Meteorology final exam
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| show | about
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| A mountain wave cloud is a | show 🗑
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| Which cloud type is the warmest | show 🗑
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| Fog formed when warm humid air streams over the cold surface of a lake is called | show 🗑
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| show | ground clutter
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| show | cirrus
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| show | cirrus
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| Fog formed when cold dry air streams over the surface of a relatively warm body of water is known as | show 🗑
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| Most precipitation that falls in midaltitudes orignates in what type of cloud | show 🗑
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| show | tiny water droplets
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| An example of a cloud that is always cold is | show 🗑
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| show | cumulonimbus
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| The convective condensation level closely corresponds in altitude to the base of what type of cloud | show 🗑
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| Which is most likely to be a warm cloud | show 🗑
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| The type of frozen precipitation sometimes produced by a summer thunderstorm | show 🗑
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| The activation temperature of the most ice-forming nuclei is | show 🗑
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| A cloud that develops as a consequence of local convetion is | show 🗑
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| show | hailstone
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| show | cumulonimbus
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| show | stratus
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| show | is zero
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| Geostropic winds are | show 🗑
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| A weak tornado is included in a | show 🗑
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| In a geostropic wind, the horizontal pressure gradient is balanced by | show 🗑
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| show | low pressure
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| The movement of air measured realtive to Earth's surface is known as | show 🗑
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| show | acceleration
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| In the northern hemisphere, the Coriolis effect always acts | show 🗑
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| A hurricane is included in what type of system | show 🗑
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| The surface air pressure is higher in | show 🗑
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| The surface air pressure is lower in | show 🗑
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| The Coriolis Effect arises from the fact that | show 🗑
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| The Coriolis effect produces its maximum deflection at | show 🗑
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| show | to the left of the direction of motion
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| show | planetary, synoptic, meso, micro
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| show | the air is calm
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| show | divergence
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| show | convergence
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| show | from which
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| show | doldrums
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| A front is a narrow zone of transition between air masses that contrast in | show 🗑
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| show | medidional
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| A synoptic scale cyclone is most likely to develop on what side of an upper air trough | show 🗑
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| show | zonal
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| show | 2-5
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| An extreme and persistant El Nino | show 🗑
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| Where is the Icelandic low located | show 🗑
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| show | relatively unstable air
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| Viewed from above in the Northern Hemisphere, surface winds about a subtropical high blow | show 🗑
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| Viewed from above in the Southern Hemisphere, surface winds about a subtropical high blow | show 🗑
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| A blocking circulation pattern during the summer of 1993 was responsible for what in the midwest | show 🗑
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| The average winter location of the polar front jet stream | show 🗑
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| The average summer location of the polar front jet stream | show 🗑
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| show | blocking
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| show | dry climates
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| show | wavelength, amplitude, number of waves
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| The intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) | show 🗑
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| show | west
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| The Bermuda high is located | show 🗑
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| Ahead of a surface warm front the intial wispy couds are called | show 🗑
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| The warmest sector of a mature midlatitude cyclone is usually | show 🗑
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| show | more than
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| In equal volumes, which air masses exerts the highest surface air pressure | show 🗑
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| Usually air mass modification is most rapid when | show 🗑
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| show | an occluded front
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| In a wave cyclone, fog is most likely to develop | show 🗑
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| The coldest sector of a mature midlatitude cyclone is usually | show 🗑
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| An intense synoptic scale cyclone tracks up the Mississippi River Valley and passes west of Chicago. As the cold front sweeps through Chicago, the wind shifts from the south to the | show 🗑
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| A type of cloud associated with fast moving well defined cold front | show 🗑
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| Cold fronts travel _____ warm fronts | show 🗑
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| Precipitation tends to be steady and prolonged to the ______sector of a wave cyclone | show 🗑
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| What is the surface wind direction in the northwest sector of a mature midlatitude cyclone | show 🗑
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| Most major winter storms that affect the St. Louis area follow which cyclone track? | show 🗑
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| show | tropical and subtropical ocean
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| show | mT
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| show | Chinook
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| In winter, continental polar air is ____ maritime polar air | show 🗑
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| Contrasting air masses are brought together to form fronts by surface winds around centers of | show 🗑
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| An example of a cold-core anticyclone is | show 🗑
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| show | mature stage
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| show | hail, damaging surface winds, frequent lightning
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| A feature sometimes present in thunderstorms that may prolong the mature stage is | show 🗑
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| show | cyclones
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| show | both updrafts and downdrafts
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| show | downdrafts only
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| show | cumulonimbus
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| show | intense thunderstorm
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| show | central Florida
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| show | strong updrafts, great vertical development, an abundant supply of supercooled water droplets
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| The anvil of a thunderstorm cloud is likely to be | show 🗑
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| show | more severe the thunderstorm cell
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| show | wind shear
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| A tornadic circulation that remains aloft and does not touch the Earth's surface is known as a | show 🗑
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| show | consists of numerous interacting thunderstorm cells
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| Typically, all tornadoes that occur each year in the US are rated as | show 🗑
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| show | 5 on the F-scale
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| show | Kansas
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| In the United States, the months of peak tornado activity are | show 🗑
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| show | fair skies and light winds
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| show | the surface ocean water is too cold
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| show | coastal and inland flooding
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| It is _____ for tornadoes to accompany hurricanes | show 🗑
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| show | storm surge
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| show | latent heat
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| A hurricane breeding ground | show 🗑
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| show | weaken rapidly
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| show | an organized cluster of cumulonimbus clouds
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| show | Key West, Florida
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| The highest wind speeds in a hurricane occur | show 🗑
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| The central pressure is _____ in a hurricane than in a typical midlatitude cyclone | show 🗑
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| The major source of energy in a hurricane is | show 🗑
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| Sustained surface winds in a hurricane are | show 🗑
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| show | June through Novemeber
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| The eye of a hurricane typically | show 🗑
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| show | its wind diminishes, central pressure rises, and rains continue
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| show | evacuate to an inland shelter
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| When wind speeds reach 39 mi per hour the system is classified as a | show 🗑
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