Unit 3 Test on 12/17(A) & 12/18(B)
- What is the primary cause of winds?
- Describe the wind direction around high and low pressure centers
- What do isobars that are close together tell us?
- Why do clouds form at a cold front? At a warm front?
- How do weather patterns differ for cold and warm fronts (temp., precip.)?
- Describe the temperature and moisture content of the following air masses
- Continental polar (cP)
- Maritime polar (mP)
- Continental tropical (cT)
- Maritime tropical (mT)
- What are land breezes? Sea Breezes?
- What direction do weather patterns move across the United States? Why?
- What contributes to the formation of hurricanes?
- What conditions are necessary for clouds to form?
- What is dew point? Relative humidity? What method do we use to determine them?
- What factors affect the climate of an area? Which do you think has the greatest effect?
- On a weather map, how can you tell where precipitation is likely occurring?
- Draw the symbols for the following fronts: cold, warm, occluded, stationary
- Describe the effect of a body of water on the climate of an area.
- What latitudes experience dry sinking air, causing the dry conditions of the major deserts?
- How do mountains affect climate conditions? (windward/leeward)
- In which layer of the atmosphere is most water vapor found?
- What is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere?
- Why do global winds follow a curved path?
- Why do the Northern and Southern hemisphere have opposite seasons?
- What happens to temperature and pressure as you rise in the troposphere?
- How is climate different from weather?
- What causes the ocean conveyor belt?
- Describe the vegetation you would find in a tundra.
- Describe the temperature and precipitation in a tropical rainforest
- Describe the cause and characteristics of El Nino.
- Describe how El Nino affects weather conditions in other parts of the world.
- Be able to do the following on a weather map: draw and label isobars, locate and correctly label high and low pressure centers.