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Chapter 7

Multiple-Choice Quiz

Multiple-Choice Quiz
Our Multiple-Choice Quiz will test your knowledge of the basic concepts and ideas offered in Chapter 7. By successfully reviewing these concepts, you will reinforce your comprehension of these geographic ideas.

This activity contains 20 questions.

	Cool, drizzly weather is best associated with   cT air masses. mT air masses. cP air masses. mP air masses. A air masses.

	The area over which an air mass develops its typifying characteristics is called its   developmental zone. genetic region. region of origin. home zone. source region.

	Which air mass type is likely to have the highest surface temperature?   mP cP E mT cT

	One difference between warm fronts and cold fronts is   warm fronts produce rain, cold fronts produce snow. warm fronts only occur in the summer, cold fronts occur anytime. warm fronts only occur in the summer, cold fronts only occur in winter. warm fronts typically produce only hail. warm fronts typically produce more gentle precipitation.

	The slope of a warm front averages about   1:20. 1:2000. 1:200,000. 1:2. 1:200.

	Which of the following statements about the motion of a midlatitude cyclone is not true?   The cold front advances. The warm front advances. The entire system moves from west to east in the band of the westerlies. There is cyclonic counterclockwise airflow. The warm front tends to advance faster than the cold front.

	Which of the following statements about cyclogenesis is not true?   Surface convergence occurs. Upper level divergence occurs. It tends to occur on the leeward side of mountains. Upper airflow is zonal. Upper level conditions are not important.

	Tornadoes, although erratic in their pathways, are always characterized by ______ pressure.   high constantly variable devaporized low adiabatic

	Hurricane destruction is made worse when this feature—not prominent in all hurricanes—is present.   the eye wall easterly waves heavy rain the storm surge winds of hurricane force

	A distinguishing feature of thunderstorms is their   cirrus cloud base. scant vertical development. anvil top. ground fog. none of the above.

	Stable anticyclones act as a _____ to moving cyclones.   cause block catalyst friend rainy counterpart

	Thunderstorms are violent _____ storms accompanied by thunder and lightning.   adiabatic stationary jet stream convective occluded

	Precipitation that forms along a cold front tends to be   high in intensity but short in duration. low in intensity but long in duration.

	Thunderstorms are more likely to form   along cold fronts. along warm fronts.

	Which of the following air masses brings convectional rainfall to the southeastern United States?   mP cP cT mT

	The warm sector of a midlatitude cyclone   experiences a southerly windflow. is dominated by a cP air mass. lies ahead of a warm front. all the above.

	Hurricanes that affect North America are more prevalent during   January June September December in none of the above as there is an equal chance of having a hurricane in any month of the year.

	Record-setting cold temperatures would be experienced by an invasion of   mT mP cP cT cA

	Nimbostratus clouds are typically associated with   cold fronts. warm fronts.

	The slope of a cold front is ______ that of a warm front.   greater than less than

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