GEOL 1402 Hour Test 3: Review Guide Chapter 18: Air Pressure and Wind 1. Know standard air pressure at sea level in pounds per square inch and inches of mercury. (1 question) 2. Know who invented the mercurial barometer. (1 question) 3. Study the instruments used to measure air pressure. (1 question) 4. Review the role of pressure gradients in creating wind. (3 questions) 5. Know how the spacing of isobars on a weather map relates to wind speeds. (2 questions) 6. Know that a “southwest wind” blows
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Once More to the Lake by E.B. WhiteOnce More to the Lake‚ by E.B. White was an essay in which a father struggles to find himself. The essay is about a little boy and his father. They go to a lake where the father had been in his childhood years. The father looks back at those years and tries to relive the moments through his son’s eyes. He knows he can’t‚ and has difficulty dealing with the fact that he can’t go back in time. E.B. White’s way of letting the reader know that the father is in a way
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The Seasons of the Year. My Favourite Season. It’s a universal truth that every season is beautiful in its own way. Isn’t it wonderful to tramp down the country lanes on a frosty winter day. Everything is white with snow and it crunches under your feet. The rime sparkles on the branches and the icicles like precious diamonds hang from the roofs of the houses. It’s a merry time for both children and grownups. They can go skating and skiing‚ sledging and having a fight with snowballs or making
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Goneril and Regan swiftly begin to undermine the little authority that Lear still holds. Unable to believe that his beloved daughters are betraying him‚ Lear slowly goes insane. He flees his daughters’ houses to wander on a heath during a great thunderstorm‚ accompanied by his Fool and by Kent‚ a loyal nobleman in disguise.Meanwhile‚ an elderly nobleman named Gloucester also experiences family problems. His illegitimate son‚ Edmund‚ tricks him into believing that his legitimate son‚ Edgar‚ is trying
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becomes pregnant‚ but loses the baby early in her first trimester. She and John travel to Ireland for a belated honeymoon‚ leaving the rambunctious dog in the care of a young woman who finds him impossible to control‚ especially during the frequent thunderstorms that plague the area. Soon after returning from their vacation‚ Jenny discovers she is pregnant again‚ and this time she delivers a healthy boy‚ Patrick. When she has a second son‚ Connor‚ she opts to give up her job and become a stay-at-home mom
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three years he received his Master’s degree. According to his father’s wishes‚ Martin enrolled in the law school of the university. He kept on studying academic degree and preparing himself to enroll the country of origin. All that changed during a thunderstorm in the summer of 1505. A lightening bolt struck near to him as he was returning to school. Terrified‚ he cried out‚ "Help‚ St. Anne! I’ll become a monk!" Spared of his life‚ but regretting his words‚ Luther kept his bargain‚ dropped out of law
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Development of Radar Radar was developed was developed between 1935–1940 independently in several countries as a military instrument for detecting aircraft and ships. One of the earliest practical radar systems was created from 1934 to 1935 by Robert Watson-Watt. Although the technology evolved rapidly during World War II‚ the radar improved immensely following the war‚ the principal advances being higher power outputs‚ greater receiver sensitivity‚ and improved timing and signal-processing circuits
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What are Earthquakes? The actual defining of a earthquake is: A sudden and violent shaking of the ground‚ sometimes causing great destruction‚ as a result of movements within the earth’s crust or volcanic action. Basically what its saying is that when a tectonic plate slips past another and when that happens its called a fault or fault plane‚ but when a earthquake happens it has been proven that it can deform the earths crust permanently. Something interesting is
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reasons why the said book is unworthy of reading (P 22). Therefore‚ he blames his father for his inclination towards unrealistic and supernatural sciences of the ancients. However‚ later on‚ when Victor askes his father about the phenomena behind thunderstorms‚ the father took pains in explaining it. From these two opposite scenes‚
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on his rocking horse. The moral of this story is a warning against being obsessed with money and luck‚ for the pursuit of these two things may kill you in the end. <br> <br>"The Storm" begins with a much darker tone. It is set during a furious thunderstorm‚ a scene that foretells of dangerous happenings within the story. The passion of this storm is mirrored by the passion within Calixta and
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