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WX 201 FINAL EXAM REVIEW QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT ANSWERS What does NOT contribute to making Salt Lake City colder than Seattle during winter? - Answer-Seattle has more cloud cover than Salt lake City, which traps outgoing infrared radiation and keeps temperatures from getting as cold. What is the solar elevation angle over Sao Paulo, Brazil (lat. 24 s) at noon on Dec. 22? - Answer-89.5 Earth has seasons - Answer-Because of Earth's tilt angle Daily high temperatures usually occur - Ans...

WX 201 Exam 1 |Complete And Graded A+ Meteorology is the study of: The Atmosphere Weather describes the conditions averaged over a region or over a period, whereas climate describes the condition of the atmosphere at a particular time and place. False In ____ near Earth's surface today, nitrogen occupies 78 percent and oxygen nearly 21 percent. The volume of air Atmospheric concentration of helium has increased from below 300 ppm historically to over 400 ppm presently. False...

WX 201 Exam 2 Questions and Answers Already Passed The main difference between a cloud drop and a raindrop is its ____. size In a fact that surprises many people, small raindrops fall ____ large raindrops, and have ____ terminal velocity than/as large raindrops. slower than; a lesser Atmospheric conditions that produce sleet differ from those that produce hail because for sleet to form, surface temperatures must be below freezing, whereas surface temperatures are typically well abov...

Wx 201 Final Exam Questions with Verified Solutions the rate at which the actual air temperature changes with increasing height above the surface is reffered to as the ___ rate. environmental lapse the albedo of the moon is 7 percent. this means that ___. 7 percent of sunlight striking the moon is reflected an inversion represents an extremely stable atmosphere because air that rises into the inversion will eventually become ___ and more dense than/as the surrounding air. colder ...

Quiz 1 WX 201 Questions and Answers Already Passed Earth's atmosphere is divided into named layers based on the vertical profile of - air density. - air temperature. - wind speed. - chemical composition. - air pressure. air temperature. In a temperature inversion, air temperature - decreases with increasing height. - is warmer during winter than during summer. - increases with increasing height. - is warmer at night than during the day. - remains constant with increasing ...

WX 201 Final Exam Questions and Answers Already Passed ____ is a condition in which the environmental lapse rate is equal to the dry adiabatic rate. Neutral Stability A geostrophic wind is a wind that results from a balance between the ____ force and the ____ force. Coriolis; pressure gradient A good source region for an air mass would be ____. generally flat areas of uniform composition with light surface winds A lee-side low forms ____. on the downwind side of a mountain A...

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WX 201 Unit 3 Test Questions with Verified Answers A condition where the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean turns cooler than normal is called La Niña. A dryline is both a dew point front and a boundary marking a strong horizontal change in atmospheric moisture. A geostrophic wind is a wind that results from a balance between the ____ force and the ____ force. Coriolis; pressure gradient A pilot enters the weather service office and wants to know what time of the day s...

WX 201 Exam 2 Latest Update Graded A+ Attenuation radar signal is wearied when observing strong echoes (heavy precipitation) Buoyancy -Less dense than surrounding fluid = positively buoyant = accelerated upward -More dense than surrounding fluid = negatively buoyant = accelerates downward -warmer parcel rices and colder parcels sink Cloud condensation nuclei Aerosols- sea salt, dust, carbon particles Cloud Nomenclature Nimbus = rain Cumulus = heaped Status = layered Alto = ...