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2. What are the symbols for the four air masses?

3. What are the characteristics of the four air masses?

4.What are the four types of fronts?

5. What are the symbols of the four types of fronts?

6. What type of weather is associated with the four fronts?

7. What does a cross section of a front look like? (Be able to distinguish between each)

8. What are high pressure and low pressure cell?

9. What type of weather is associated with high and low pressure cells?

10. What are the symbols for high and low pressure cells?

11.How does water vapor in the atmosphere effect air pressure?

12. How does temperature affect air pressure?

13. What is solar radiation and role does it play in the atmosphere?

14. How does elevation affect air pressure?

15. What is a isobar and an isotherm?

16. What is the difference between weather and climate?

17. What are factors associated with weather?

18. What is convection?

19 . What is the difference between weather and climate?

20. What are the layers of the atmosphere, and the characteristics of each?

21. Students need to be able to read and interpret weather maps.

22. Students need to be able to convert Celsius  to Fahrenheit.

24. Be able to read and interpret weather maps and their symbols.

25. Understand the corollas effect.

26. Know the wind belts.

27. Understand what factors create winds.

28. Understand how to read simplify weather station models.

29. Know symbols for weather station models.

30. How does lightning  and thunder work?

31. How are tornadoes and hurricanes alike and different?

32. What role does convection play in storms?

33. Know and understand how weather instruments work and be able to interpret what their data means.

34. Students should be able to take the thirty-three  previously listed concepts and information from Meteorology Test 1/Meteorology Test 2 and  apply them to questions concerning application of each points' knowledge.