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5) The air masses that have the greatest influence on weather conditions in the central United
States are ________.
A) cP and mT
B) mP and cP
C) cT and cP
D) mP and mT
Answer: A
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.1 Air Masses
Bloom's: Remembering
6) This air mass may produce an occasional "nor'easter" in the winter.
A) cP
B) mP
C) cT
D) mT
Answer: B
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.1 Air Masses
Bloom's: Remembering
7) This air mass often originates as a different air mass in Siberia and is subsequently altered.
A) cP
B) mP
C) cT
D) mT
Answer: A
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.1 Air Masses
Bloom's: Remembering
8) This air mass is the source of much of the moisture for precipitation in the central and eastern
United States.
A) cP
B) mP
C) cT
D) mT
Answer: D
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.1 Air Masses
Bloom's: Remembering
9) If you were 200 kilometers ahead of the surface position of a warm front, you would find the
frontal surface at a height of about ________ km overhead.
A) 0.5
B) 1.0
C) 1.5
D) 2.0
Answer: B
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.2 Fronts
Bloom's: Understanding
10) On a weather map, ________ fronts are shown by a line with triangular points on one side.
A) warm
B) cold
C) occluded
D) stationary
Answer: B
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.2 Fronts
Bloom's: Remembering
11) After the center of a mature wave cyclone passes, you should expect ________.
A) barometric pressure to rise
B) warmer temperatures
C) barometric pressure to fall
D) barometric pressure to remain steady
Answer: A
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.3 The Middle-Latitude Cyclone
Bloom's: Understanding
12) "Rain long foretold, long last; short notice, soon past." The first five words of this weather
proverb ________.
A) refer to a cold front
B) refer to a warm front
C) refer to an anticyclone
D) have no basis in fact
Answer: B
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.2 Fronts
Bloom's: Remembering
13) On a weather map, ________ fronts are shown by a line with semicircles extending from one
side.
A) warm
B) cold
C) occluded
D) stationary
Answer: A
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.2 Fronts
Bloom's: Remembering
14) If an observer sees cirrus clouds, followed later by cirrostratus, and then altostratus, he or she
is witnessing the approach of a ________ front.
A) warm
B) cold
C) warm or cold
D) none of these
Answer: A
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.2 Fronts
Bloom's: Understanding
15) A wind shift from south or southwest to northwest is commonly associated with the passage
of a ________ front.
A) warm
B) cold
C) neither warm nor cold
D) stationary
Answer: B
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.2 Fronts
Bloom's: Understanding
16) Which of the following is considered to be a boundary between two different air masses?
A) warm front
B) cold front
C) both warm front and cold front
D) none of these
Answer: C
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.2 Fronts
Bloom's: Understanding
17) Usually ________ fronts produce several hours of moderate-to-gentle precipitation over a
large region.
A) warm
B) cold
C) warm and cold
D) none of these
Answer: B
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.2 Fronts
Bloom's: Understanding
18) When an active cold front overtakes a warm front ________.
A) the fronts cancel one another out
B) cloud formation ceases
C) an occluded front forms
D) a stationary front is created
Answer: C
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.2 Fronts
Bloom's: Understanding
19) Cold fronts and warm fronts in the middle latitudes are often associated with a ________.
A) hurricane
B) middle-latitude cyclone
C) low pressure
D) both B and C
Answer: B
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.2 Fronts
Bloom's: Understanding
20) Which of the following should have the steepest pressure gradient?
A) tornado
B) middle-latitude cyclone
C) hurricane
D) All should have equally steep pressure gradients.
Answer: A
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.6 Tornadoes
Bloom's: Understanding
25) When a hurricane moves onto land, it rapidly loses its punch; that is, the storm declines in
intensity. Which of the factors listed below contribute to this loss of punch?
A) friction
B) lack of warm, moist air
C) heating from below by the land surface
D) both A and B
Answer: D
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.7 Hurricanes
Bloom's: Understanding
26) The eye of a hurricane is ________.
A) the portion with the highest wind speeds
B) warmer than the rest of the storm
C) along the leading edge of the storm
D) the area of most intense rainfall
Answer: B
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.7 Hurricanes
Bloom's: Analyzing
27) Hurricanes generally are ________.
A) larger than tornadoes
B) smaller than mid-latitude cyclones
C) areas of heavy rainfall and strong winds
D) all of these
Answer: D
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.7 Hurricanes
Bloom's: Analyzing
28) The precipitation associated with a warm front typically arrives ________ the actual frontal
boundary.
A) considerably ahead of
B) considerably behind
C) at about the same time as
D) none of these
Answer: A
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.2 Fronts
Bloom's: Understanding
Word Analysis. Examine the words and/or phrases for each question below and determine the
relationship among the majority of words/phrases. Choose the option which does not fit the
pattern.
29) cP
mT
cA
Answer: cA
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.1 Air Masses
Bloom's: Analyzing
mP
30) tornado
cyclone
Answer: anticyclone
Diff: 2
Topic: 19.6 Tornadoes
Bloom's: Analyzing
anticyclone
hurricane
warm front
tropical depression
occluded front
hurricane
tornado
36) Warm fronts generally have steeper slopes than cold fronts.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.2 Fronts
Bloom's: Remembering
37) Cold fronts usually move more slowly than warm fronts.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.2 Fronts
Bloom's: Remembering
38) Precipitation associated with a cold front is usually more intense and shorter in duration than
precipitation generated by a warm front.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.2 Fronts
Bloom's: Remembering
39) An occluded front is depicted on a weather map as a line with semicircles on one side and
triangular points on the other side.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.2 Fronts
Bloom's: Remembering
40) In a mature middle-latitude cyclone, the warm front precedes the cold front.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.3 The Middle-Latitude Cyclone
Bloom's: Remembering
41) Surface cyclones are accompanied by divergence aloft.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.3 The Middle-Latitude Cyclone
Bloom's: Remembering
42) Thunderstorms are usually associated with nimbostratus clouds.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.5 Thunderstorms
Bloom's: Remembering
43) Most severe thunderstorms that occur in the middle latitudes form along or ahead of cold
fronts.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.5 Thunderstorms
Bloom's: Remembering
44) Thunder is produced by lightning.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.5 Thunderstorms
Bloom's: Remembering
45) Divergence aloft helps maintain surface lows.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.3 The Middle-Latitude Cyclone
Bloom's: Remembering
46) The summer months (June through August in the Northern Hemisphere) is the period of
greatest tornado frequency.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.6 Tornadoes
Bloom's: Remembering
47) Tornadoes are most often generated along the cold front of a middle-latitude cyclone.
Answer: TRUE
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.6 Tornadoes
Bloom's: Remembering
48) Tornadoes are cyclonic while hurricanes are anticyclonic.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.6 Tornadoes
Bloom's: Remembering
49) A tornado watch is issued by the National Weather Service after a tornado has been sighted in
an area.
Answer: FALSE
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.6 Tornadoes
Bloom's: Remembering
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57) The boundary between air masses having different densities is called a(n) ________.
Answer: front
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.2 Fronts
Bloom's: Remembering
58) When an active cold front overtakes a warm front, a(n) ________ front forms.
Answer: occluded
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.2 Fronts
Bloom's: Remembering
59) The electrical discharge of lightning rapidly heats the air, which in turn causes it to expand
explosively to produce ________.
Answer: thunder
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.5 Thunderstorms
Bloom's: Understanding
60) When conditions appear favorable for tornado formation, a(n) ________ is issued for areas
covering about 65,000 square kilometers.
Answer: tornado watch
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.6 Tornadoes
Bloom's: Remembering
61) The new generation of weather radar that is capable of detecting motion directly is called
________ radar.
Answer: Doppler
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.6 Tornadoes
Bloom's: Remembering
62) In the western Pacific, hurricanes are called ________.
Answer: typhoons
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.7 Hurricanes
Bloom's: Remembering
63) At the center of a hurricane is a relatively calm region called the ________.
Answer: eye
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.7 Hurricanes
Bloom's: Remembering
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64) By international agreement, lesser tropical cyclones are given different names based on the
strength of their winds. When a cyclone's strongest winds do not exceed 61 kilometers (38 miles)
per hour, it is called a(n) ________.
Answer: tropical depression
Diff: 1
Topic: 19.3 The Middle-Latitude Cyclone
Bloom's: Understanding
Critical Thinking and Discussion. Use complete sentences, correct spelling, and the
information presented in Chapter 19 to answer the questions below.
65) Compare the characteristics (general weather, movement, etc.) of a cold front to a warm
front. Also, briefly explain why they exhibit different characteristics.
Diff: 2
Topic: 19.2 Fronts
Bloom's: Applying
66) Discuss the formation and growth of hurricanes. When do they occur, how are they related to
low pressure, where do they get their energy, and why do they finally lose strength and dissipate?
Diff: 3
Topic: 19.7 Hurricanes
Bloom's: Applying
67) Why does the central United States from Texas to the Ohio Valley experience the greatest
frequency of tornadoes on Earth? What time of year do they occur and why? Is it possible for
tornadoes to occur in other areas and at different times throughout the year?
Diff: 2
Topic: 19.6 Tornadoes
Bloom's: Understanding
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