Weather and Climate, Practice Quiz: Chapter 14

Weather and Climate, Practice Quiz: Chapter 14

. Which system is barotropic, shallow, cold cored, and vertically stacked?

. In which area of a mid-latitude cyclone is the warm-sector air located?

. Which of the following does NOT characterize mid-latitude cyclones?

. Which conveyor belt produces the head of the comma in the comma-shaped clouds associated with mid-latitude cyclones that appear on satellite images?

. Which of the following is an area of convection over a tropical ocean that has begun to develop cyclonic rotation?

. Which system is capable of producing a storm surge?

. The absence of which requirement explains why hurricanes do not form off the east coast of South America?

. What causes a gust front to form beneath a thunderstorm?

. Which of the following produces the least severe weather?

. Which of the following is determined by calculating the area between the temperature sounding and the saturated adiabat of a rising air parcel?

. Tropical cyclones are warm cored and vertically stacked.

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

. Where air is rising, vorticity will be increasing in the upper half of the troposphere.

. Tropical storms that form in the eastern Pacific Ocean are called typhoons.

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

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