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Metr 10: Activity 7
Due: Friday, November 10th, 2016 (at 11:59 P.M.)
Submit electronically via Canvas (.doc, .docx, or .pdf file format).
Email or see me in office hours if you have questions.
Please answer all questions in complete sentences.
Each question is worth 1 point (20 points total for this activity).
1. Describe the four atmospheric scales of motion, and give an example of a weather phenomenon
for each.
2. Describe the two ways that wind shear can be formed.
3. Explain why a sea breeze develops during the day, but a land breeze forms at night.
4. In India, why is the summer monsoon wet, but the winter monsoon dry?
5. Explain why a valley breeze develops during the day, but a mountain breeze forms at night.
6. What is the major source of warmth for Santa Ana winds?
7. Give two reasons that Santa Ana winds are dry.
8. What are Diablo winds? How do they blow, and what is their significance?
9. Sketch a large circle. Place the major surface semipermanent low- and high- pressure systems
and wind belts of the world at their proper latitudes. Be sure to include labels.
10. What does ITCZ stand for? Give two reasons that it is associated with showers and
thunderstorms (hint: think about ways to make air rise).
11. Explain why summers along the East Coast are fairly wet, but summers along the West Coast
are generally dry (hint: think about the major semipermanent low- and high- pressure systems).
12. What is a jet stream? What are the two jet streams that flow in the Northern Hemisphere during
winter?
13. How must atmospheric conditions change so that the westerly flowing polar jet stream reverses
direction to easterly?
14. Give two reasons that surface ocean water off the California coast is cold.
15. Over the western side of ocean basins, are surface currents cold or warm? What latitude region
do they come from?
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16. Over the eastern side of ocean basins, are surface currents cold or warm? What latitude region
do they come from?
17. What causes an El Niño event to form? How does an El Niño event change the temperature of
the surface water over the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, and why?
18. How does an El Niño event affect winter weather over the Southwest USA, Northern Mexico,
and Gulf Coast?
19. What causes a La Niña event to form? How does a La Niña event change the temperature of the
surface water over the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean, and why?
20. How does a La Niña event affect winter weather over the Pacific Northwest and Gulf Coast?
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Metr 10: Activity 8
Due: Tuesday, November 15th, 2016 (at 11:59 P.M.)
Email or see me in office hours if you have questions.
1. Complete the 15-statement Green Ninja Smart Energy Tracker survey at
http://goo.gl/forms/rcMy6r7BBg . Please make sure to input your name and the
instructor’s name on the form (so that you can get credit). (5 points)

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