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Where do eastern hurricanes form to start the process?
a) In South America
b) On the continent of Africa
c) In Florida
d) To start it begins in a river

Tornadoes occur in the United States mostly where?
a) In West Virginia and the mountain states
b) In New Mexico and desert areas
c) Flat states in an area called Tornado Alley
d) In Maine and our colder states

What is the correct order for a hurricane to form?
a) Storm, to Low, to Depression to Low
b) Tropical Storm, Tropical Depression, Hurricane
c) Low, to Tropical Depression, To Tropical Storm, to Hurricane
d)

What makes a hurricane rotate counterclockwise?
a) The winds and bands
b) It does not turn it moves straight
c) The Eye Wall
d) The Coriolis Effect because Earth turns, it makes the hurricane turn

The most violent part of the Hurricane.
a) The Eye
b) The bands of wind
c) The Eye Wall
d)

Lighting is made when particles do what?
a) Positive particles line up a the top and negative particles line up at the bottom
b) Negative line up first with Positive lining up next to them
c) Negative at the top and positive at the bottom
d) Thunder hits lightning

How do we scale a tornado?
a) DBischof 1-5
b) Category 0-7
c) EF 0-5
d) XM 0-3

How is a hurricane scaled?
a) Category 1-10
b) Category 1-5
c) Category 0-20
d)

What layer of the atmosphere is Ozone in?
a) Troposphere
b) Stratosphere
c) Exosphere
d) Kingdom

What is the engine that starts weather?
a) The Wind
b) Lows and Highs
c) Radiation from the Sun
d)

When hot air rises over the beach during the day and sinks over the ocean and goes back to the beach.
a) Land Breeze
b) Bischof Breeze which is very cool!
c) Sea Breeze
d) Drew Breeze

What happens at the top of a mountain with air pressure?
a) Air pressure is greater. It is near the sun.
b) Lower pressure causes cooler temperatures and less air.
c) Wind stops and the sun shines and we all get a good tan
d) High pressure causes cool air to rise

Thunder is made by what?
a) Hot air rising and striking lightning
b) Air expanding because of lightning heat then contracting or coming together and making a loud clap of air.
c) Lightning moving on the ground when it hits a pole
d)

What type of lightning strike is the most common?
a) Cloud to ground
b) Ground to Cloud
c) Cloud to Cloud
d) Cloud to a guy like Mr. B golfing when he should not be

What is fog?
a) A cloud that is higher in the air
b) A stratus cloud that is raining
c) A cumulus cloud that is puffy on the ground
d) A low cloud that forms because moisture in the air will not allow it to rise and evaporate until the sun comes out.

What type of wind or air movement gives Pennsylvania it's weather?
a) Polar Easterlie
b) Polar Northerlie
c) Westerlies
d)

What is it when we touch something and transfer heat
a) Convection
b) Radiation
c) Conduction
d)

What layer of the atmosphere has space shuttles in it
a) Thermosphere
b) Stratosphere
c) Mesosphere
d)

What type of cloud is a blanket?
a) Stratus
b) Cumulus
c) Cirrus
d)

What type of cloud is usually with a tornado
a) Stratus
b) Cirrus
c) Fog
d) Cumulonimbus

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