Discussion 7

Below you’ll find 37 questions from Chapter 6.  Select one question to answer correctly

1. What is an Air Mass?
2. What is an Air Mass Source Region?
3. What are mP Air masses and where do they form?
4. What are cP Air masses and where do they form?
5. What are mT Air masses and where do they form?
6. What are cT Air masses and where do they form?
7. Which of the 4 major air mass types are the most opposite of each other in terms of temperature and moisture?
8. What is a Rossby Waves and when do they become extreme?
9. What is a Mid-Latitude (Extra-Tropical) Wave Cyclone?
10. What are Cold Fronts and how are they are shown on a weather map?
11. What are Warm Fronts and how are they are shown on a weather map?
12. What are Occluded Fronts and how are they are shown on a weather map?
13. As an occluded front forms, what happened to all the air in the warm sector?
14. Which moves fastest, a warm front or cold front? Why is this important?
15. Which would get more cumulonimbus clouds, cold fronts or warm fronts? Why is this?
16. What makes our winter storms begin and what makes them end?
17. Whatare tornadoes and whendo they form in the Northern Hemisphere?
18. Wheredo most tornadoes form in the USA? Why is this?
19. Whatare hurricanes and whendo they form in the Northern Hemisphere?
20. Wheredo hurricanes/typhoons/tropical cyclones form? Why is this?
21. Why are there no hurricanes at the equator?
22. Whatare thunderstorms and whendo they form?
23. What are the 4 stages of hurricane development and the wind speeds for each?
24. Wheredo we get most thunderstorms & where do we get NO thunderstorms on earth?
25. Which place on the planet get the most lightning strikes?
26. How can we tell how far a lightning strike was when we hear its thunder?
27. What’s the difference between a Water Spout, a Funnel Cloud and a Tornado?
28. What’s the difference between a Tropical Storm and Hurricane?
29. What are the 3 stages of thunderstorm development?
30. What is ENSO and in particular, what is the Southern Oscillation?
31. What is ENSO and in particular, what is El Niňo?
32. How would a strong El Niňo likely affect Southern California winter rainfall?
33. How would a strong La Niňa likely affect Southern California winter rainfall?
34. What was your favorite video in this chapter and why so?
35. What are the major differences between mid-latitude extra tropical wave cyclones and tornadoes?
36. What are the major differences between mid-latitude extra tropical wave cyclones and hurricanes?
37. How would a strong La Niňa likely affect Indonesia and Australia?