QUIZ

GETTING CLOSER AND CLOSER TO THE END.

Remember, if you get the answer wrong, the computer will insult you. But hidden in the insult is a clue to the correct answer! The question of the hour is "Can you find the hidden clue?????"

1. What is the name of the cell in the one cell model of global winds?

2. At what latitude are the major deserts found?

3. What kind of pressure is found at the polar front?

4. There are 2 semipermanent high pressure centers in the N. hemisphere. Which is found in the Atlantic?

5. What term is used for the two main Jet streams?

6. What isobaric surface is significant in the formation of the Polar Jet?

7. To which side does the cold air lie relative to a thermal wind in the Northern hemisphere?

8. What additional feature is involved in the formation of the sub tropical jet stream?

9. What term is used for the area around the equator where the air is warm and horizontal pressure gradients are weak – winds are light.

10. In the single cell model, what kind of change is avoided by assuming here is no tilt to the Earth's axis.

Answers to the Last Game

ANSWER: microscale

2. What is the simplest form of turbulance?

ANSWER: molecular viscosity

3. On which side of an object do eddies form?

ANSWER: leeward

4. What term is used when the wind aloft suddenly changes speed or direction (or both) very abruptly?

ANSWER: wind shear

5. What is the term used for the distance over which wind travels without interruption?

ANSWER: fetch

6. Although properly used for any downhill winds, what term is used for downhill winds faster than breezes?

ANSWER: katabatic

7. What are strong warm winds that slip down the eastern slopes of the Rockies are known as?

ANSWER: Chinook

8. With what kind of pressure centers are cyclonic winds associated?

ANSWER: low pressure

9. By what term in internal friction produced by whirling eddies is known?

ANSWER: eddy viscosity

10. What kind of turbulence is cause by surface heating?

ANSWER: thermal or thermal turbulence