You Are In the HOT SEAT!

1. You Are In the HOT SEAT! Bonus Round

2. a.) What is the area of little to no wind at the equator called? b.) What is the area of little to no wind at 30˚north and south latitudes called?

3. Convert 1.11 atm to mb

4. a.) Convert 39˚F to˚C b.) Convert 299 K to ˚F

5. At what degrees north and south latitudes are most of the world’s deserts located? Why is this?

6. What are the three methods of heat transfer?

7. List four characteristics of the troposphere

8. a.) Draw the prevailing wind direction between 30 and 60˚ north latitude. b.) What are these winds called?

9. He was the first to estimate earth’s circumference.

10. What are the three things needed for cloud formation?

11. Fully describe the vertical and horizontal movement of air around each below (assume northern hemisphere). a.) a low b.) a high

12. He was the first to propose a heliocentric theory and was also the first to estimate the distances to the sun and moon.

13. a.) What are isobars and what do they show? b.) Which of the following isobars could potentially be drawn on a weather map? 986 mb; 996 mb; 1012 mb; 1018 mb; 1021 mb

14. a.) What are two greenhouse gases? b.) What is the chemical formula of ozone?

15. Convert into scientific notation a.) 795,000 km Convert out of scientific notation b.) 2.3 x 10-3meters

16. He took Ptolemy’s geocentric formulations and formulated them to a heliocentric theory. He published his works just before he died.

17. a.) What do barometers measure? b.)What are the two types of barometers? c.) What are four units of pressure?

18. a.) Why does it only take 27.32 days for one complete revolution of the moon, but it takes 29.53 days to go from one new moon to the next? b.) What type of month is measured from new moon to new moon?

19. What are the two reasons that the earth heats unevenly?

20. a.) What is the most abundant gas in earth’s atmosphere and what percentage is it found at? b.) What are two trace gases that can be found in earth’s atmosphere?

21. He formulated a geocentric theory that lasted for 16 centuries. His model needed to include epicycles to account for the retrograde motion shown by planets.

22. How much KNO3 can be dissolved in 100. g of water at 40.˚C?

23. How many calories of energy are needed to heat 10. grams of water from -6˚C to 50˚C ?

24. Summarize what each of Kepler’s Laws states with the number of the law.

25. What is the following describing? A comparison of how much water vapor the air is holding to the amount it can hold at the current conditions

26. a.) An air mass that forms over the southwest United States will most likely become this type of air mass. b.) An air mass that forms over the Gulf of Mexico will most likely become this type of air mass.

27. What is the relative humidity and dew point of the following? Dry Bulb = 56˚F Wet Bulb = 50˚F

28. Draw a station model that indicates the following: a.) 50% cloud coverage b.) wind coming from the southwest at 15 knots c.) air temperature = 65˚F d.) dew point = 56˚F e.) air pressure = 1011.4 mb and has been rising

29. The air is 19˚C and is found to have an absolute humidity of 14 g/m3. What is the relative humidity?

30. Where would the warm front be located on this map?

31. The distance between focal points is 1.5 x 106 km and the length of the major axis is 2.7 x 108 km. What is the eccentricity of this ellipse?

32. He observed things with a telescope (such as moons orbiting Jupiter) that put an end to geocentric thinking.

33. Which is longer, a sidereal day or a solar day?

34. Explain why the Julian calendar was replaced by the Gregorian calendar.

35. Bonus Round500 points to the first group with the correct answer; 300 points to the second group, 200 pts. to 3rd, 100 pts. to 4th, 50 pts. to 5th Determine a.) the height at which clouds first form, b.) the air temp. and dew point at the top of the mountain and c.) the air temp. and dew point at the bottom of the leeward side of the mountain. Starting Temperature = 19˚C Starting Dew Point = 15˚C Mountain Height = 2,800 meters