QUIZ
1. What does the pressure in a column of air represent?
2. What is the term is used for the force generated by neighboring unequal pressures?
3. What unit does the US use to measure pressure?
4. As a general rule, in metrics, what is the rate of change for pressure for every 100 meters?
5. At what pressure is the upper air map created where 1/2 the atmosphere is above you and half below you?
6. At what interval are isobars drawn?
7. What happens to the speed of the winds when they cross isobars that are closer together?
8.What term is used for winds that move parallel to straight isobars?
9. What factor that affects wind speed is avoided by moving to higher altitudes?
10. What unit is the SI unit for measuring pressure?
Answers to the Last Game
1. What is the kind of cloud that has no temperatures below freezing any where in it?
2. What is the term is used for the object on which water vapor condenses?
ANSWER: condensation nuclei
3. There are two name for the processes which forms of ice crystals in the cloud. Name one of them.
ANSWER: "Bergeron" or "Bergeron process" or ice crystal"or "ice crystal process"
4. What term is used for the fastest speed that can be obtained by a falling object?
ANSWER: terminal velocity
5. What term is used for the forming of ice crystals when they freeze on contact with a surface whose temperaure is below freezing?
ANSWER: rime
6. What shape do most snowflakes have?
ANSWER: dendrite
7. What conditions the shape of the snowflake?
ANSWER: temperature
8.What is produced if a snowflake falls into warmer air, begins to melt then falls through sub freezing air and turns into ice?
ANSWER: sleet
9. What is it called when ice crystals collide and stick together to form a snowflake?
ANSWER: aggregation or aggregate
10. The wet and dry growth regimes should be associated with the formation of what form of precipitation?
ANSWER: hail