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24 Cards in this Set
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what are isobars?
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Pressure Contours.
isobars are lines drawn on a map joining places of equal average atmospheric pressure reduced to sea level for a specified period of time |
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What time zone is used for surface maps
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Universal time (UT) or Zulu time (ZT)
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what are isotherms?
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temperauture contours.
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What causes the wind to blow?
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Small horizontal differences in pressure
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What is the air motion of a low pressure (northern hemisphere)?
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counterclockwise
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Which direction do High pressure systems move on northern hemisphere?
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clockwise
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converging winds cause air to _____
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rise
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divergent winds caues air to _______
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sink
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HFCs do not contain _______ and therefore do not pose any risk to the earth's ozone layer
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chlorine
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The driest area is before the low front or ahead of it
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before
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southwesterly winds before the cold front or after?
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after
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the average surface temeprature of earth is about what temperatjure on the kelvin scale?
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300
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latent heat
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phase changes
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which phase changes release energy into the surroundings (exothermic)?
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gas-liquid
liquid-solid |
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what is the term for a phase change that releases energy into the surroundings?
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exothermic
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what is the phase change of solid to gas? gas to solid?
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sublimation
gas to solid is desublimation |
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what is the phase change of gas to liquid?
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condensation
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what is the phase change of liquid to solid?
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freezing
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what is the order of visible light in order of shortest wavelength to longest?
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0.4 violet
blue 0.5 green yellow 0.6 orange 0.7 red |
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what is the order of light in order of shortest wavelengths to longest?
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UV, Visible Light, Near InfraRed, Far InfraRed
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the longer the wavelengths from the sun the _____ the sun is?
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colder
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where is the atmospheric window and what type of light is it?
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8-12 um and it is infrared
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stefan-boltzman law
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E=σT4
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wien's law
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λMAX=3000/T
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