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Two branches of stats - Answers-Descriptive, inferential Descriptive stats - Answers-organize and summarize data Inferential Stats - Answers-uses sample data to make general estimates about large population sample - Answers-set observations from population of intrest population - Answers...

formation of glacial lakes - Answers-ice pushes crust downward, allowing meltwater to form. ie the great lakes finger lakes - Answers-formed in tunnel valleys - erosional channels from flowing water under the ice sheet. massive amounts of melt water pluvial lakes - Answers-NOT glacial. formed ...

In the ice crystal process of precipitation development, the ice crystal________ because the air immediately around the ice has a ________ saturation vapor pressure compared to the air immediately around the liquid droplet - Answers-grows, lower As water condenses out of a cooling air parcel, wha...

Weather - Answers-the day-to-day state of the atmosphere, and its short-term variation in minutes to weeks. the state of the atmosphere at some place and time, and it is described with quantitative variable: temperature, humidity, cloudiness, precipitation, wind speed and wind direction. Climate ...

Alternate weather mins - Answers-Wx 3000 / 3 or better - none req Wx >pub mins but < 3000 / 3 - Wx has to be bettee than alternate pub mins +250/(1/2) for prec or +300(1) for non prec Wx <pub mins - alt Wx has to be > 3000 / 3 Fuel Requirements - Answers-If alt not required, fuel fr...

the term that properly describes the shape of earth - Answers-Oblate spheroid -The diameter of Earth between the poles is shorter than the diameter of Earth that intersects the equatorial plane. The shape must be an oblate spheroid. during which event is the south pole nearest the sun - Answe...

Albedo - Answers-Proportion of incoming solar radiation that is reflected by a surface; the whiter the color of the surface (albedo derives from the Latin word albus, meaning white), the higher its albedo. Conduction - Answers-Transport of heat energy from one molecule to another in any medium. ...

max aob on a low level - Answers-45 obstacle avoidance on LL/AD - Answers-visual: 500' above OR 2000' laterally not visual: 500' above within 2NM The ERAA provides what obstacle clearance - Answers-1000' (2000 mountainous) within 25NM either side of AP1B centerline The MSA provides wha...

In the diagram, AB = 10 and AC = 2√10. What is the perimeter of ABC? - Answers-d. 20 + 2√10 units HIJK is a parallelogram because the midpoint of both diagonals is _________ 2)7,) means the diagonals bisect each other. - Answers-1, 0 In the diagram, ZY = WX = 2√10. What is the perimeter ...

Climate is controlled by - Answers--number of layers (composition of atmosphere) -solar constant (how bright the sun is at the orbit of the planet) -albedo weather - Answers-the exact state of the atmosphere at a particular point in time climate - Answers-the statistics of the weather how...

MTOW? - Answers-38,850lbs Max Ramp Weight? - Answers-39,000lbs MZFW? - Answers-27,200lbs MLW? - Answers-33,750lbs Min Flight Weight? - Answers-23,100lbs Wing Span? - Answers-63 feet 10 inches Wing Sweep? - Answers-27° Aircraft Length? - Answers-68 feet 8 inches Aircraft Heig...

Allee effect - Answers-a decrease in the population growth rate as the population density decreases Bottom up control - Answers-Limitation of the abundance of a population by nutrient supply or by the availability of food. Damped oscillations - Answers-A pattern of population fluctuations in w...

What do Linux applications use to get things done and talk to different parts of the computer? - Answers-Kernel What some variants of Linux? (distributions) - Answers-RedHat Ubuntu Debian Mandriva CentOS What are the 3 elements of Linux? - Answers-User Space - application, terminal, the gr...

circuit breakers and fuses. - Answers-the two most common types of overcurrent protective devices are Circuit breakers - Answers-are grouped for identification according to given current ranges. handle - Answers-the normal current rating of a circuit breaker is located on the CSA and UL - A...

Purposes of heat treatment - Answers--soften the metal before forming -relieve strain hardening -strengthen & harden metal Annealing (Why?) - Answers--Heating and soaking a metal then slowly cooling -reduce hardness & brittleness -soften metal recrystallize metal 3 steps in precipitatio...

What National Weather Service office provides meteorological forecasts, and advice to ARTCCs and other FAA facilities regarding weather impact on their missions? A. Center Weather Service Unit (CWSU) B. Weather Forecast Office (WFO) C. Meteorological Watch Office (MWO) D. Aviation Weather Cent...

Be able to identify the definition of kinematics - Answers-A description of the motion of a particular field without regard to how it came about or how it will evolve Be able to list the four kinematic components of a wind vector field - Answers-- Translation - Vorticity - Divergence - Deforma...

Thermal wind is the ____ difference between two winds at different levels in the atmosphere - Answers-vector How does the thermal wind related to the horizontal temperature gradient in a layer? - Answers-The thermal wind is parallel to the average temperature gradient How would the vertical sh...

Types of Icing - Answers-- Clear - Rime - Mixed Clear icing - Answers-Heavy coating of glassy ice, harder to remove, small droplets, hits the surface and becomes a sheet of ice. See this in cumulus clouds. Like an ice cube. Rime icing - Answers-most common in stratiform clouds, milky/white f...