Welcome to Vol. 5 - Weather

Here are several links you can use for finding out information you'll need for answering the following set of questions. This unit is worth a total of 21 points. This unit's questions can be answered by using the 12 links provided above each set of questions. All assignments must have BOTH the QUESTIONS and the ANSWERS. You can either e-mail me your SPELL CHECKED answers, or turn them in to your class's in-box in my room. Make sure that you have read over your answers SEVERAL times. Misspelled words will NOT be counted.

Snow Flakes
Relative Humidity


1. (1 pt.) If the C axis is long, what type of snow crystal results?
2. (1 pt.) Why do plate crystals grow best at -15 degrees C?
3. (1 pt.) What would be the calculated relative humidity if the dry thermometer bulb reads 22 degrees C and the wet bulb reads 10 degrees C?
   
   WeatherNet
   Weather Watches and Warnings
   Relative Humidity Calculator
   
   
4. (1 pt.) What is the current forecast for Lafayette Colorado (zip-80026) including the 12 factors from temperature to moon phase? (the moon phase for May 9-10 2000 is Waxing Gibbous
5. (1 pt.) If any, which counties in Colorado right now have flash flood watches or warnings?
6. (1 pt.) What is the difference in the relative humidity if dew point stays at 20 degrees C, but the air temperature changes from 34 degrees to 40 degrees C?
   
   Stratosphere
   Ozone Depletion
   
   
7. (1 pt.) Why does it get so hot in the stratosphere?
8. (1 pt.) At what height can we find the most ozone?
9. (1 pt.) At the ozone layer's average, how thick would it be?
10. (1 pt.) Which lasts almost twice as long in the atmosphere, CFC-12, or CFC-11?
11. (1 pt.) When are CFCs, halons, carbon tetrachloride, and methyl chloroform slated to be completely phased out of production?
12. (1 pt.) Why is the pesticide methyl bromide also being phased out?
    
    El Niņo
    
    
13. (1 pt.) Which direction does the Pacific hotspot move during an El Niņo year?
14. (1 pt.) Where is the sea two feet higher than near the South American coast?
15. (1 pt.) When was the last El Niņo that had the intensity of the current one?
    
    Greenhouse Effect
    
    
16. (1 pt.) Which is the main greenhouse gas?
    
    Fronts and Storms
    
    
17. (1 pt.) When a cold front passes through, how much can the temperature drop in the first hour?
18. (1 pt.) Which direction do most warm fronts move?
19. (1 pt.) Which storm was responsible for 50 deaths and $30 billion in property damage?
20. (1 pt.) What will be the name of the seventh tropical storm of 1999?
    
    Weather Symbols
    Rainshadow Effect
    
    
21. (1 pt.) Draw the Weather Symbol and fill in the blanks with the types of meteorological data.
22. (1 pt.) What causes the rainshadow effect?

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