Exam 9: Weather and Climate

The pattern of weather conditions over a region or regions for a long period of time is called

The upper boundary of the troposphere is known as the

The horse latitudes at 30 deg N or 30 deg S and the doldrums at the equator are likely to have

Prevailing easterlies of tropical oceans which powered commercial ships were called

The weather is defined as the physical state, at any given time and place of the

Air moving away from the North Pole in an absolute straight line, and appearing to move in a westerly direction, is called (a, an)

Cyclonic storms in the Western Hemisphere are known as

The highest layer of the atmosphere is called the

A form of cyclonic activity that is a very small but vicious storm, spawned out of thunderstorms is called a

The Coriolis effect is the

In the water cycle, water vapor reaches the air principally by

The part of the atmosphere in which we live is called the

A temperature gradient in this chapter is the temperature change per unit change in

The layer of the atmosphere where the negative temperature gradient ends is called the

Hurricanes in Australia and India are called

Due to the angle of the sun's radiation,

If the temperature increases with altitude, the change is called a

Thermal inversions occur when

The effect of clouds on the weather is very much like

Ocean effects on weather occur because