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| One of the most basic elements of weather and climate: |
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| Highest recorded temperature in the US: Death Valley, CA, July 10, 1913: |
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| Lowest recorded temperature in the US: Prospect Creek, AK, January 23, 1971: |
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| Temperature data used by meteorologists: |
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-daily mean temps
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| _________ are especially useful for making daily, monthly, or annual comparisons. |
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| ________are commonly used by meteorologists to examine the distribution of air temps over large areas. |
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| ________ are lines that connect points on a map that have the same temp. |
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| Isotherms make __________ visible at a glance. |
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| _______on Earth is the most important reason that we have temperature variation on our planet. |
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| Why don't all places on Earth with the same latitude have identical weather? |
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| Because of differences in the amount of solar radiation received. |
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| Water has a much higher _______ than land. |
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| The amount of energy needed to raise one gram of water by one degree Celsius: |
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| Large bodies of water have a _______effect, weatherwise, on the surrounding area. |
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| At the surface of Earth's oceans, energy is passed from moving air to the water through: |
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| Friction creates______from the winds that are blowing steadily across the ocean, causing the surface layer of water to move. |
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| Major horizontal movements of surface waters are closely related to the circulation of the atmosphere, which is driven by the ________ of earth by the sun. |
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| These currents are warm, and have a warming effect on the land they are adjacent to: |
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| These currents are cold, and have a cooling effect on the land they're adjacent to. |
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| Equatorward-moving currents |
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| Temperature drops and average of: |
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| 3.5 degrees F per 1000 feet |
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| cooler temps can be expected at: |
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| The ______ can greatly influence the temps experienced at a specific location. |
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| During the daytime, cloud cover is important because clouds have a high albedo & therefore reflect a lot of the sunlight that strikes them back to space causing: |
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| lower temps than if there were no clouds |
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| During the nighttime, clouds absorb outgoing earth radiation and emit a portion of it toward the surface causing: |
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| higher temps that if there were no clouds. |
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| Snow and ice have high______, thereby reducing air temp. |
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| The hottest time of the day: |
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| Because heat has a hard time escaping the atmosphere, most locations experience an inclination in air temperature during the afternoon. This phenomenon is called the: |
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| The coolest temperatures are at: |
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| Temperatures are often higher in cities than in the surrounding rural areas. This is called: |
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| The urban heat island effect |
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| In the united states, _____ typically kills more people each year than tornados, hurricanes, floods, and lightening put together. |
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| The ideal location for a temperature reading is in an: |
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| What is an instrument shelter? |
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| A white box that has louvered sides to permit the free movement of air through it, while shielding the instrument inside from direct sunlight, heat from the ground, and precipitation. |
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| Also known as the ______, the Kelvin scale denotes the freezing and boiling points of water as 273 and 373 degrees respectively. |
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| Absolute Temperature Scale |
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| The average of the twelve monthly mean temps: |
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| The amount of heat required to maintain a certain temp in a building is: |
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| proportional to the heating degree-days total. |
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| A thermometer that uses a liquid of low density and a small, dumbbell-shaped index is called: |
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| The average of the maximum and minimum temperatures for a day: |
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| Each degree of temperature of the daily mean above 65 degrees F is called: |
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| Fixed points are______used in the construction of temperature scales. |
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| Bimetal Strip Thermometer: |
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| is made up of two strips of metal that have different coefficients of thermal expansion. |
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| The main components of a _______ thermometer are the capillary tube, stern, temp scale, liquid thread, and bulb. |
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| A thermometer that contains a constriction in the bore of its glass tube in which Hg moves up or down is called: |
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| A practical application of temperature data,________ are used to determine the approximate date when crops will be ready for harvest. |
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| Absolute zero on the kelvin temp scale represents the point at which all ______ motion ceases. |
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| The steam point is also called the _____ point |
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| another name for melting point is ______ point. |
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| A type of electric thermometer called a ______ contains a conductor whose resistance to current flow is temperature-dependent. |
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| Factors that cause variations in temperature from place to place are called: |
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| Isotherms generally trend east and west, and show: |
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| a decrease in temperature poleward |
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| On an isotherm map,________ are easy to visualize. |
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| An instrument that continuously records temperatures from a bimetal strip type thermometer. |
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| a mercury-in-glass thermometer |
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| the sum of the daily means for each day of the month divided by the number of days in the month: |
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| the difference between the minimum and maximum temperatures for a day |
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| the difference between the coldest and warmest monthly mean temps |
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| Are cloud cover and albedo factors that cause temperature to vary from place to place? |
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| ______is one of the basic elements of weather and climate. |
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| Differential heating of land and water |
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| Connect places of equal rainfall: |
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| connect places of equal barometric pressure: |
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| Describe the continentality of weather patterns: |
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| The north-south migration of isotherms is more pronounced over the continents because temperatures don't change much over water. |
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| In the Northern Hemisphere, the greatest intensity of solar radiation occurs at the time of: |
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| Generally, the warmest months of the year in the Northern Hemisphere are: |
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| Do thermometers measure temperature mechanically or electrically? |
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| A_________ is an instrument that continuously records temperature. |
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| ________ is determined from the difference between the daily mean temp and the temp of the minimum temp required for it to grow. |
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| Use humidity and air temp to assess the stressing the human body: |
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| Heat stress index or heat index |
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| A poleward-moving Southern Hemisphere ocean current will most likely be a ______ current. |
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| Cities can become as much as _____ degrees hotter than their surrounding rural areas. |
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