1. What 3 factors effect wind?

• pressure gradient
• Coriolis Effect
• Friction

2. Which of the 3 do you think has the greatest effect? Why?
I think friction is the most imortant factor because it slows down air movement and it can change the wind direction.



3. What would happen if this factor (from #2) all of a sudden stopped? Remember to include details about what might happen in your response.
If friction stopped the air would never slow down and you would always be able to tell which direction the wind would go in.

1.Three low clouds are nimbostratus, stratocumulus, and cumulus clouds. Three middle clouds are altocumulus, altostratus, and nimbostratus. Three high clouds are cirrus, cirrostratus, and cirrocumulus.

http://www.atmos.washington.edu/gcg/MG/tepps/SPOON/photoen/cm.code.htm

2.The cloud that looks best to me is the nimbostratus cloud because its big and puffy looking.

3. The nimbostratus brings alot of rain.

1. The 4 types of air massses that affect the United States are (1)maritine polar, mP(2) maritine tropical, mT (3) continental polar, cP (4) continental tropical, ct.

2. My favorite air mass is maritine tropical because it brings rain and it brings warm weather. I love rain it makes everything peaceful.

3.Swimming
Picnicing
Walking in the Rain
Splashing in Puddles
Wearing cool clothing

The greenhoues effect is the heating of Earth due to the presence of green house gases. The greenhouse gases are water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane, nitrious oxide, and many more. Green house gases are all produced in many ways. An example is carbon dioxide is produced in many ways, when animals breath, when dead plants and animals decay, and during natural forest fires. Man kind also produces carbon dioxide when coal, oil, and gas are burnt for energy and electricity.

The greenhouse effect impacts our lives beacuse they keep the Earth 33 degrees Celsius warmer than it would be without these gases in the atmosphere. I think the greenhouse effect is bad because it is one of the many factors of global warming.

The volcano in Okma, Alaska is 7,000 feet above sea level. This volcano is under Advisory. On July, 30 the volcano calapsed and formed a caldera. The caldera may be able to erupt agian. What do you think about this Volcano.

Hurricane Ike

1.I read the article titled Hurricane Ike Delays cargo for space outpost. The second artice I read about was titles Hurricane Ike Pushes sea onto Texas islands.

2.The first article was about Russian and U.S space aginces postponing the date of when their space cargo shipment will dock. The reason they had to potpone the date is because Hurricane Ike was gaining strength and Texas was evacuted. Houstan, Tecas is where the space station is located.

3. The second article was about Hurricane Ike. Hurricane Ike is already posing a big threat onto Texas. 200,000 residents of Texas have evacuted from low lying areas of metro Houstan. Police offficers will be on stand by until friday night and then the people will be on their own. The military has 43 helicopters by just in case they need to do any search and rescue missions.

4.The article that was most disaterous was the second one. Hurricane Ike Pushes sea onto Texas. This is beacuse the article is saying how the Hurricane is affecting Texas. Many people had to evacuate to stay safe from the storm.

5. Both articles talk about the effect of Hurricane Ike and people evacuating. The first article only talks about how the hurricane will affect the space center and how they had to evacuate. The second artice talks about how many people of Houstan, Texas had to evacuate.

RECENT EARTHQUAKE

1. Earthquakes tend to happen around the pacific ocean, on the borders of asia and america.

2. I think this is because there are alot of faults in those areas for example California hs faults and thats where earthquakes are happening.

3.Earthquakes occur on or near the edges of tectonic plates where stress is most concentrated.

4. The closet earthquake to occur was in Southeastern Missouri.

5. A very strong earthquake had struck off of Canadas Pacific coast near Vancover Island. This earthquake happened at 5:37am local time.(1237 GMT) Natural Resources Canada said it was the largest of "a series of earthquakes occurring in the seismically active region".