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Section: Fronts
MATCHING
In the space provided, write the letter of the description that best matches the
term or phrase.
______ 1. cold front
______ 2. tornado
a. an area of low pressure, rotating wind that
moves toward the rising air of the central
low-pressure system
______ 3. hurricane
b. a destructive, rotating, funnel-shaped column of air with high wind speeds
______ 4. warm front
c. the front edge of a moving mass of cold air
that pushes beneath a warmer air mass like
a wedge
______ 5. midlatitude cyclone
______ 6. thunderstorm
d. a brief, heavy storm with rain, wind, lightning, and thunder
e. a severe storm that develops over tropical oceans, whose strong winds spiral in
toward the low-pressure storm center
f. the front edge of advancing warm air mass
that replaces colder air with warmer air
MULTIPLE CHOICE
In the space provided, write the letter of the answer choice that best completes
each statement or best answers each question.
______ 7. Which of the following is NOT a thunderstorm stage?
a. mature
c. dissipating
b. cumulus
d. fading
______ 8. What type of path does a tornado take if it touches down?
a. haphazard
c. straight
b. extremely wide
d. predictable
______ 9. A weather event in which the air sinks and flows outward from a center of high pressure, and that brings dry weather is a(n)
a. heat storm.
c. anticyclone.
b. front.
d. cyclone.
______ 10. A hurricane begins when warm, moist air rises rapidly and the moisture condenses, releasing energy in the form of
a. tropical heat.
c. rising heat.
b. latent heat.
d. ionized heat.
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ANSWER KEY
Graphing Skills
22. It is often difficult to predict exactly
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110
Rivadavia,
Argentina
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130
Seville,
Spain
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135
Cloncurry,
Queensland
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Extreme High Global Temperatures
140
Tirat Tsvi,
Israel
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winds have ever been recorded as high
as those proposed by an F-6 rating.
4. Answers may vary. Students should
label the x axis with the names of
the regions. The y axis should show
an adequate range of temperatures
labeled in equal increments. Bars that
represent the temperatures shown in
the data table should be graphed.
Death
Valley, CA
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1. approximately 100 mph
2. F-5
3. Answers may vary. Sample answer: No
El Azizia,
Libya
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when precipitation will occur or the
exact amount.
They can manipulate data on temperature and pressure to simulate errors
in measuring these data. Then they
compare forecasts to see if slight data
changes can cause substantial differences in forecasts.
F
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D
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Particles are added to clouds to cause
the clouds to precipitate.
In Russia, cloud seeding has been used
with some success on potential hail
clouds to produce rain rather than hail.
Hurricanes have been seeded with
freezing nuclei in an attempt to reduce
the intensity of the storm.
because it is not an attainable goal
with current technology.
by seeding potential lightning storms
with silver-iodide nuclei
Seeding potential lightning storms has
seemed to modify the occurrence of lightning, but results have been inconclusive.
Temperature (°F)
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