Quiz 4 - Chapts. 6 + 8

Question 0

What type of lifting occurs when a large mass of cold air slides underneath a large mass of warm air?

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Question 1

What type of lifting is the cause of most thunderstorms?

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Question 2

Fronts are partially characterized by:

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Question 3

What type of air will keep rising after an initial upward push?

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Question 4

When the environmental lapse rate exceeds both the dry adriabatic lapse rate and the wet adriabatic lapse rate in a parcel of air, what kind of air does that parcel hold?

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Question 5

If air becomes progressively warmer and more buoyant than the surrounding air, its stability is:

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Question 6

Inversions are partially characterized by:

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Question 7

Cirrostratus clouds are partially characterized by:

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Question 8

Which pairs of clouds are the primary precipitation producing ones?

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Question 9

If you were a pilot, what would be the safest option as you fly toward a cumulonimbus cloud?

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Question 10

How is an isolated thunderstorm classified on the scale of atmospheric motion?

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Question 11

The single-cell model for general atmospheric circulation:

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Question 12

The ‘horse latitudes’ are associated with:

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