Geology 330 - Television Course

Review Questions for Program #10: Something in the Air

Please fill out and return this sheet after viewing Program #10. If you are unsure of an answer, give your best intelligent guess.

1. By how much did Hurrican Mitch raise sea level?

2. How did it cause sea level to rise by that much?

3. How much water vapor is found in the atmosphere?

4. What does the El Nino phenomenon do to ocean temperatures in the tropics?

5. What causes global circulation of the atmosphere?

6. What is the coriolis force? What causes it?

7. Which directions do air mass tend to move over the lower 48 states in the U.S.?

8. What is the ITCZ? What type of weather does it bring?

9. What are very strong tropical storms called in the Pacific?

10. How far in advance can weather typically be forecast these days?

11. What are three areas of climate research for the future that are described in the program?