Earth science chapter 24 and 25

Which of the following is information you would not find from a station model?

a. precipitation

c. front

b. cloud cover

d. wind speed

Which of the following is information you would not find from a station model?

a. precipitation

c. front

b. cloud cover

d. wind speed

Front

Continental polar Canadian air masses generally move:

a. southeasterly.

c. northeasterly.

b. northerly.

d. westerly.

Southeasterly

The type of front that forms when two air masses move parallel to the front between them is called:

a. stationary.

c. polar.

b. occluded.

d. warm.

Stationary

The type of front that is completely lifted off the ground by cold air is called:

a. cold.

c. polar.

b. occluded.

d. warm

Occluded

The eye of a hurricane is a region of:

a. hailstorms.

c. calm, clear air.

b. torrential rainfall.

d. strong winds.

Calm clear air

The winds of a midlatitude cyclone blow in circular paths around a:

a. front.

b. low-pressure center.

c. high-pressure center.

d. jet stream.

Low pressure

In the mature stage of a thunderstorm, a cumulus cloud grows until it becomes a:

a. stratocumulus cloud.

b. altocumulus cloud.

c. cumulonimbus cloud.

d. cirrocumulus cloud.

Cumolonimbus

An instrument package attached to a weather balloon is:

a. an anemometer.

c. a thermograph.

b. a wind vane.

d. a radiosonde.

Radiosonde

The lines that connect points of equal atmospheric pressure on a weather map are called:

a. isobars.

c. highs.

b. isotherms.

d. lows.

Isobars

What tool do meteorologists use to analyze particle movements within storms?

A. an anemometer

B. a radiosonde balloon

C. doppler radar

D. satellite imaging

Doppler radar

What kind of front forms when two air masses move parallel to the boundary located between them?

F. an occluded front

G. a polar front

H. a warm front

I. a stationary front

Stationary front

Which of the following weather systems commonly forms over warm tropical oceans?

A. thunderstorms

B. hurricanes

C. tornadoes

D. anticyclones

Hurricanes

What often happens to maritime air masses as they move inland over mountainous country?

F. They bring warm, dry weather conditions.

G. They produce clouds and hurricanes.

H. They bring cold, dry weather conditions.

I. They lose moisture passing over mountains.

They lose moisture passing over mountains

What type of air mass originates over the southwestern desert of the United States in summer?

A. continental polar air mass

B. continental tropical air mass

C. maritime polar air mass

D. maritime tropical air mass

Continental tropical air mass

At the equator, the sun’s rays always strike Earth:

a. at a low angle.

b. at nearly a 90º angle.

c. 18 hours each day.

d. no more than 8 hours each day.

At nearly a 90 degree angle

Which of the following is not used as evidence of past climates?

a. ice cores

b. general circulation models

c. tree rings

d. fossils

General circulation models

Water cools:

a. more slowly than land does.

b. more quickly than land does.

c. only during evaporation.

d. during global warming.

More slowly than land does

Ocean currents influence temperature by:

a. eroding shorelines.

b. heating or cooling the air.

c. washing warm, dry sediments out to sea.

d. dispersing the rays of the sun.

Heating or cooling air

Winds that blow in opposite directions in different seasons because of the differential heating of the land and the oceans are called:

a. chinooks.

c. monsoons.

b. foehn.

d. El Niño.

Monsoons

When a moving air mass encounters a mountain range, the air mass:

a. stops moving.

b. slows and sinks.

c. rises and cools.

d. reverses its direction.

Rises and cools

In regions that have a mediterranean climate, almost all of the yearly precipitation falls:

a. during monsoons.

b. in the summer.

c. in the winter.

d. during hurricanes.

In the winter

The climate that has the largest annual temperature range is the:

a. subarctic climate.

b. middle-latitude desert climate.

c. mediterranean climate.

d. humid continental climate.

Subarctic climate

The pavement and buildings in cities affect the local climate by:

a. decreasing the temperature.

b. increasing the temperature.

c. increasing the precipitation.

d. decreasing the precipitation.

Increasing the temperature

Which statement best compares how land and water are heated by solar energy?

A. Water heats up faster and to a higher temperature than land does.

B. Land heats up faster and to a higher temperature than water does.

C. Water heats up more slowly but reaches a higher temperature than land does.

D. Land heats up more slowly and reaches a lower temperature than water does.

Land heats up faster and to a higher temperature than water does.

Which of the following statements best describes the El Niño–Southern Oscillation?

F. a change in global wind patterns that occurs in the Southern Hemisphere

G. a warming of surface waters in the eastern Pacific due to the effects of changing wind patterns on ocean currents near the equator

H. a cooling of surface waters in the eastern Pacific due to the effects of changing wind patterns on ocean currents near the equator

I. a global wind and precipitation belt between 20°N and 30°N latitude

A warming of surface waters in the eastern pacific due to the effects of changing wind patterns on ocean currents near the equator

A seasonal wind that blows toward the land in the summer and brings heavy rains is called a:

A. trade wind

D. monsoon

B. jet stream

C. doldrum

Monsoon

In samples of atmospheric gases taken from ice cores, high levels of carbon dioxide indicate that the sample is from a time period that had:

F. a warm climate

G. a cool climate

H. high amounts of precipitation

I. low amounts of precipitation

A warm climate