How are air masses named? - CORRECT ANSWER Moisture
Temperature
What is required for the formation of an air mass? - CORRECT ANSWER Flat terrain
Light winds
What happens when air masses move? - CORRECT ANSWER Their properties change
Where do air masses form? - CORRECT ANSWER Low an...
GY 101 UA Final (test) Answered & Graded
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How are air masses named? - CORRECT ANSWER Moisture
Temperature
What is required for the formation of an air mass? - CORRECT ANSWER Flat terrain
Light winds
What happens when air masses move? - CORRECT ANSWER Their properties
change
Where do air masses form? - CORRECT ANSWER Low and high latitudes
Near the poles and near the equator
Where do air masses interact? - CORRECT ANSWER In the middle latitudes
How does Lake Effect snow happen? - CORRECT ANSWER Cold air mass passes
over liquid water and then over cold land
Name that Front:
Cold, dry, stable air is replacing warm, moist, unstable air.
Moves fast with showers along the leading edge - CORRECT ANSWER Cold Front
Name that Front:
Warm, moist, unstable air is replacing the cold, dry, stable air by overrunning it.
The overrunning front rides up over the cold air creating widespread cloudiness and
light to moderate precipitation well ahead of the front - CORRECT ANSWER Warm
Front
Name that Front:
Essentially no movement, winds blow parallel to the front in opposite directions on both
sides - CORRECT ANSWER Stationary Front
Name that Front:
When a cold front catches up to a warm front - CORRECT ANSWER Occluded Front
What are the 4 mechanisms that can force air to rise? - CORRECT ANSWER
Convection, Convergence, Orographic and Frontal lifting
Which type of front is associated with heavy precipitation? - CORRECT ANSWER Cold
Front
What are the 4 life cycle stages of a middle latitude cyclone? - CORRECT ANSWER
Cyclogenesis
, Open wave formation
Occluding
Dissipation
What are the 4 types of thunderstorms? - CORRECT ANSWER Single Cell
Multi Cell
Squall Line
Supercell
What are the 3 stages of ordinary thunderstorm development? - CORRECT ANSWER
Cumulus stage
Mature stage
Dissipating stage
What is the key ingredient for the formation of severe thunderstorms? - CORRECT
ANSWER Wind shear
Sand storms created by downdrafts of air from a thunderstorm - CORRECT ANSWER
Haboobs
What shape does a Mesoscale Convective Complex (MCC) have? - CORRECT
ANSWER Circle
Why is Tornado Alley well suited to tornado development? - CORRECT ANSWER The
meeting of different air masses over flat warm land with wind shear from the jet stream
What do meteorologists look for on the radar as an indication of tornado development? -
CORRECT ANSWER Hook Echo
True or False
The Fujita Scale for classifying tornados is based on Wind Speed - CORRECT
ANSWER False - Total Damage
True or False
Multiple vortices can occur in a single tornado - CORRECT ANSWER True
What is the spinning column of air that can spawn a tornado? - CORRECT ANSWER
Mesocyclone
When is hurricane season in the North Atlantic Ocean? - CORRECT ANSWER June
1st - November 30th
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