CA #4 Meteorology Missed Questions
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- Q11) Which of the following describes a convection current in the atmosphere? (1 student missed)cool air sinks and warmer air risescool air rises and warmer air fallscool air and warmer air both risecool air and warmer air both fall30s
- Q23) What properties of air near the ground are likely to produce thunderstorms and tornadoes? (7 students missed)moist, high pressuredry, low pressuremoist, low pressuredry, high pressure30s
- Q34) Which combination of properties describes cold air? (8 students missed)high density and low pressurehigh density and high pressurelow density and high pressurelow density and low pressure30s
- Q45) What is the fuel source of a hurricane’s energy? (1 student missed)cool water precipitating into the seawarm ocean water evaporating, cooling & condensingmany tornadoes combining to form rotating clouds & waterspoutswarm surface currents meeting but not mixing with cool surface currents30s
- Q56) Where are hurricanes “born?” (1 student missed)over water near the equatorover water near Earth’s polesover land near Earth’s polesover land near the equator30s
- Q67) What happens when moist air rises high into the sky? (1 student missed)It cools and condenses.It cools and evaporates.It warms and evaporates.It warms and condenses.30s
- Q78) The eye of a hurricane has ______. (5 students missed)low pressure and high windshigh pressure and high windshigh pressure and no windslow pressure and no winds30s
- Q89) The fastest moving winds on Earth are found in ______. (7 students missed)hurricanestornadoesglobal windssea breezes30s
- Q912) An air mass forms over the Gulf of Mexico and moves northeast across Georgia. What weather conditions are likely to prevail (happen) in Georgia? (2 students missed)cool and drycool and humidwarm and drywarm and humid30s
- Q1013) What do hurricanes, tornadoes and thunderstorms have in common? (3 students missed)low-pressure airstorm surgecalm area at the storm’s centercold temperatures30s
- Q1115) What kind of front is moving towards point B? (1 student missed)warm frontstationary frontcold frontoccluded front30s
- Q1216) What type of weather are meteorologists most likely predicting for the Great Lakes area (point D?) (4 students missed)cooler weather due to a cold frontthunderstorms and possible tornadoes due to a warm frontone or two days of precipitation due to a warm frontwarmer, then cooler weather due to an occluded front30s
- Q1317) The weather forecast for a valley is a temperature of 35°F and light rain. Which weather conditions are MOST LIKELY to be found on the mountain above the valley? (4 students missed)warm temperatures and heavy rainwarming temperatures and light snowfreezing temperatures and snowfreezing temperatures and rain30s
- Q1418) Dew is formed by _________. (1 student missed)groundwater being pulled to Earth’s surfacefrost melting just before sunrisethe condensation of water vaportranspiration performed by plants30s
- Q1519) Which of the following is typical of a tropical rainforest climate? (1 student missed)warm, moist aircold, dry aircool, moist airhot, dry air30s