After mid-latitude cyclones and an associated ______ front have moved across the Great Lakes, lake-effect snows may occur, bringing large amounts of snowfall to the northeastern United States. - Correct Answer cold
An anticyclone forms when upper-level air slows down and is forced to the surf...
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After mid-latitude cyclones and an associated ______ front have moved across the
Great Lakes, lake-effect snows may occur, bringing large amounts of snowfall to the
northeastern United States. - Correct Answer cold
An anticyclone forms when upper-level air slows down and is forced to the surface,
causing a _______-pressure area. - Correct Answer high
Hail is most frequent in the ______ United States. - Correct Answer middle
Most tornadoes occur in mesocyclones within ______ thunderstorms. - Correct Answer
supercell
_____ anticyclones move around, in contrast to semipermanent anticyclones, which
stay in the same general area. - Correct Answer migrating
The majority of the tornadoes occur ______ of the United States - Correct Answer in
the center
Tropical cyclones are characterized by ______. - Correct Answer low atmospheric
pressure,
rotating winds
At high latitudes, the ______ cell is influenced by a high-pressure system at the poles
and easterly winds. - Correct Answer polar
Doppler radar gives us information about ______ within individual storm clouds. -
Correct Answer mass,
movement
Intense snow events called ______ -effect snows are the result of cold air masses
moving over the relatively warm Great Lakes. - Correct Answer lake
______ anticyclones stay in the same general area for entire seasons and year after
year, as opposed to migrating anticyclones. - Correct Answer semipermanent
Hurricanes are characterized by strong winds rotating around a(n) ____-pressure area.
- Correct Answer low
The polar cell is formed by air sinking at the ______ and rising at mid-latitudes. -
Correct Answer poles
, _______ radar is more precise than traditional weather-forecasting systems, such as
weather balloons, giving information about mass and movement from individual storm
clouds. - Correct Answer doppler
After mid-latitude cyclones and an associated ______ front have moved across the
Great Lakes, lake-effect snows may occur, bringing large amounts of snowfall to the
northeastern United States. - Correct Answer cold
_______ anticyclones move around, in contrast to semipermanent anticyclones, which
stay in the same general area. - Correct Answer migrating
Tropical cyclones are characterized by ______. - Correct Answer rotating winds,
low atmospheric pressure
At high latitudes, the ______ cell is influenced by a high-pressure system at the poles
and easterly winds. - Correct Answer polar
A body of air with relatively uniform ______ is called an air mass. - Correct Answer
moisture
temperature
A front is the narrow zone between two different ______. - Correct Answer air masses
An Alberta Clipper is a cyclone storm formed on the ______, leeward side of the
Rockies in Canada. - Correct Answer east
A ______-latitude cyclone is formed when a cold air mass meets a warmer one along a
frontal boundary. - Correct Answer
Anticyclones are rotating zones of _____ pressure. - Correct Answer high
Anticyclones in the mid-latitudes of the United States are pushed east by ______ winds.
- Correct Answer westerly
Columns of moist, turbulent air with variable amounts of rain, strong wind, lightning, and
hail are called ______. - Correct Answer thunderstorms
Cyclones form along the ______ side of the Canadian Rockies, bringing cold air
eastward. - Correct Answer leeward
Lightning is most common ______. - Correct Answer over land
_______ are the most fundamental of all organized weather systems and are
characterized by columns of moist, turbulent air. They have variable amounts of rain,
strong wind, lightning, and potentially hail. - Correct Answer
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