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Meteorology Notes Packet
1. What is meteorology?
2. Where does the word meteorology come from?
3. What is weather?
4. What is climate?
5. What factors contribute to earth’s weather?
6. What determines how much solar energy an area receives?
7. What is wind?
8. What causes wind?
9. Warm air, cold air, and pressure?
10. How many global winds & where’re they located?
11. What is the Coriolis effect?
12. How does the Coriolis effect curve the winds?
13. What are the facts about the polar easterlies?
14. What are the facts about the prevailing westerlies?
15. What are the facts about the trade winds?
16. What are the doldrums?
17. What are local winds?
18. How are land breezes formed?
19. How are sea breezes formed?
20. How are mountain breezes formed?
21. How are valley breezes formed?
22. What is an air mass?
23. How do you name an air mass?
24. What is a front?
25. What are the four kinds of fronts?
26. How do cold fronts form & what weather is associated?
27. What weather is associated with cold fronts?
28. How do warm fronts form?
29. What weather is associated with warm fronts?
30. How do occluded fronts form?
31. What weather is associated with occluded fronts?
32. How do stationary fronts form?
33. What weather is associated with stationary fronts?
34. How do air masses converging work?
35. How do air masses separating work?
36. What do thermometers and barometers measure?
37. What do anemometers and psychrometers measure?
38. What ASOS?
39. What is a weather balloon and what is a radiosonde?
40. What is radar?
41. What is Doppler radar
42. What does analyzing weather data lead to?
43. What are station models and why do we use them?
44. What are the two kinds of weather maps?
45. What are the symbols for the four weather fronts?
46. What are analog forecasts?
47. What are digital forecasts?
1. What is meteorology?
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2. Where does the word meteorology come from?
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3. What is weather?
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4. What is climate?
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5. What factors contribute to earth’s weather?
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6. What determines how much solar energy an area receives?
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7. What is wind?
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8. What causes wind?
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9. Warm air, cold air, and pressure?
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10. How many global winds & where’re they located?
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11. What is the Coriolis effect?
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12. How does the Coriolis effect curve the winds?
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13. What are the facts about the polar easterlies?
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14. What are the facts about the prevailing westerlies?
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15. What are the facts about the trade winds?
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16. What are the doldrums?
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17. What are local winds?
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18. How are land breezes formed?
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19. How are sea breezes formed?
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20. How are mountain breezes formed?
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21. How are valley breezes formed?
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22. What is an air mass?
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23. How do you name an air mass?
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24. What is a front?
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25. What are the four kinds of fronts?
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26. How do cold fronts form & what weather is associated?
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27. What weather is associated with cold fronts?
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28. Draw a cold front.
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29. How do warm fronts form?
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30. What weather is associated with warm fronts?
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31. Draw a warm front.
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32. How do occluded fronts form?
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33. What weather is associated with occluded fronts?
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34. Draw a occluded front.
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35. How do stationary fronts form?
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36. What weather is associated with stationary fronts?
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37. Draw a stationary front.
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38. How do air masses converging work?
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39. How do air masses separating work?
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40. What do thermometers and barometers measure?
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41. What do anemometers and psychrometers measure?
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42. What ASOS?
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43. What is a weather balloon and what is a radiosonde?
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44. What is radar?
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45. What is Doppler radar?
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46. What does analyzing weather data lead to?
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47. What are station models and why do we use them?
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48. What are the two kinds of weather maps?
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49. What are the symbols for the four weather fronts?
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50. What are analog forecasts?
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51. What are digital forecasts?
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