Question 1

0 / 3 pts

Match each type of fog with its description:

Orographic

 

               Form when air is blown over a cold surface, usually cold ocean.             

Radiation

 

               Cold air at dew point air settles under warm air in a valley.             

Advection

 

               Forms when air is forced over a topographic barrier.             

 

IncorrectQuestion 2

0 / 2 pts

Match the given types of lifting with the letter of its best location:

A

 

               Places where the sun heats the ground unequally             

C

 

               At the Inter-Tropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), low pressure systems, and subpolar low             

 

Question 3

1 / 1 pts

Polar air masses tend to be ______ while tropical air masses tend to be ______.

  

moist; dry

   

cold; warm

   

warm; cold

   

dry; moist

 

 

IncorrectQuestion 4

0 / 1 pts

When a cold front moves under a warm front, it becomes a/an ______ front.

  

stationary

   

occluded

   

very cold

   

polar

 

 

IncorrectQuestion 5

0 / 1 pts

Tropical air masses tend to be ______ while polar air masses tend to be ______.

           

  

cold; warm

   

warm; cold

   

moist; dry

   

dry; moist

 

 

IncorrectQuestion 6

0 / 1 pts

Cyclogenesis is when the midlatitude cyclone ______.

  

slows down its rotation

   

is at its strongest and most destructive

   

begins to shut down

   

first begins to rotate

 

 

IncorrectQuestion 7

0 / 1 pts

Put the four stages of the midlatitude cyclone in the correct order:

  

cyclogenesis; occluded; dissolving; open

   

cyclogenesis; dissolving; occluded;open

   

cyclogenesis; open; occluded; dissolving

   

cyclogenesis; occluded; open; dissolving

 

 

Question 8

1 / 1 pts

Tropical cyclones form ______.

  

from easterly waves over warm ocean water

   

over very warm ocean water only at the equator

   

All of these answers are correct.

   

at the boundary of two unlike air masses

 

 

Question 9

1 / 1 pts

Tropical Cyclones shut down when they _____.

  

approach the tropic of Cancer

   

approach the tropic of Capricorn

   

None of these answers are correct.

   

approach the equator

 

 

IncorrectQuestion 10

0 / 1 pts

 

The letter "E" best represents which stage of the hydrologic cycle?

  

Precipitation

   

Condensation

   

Runoff

   

Advection

   

Evaporation