ESC 120 Exam 3 Review Sheet PDF

ESC 120 Exam 3 Review Sheet Chapter 16 and Chapter 17 Items to key on (but not everything on the exam) 1. Know the major and variable gases that make up the atmosphere and their respective percentages. 2. Know the layers of the atmosphe...

ESC 120 Exam 3 Review Sheet Chapter 16 and Chapter 17 Items to key on (but not everything on the exam) 1. Know the major and variable gases that make up the atmosphere and their respective percentages. 2. Know the layers of the atmosphere and characteristics of each. 3. Know the “pauses”, e.g., tropopause and stratopause, and be able to define what they are. 4. Know Earth-Sun relationships and be able to do exercises like the ones in the Earth-Sun lab. 5. Know the solstices, equinoxes and their respective dates. 6. Know what the Tropics of Cancer/Capricorn are, their respective latitudes, and when the sun is directly overhead each. 7. Know what the Antarctic/Arctic circles are. 8. Know how pressure decreases with height. 9. Know the mechanisms of heat transfer. 10. Know the different paths taken by incoming radiation (transmission, scattered, etc…) and be able to describe each. Know the percentages of each as well. 11. Know the greenhouse effect. 12. Know what isotherms are. 13. Know the different controls of temperature. Know the differences in temperature caused by being upwind and downwind of a body of water and also windward and leeward of mountains. 14. Know the different phase changes of water and whether heat is released or absorbed. 15. Know what latent heat is. 16. Know what relative humidity is and the two ways that it can be changed. 17. Know what the dew point temperature is. 18. Know what a sling psychrometer is and how it is used. 19. Know what adiabatic cooling is. 20. Know what the dry and moist adiabatic rates are and the actual rates of change per 1000 meters for each. Be able to do adiabatic problems. 21. Know what the environmental lapse rate is. 22. Know the processes that lift air. 23. Be able to distinguish between an unstable atmosphere and a stable atmosphere. Know the types of clouds and weather associated with a stable and unstable atmosphere. 24. Know what an inversion is and what layer(s) in the atmosphere have (has) an inversion. 25. Know the cloud types classified by form and also classified by height. 26. Know the different types of fog and how each is formed. 1 27. Know the two processes by which precipitation forms, their names, and geographically where each is dominant. 28. Know the different forms of precipitation and their unique characteristics. 29. Know how to compute temperature range and mean temperature. 30. When given a dry and wet bulb reading, know how to determine the relative humidity and dew point. 2