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What is a large body of air that usually covers 1,000 miles or more and generally has the same temperature and moisture content? ✔✔an air mass
What tends to slow air movement from the Earth's surface up to about 6,000 feet? ✔✔friction
What is the name of the region where most people live, work and play? ✔✔Troposphere
What was the name of the Zeppelin that crashed in 1937 that caused the first fatalities in the history of scheduled airship operations? ✔✔Hindenburg
An air mass acquires its characteristics from which of the following? ✔✔all answers are correct
What are the three general types of clouds? ✔✔cumulus, stratus and cirrus
_________ _______ acts on a mass of moving air by deflecting it to the east in the Northern Hemisphere. ✔✔Coriolis Effect
An atmospheric condition in which the wind changes its speed and direction is called a _______ ________. ✔✔wind shear
Any heat transfer by vertical motion is called ✔✔convection
Air is said to be ____________ when it cannot hold any more water vapor. ✔✔saturated
Using the associated weather chart on page 413 of Edition 1 or 419 of Edition 2, select the correct cloud from the following description: low, gray, uniform, sheet‐like cloud that can produce light drizzle or light snow and can cause poor visibility. ✔✔stratus
On a weather map, lines of equal pressure are called ✔✔isobars
What organization was established in 1915 with the purpose of supervising and directing the scientific study of the problems of flight, with a view of their practical solutions? ✔✔National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
A downdraft shear, associated with a thunderstorm, is called a ✔✔microburst
When a warm air mass, lying between two cold air masses, is lifted up by the cold air mass behind it, it is called ___ _________ _______. ✔✔an occluded front
Where was the first air mail route in the United States? ✔✔between Washington DC and New York City
The ocean of air surrounding the Earth is called ✔✔atmosphere
What airplane made the first airline crossing of both the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans? ✔✔Pan American Clipper
