geography grade 12

MID-LATITUDE TEST

DEFINITIONS

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GENERAL CHARACTERS

QUESTION ONE

Multiple Choice

Mid-latitude cyclones are also called

• frontal depressions

• warm front

• cold front

• occluded front

• Jet streams

Multiple Choice

They move from ......to .......

• west to south

• east to south

• north to west

• west to east

Multiple Choice

this is because they occur in the

• southerly wind belt

• clockwise

• anti clockwise

• westerly wind belt

Multiple Choice

they often occur in ...........of 3-4 mid-latitude cyclones

• clouds

• wind fronts

• families

• cells

​Question TWO

​1. Where does a mid-latitude cyclone develop?

2. name the five stages of a mid-latitude cyclone

3. Define Divergence in your own

4. Define Convergence in your own words