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Huge rolling waves caused by high winds ahead of a hurricane:
a) malestroms
b) storm swells
c) gale winds
d) vortex

The largest storm of any storm on earth
a) Volcano
b) Lake effect storm
c) Blizzard
d) Hurricane

Another name for a hurricane is a
a) cyclone
b) tornado
c) malestrom
d) tropical inversion

A rapidly-spinning column of air extending down from a cumulonimbus cloud is a
a) dust devil
b) polar vortex
c) tornado
d) frontal cumulonimbal system

Large rotating storm systems are known as
a) supercells
b) funnel clouds
c) wind shears
d) airborne thunderstorms

What is a squall line?
a) a group of thunderstorms along a cold front
b) a line of tornadoes scattered throughout a storm system
c) a weather pattern that is conducive to extensive tornadoes
d) a line of thunderstorms that are associated with polar conditions

What are the components of a wintry mix?
a) Completely snow
b) Various kinds of liquid and solid precipitation
c) Completely rain
d) Completely hail

Frontal wedging is the effect that occurs when
a) the cold front pushes warm air upward, causing it to cool
b) the warm front pushes the cold front upward, causing it to further cool
c) the warm front pushes the cold front upward, causing it to get warmer
d) The cold front pushes warm air downward, causing humid conditions

The process when air lifts into the atmosphere after multiple horizontal air currents contact one another is called
a) Coriolis effect
b) thunderhead formation
c) conduction
d) convection

The effect where a windy side of a mountain is different (drier)than the non-windy side is called the
a) storm system
b) rain shadow
c) windward motion
d) pressure gradient

What is orographic lifting?
a) When two fronts meet and are forced upward
b) When mountains cause humidity and weather to differ on either side
c) The formation of a cumulonimbus cloud
d) The creation of an occluded front

Characteristics of a cold front passing through an area include:
a) temperature rising
b) temperature dropping
c) temperature staying the same
d) temperature fluctuating

A warm front includes:
a) rising temperatures
b) falling temperatures
c) stormy weather
d) tornadoes

Convection works by:
a) cyclonic movements over a continental region
b) ocean warming and creating ripe conditions for hurricane
c) sun heating the earth and the air above the ground warming as a result
d) influencing tidal regions with heat waves

A front is:
a) a boundary between two different air masses
b) an area of high pressure
c) an area of low pressure
d) a collection of intense thermal energy

The area that gives an air mass its characteristics is called a
a) source region
b) frontal region
c) supernova region
d) storm front

Maritime means
a) ocean
b) land
c) air
d) wind

Polar means
a) cold/frigid
b) warm/windy
c) westward wind
d) eastward wind

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