Weather Quiz #2

When cold air moves into an area it is call a(n)

• cold front
• warm front
• stationary front
• pccluded front

Hurricanes form over water and lose wind speed when they move over land.  What does this pattern best illustrate?

• More solar radiation strikes oceans than land
• Heat from inside earth heats oceans more than land
• Oceans transfer more energy to the atmosphere than land does
• Oceans transfer more heat and chemical energy to the atmosphere

How to the conditions for a tornado differ from the conditions from a hurricane?

• Tornadoes never form when there is rain, while hurricanes always form with rain
• Hurricanes form under low pressure, while tornadoes form under high pressure
• Tornadoes form in a stable atmosphere, while hurricanes form in an unstable atmosphere
• Tornadoes form over land, while hurricanes form over bodies of warer

An air mass travels north over the Pacific Ocean, from the tropics, and then eastward across the United States.  Which weather pattern can be expected?

• cool and dry
• warm and dry
• cool and wet
• warm and wet

A type of cloud that forms in flat layers and often covers much of the sky is

• cirrus
• cumulus
• fog
• stratus

An air mass that forms over an ocean is called

• tropical
• continental
• maritime
• polar

A rotating funnel-shaped cloud with high winds that extends from a storm cloud to Earth's surface is a

• storm surge
• thunderstorm
• air massed
• tornado

A cold front forms when

• cold and warm air masses meet but neither moves the other
• a fast moving warm air mass overtakes a slow moving cold air mass
• fast moving cold dense air pushes slow moving warm air mass upward
• a warm air mass is stuck between two cool air masses

An air mass that forms over land is called

• maritime
• continental
• tropical
• polar

What is the symbol for a maritime tropical air mass?

• mt
• mT
• Mt
• MT