Meteorology and Space Science
Please answer the questions (Answer with your own words. No plagiarise)
• What is science?
• How does science progress?
• What is the fundamental basis for science?
• What is a scientific hypothesis?
• What is a scientific theory?
• Describe the science of meteorology.
• Explain the difference between weather and climate.
• List the most important elements of weather and climate.
• List the major and variable components in air.
• Describe the extent and structure of the atmosphere.
• Describe how the atmosphere is heated.
• Explain the causes of the seasons.
• List the factors that cause temperature to vary from place to place.
• Describe the general distribution of global surface temperatures.
• List the processes that cause water to change from one of state of matter to another
• Explain saturation, vapor pressure, mixing ratio, relative humidity, and dew point.
• Describe how relative humidity is determined.
• Explain the basic cloud-forming process.
• List the processes that initiate the vertical movement of air.
• Describe stable and unstable air.
• Discuss the conditions necessary for condensation.
• List the criteria used to classify clouds.
• Describe the formation of fog.
• Discuss the formation and forms of precipitation.
• Describe air pressure, how it is measured, and how it changes with altitude
• Explain how the pressure gradient force, Coriolis Effect, and friction influence wind.
• Describe the movements of air associated with the two types of pressure centers.
• Describe the idealized global patterns of pressure and wind.
• Discuss the general atmospheric circulation in the mid-latitudes.
• List the names and causes of the major local winds.
• Describe El Niño/La Niña and the global distribution of precipitation.
