Meteorology Final Cramming

Front 1

True or false: Ultraviolet radiation has more energy than gamma rays.

Back 1

False

Front 2

What is the name of the scale used to measure tornado damage?

Back 2

Fujita Scale

Front 3

What type of cloud usually forms at lower altitudes and then develops vertically?

Back 3

Cumulus

Front 4

During the day, air along slopes is heated more intensely than air along the valley floor, resulting in air being pulled upslope.

Back 4

Valley breeze

Front 5

Any location along a single isobar has the same:

Back 5

Pressure

Front 6

Which type of wind occurs during the evening hours when the land cools faster than the sea?

Back 6

Land breeze

Front 7

A cold, humid air mass:

Back 7

Maritime polar

Front 8

Water that has condensed on the ground and other objects whose temperature has dropped below the dew point.

Back 8

Dew

Front 9

A cold front advancing on a warm front:

Back 9

Occluded front

Front 10

True or false: Graupel and rime is the same thing.

Back 10

False

Front 11

Which of the following optical effects involves hot air near the surface?

Glory

Halo

Mirage

Rainbow

Back 11

Mirage

Front 12

Forces that affect wind do NOT include:

Back 12

Isobars

Front 13

True or false: The Hurricane damage potential scale is called the Saffir-Simpson scale

Back 13

True

Front 14

Which temperature scale has no negative temperatures?

Back 14

Kelvin

Front 15

True or false: If a cold air mass is advancing under a warm air mass, a cold front is created.

Back 15

True

Front 16

Which instrument is used to measure wind direction?

Back 16

Wind vane

Front 17

A tornado watch means that:

Back 17

Conditions are right for a tornado to form

Front 18

True or false: The dry bulb of a psychrometer measures the air temperature.

Back 18

True

Front 19

What are the layers of the atmosphere in order from the ground up?

Back 19

Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere

Front 20

Does melting absorb or release heat?

Back 20

Absorbs heat

Front 21

Closely spaced isobars indicate:

Back 21

Steep pressure gradient

Front 22

What does adiabatic mean?

Back 22

Without adding or removing heat

Front 23

Most heat is transferred in the form of what type of electromagnetic energy?

Back 23

Infared

Front 24

Changing from a solid to a gas is called:

Back 24

Sublimation

Front 25

Why is the sky blue?

Back 25

Gas molecules scatter blue light more than other colors

Front 26

Which of the following optical phenomena involves raindrops?

Mirage

Glory

Halo

Rainbow

Back 26

Rainbow

Front 27

A method of forecasting that relies on gas laws:

Back 27

Numerical

Front 28

Which of the following is not one of the ways man attempts to control the damaging effects of the weather?

Fog dispersal

Hail suppression

Wind suppression

Frost prevention

Back 28

Wind suppression

Front 29

The heat index is related to:

Back 29

Temperature and humidity

Front 30

What are the names of the 4 global ideal pressure zones?

Back 30

Polar high, subpolar low, subtropical high, equatorial low

Front 31

Which of the following is not one of the three mechanisms of heat transfer?

Radiation

Conduction

Absorption

Convection

Back 31

Absorption

Front 32

True or false: When air is saturated, the temperature equals the dew point.

Back 32

True

Front 33

True or false: Hurricanes have a steeper pressure gradient than tornadoes.

Back 33

False

Front 34

What direction does a cyclonic storm rotate?

Back 34

Counterclockwise

Front 35

How much latent heat is released when 10 grams of water is frozen?

Back 35

800 cal

Front 36

A psychrometer reads the dry bulb at 85F and the wet bulb at 80F. What is the relative humidity?

Back 36

90%

Front 37

During this stage precipitation begins to fall:

Back 37

Mature

Front 38

Updrafts stop in this stage:

Back 38

Dissipative

Front 39

The noon Sun is directly above which location on the spring equinox?

Back 39

Equator

Front 40

True or false: Large contrasts in temperature result in faster jet streams.

Back 40

True

Front 41

Which cloud type is a layered cloud?

Back 41

Stratus

Front 42

True or false: It is possible for water to remain a liquid below 0C (32F)

Back 42

True

Front 43

Which instrument is used to measure atmospheric pressure?

Back 43

Barometer

Front 44

What is the cloud cover?

Back 44

60-80%

Front 45

What is the current dew point?

Back 45

45 degrees

Front 46

Which of the following causes instability in the atmosphere?

Back 46

Forceful lifting caused by orographic lifting, frontal wedging, or convergence

Front 47

If the air temperature is 0 degrees F and there is a 5 mph wind blowing, what is the wind chill?

Back 47

-11 degrees F

Front 48

Even though winds are much faster in tornadoes, hurricanes cause more damage. Why?

Back 48

Hurricanes are much larger storms

Front 49

Condensation:

Back 49

Releases heat

Front 50

True or false: The temperature in the stratosphere decreases sharply.

Back 50

False

Front 51

How do you read a psychrometer?

Back 51

Subtract the difference between the dry bulb and the wet bulb. Then, on the chart, find the relative humidity by tracking the dry bulb on the side and the difference between the dry and wet bulbs on the top.

Front 52

What is the order of the electromagnetic spectrum, from lowest to highest energy?

Back 52

Radio waves, infared, ultraviolet, x-rays, gamma rays

Front 53

When matter is changed into a more solid state, heat is:

Back 53

Released

Front 54

When matter is changed into a more gas-like state, heat is:

Back 54

Absorbed

Front 55

Instability in the atmosphere is enhanced by:

Back 55

intense solar heating that warms the air from below (convective lifting);

heating of an air mass from below as it passes over a warm surface;

forceful lifting caused by orographic lifting, frontal wedging, or convergenceradiation; cooling from the tops of clouds

Front 56

Stability in the atmosphere is enhanced by:

Back 56

radiation cooling of the earth’s surface after sunset;

cooling of an air mass from below as it passes over a cold surface;

subsidence of an air column (subsidence is a general downward flow of air)

Front 57

Sleet

Back 57

This is snow crystals that pass through a layer of warm air that melts them, after which they fall through a layer of freezing air. Think of them as “frozen raindrops.”

Front 58

Freezing rain

Back 58

Also known as glaze, this is rain that falls as supercooled liquid onto a surface that is below the freezing point. The surface is coated with a thin layer of ice as the rain hits and freezes.

Front 59

Hail

Back 59

These are hard, rounded pellets or irregular lumps of ice. They form in cumulonimbus clouds where updrafts are strong enough to overcome the pull of gravity on raindrops. This pushes them into sub-freezing layers of the cloud where they freeze and collect more ice.

Front 60

Rime

Back 60

These delicate “ice feathers” form into the wind on surfaces as fog passes through a sub-freezing region.

Front 61

Graupel

Back 61

Commonly called “soft hail,” graupel forms as rime collects on snow crystals.

Front 62

Rain

Back 62

Rain is generally produced by nimbostratus or cumulonimbus clouds that are often the result of snow at higher altitudes, which passes through a warm layer of air and melts.

Front 63

Snow

Back 63

The crystalline structure of ice allows snowflakes to have six sides, though there is an indefinite amount of variability possible (no two snowflakes are identical).

Front 64

How do you read a synoptic weather chart?

Back 64