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1.
An extensive body of air in which temperature and moisture characteristics are fairly uniform is a(n):
easterly wave
polar outbreak
jet stream
air mass
QUESTION 2
1.
There are about seven (or eight) air masses that affect weather systems in North America.
In the following map, both air masses #1 and # 4 are ___________.
cA: dry and cold
cP: dry and cold
mP: moist and cool
cT: dry and hot
mT: moist and hot
QUESTION 3
1.
Which air mass (s) can bring the coldest weather to the United States in winter?
Air Mass #1
Air Mass #2
Air Mass #3
Air Mass #4
Air Mass #5
QUESTION 4
1.
Which air mass can bring a lot of moisture to the American West?
Air Mass #1
Air Mass #2
Air Mass #5
Air Mass #6
QUESTION 5
1.
Which air mass comes to exist only during summer and is the hotest and driest?
Air Mass #3
Air Mass #5
Air Mass #6
Air Mass #7
QUESTION 6
1.
When a continental polar air mass from Canada moves over the Great Lakes, the air mass will become
_____________ due to the lake effect.
drier and colder
colder and more moist
warmer and drier
warmer and more moist
QUESTION 7
1.
When Air mass #7 advances northward and pushing air mass #3 backward, what kind of frontal weather
systems will be formed?
Cold front
Warm front.
Stationary front.
Occluded front.
QUESTION 8
1.
On the contrary, when Air mass #3 advances sourthward and pushing air mass #7 backward during late
Fall, what kind of frontal weather systems will be formed?
Cold front
Warm front.
Stationary front.
Occluded front.
QUESTION 9
1.
This figure shows a cross section of a(n) ____________________.
middle latitude cyclone
hurricane
tropical cyclon
monsoon
1.
QUESTION 10
The cold front in this figure is labeled ___________.
1
2
3
4
1.
QUESTION 11
Which front often moves very fast and brings severe sunderstroms?
1
2
3
4
QUESTION 12
1.
Different frontal systems generate different series of clouds that you can use for weather analhysis and
weather forecasting. If a warm front system moves over Towson from west or southwest, you will see
a series of clouds following a sequence of ______________________from high altitude to lower altitude.
cirrus-cumulonimbus-stratusthat
cirrus-cirrostratus-altostratus-nimbostratus
cumulonimbus-stratus-cirrus
nimbostratus-altostratus-cirrostratus-cirrus
QUESTION 13
1.
The following map best depicts a prevailing large scale weather system in the United States that is called
____________.
anticyclone
cold front
middle latitude cyclone
tropical depression
QUESTION 14
1.
Three subsystems labeled by Letters A, B, and C are a ___________, a ______________, and a
_____________ respectively.
The following map best depicts a prevailing large scale weather system in the United States that is called
____________.
cold front, stationary front, warm front
stationary front, warm front, cold front
warm front, cold front, stationary front
cold front, warm fronts, stationary front
QUESTION 15
1.
Which of the following statements is false?
Hurricane is a subtropical anticyclone.
Hurricanes formed near the equator but no on it.
Hurricanes form over the ocean (including gulf of Mexico) because it needs air full of moist to feed it.
Hurricanes die after making a landfall because there is no more energy source available.
Hurricanes formed in the northern hemisphere initially move westward and turn northward or
northeastward before they are degraded to tropical or extrotrioucak depression or storm.
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