Chapters 12 & 13 & 14
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| The cloud form that is best described as sheets or layers that cover much or all of the sky is termed | show 🗑
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| show | cumulus
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| show | alto
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| show | cirrus
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| show | nimbo
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| These clouds are often called "fair weather" clouds. | show 🗑
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| This cloud sometimes produces "mare's tails" | show 🗑
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| Thunder and lightening are associated with these clouds. | show 🗑
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| show | Altostratus
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| A halo around the Sun or Moon indicates that this cloud type is present. | show 🗑
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| show | nimbostratus
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| show | cumulonimbus
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| Tornadoes can be associated with this cloud type. | show 🗑
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| show | sleet
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| This fog forms in valleys at night | show 🗑
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| show | advection
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| This fog results from adiabatic cooling. | show 🗑
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| Which one of the fogs listed below may be categorized as an evaporation fog? | show 🗑
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| show | glaze
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| show | 4%
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| show | about sunrise
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| show | the air has a high relative humidity
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| Under what circumstances could the relative humidity exceed 100% without producing condensation in the air? | show 🗑
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| show | water vapor condenses to a liquid
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| show | cooling by expansion of air
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| show | 1300 meters
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| show | less than the wet adiabatic rate
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| When air is unstable, the environmental lapse rate is __________. | show 🗑
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| Which of the following will NOT cause air to become more unstable? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following would NOT be associated with stable atmospheric conditions? | show 🗑
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| A parcel of air has a temperature of 0˚C as it crosses a mountain range at 3000 meters. If it descends, what will its temperature be when it reaches sea level? | show 🗑
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| show | rainshadow deserts
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| The change of state from a gas to a liquid is called __________. | show 🗑
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| The term __________ is used to describe the conversion of a solid directly to a gas, without passing through the liquid state. | show 🗑
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| This process by which water vapor changes directly to a solid is called | show 🗑
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| This process results in the release of about 600 calories of latent heat per gram of water. | show 🗑
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| What is the dew point for 14 grams vapor content and 20 gram at 25 degrees Celcius, 14 rams at 20 degrees Celcius, and 10 grams at 15 degrees Celcius | show 🗑
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| show | evaporation
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| Hail is most commonly associated with | show 🗑
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| show | 70%
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| What would happen if the temperature were cooled 15 degrees Celsius? | show 🗑
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| A sea breeze usually originates during the ____. | show 🗑
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| show | jet streams
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| What is the technical name for a high pressure center? | show 🗑
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| Standard sea level pressure in millibars is | show 🗑
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| Standard sea level pressure in inches of mercury is | show 🗑
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| show | anemometer
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| An altimeter is an adaptation of the | show 🗑
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| show | both wind speed and latitude
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| show | Isobars
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| show | high winds
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| A steep pressure gradient | show 🗑
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| Widely spaced isobars often indicate | show 🗑
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| show | only wind direction
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| show | counterclockwise and toward the center
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| In the Northern Hemisphere, winds associated with a high pressure system blow | show 🗑
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| If Earth were not rotating | show 🗑
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| show | are generally faster than surface winds
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| High air pressure systems are usually associated with | show 🗑
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| In the Southern Hemisphere, the winds associated with a low pressure system blow | show 🗑
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| show | Precipitation
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| show | rising
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| If stormy weather is approaching, the pressure tendency would probably be_____. | show 🗑
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| Most of the US is situated in which zone of prevailing winds? | show 🗑
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| show | horse latitudes
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| show | subtropical high
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| show | equatorial low
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| show | In winter
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| show | a zone where the polar easterlies and the westerlies converge
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| show | very dry, warm wind flowing down a mountain slope
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| The precipitation associated with a warm front typically arrives _______the actual front | show 🗑
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| This air mass may produce an occasional northeaster in the winter. | show 🗑
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| When an area is experience several consecutive days of rather constant weather, it is probably _____. | show 🗑
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| An air mass from the Gulf of Mexico is labeled | show 🗑
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| show | cold
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| On a weather map, _____fronts are shown by a line with semicircles extending from one side. | show 🗑
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| When a hurricane moves onto land, it rapidly loses its punch; that is, the storm declines in intensity. which of the factors listed below contribute to this loss of punch? | show 🗑
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| show | both warm front and cold front
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| Tornadoes most often move TOWARDS what direction? | show 🗑
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| When an active cold front overtakes a warm front ____. | show 🗑
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| The eye of a hurricane is ____. | show 🗑
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| The air mass often originates as a different air mass in Siberia and is subsequently altered. | show 🗑
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| show | tornado
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| This air mass is the source of much of the moisture for precipitation in the central and eastern US. | show 🗑
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| show | April-June period
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| show | barometric pressure to rise
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| An mP air mass is | show 🗑
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| The air masses that have the greatest influence on weather conditions in the central US are_____. | show 🗑
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| show | all of these
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| Typhoon is another name for a | show 🗑
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| show | cold
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| show | warm
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| show | both middle-latitude cyclone and low pressure
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| Which one of the following statements is NOT true of tornadoes? | show 🗑
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| If an observer sees cirrus clouds, followed later by cirrostratus, and then altostratus, he or she is witnessing the approach of a ______ front. | show 🗑
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| Rain long foretold, long last; short notice, soon past. The first five words of this weather proberb_____. | show 🗑
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| show | 1.0
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