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Select the correct response to each of the following true/false questions.

1 .       Downdrafts are aided by the influx of cool, dry air surrounding the cloud during a process called entrainment. 

 
 


2 .       More tornadoes occur in the central United States than any other part of the world. 

 
 


3 .       The greatest number of weather-related deaths occurs from flash floods. 

 
 


4 .       A vast majority (80% or more) of the moisture that condenses in an air-mass thunderstorm leaves the cloud as precipitation. 

 
 


5 .       The greatest number of air-mass thunderstorms occur in the Plains states. 

 
 


6 .       A tornado warning is issued by local offices of the National Weather Service when a tornado has actually been sighted in an area or is indicated by weather radar. 

 
 


7 .       The average tornado travels across the land at approximately 45 kilometers (30 miles) per hour. 

 
 


8 .       In the midlatitudes, lightning is seldom observed in the winter. 

 
 


9 .       Over 90% of all mesocyclones produce tornadoes. 

 
 


10 .       The probability of a tornado striking a given point in the region most frequently subject to tornadoes is about one in 25 years. 

 
 


11 .       The least common but more dangerous type of lightning is sheet lightning. 

 
 






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