Enter your Name:   Enter your E-mail Address:  01. Define the following terms: a. Aphelion b. Perihelion c. Coriolis effect d. Air mass e. Weather front 02. Identify the clouds in the following pictures: a.   b.   c. 03. Of the 3 main the factors that influence weather, which is mostly responsible for winds? 04. What are dark cumulus clouds called? 05. If an area receives a large amount of insolation, is it likely to be warm or cold? 06. In the Southern Hemisphere, are the day lengths greater than or less than 12 hours between the winter solstice and the spring equinox? Are the day lengths increasing or decreasing during that time? 07. Why is the Northern Hemisphere in winter when the earth is closest to the sun? 08.What would happen to life on the planet if the earth had no axial tilt? 09. Without two specific factors, the global wind patterns would be simple. They would blow from the poles to the equator. What two factors shape the global winds into the complex patterns that we actually see? 10. What causes the wind in a certain region to be different than what we expect based on the global patterns we see? 11. An air mass is dry and warm. What kind of air mass is it? 12. You watch the sky as cirrus clouds form followed by stratus and nimbostratus clouds. Do you expect a violent rainstorm or a long, lighter rain?