather patterns move across the United States? Why?
9.What contributes to the formation of hurricanes?
10.What is dew point? Relative humidity? What method do we use to determine them?
11.On a weather map, how can you tell where precipitation is likely occurring?
12.Draw the symbols for the following fronts: cold, warm, occluded, stationary
13.Describe the effect of a body of water on the climate of an area.
14.In which layer of the atmosphere is most water vapor found?
15.What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere?
16.Why do global winds follow a curved path?
17.What happens to temperature and pressure as you rise in the troposphere?
18.Be able to do the following on a weather map: draw and label isobars, locate and correctly label high and low pressure centers.
2.Describe the wind direction around high and low pressure centers
3.What do isobars that are close together tell us?
4.Why do clouds form at a cold front? At a warm front?
5.How do weather patterns differ for cold and warm fronts (temp., precip.)?
6.Describe the temperature and moisture content of the following air masses
a. Continental polar (cP)
b. Maritime polar (mP)
c. Continental tropical (cT)
d. Maritime tropical (mT)
7.What are land breezes? Sea Breezes?
8.What direction do weather patterns move across the United States? Why?
9.What contributes to the formation of hurricanes?
10.What is dew point? Relative humidity? What method do we use to determine them?
11.On a weather map, how can you tell where precipitation is likely occurring?
12.Draw the symbols for the following fronts: cold, warm, occluded, stationary
13.Describe the effect of a body of water on the climate of an area.
14.In which layer of the atmosphere is most water vapor found?
15.What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere?
16.Why do global winds follow a curved path?
17.What happens to temperature and pressure as you rise in the troposphere?
18.Be able to do the following on a weather map: draw and label isobars, locate and correctly label high and low pressure centers.