Meteorology Test Review Answers Troposphere Stratosphere Mesosphere decrease

Meteorology Test Review Answers

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Westerlies Clockwise – to the right Trade winds; Polar easterlies

The uneven heating of the Earth causes movement of air through convection. Coriolis Effect dry wet cool warm front

Surface currents, upwelling, and density currents Wind and the Coriolis Effect Temperature and Salinity (Salt) It would be cooler and drier. Because the cold water current would insulate (or cool) the coast; and drier the cooler air coming from the cold water current doesn’t hold as much water.

Cold air is more dense Cold air causes the water vapor in the air to condense and turn back into liquid. Cold Fronts Because of the large temperature difference when the air masses meet. Cold air is “stronger” than warm air.

Warm Fronts There is not as large of a temperature difference and the warm air is not as dense and “strong” as the cold air. Doppler Radar It can also be used to approximate wind speed. When the air has reached the point where it holds as much water vapor as possible, and then the temperature decreases. Then the air cannot hold as much moisture, so condensation occurs and dew is formed.

the Sun No. Because warm air is less dense, and therefore rises. So the downstairs would not get warm, because the warm air will rise and stay upstairs.

Land heats more rapidly than the water, which causes the air to heat and rise, thus creating an area of low pressure. At night, the ocean cools more slowly than the and, so it heats the air above it, which causes the air to rise and creates a low pressure area.