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PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY STUDY GUIDE – EXAM 2 Be prepared to identify, define, describe, compare, contrast, and give an example of the following: Atmospheric Pressure Pressure Charts: isobars - millibars Global Circulation and Pressure Systems: Thermal and Dynamic Highs/Lows (Developmental differences) Anticyclonic flow Cyclonic Flow Location Global Winds: Northeast /Southeast Trades Westerlies Polar Easterlies How developed? Location of belts of Low Pressure? High pressure around the globe? Forces affecting Wind movement: Pressure Gradient Force - Coriolis Force - Friction Semi-permanent Highs and Lows in Atlantic Ocean and Pacific Ocean? Location and types El Nino-Southern Oscillation: Upwelling - Interrelationships – development – conditions – consequences – research One-cell Circulation Model (Hadley) - Three-cell Circulation Model (Ferrel) Pacific Ocean Currents: name the currents, direction of flow, warm/cold Atlantic Ocean Currents: name the currents, direction of flow, warm/cold Jet Stream: What is this? Effect on developing surface Highs and Lows? Formation? Locations? Local winds: Sea Breeze/Land breeze Monsoons Santa Ana Winds What is the hydrologic cycle? Absolute Humidity Specific Humidity Relative Humidity Dew Point Temperature What is vapor pressure? Actual vapor pressure (AVP)? Saturated vapor Pressure (SVP)? Mixing Ratio – Actual Mixing Ratio? Saturated Mixing Ratio? Lapse Rates - Normal - Inverse – Dry Adiabatic Lapse Rate Wet Adiabatic Lapse Rate Environmental Lapse Rate Stability: Stable Air Unstable Air Conditionally Unstable Air Convective Instability Give examples - (Diagrams of stability) Relationship between stability and DALR, WALR and ELR? Fog: Formation – Types – locations – seasonality - Cloud development: Four Mechanisms for uplift Condensation nuclei – Types and locations Cloud droplet to Rain droplet...mechanisms involved: collision/coalescence, cloud thickness, electrical