QUIZ
1. What term is used for bringing nutrients towards the surface from the ocean bottom?
2. What term is used to indicate a level where there is a sudden change in some characteristic of the ocean?
3. What is the spiral called that shows changes in the direction of water flow as one goes deeper in the water column?
4. On which side of the Pacific is there are low pressure center during an El Niño event?
5. On which side of a large lake does the snow fall dring lake effect snow?
6. What shape does the mature cyclone have (that looks like punctuation)?
7. What kind of front does this represent?
8. In which direction does the lowest pressure lean in a mid latitude mature cyclone?
9. What is caused in the upper air when there is more air leaving than entering a column of low pressure?
10. What do we say happens When there is a low pressure center and there is no longer an exit for the air at the top of the column so it simply "piles up"
Answers to the Last Game
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?
30 degrees
3. What kind of pressure is found at the polar front?
low
4. There are 2 semipermanent high pressure centers in the N. hemisphere. Which is found in the Atlantic?
Bermuda-Azores
5. What term is used for the two main Jet streams?
tropopause jets
6. What isobaric surface is significant in the formation of the Polar Jet?
500mb
7. To which side does the cold air lie relative to a thermal wind in the Northern hemisphere?
left
8. What additional feature is involved in the formation of the sub tropical jet stream?
The conservation of angular momentus
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.
Doldrums
10. In the single cell model, what kind of change is avoided by assuming here is no tilt to the Earth's axis.
seasonal