Chapter 12 Review2 Question Preview (ID: 35874)

a) A volcanic eruption makes Earth’s climate warmer since the lava is so hot.

b) A volcanic eruption makes Earth’s climate cooler because it erupts out some of the mantle giving us less core heat.

c) A volcanic eruption doesn’t change Earth’s climate at all.

d) A volcanic eruption changes Earth’s climate for a while by making it cooler since the volcanic ash blocks sunlight.

a) Cold air in the atmosphere is so cold that it freezes globs of snowflakes together making hail.

b) Rain freezes as it falls through very cold air forming hail.

c) Wind tosses ice crystals up and down inside cumulonimbus clouds to form hail.

d) Winter storm clouds put out large hailstones on very cold nights.

a) Warm air has particles closer together making it less dense with less pressure.

b) Warm air has spread out particles making it less dense with less pressure.

c) Cold air has more pressure than warm air because the particles are spread out.

d) Cold air has more pressure than warm air because it is colder.

a) When a warm air mass hits a cooler one, a cold front forms and can make rain.

b) When a warm air mass hits a cooler one, a cold front forms and can make heavy rain or snow.

c) When a warm air mass hits a cooler one, a warm front forms and can make steady rain, drizzle, and/or clouds.

d) When a warm air mass hits a cooler one, a stationary front forms and can make heavy rain or snow.

a) Funnel-shaped columns of air with extremely strong winds that form over cold ocean waters.

b) Small, intense storms that produce high winds, heavy rain, thunder, and lightning.

c) Large spiraling storms that form over cold ocean water from cumulonimbus clouds (thunderstorms.)

d) Large spiraling storms that form over warm ocean waters with extremely high winds.

a) Funnel-shaped columns of air with extremely strong winds that form quickly in cumulonimbus clouds (thunderstorms.)

b) Large spiraling storms that form over warm ocean water with extremely strong winds that form quickly in cumulonimbus clouds (

c) Small, intense storms that produce strong winds, heavy rain, thunder, and lightning.

d) Funnel-shaped columns of air with extremely strong winds that form quickly in cirrus clouds.

a) Funnel-shaped columns of air with extremely strong winds that form quickly in cumulonimbus clouds (thunderstorms.)

b) Large spiraling storms that form over warm ocean waters that have extremely high winds.

c) Small, intense storms that produce strong winds, heavy rain, thunder, and lightning.

d) Small intense storms that form over warm ocean water that produce strong winds, heavy rain, thunder, and lightning.

a) Take shelter underground, if you have no underground shelter then go to an inside room on the first floor with no windows, go

b) Find shelter in a building or car, take shelter under short trees, avoid using the phone.

c) Find shelter in a building or car, lie flat in a ditch or the lowest place you can find, prepare a disaster kit.

d) Take shelter underground, avoid using the phone, make a disaster kit.

a) Get down low to the ground and make yourself as small as possible, avoid using the phone, go into an inside room with no wind

b) Take shelter underground, make a disaster plan, make a disaster kit.

c) Take shelter in a building or car, if you are told to evacuate do so immediately, lie flat in a ditch or the lowest place you

d) Have a disaster plan and kit ready, if told to evacuate do so immediately, avoid using the phone except in emergencies.

a) Prepare a disaster plan, evacuate, find shelter.

b) Find shelter in a building or car, take shelter under short trees, get low to the ground and make yourself as small as possib

c) Find shelter in a building or car, go to an inside first floor room with no windows, have a disaster kit ready.

d) Find shelter in a building or car, avoid using the phone, have a disaster plan in place.