1. What is the difference between absolute humidity, specific humidity and relative humidity?

2. What conditions are needed for evaporation and condensation?

3. Describe the processes that take place to create an advection fog, radiation fog and steam fog.

4. What is a front ?

5. What is the difference between a warm, cold, stationary and occluded fronts ?

6. Describe the various air masses that affect the United States.

7. Where are their source regions for the air masses that affect the United States?

8. Describe the stages of thunderstorm development.

9. What cloud types would herald the approach of a warm front ?

10. Describe the weather changes associated with the passage of a midlatitude cyclone.

11. What are the major controls on the distribution of world climates?

12. Which climate has the largest annual temperature range of all the climates we have studied?

13. Which climate type is dominated by the polar front?

14. Which climates in North America experience a strong orographic effect?

15. Which climates are significantly influenced by cold ocean currents?

16. Why do we sometimes refer to the Ice cap climate as a "polar desert"?

17. What are the differences between the Humid Subtropical Climate and the Mediterranean climates?

18. When does the Wet/Dry tropical climate experience its highest temperatures and highest rainfall?