GEOG 2050 Test 2

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The temperature in a parcel of air is 30 degrees Celsius at sea level. How high will this unsaturated air parcel have to rise to reach 10 degrees Celsius?

2000 meters

Graph: what is saturation vapor pressure for air that is 30 degrees celsius?

40 millibars

Radiation fog forms when

Ground cools air above

Figure: ITCZ restricted entirely to tropics

because it follows latitude of subsolar point

A ____ is seasonal reversal of winds

monsoon

Which wind system best for Mexico to Vietnam

Trade winds

location typically with highest specific humidity

Tropics over water

in northern hemosphere coriolis force deflects objects

right

The global pressure belt called the __________ is found centered on about 30 degrees latitude north and south.

subtropical high

58. Continuing with the previous question, assume the air parcel has a moist adiabatic rate of 5 degrees Celsius per 1,000 meters. What will the temperature of the air parcel be at 6,000 meters altitude?

-15 degrees celsius

The temperature in a parcel of air is 30 degrees Celsius at sea level and it has a dew-point temperature of 0 degrees Celsius. How high will this unsaturated air parcel have to rise to become saturated?

3000 meters

Instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure

Barometer

____ Clouds are whispy and thin

Cirrus

Which will occur least when relative humidity is 100%?

Evaporation

Santa ana winds form

High pressure Great Basin Low pressure southern Cali

Which is best characterized as warm and rainy

ITCZ

Which will not change dew point temp

Increase in air temp

How would the temperature at the surface of Earth likely respond if there were more stratus clouds?

It would cool

ITCZ is farthest north in

July

Describe ocean salinity at high latitudes

Low near surface and increases with depth

area with uniform air density and pressure will have

No wind

____ occurs when air moves over mountains

Orographic uplift

When air's water vapor content equals air's vapor capacity air is

Saturated

Most prevalent wind system in US

Westerlies

Which wind system best for Virginia to Portugal

Westerlies

East coast is wetter than the west coast because of

anticyclones

26. The __________ is/are where wind is slowed by friction with Earth's surface.

boundary layer

which is not found in a cyclone?

clockwise rotation in the northern hemosphere

Coriolis force is caused by

earth's rotation

The ______ is the temperature that it feels like when air is hot and high humidity

heat index temp

when isobars are close together pressure gradient

increases

when isobars are close together wind speed

increases

Which generates sea breezes

inland heating of the land

Stronger daytime heating affects valley breezes by

making them stronger

direction of the pressure gradient runs ____ to isobars

perpendicular

16. The most important factor determining wind speed and direction is

pressure force gradient

Warm air has a ____ vapor pressure than cold air

temp does not change vapor pressure


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