Name: ____________________________ Date: _______________________________
Mrs. Yip-Chen
Earth science Unit 7: Weather and Climate Regents Review Topics (Write your answers on loose leaf paper)
1.
How do you convert joules to calories per gram?
2.
What is latent heat?
3.
Which phase changes require heat energy? (Heating process)
4.
Which phase change requires the most amount of heat energy?
5.
Which phase changes releases heat energy? (Cooling process)
6.
How does latitude affect your weather and climate?
7.
How does altitude affect your weather and climate?
8.
How does closeness to a body of water affect your weather and climate?
9.
How does atmospheric transparency affect your weather and climate?
10.
Which type of climate will you experience the greatest yearly temperature range?
11.
Which type of climate will you experience the smallest yearly temperature range?
12.
What is relative humidity?
13.
How do you calculate it?
14.
What is the relative humidity of a region if the air temperature is 2° C and the wet-blub temperature is -1° C?
15.
What is dewpoint?
16.
How do you calculate it?
17.
What is true about the closeness of your air (dry bulb) temperature and dewpoint temperature? What type of weather occurs?
18.
When is air pressure the highest?
19.
Low air pressure usually indicates __________________ weather is coming.
20.
High air pressure usually indicates ___________________ weather is coming.
21.
What is wind?
22.
Winds are named by where they ________ ____________.
23.
Winds always blow from ________ to _________ pressure areas.
24.
Describe sea breezes.
25.
Describe land breezes.
26.
How could a region be affected by lake-effect snow?
27.
Why do high and low pressure areas form over Earth?
28.
What causes our wind belts?
29.
What direction do all air masses, wind, and weather systems travel over the United
States?
30.
What is a temperature inversion?
31.
What is the dry adiabatic lapse rate?
32.
What is the moist adiabatic lapse rate?
33.
Describe how air masses change as it flow over a mountain.
34.
How do you change barometric pressure on a station model into millibar's format?
35.
Draw a station model.
36.
Draw the 4 frontal symbols and briefly describe each one.
37.
On a weather map, would precipitation occur along the front or in between the front symbols?
38.
Name and describe the 4 major types of air masses.
39.
How do winds in low pressure systems rotate and move?

40.
What storm systems are associated with low pressure systems?
41.
How do winds in high pressure systems rotate and move?
42.
Describe the type of air associated with high pressure systems.
43.
Describe the type of air associated with low pressure systems.
44.
What are the temperature zones of our atmosphere classified by?
45.
What is an anemometer?
46.
What is a barometer?
47.
What is a psychrometer?
48.
What is a wind vane?
49.
What is a rain gauge?
50.
How does the sun’s angle of insolation affect local climate?
51.
Which type of surface absorbs the most electromagnetic energy?
52.
Which type of surfaces reflects the most electromagnetic energy?
53.
How does Earth’s atmosphere act like a giant greenhouse?
54.
What is contributing to intense global warming?
55.
What are monsoons?
56.
What is El Nino?
57.
What gas in the stratosphere protects us from the Sun’s harmful UV rays?
58.
What is contributing to ozone depletion?
59.
What causes seasons?
Be able to:
1.
Determine Specific Heat, Properties of Water, and the Average Chemical Composition of Earth’s
Crust, Hydrosphere, and Troposphere on ESRT p.1.
2.
Determine surface currents on ESRT p.4.
3.
Interpret Dewpoint and Relative Humidity on ESRT pp.12.
4.
Convert temperature and pressure readings, interpret station models, and identify present weather symbols and fronts on ESRT pp.13.
5.
Interpret Selected Properties of Earth’s Atmosphere on ESRT pp.14.
6.
Interpret Planetary Wind and Moisture Belts in the Troposphere on ESRT pp.14.