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Using your textbook, complete each page in your booklet according to the instructions
below. This assignment is worth 50 points.
Page Assignment
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Top of the Page number, write, and define the following words:
- radiation
- heat
- conduction - isotherm
- temperature - isobar
Bottom of the page complete the table using info from p. 366
In the box: use p. 369 to draw and color the diagram for “How Heat Energy Moves”
Bottom of the Page use p. 371 to draw and color the diagram for the different layers
of the atmosphere. You must include all four plus the x and y axis for height and
temperature!
Top of the Page use p. 373 to draw and color the diagram for our “Global Heat
Budget”
Bottom of the page label the letters with the season each would occur (summer or
winter). Use the info found on p. 374-375.
Number, write, and define the following words:
- condensation
- specific humidity
- relative humidity
- dew point
- precipiation
- water vapor
Top of the Page number, write, and define the five different types of clouds:
- stratus
- nimbostratus
- cumulus
- cumulonimbus
- cirrus
Bottom of the Page use p. 396-397 to draw a diagram illustrating low, middle, and
high clouds. Be sure to include the list of which clouds form at each elevation and what
the elevation range is.
Top of the Page describe how these forms of precipitation form:
- rain
-freezing rain
- sleet
-hail
- snow
Bottom of the Page in the box draw the diagram that is found at the bottom of p.
404. Be sure to label and define windward and leeward.
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Top of the Page number, write, and define the following words:
- air pressure
- high pressure
- barometer
- low pressure
- pressure gradient
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For high pressure and low pressure indicate the general weather conditions that is
associated with each.
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Bottom of the Page in the boxes provided draw diagrams found on p. 420 on how
the Coriolis effect moves the winds associated with a high pressure and low pressure for
the northern hemisphere.
Top of the Page draw the diagram found on p. 423, be sure that you label the
global wind patterns.
Bottom of the Page use p. 428-429 to draw the diagram for a sea-breeze and land
breeze.
Top of the Page:
1st: use p. 457 to label the different parts of the weather station symbol that is given
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2nd: draw & color the international symbols for cold front, warm front, stationary front,
and occluded front (p. 440)
3rd: draw the weather map symbols for:
- winds coming from the north, south, east, and west (4 symbols total)
- no clouds, 50% cloud coverage, and sky obscured (3 symbols total)
- drizzle, hurricane, snow, freezing rain, fog (5 total)
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Bottom of the Page label the diagram with the following air masses:
- continental artic (cA)
- continental polar (cP)
- continental tropic (cT)
- maritime polar (mP)
- maritime tropic (mT)
Number, write, and define the following words:
- cold front
- storm watch
- warm front
- storm warning
- thunderstorm
- hurricane
- super cell
- storm surge
- lightning
- Saffir-Simpson scale
- tornado
- blizzard
- Fujita Scale
For warm and cold front indicate what type of weather will occur along the front
boundary.
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