Unit 3 - Severe Weather

What happens to a moist air mass as it moves upward in the atmosphere?

• Warms up, no cloud formation
• Cools down and produces precipitation
• Keeps moving, no change
• Keeps moving and warms up, forms clouds

Thunderstorms form in what type of environment?

• warm and stable
• cold and stable
• warm and unstable
• cold and unstable

During the day the island heats faster than the water. This uneven heating creates a pressure gradient and causes the wind to blow. Which of these describes how the wind blows?

• Land to water
• water to land
• no wind
• across the land 

An air that can be described as continental polar is defined as?

• dry and cold
• dry and warm
• humid and warm
• humid and cold

Present day weather conditions are based on

• ocean currents
• cloud types
• sea and land breezes
• air mass movement

A low pressure system is characterized by what conditions?

• warm and wet
• cold and wet
• warm and dry
• cold and dry

When discussing air masses in locations like Florida and California, what type of air mass is present? 

• Continental Arctic
• Continental Polar
• Maritime Tropical
• Maritime Polar

What two measurements allow scientists to predict a hurricane?

• Angle of sun and temperature
• Water temperature and current
• distance from sun and equator
• jet stream and speed of wind

An air mass coming from Canada would be?

• mT
• cT
• cA
• cP

An immense body of air characterized by a similarity of temperature and moisture at any given altitude is referred to as a/an

• air front
• air mass
• hurricane
• tornado