Transcript Chapters 24 and 25 Study Notes:

Chapters 24 and 25
Study Notes:
Weather and Climate
Chapters 24 Section 2:
Fronts
1
► Storms
along a ____
cold front are usually
violent
short-lived and sometimes ______,
while storms along a warm front
produce precipitation over a _____
large
area, and are sometimes violent.
2
►A
front that forms when a cold air
overtakes a warm air mass and
mass ________
lifts the warm air mass off the ground
and over another air mass is called a
occluded front.
_______
3
bend forms in a cold front, it
a _____
begins the process of creating an area
of low pressure with _______
rotating wind
that moves toward the rising air of the
central low-pressure region—a storm
midlatitude cyclone.
known as a _________
► When
4
►A
weather event in which the air ____
sinks
and flows outward from a center of
high pressure, and that brings dry
weather is an _________.
anticyclone
5
► Mature,
_______,
cumulus and dissipating are
thunderstorms
the stages of a ___________.
6
►A
_______
hurricane begins when warm, moist
air rises rapidly and the moisture
condenses, releasing energy in the
form of _____
latent ____.
heat
7
►A
tornado takes a ________
haphazard path if it
touches down.
Chapters 24 Section 4:
Forecasting the Weather
8
► Weather
stations report data to
collection centers.
________
9
► Weather
centers all over the world
exchange their data with other
________
centers.
10
► Symbols
and colors communicate
station _____.
model
weather data on a ______
11
► Scientists
use _____
colors and ______
symbols to
convey information on a weather map.
12
map symbols H and L indicate
pressure centers.
air _______
► Weather
13
► Doppler
radar and satellite images
weather
provide information to create _______
models
______.
14
► ___________
Meteorologists
use computer models to
forecasts from data
help them make _______
they have input into computers.
15
► Meteorologists
have tried to control
hurricanes with freezing nuclei.
________
16
► Meteorologists
have tried to control
lightning and _________
precipitation
hurricanes, _______,
cyclones
but not _______.
17
► One
weather event that scientists have
NOT tried to control is ________.
tornadoes
____
Chapters 25 Section 3:
Climate Change
18
► Sea-floor
_______
sediment measures
concentrations of 18O to determine
past climate changes.
19
► Thin
tree rings indicate ____
cool weather
less rainfall.
and ____
20
► ______
Climate
does NOT change as a result of
general circulation models.
21
► Changes
in Earth’s ____,
orbit tilt on axis,
axis are factors that
and wobbling on ____
could cause climate change according
Milankovitch _____.
theory
to the _________
22
► Global
_______,
warming weather pattern
precipitation
changes, and increased _________
climate change.
can all be caused by ______
23
► Changes
in ___-_____,
sea level precipitation,
warming are all possible
and global _______
impacts of climate change.
24
► Using
public __________
transportation , driving a
hybrid car, and recycling will help
_____
levels in the atmosphere.
reduce CO2 _____
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