Exam 3 Natural Disasters Lambert

Most countries in the world today report meteorological temperatures in the ________________.

 

A) Fahrenheit Scale.

 

B) Celsius Scale.

 

C) Centigrade Scale.

 

D) Kelvin Scale.

B) Celsius Scale.

The latent heat of which gas in the atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan serves the same purpose moving heat energy from place to place as water vapor does in Earth's climate system?

 

A) Nitrogen.

 

B) Methane.

 

C) Carbon dioxide.

 

D) Water vapor plays the same role in the atmosphere of both Titan and Earth.

B) Methane.

Air rushing counterclockwise into a low pressure area or clockwise out of a high pressure area in the northern hemisphere was described by your instructor as a _____________.

 

A) Diurnal land and sea breeze.

 

B) Monsoonal circulation.

 

C) Geostrophic wind.

 

D) Gradient wind.

D) Gradient wind.

The jet stream is a type of _____________.

 

A) Diurnal land and sea breeze.

 

B) Monsoonal circulation.

 

C) Geostrophic wind.

 

D) Gradient wind.

C)

As a volume or parcel of air rises in the atmosphere and cools, the amount of water vapor that it can contain without raining out the excess _______________.

 

A) Decreases.

 

B) Remains the same.

 

C) Increases.

A) Decreases

The change in temperature of the atmosphere with increasing altitude is called the ____________ while the change in temperature inside a volume or parcel of air rising through the atmosphere is called the ___________,

 

A) Adiabatic lapse rate; environmental lapse rate.

 

B) Environmental lapse rate; adiabatic lapse rate.

 

C) They are both called the adiabatic lapse rate.

 

D) They are both called the environmental lapse rate.

B) Environmental lapse rate; adiabatic lapse rate.

In _______________, a volume or parcel of air is always cooler and more dense than the surrounding air and will not rise unless acted on by one of the lifting mechanisms discussed in lecture this week.

 

A) Conditionally unstable air.

 

B) Unstable air.

 

C) Stable air.

C) Stable air.

In  _______________, a volume or parcel of air is always warmer and less dense than the surrounding air and will always rise of its own accord after being lifted any distance by one of the mechanisms discussed in lecture this week.

 

A) Conditionally unstable air.

 

B) Unstable air.

 

C) Stable air.

B) Unstable air.

Which of the following types of frontal boundaries produces the most rain?

 

A) Cold fronts.

 

B) Warm fronts.

 

C) Occluded fronts.

C) Occluded fronts.

The Scale used to rate the strength of tropical cyclones is the ___________.

A) Enhanced Fujita Scale

B) Saffir-Simpson Scale

C) The Torino Scale

B) Saffir-Simpson Scale

On the scale mentioned in 3a), a major hurricane is anything at __________ or above.

A) Category 1

B) Category 2

C) Category 3

D) Category 4

E) Category 5

C) Category 3

In a mid-latitude cyclone, rain happens a short distance behind the location of a(n) ________________.

 

A) Cold front.

 

B) Warm front.

 

C) Occluded front.

 

D) This would be true of cold front, warm front and occluded front.

A) Cold front.

In a mid-latitude cyclone, rain can happen a long distance in front of the location of a(n) ________________.

 

A) Cold front.

 

B) Warm front.

 

C) Occluded front.

 

D) This would be true of cold front, warm front and occluded front.

B) Warm front.

A mid-latitude cyclone would rotate _____________ in the northern hemisphere and would rotate _______________ in the southern hemisphere.

 

A) Clockwise; counterclockwise.

 

B) Counterclockwise; clockwise.

 

C) They would both rotate clockwise.

 

D) They would both rotate counterclockwise.

B) Counterclockwise; clockwise.

A mid-latitude cyclone moves to the ______ in the northern hemisphere and to the _____ in the southern hemisphere.

 

A) East; west.

 

B) West; east.

 

C) They would both move to the east.

 

D) They would both move to the west.

C) They would both move to the east.

What is the generic name for a hurricane or typhoon?

 

A) An anticyclone.

 

B) A mid-latitude cyclone.

 

C) A tropical cyclone.

 

D) An extra-tropical cyclone.

C) A tropical cyclone.

Where would you NOT expect a tropical cyclone to form?

 

A) Along the Equator.

 

B) In the Indian Ocean.

 

C) In the Atlantic Ocean Basin.

 

D In the Eastern Pacific Ocean.

A) Along the Equator.

Over time, both the energy and the number of tropical cyclones have _____________.

 

A) Decreased.

 

B) Remained the same.

 

C) Increased.

C) Increased.

What does the Fujiwhara Effect NOT predict might happen when two tropical cyclones approach each other?

 

A) The two tropical cyclones would cancel each other out.

 

B) The smaller tropical cyclone would be absorbed by the larger tropical cyclone.

 

C) Two tropical cyclones of equal size would rotate around each other and form a larger tropical cyclone around a new eye in the center of their rotation.

 

D) The Fujiwhara Effect predicts that none of the above are possible outcomes when two tropical cyclones approach each other.

A) The two tropical cyclones would cancel each other out.

Over the course of the 20th century deaths from hurricanes making landfall along the coastal United States ____________ while property damage from hurricanes making landfall along the coastal United States _____________.

 

A) Decreased; increased.

 

B) Increased; decreased.

 

C) Both deaths and property damage from hurricanes making landfall along the coastal United States decreased over the course of the 20th century.

 

D) Both deaths and property damage from hurricanes making landfall along the coastal United States increased over the course of the 20th century.

A) Decreased; increased.

Bow echoes on radar are often indicative of these long-lived gust fronts:

 

A) A derecho.

 

B) A hail core.

 

C) A mesocyclone.

 

D) A squall line.

A) A derecho.

_____________ are lines of thunderstorms producing intense rain immediately behind a cold front and characterized by a linear structure on radar images, often extending for hundreds of miles from the central low-pressure of a mid-latitude cyclone but only a few miles wide. 

 

A) A derecho.

 

B) A hail core.

 

C) A mesocycone.

 

D) A squall line.

D) A squall line.

A hook echo on radar can indicate this part of a supercell thunderstorm which may produce a tornado:

 

A) A derecho.

 

B) A hail core.

 

C) A mesocyclone.

 

D) A squall line.

C) A mesocyclone.

A highly radar-reflective part of the center  of a thunderstorm may represent a _____________.

 

A) A derecho.

 

B) A hail core.

 

C) A mesocyclone.

 

D) A squall line.

B) A hail core.

Rare, powerful "positive lightning" that can strike the ground many miles away from its origin is produced by _____________.

 

A) In-cloud lightning.

 

B) Anvil-to-ground lightning.

 

C) Cloud base-to-ground lightning.

 

D) Transient Luminous Events.

B) Anvil-to-ground lightning.

The recently-documented phenomena of lightning from the tops of thunderstorms to the ionosphere is a type of _____________.

 

A) In-cloud lightning.

 

B) Anvil-to-ground lightning.

 

C) Cloud base-to-ground lightning.

 

D) Transient Luminous Event.

D) Transient Luminous Event.

Most tornadoes in the continental United States move in what direction?

 

A) Northwest to southeast.

 

B) Southeast to northwest.

 

C) Northeast to southwest.

 

D) Southwest to northeast.

D) Southwest to northeast.

Only one of the top ten deadliest tornadoes in the United States happened in the ________________.

 

A) 19th century.

 

B) 20th century.

 

C) 21st century.

C) 21st century.

As of March, 2025, the Topeka, Kansas, Tornado of 1966 is still the _____________ expensive tornado on record in the United States in terms of inflation-adjusted damage.

 

A) The most-expensive tornado.

 

B) The second-most expensive tornado.

 

C) The third-most expensive tornado.

 

D) The fourth-most expensive tornado.

D) The fourth-most expensive tornado.

Which city along the Atlantic Coast of the U.S. was hit hardest by the Blizzard of 1888?

A) Washington, D.C.

B) Baltimore, Maryland

C) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

D) New York City, New York

D) New York City, New York

A possible war between Germany and the U.S. was prevented by ___________.

A) The Kyushu Typhoon of 1981

B) The Samoan Cyclone of 1889

C) The New England Hurricane of 1938

D) The East Pakistan Cyclone of 1970

B) The Samoan Cyclone of 1889

Which of the following cities was struck by both an F5 and an EF5 tornado fourteen years apart that were the third- and seventh-costliest United States tornadoes since 1950?

 

A) Manhattan, Kansas.

 

B) Moore, Oklahoma.

 

C) Greensburg, Kansas.

 

D) Joplin, Missouri.

B) Moore, Oklahoma.

A tornado in this city is the costliest U. S. tornado since 1950 as well as being the seventh-deadliest U. S. tornado.

 

A) Manhattan, Kansas.

 

B) Moore, Oklahoma.

 

C) Greensburg, Kansas.

 

D) Joplin, Missouri.

D) Joplin, Missouri.

A tornado destroyed 90% of this town and was the first EF5 tornado on the then-new Enhanced Fujita tornado scale:

 

A) Manhattan, Kansas.

 

B) Moore, Oklahoma.

 

C) Greensburg, Kansas.

 

D) Joplin, Missouri.

C) Greensburg, Kansas.

A tornado in this city would have done much more damage if it hadn't weakened and kept picking up and dropping back down as it passed through the city.

 

A) Manhattan, Kansas.

 

B) Moore, Oklahoma.

 

C) Greensburg, Kansas.

 

D) Joplin, Missouri.

A) Manhattan, Kansas.

The author of an book that is our best reference on the English Windstorm of 1703 also wrote _____________.

 

A) The Game of Thrones.

 

B) The Lord of the Rings.

 

C) Robinson Crusoe.

 

D) The Tempest.

C) Robinson Crusoe.

The Bermuda Hurricane of 1609 was the inspiration for this very fictionalized work:

 

A) The Game of Thrones.

 

B) The Lord of the Rings.

 

C) Robinson Crusoe.

 

D) The Tempest.

D) The Tempest.

This was the first test of an evacuation of New York City in the event of a hurricane. It was a success.

 

A) Hurricane Camille (1969).

 

B) Hurricane Katrina (2005).

 

C) Hurricane Irene (2011).

 

D) Hurricane Sandy (2012).

C) Hurricane Irene (2011).

_____________ struck New Jersey and New York City before merging inland with a mid-latitude cyclone and becoming an extra-tropical cyclone that dumped snow on the area it had just hit as a hurricane.

 

A) Hurricane Camille(1969).

 

B) Hurricane Katrina (2005).

 

C) Hurricane Irene (2011).

 

D) Hurricane Sandy (2012).

D) Hurricane Sandy (2012).

Which of the following countries came into being in part due to the East Pakistan Cyclone of 1970?

 

A) Bangladesh.

 

B) East Pakistan.

 

C) Great Britain.

 

D) India.

A) Bangladesh.