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32 Cards in this Set
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1. How much has temperature increased in the last century?
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One degree farenheight
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2. What marks the start of the second stage?
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The first drop of precipitation
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3. Where do most tornadoes occur?
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Tornado alley
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4. Contrails
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trails and artificial cirrus clouds made by the exhaust of aircraft engines
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5. When are tropical cyclones called tropical storms?
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Between 36 and 74 mph
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6. What is the overall albedo of the Earth?
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30 percent
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7. Heat capacity
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The amount of heat an object can absorb with out heating up
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If west antartica melted, how much would sea level rise?
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7 meters
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9. When is hail most likely?
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Mature Stage
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10. What is entrainment?
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Pulling in of cool dry air.
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11. what does the size of tornadoe tell you about their strength.
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Nothing
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12. What is the tornado intensity scale called?
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Fujita Scale
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13. Tornado
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violently rotating column of air extending from clouds to the ground.
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14. What are the three stages of thunderstorm development?
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Cumulus, mature, dissipating Stage
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15. What is a tornado?
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violently rotating column of air extending from clouds to the ground.
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16. Who is the intensity of a tornado determine?
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By the damage
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17. How does El Nino and la nina effect hurricanes?
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The wind sheer is too strong. The wind sheer is too weak. Moderate wind sheer is best conditions for a hurricane.
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18. How does proximity to water affect climate?
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Moderates it
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19. How much have temperatures increased in Alaska in the last 100 years?
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11 degrees.
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20. Most powerful relationship between CO2 and temperature?
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CO2 rises temperature rises.
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21. What is the largest daily migration of any species on Earth?
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Zuo Plankton
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22. 2 things that will rise sea level in the next 50 years?
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Thermal expansion, glaciers melting
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23. Coriolis Effect
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the apparent turning of the wind due to the Earth’s rotation.
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24. Cumulonimbus
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puffy rainclouds
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Cirrus
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wispy
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25. When are tornadoes most likely to occur?
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3 and 9 pm
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26. When are hurricanes given a name?
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36 mph becomes tropical storm and receives a name.
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27. Why are caribou finding it harder to find food in winter?
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Ground is covered in ice.
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28. Name two problems that African dust events are causing
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Asthma in the carribean, sea fan disease
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29. When are tropical cyclones called hurricanes?
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75 mph and over, carribean atlantic and gulf of mexico
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30. What are the main ingredient for a hurricane?
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80 degree water and moderate wind sheer.
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If artic sea ice melted, how much would sea level rise?
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None, because its floating.
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