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ANNOUNCEMENTS and ANSWER KEY

Week 7


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ANNOUNCEMENTS - Week 7

26 October 2001

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WEEK 7 ANSWER KEY

A. CHAPTER PROGRESS:

  1. under
  2. more
  3. unstable
  4. updrafts
  5. ice crystals
  6. precipitation
  7. rain drop
  8. unsaturated
  9. downwind . . (the responses are strictly more accurate to the "lee-wave" cloud, the intent was to cover mountain-induced cloud-formation mechanisms)
  10. supercooled
  11. 2 inches
  12. hail
  13. - 15. [as appropriate by participant]

B. DAILY SUMMARY:

Tuesday:
1. upward
2. faster
  Thursday:
1. along
2. temperature

ACTIVITIES RESPONSE

ACTIVITY 7A:

  1. denser than, . . increases
  2. expands, . . cools
  3. increases, . . 100%
  4. cumulus
  5. western
  6. no answer needed
  7. 60 km, . . 3
  8. east or southeast, . . east
  9. closely related (covers a streak over which cell has passed with greater values where most total precipitation accumulated - suggests rainfall got heavier in hour from 3 to 4)
  10. the cold front along the East Coast, . . . the high pressure area centered in Central Oklahoma
  11. cold, . . . stationary
  12. southeast Nebraska to western New York, . . . the Gulf of Mexico
  13. counterclockwise, . . . North Dakota-Saskatchewan-Manitoba
  14. the storm system
  15. near to or at saturation, . . . present, . . . was
  16. south Florida

ACTIVITY 7B:

  1. the same, . . different
  2. position 3, see Key image 1.
  3. positions 1 and 5
  4. toward: position 2, . . away: position 4
  5. all statements are True
  6. no answer needed
  7. counterclockwise, . . inward, . . northeast
  8. did
  9. perpendicular
  10. is not
  11. northeast
  12. east

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