GEOG 103 Chapters 6-10 Quiz Questioms

Thunderstorms in North America occur with the greatest frequency

In the Southeast

According to the lectures, which statement best describes the known affects of global warming on current tornado activity?

Global warming has had no detectable impact on the frequency or size of tornado activity to date

This ranked tornado causes severe drama be with its 136-165 mile per hour winds.

F3

Cloud formation occurs on or immediately behind what type of weather front?

Cold front

A category 5 hurricane has maximum sustained winds in excess of

155 mph

What type of fog forms when cold air lies over the warm water of a lake?

Evaporation fog

When would you use the moist or wet adiabatic lapse rate?

Whenever a parcel that is saturated cools as it rises

100% relative humidity is the definition of

Saturation

The ratio of the amount of water in the atmosphere to the maximum amount of water that the air could hold is the definition of what?

Relative humidity

As an air parcel rises, its temperature

Cools

On a water budget graph, what area is defined by the POTET significantly exceeding the PRECIP and the ability of the soil to provide moisture, resulting in a diverging ACTET line from the POTET curve.

Defecit

Which statement accurately describes the role of oceans in the hydrologic cycle.

 

Oceans account for most of the evaporation and most of the precipitation for the globe.

The distribution of fresh water around the world is fairly even.

false

The capacity of the soil to hold water is a basic definition of porosity.

true

What type of water is inaccessible to plants because it is a molecule-thin layer that is tightly bound to each soil particle?

hygroscopic water