GEOG 2050 : Geo 2050 Final
Document Summary
The final exam will be composed of two sections: Section 1: all lecture material since the 2nd test. Text chapters: 7 (clouds and fog), 8, 9. Section 2: cumulative portion covering material covered up to test 2, includes only material related to the terms/concepts listed in this section. Cloud, fog, formation, condensation nuclei, moisture (cloud) droplet, raindrop, raindrop formation (collision-coalescence, ice-crystal process); Cloud classification: low, middle, high, vertically developed, stratiform, cumuliform, cirroform, nimbo, alto-, cirro-; advection fog, radiation fog. Weather; air masses: (classification and labels (maritime, continental, tropical, polar, arctic, equatorial), properties, source regions, modification); Lifting mechanisms: convergence, convection, topographic forcing, frontal lifting (cold fronts and warm fronts (speed, steepness, lifting rates)); Human water use (instream, withdrawal, consumptive, non-consumptive, major uses). Intro/tools: four spheres; five themes; systems (open, closed, storage/budget, equilibrium, feedbacks, lag time); latitude, longitude. Solar energy, radiation, shortwave, longwave, insolation; latitudinal variations in insolation, seasonality, axial tilt and parallelism, annual variation in day-length at equator, mid-latitudes, poles.
