PHY 106 Final
Which of the following processes can be called orographic lifting?
Air is forced to rise over a mountainous barrier.
At what latitudes do the trade winds occur?
Between the equator and 30 degrees N and S
Which of the following sequences describes the weather pattern experienced in an area located south of a mature middle latitude cyclone in the Northern Hemisphere?
Cirrus clouds, light precipitation, warm and humid conditions, severe weather, and clear skies
The ________ climates are land-controlled climates, the result of broad continents in the middle latitudes.
D
Which one of the following statements is true about the equinoxes?
Days and nights are equal in length everywhere.
Which of the following does not happen when the humidity exceeds 100%?
It gets warmer
Why does the Florida peninsula experiences the greatest frequency of midafternoon thunderstorms of any place in the United States?
It gets winds blowing from the oceans on both sides and they collide in the middle of Florida and rise to generate thunderstorms.
Which planets have rings?
Jovian planets
Which of the following terms does not describe one of the vertical layers of the atmosphere?
Lithosphere
The name ________ climate is often used as a synonym for the dry-summer subtropical climate.
Mediterranean
How does relative humidity describe the moisture content in the air?
Relative humidity indicates how near the air is to saturation.
Why do storm systems move from west to east in mid latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere?
The storms are steered by approximately west to east winds aloft that are approximately geostrophic winds produced by Coriolis forces.
Which of the following statements are true regarding weather and climate? Choose all that apply.
Weather describes the state of the atmosphere at a given time and place Climate data does not guarantee matching daily weather.
The "true" brightness of a star is called its ________ magnitude.
absolute
The earliest astronomical records appear to have been made by the ancient Chinese, Egyptians, and Babylonians in order to ________.
determine when to plant crops or hunt animals based on seasonal changes
Closely spaced isobars indicate ________ wind speeds.
high
Carbon dioxide is an important influence on climate because ________.
it passes incoming short wavelength solar radiation, but it absorbs some longer wavelength outgoing earth radiation
The ________ west coast climate is situated on the western (windward) side of continents from about 40 to 65 degrees latitude.
marine
Doppler radar aids tornado detection by detecting
motion within clouds
The boundaries of the Köppen climates are largely based on the limits of certain ________ associations.
plant
Earth's low-latitude deserts and steppes coincide with the ________ pressure belts.
subtropical high (dense air is opposite of what is needed for cloud formation)
Condensation nuclei, tiny particles of matter in the air, are important because ________.
they provide a surface for water molecules to form on
The tundra climate is a ________ found almost exclusively in the ________ Hemisphere.
treeless climate, Northern
The two main types of A climates are ________ climates.
wet tropical and tropical wet and dry