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Question 1:

Which system is barotropic, shallow, cold cored, and vertically stacked?
a) Polar highs
b) Cutoff highs
c) Subtropical highs
d) Mid-latitude anticyclones

Question 2:

In which area of a mid-latitude cyclone is the warm-sector air located?
a) Behind the cold front
b) Ahead of the warm front
c) Between the warm front and the cold front
d) North of the low pressure centre

Question 3:

Which of the following does NOT characterize mid-latitude cyclones?
a) Temperature advection
b) Cyclonic spin
c) Sinking air
d) Decreasing pressure

Question 4:

Which conveyor belt produces the head of the comma in the comma-shaped clouds associated with mid-latitude cyclones that appear on satellite images?
a) Warm conveyor belt
b) Dry conveyor belt
c) Cold conveyor belt
d) All of the above

Question 5:

Which of the following is an area of convection over a tropical ocean that has begun to develop cyclonic rotation?
a) Tropical depression
b) Easterly wave
c) Tropical storm
d) Tropical disturbance

Question 6:

Which system is capable of producing a storm surge?
a) Tornado
b) Tropical depression
c) Mid-latitude cyclone
d) Hurricane

Question 7:

The absence of which requirement explains why hurricanes do not form off the east coast of South America?
a) Significant Coriolis force
b) Little to no vertical wind shear
c) Source of heat
d) Instability

Question 8:

What causes a gust front to form beneath a thunderstorm?
a) Downdraft
b) Overshooting top
c) Mesocyclone
d) Squall line

Question 9:

Which of the following produces the least severe weather?
a) Mesoscale convective complex
b) Squall line
c) Supercell thunderstorm
d) Air-mass thunderstorm

Question 10:

Which of the following is determined by calculating the area between the temperature sounding and the saturated adiabat of a rising air parcel?
a) Limit of convection
b) Convective inhibition
c) Convective available potential energy
d) Lifting condensation level

Question 11:

Tropical cyclones are warm cored and vertically stacked
a) True
b) False

Question 12:

When jet streaks are curved, divergence is associated with the entrance to a jet streak.
a) True
b) False

Question 13:

Where air is rising, vorticity will be increasing in the upper half of the troposphere.
a) True
b) False

Question 14:

Hurricanes that form in the eastern Pacific Ocean are called typhoons.
a) True
b) False

Question 15:

The dissipating stage in the life cycle of a thunderstorm cell is dominated by downdrafts.
a) True
b) False

Higher Education

Weather and Climate: Chapter 14