The Nature of Storms (Chapter 13)

What is the type of thunderstorm in which air rises because of unequal heating of Earth's surface within a single air mass?

• Air-Mass Thunderstorm

• Mountain Thunderstorm

• Sea-Breeze Thunderstorm

• Frontal Thunderstorm

What is the type of thunderstorm that occurs when an air mass rises from orographic lifting?

• Air-Mass Thunderstorm

• Mountain Thunderstorm

• Sea-Breeze Thunderstorm

• Frontal Thunderstorm

What is the type of thunderstorm that commonly occurs along a coastal area because land and water store and release thermal energy differently?

• Air-Mass Thunderstorm

• Mountain Thunderstorm

• Sea-Breeze Thunderstorm

• Frontal Thunderstorm

What is the type of thunderstorm produced by an advancing cold or warm front?

• Air-Mass Thunderstorm

• Mountain Thunderstorm

• Sea-Breeze Thunderstorm

• Frontal Thunderstorm

What is the channel of partially changed air called?

• Stepped Leader

• Return Stroke

What is the branched channel of positively charged particles that surges from the ground to the cloud called?

• Stepped Leader

• Return Stroke

What is an extremely powerful, self-sustaining thunderstorm characterized by intense rotating updrafts?

• Supercell

• Downburst

• Tornado

• Tropical Cyclone

• Storm Surge

What are violent downdrafts that are concentrated in a local area?

• Supercell

• Downburst

• Tornado

• Tropical Cyclone

• Storm Surge

What is a violent, whirling column of air in contact with the ground that forms when wind direction and speed suddenly change with height (often associated with a supercell)?

• Supercell

• Downburst

• Tornado

• Tropical Cyclone

• Storm Surge

What is a large, low-pressure, rotating tropical storm that gets its energy from the evaporation of warm ocean water and the release of heat?

• Supercell

• Downburst

• Tornado

• Tropical Cyclone

• Storm Surge