Science

Topographic features

Radar has the ability to reveal this feature

Basic

All are types of galaxy except:

• spiral

• barred

• irregular

• basic

• elliptical

• lunar highlands

• cratered highlands

• light-colored igneoous rocks

• impact craters

What are qualities of our moon

gamma rays

These electromagnetic radiation rays have the shortest wavelengths

Clouds of dust and gas

What’s a nebula

Axis of rotation

Uranus is unique because of this characteristic

Methane

Which chemical compound causes Uranus and Neptune to be blue

Astronomy

The study of celestial bodies and their movements

• Europa

• Callisto

• Ganymede

• Io

Jupiter’s moons

Heavily cratered

All are features of Venus except:

• Thick atmosphere

• Large amount of Greenhouse gases

• Heavily cratered

• Reaches surface temperature of 300 c

Acts like a funnel

Unique ability of refracting telescope

UV rays strike O2, which further decomposes with Chlorine

How Ozone is produced

Leave Earth

Longer wavelengths tend to do what

Troposphere

Where the weather phenomena occur

Equator

Most insolation

More sunspots

When is the Sun energetic

Light

Radiant energy

Subtropics

Which region gets the most insolation

False

The temperature of continental land is less than that of oceanic water.

All radiation

What does the atmosphere not protect earth from

Elliptical

What is the shape of the Earth’s orbit

Saturated lapse rate decreases due to the presence of condensation

Lapse rate is defined by the rate at which air temperature falls with increasing altitude. With this in mind, what happens to lapse rate in the presence of saturated air?

Gas to Liquid

What is the phase change related to condensation

True

The proportional relationship between height and pressure is inverse

True

The proportional relationship between height and temperature is inverse

Temperature

What does not have a direct relation to relative humidity

High latitudes

This is where specific humidity is at its lowest

deep depth of water

These factors quicken evapotranspiration except:

• Temperature

• energy

• wind

• rapid permeability of land

• radiation from the sun and other sources

• precipitation

• deep depth of water

Adhesion

Which is a property of water

False

The leeward side of mountains generally have an unsaturated lapse rate, causing the side to be cooler and more moist (than the windward side)

SH is the water vapor in the air, while RH is the water vapor in respect to the capacity of air

What’s the difference between specific humidity and relative humidity

Raindrops (2 mm)

Largest sized particle of precipitation

Adiabatic

No energy exchange with surroundings

force air downhill

Fog can form in the following ways except one:

• Saturate air

• increase humidity

• cool temperatures

• trap moist air

• force air downhill

Nimbostratus

These are clouds that have precipitation falling from them

Differences in pressures

What causes wind

Barometer

What’s used to measure atmospheric pressure

Trade winds

what occurs in tropics

differences in specific heat capacity of land and water

what’s the cause of sea breeze

clockwise and outward

how do areas of high pressure move in the Northern Hemisphere

Easterlies

These winds blow east to west

True

The air pressure in the polar regions are high, while in subpolar regions are low

Storms

Rossby waves affect these conditions

Trough

Center of low pressure typically form a cyclone. What else does it form?

Troposphere

Which layer of Earth has the greatest pressure

Occluded front

When warm air gets trapped in between cold and cool air

Warm front

When warm air displaces cold air

Cold front

When cold air displaces warm front

False

Adjacent clouds cannot merge because of discrepancies in air mass

Area of high pressure

What does rising air over oceans do not form:

• Low pressure

• typhoons

• area of high pressure

• troughs

Air temperature reaches 10,000 c

What’s not a quality of thunder:

• Air temperature reaches 10,000 c

• Cannot happen without lightning

• Resulting expansion causes a vacuum

• sound created in the collision of air

Very warm & Moist

Type of air in the Philippines

mountains

this weakens the strength of tropical cyclones

dry, sinking air

this forms the eye of a tropical cyclone

Haboob

What’s not a type of windstorm:

• watersprout

• whirlwind

• haboob

• dust devil

• microburst

True

The ionic charges of higher altitudes clouds are different than that of lower altitude clouds

Area of high pressure

What does rising air over oceans do not form:

• Low pressure

• typhoons

• area of high pressure

• troughs

Air temperature reaches 10,000 c

What’s not a quality of thunder:

• Air temperature reaches 10,000 c

• Cannot happen without lightning

• Resulting expansion causes a vacuum

• sound created in the collision of air

Very warm & Moist

Type of air in the Philippines

Insolation

Radiation from the sun that we receive

Equatorial parts

max insolation

mountains

this weakens the strength of tropical cyclones

dry, sinking air

this forms the eye of a tropical cyclone

Reflection

some radiant energy bounces off

True

The ionic charges of higher altitudes clouds are different than that of lower altitude clouds

N2, O2, Ar

Atmosphere

Co2, Ch4

Atmosphere

What can we observe in stratosphere

Second layer of atmosphere. Dry air. Ozone is prominent there.

examples of reflection

Mirror, Water, Spoon.

examples of scattering

blue color of the sky
Projector
Red color used as danger signals

High level clouds

Cirrocumulus, Cirrus, Cirrostratus

Absorption

retain some energy

Scattering

like reflection but rough surface

mountains

this weakens the strength of tropical cyclones

dry, sinking air

this forms the eye of a tropical cyclone

Reflection

some radiant energy bounces off

True

The ionic charges of higher altitudes clouds are different than that of lower altitude clouds

N2, O2, Ar

Atmosphere

Co2, Ch4

Atmosphere

unsaturated lapse rate

Dry Adiabatic Lapse Rate (DALR)

Environmental Lapse Rate

Lapse rate of non rising air.

warm water

steep (air cools a lot), unstable (air keeps rising)

cold water

Gentle (not much cooling), more stable (sir will not rise)

What can we observe in stratosphere

bends in polar front jetstream

Convergence

collide. There's mass so high pressure, it’s slow. MORE EVERYTHING

Divergence

Speeding up. Scatter. Low pressure. More moveable

Bergeron Process

explains how ice crystals grow at the expense of cloud droplets within a mixed cloud.

Latent Heat

Energy released or absorbed by us

Lapse rate

rate at which atmospheric temperature decrease as altitude increases

Solstices

Longest and shortest days of the year

ITCZ

Imaginary line between North and South due to NE & SE WINDS

Santa Ana Winds

Mojave Desert

Saturated Lapse Rate

change in temp of a parcel of air rising through saturated air

Rossby waves

bends in polar front jetstream

Convergence

Window glass
Tinted car
Microscope lenses

Water

Highest pressure in subtropics

Ideal Gas Law

Ideal gas molecules do not attract or repel each other. PV=nRT

CO2 H2 SO4 (Carbon dioxide and traces of Sulfuric acid)

Venus Atmosphere

Galymede

Largest moon in solar system (Jupiter)

Titan

Second largest moon in solar system (Saturn)