Chapter 2 Review

What kind of weather does a stationary front bring?

• Drizzly rain followed by clear, warm weather

• Severe Storms

• Many days of cloudy, wet weather

• Cold, dry weather

75% of the world's tornadoes occur in the USA

• True

• False

Which type of Storm creates a storm surge?

• Tornado

• Thunderstorm

• Water Cycle

• Hurricane

Isobars help meteorologists by doing what?

• Creating an image of weather systems.

• Showing what form of precipitation will take place

• Measuring wind speeds.

• Showing high and/or low pressure area.

Lightning is the result of two oppositely charged particles in the same cloud, two different clouds, or from a cloud to Earth's surface.

• False

• True

Lightning is the result of a rising updraft and a cumulonimbus cloud colliding.

• False

• True

Which statement about hail is true?

• It is rain that falls through a cold air mass to the ground.

• Updrafts of air repeatedly send raindrops up into areas of freezing air which form layers of ice.

• It forms in low stratus clouds.

• It is a liquid form of precipitation.

What type of air mass brings cool and wet weather?

• maritime Tropical

• maritime Polar

• continental Tropical

• continental Polar

A wind vane...

• measures rainfall.

• points in the direction of North.

• measures wind direction.

• identifies source regions.

What type of cloud formation has unstable atmospheric conditions that lead to the formation of lightning and thunder?

• Nimbostratus clouds

• Altocumulus clouds

• Altostratus clouds

• Cumulonimbus clouds