GY 101 UA Final (test 3) 100% Correct |
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How are air masses named? - ✔✔
Moisture
Temperature
What is required for the formation of an air mass? - ✔✔
Flat terrain
Light winds
What happens when air masses move? - ✔✔Their properties change
Where do air masses form? - ✔✔
Low and high latitudes
Near the poles and near the equator
Where do air masses interact? - ✔✔In the middle latitudes
How does Lake Effect snow happen? - ✔✔Cold air mass passes over liquid water and then over cold land
Name that Front:
Cold, dry, stable air is replacing warm, moist, unstable air.
Moves fast with showers along the leading edge - ✔✔Cold Front
Name that Front:
Warm, moist, unstable air is replacing the cold, dry, stable air by overrunning it.
, The overrunning front rides up over the cold air creating widespread cloudiness and light to moderate
precipitation well ahead of the front - ✔✔Warm Front
Name that Front:
Essentially no movement, winds blow parallel to the front in opposite directions on both sides -
✔✔Stationary Front
Name that Front:
When a cold front catches up to a warm front - ✔✔Occluded Front
What are the 4 mechanisms that can force air to rise? - ✔✔Convection, Convergence, Orographic and
Frontal lifting
Which type of front is associated with heavy precipitation? - ✔✔Cold Front
What are the 4 life cycle stages of a middle latitude cyclone? - ✔✔Cyclogenesis
Open wave formation
Occluding
Dissipation
What are the 4 types of thunderstorms? - ✔✔Single Cell
Multi Cell
Squall Line
Supercell
What are the 3 stages of ordinary thunderstorm development? - ✔✔Cumulus stage
Mature stage
Dissipating stage
Verified | 2024 Version
How are air masses named? - ✔✔
Moisture
Temperature
What is required for the formation of an air mass? - ✔✔
Flat terrain
Light winds
What happens when air masses move? - ✔✔Their properties change
Where do air masses form? - ✔✔
Low and high latitudes
Near the poles and near the equator
Where do air masses interact? - ✔✔In the middle latitudes
How does Lake Effect snow happen? - ✔✔Cold air mass passes over liquid water and then over cold land
Name that Front:
Cold, dry, stable air is replacing warm, moist, unstable air.
Moves fast with showers along the leading edge - ✔✔Cold Front
Name that Front:
Warm, moist, unstable air is replacing the cold, dry, stable air by overrunning it.
, The overrunning front rides up over the cold air creating widespread cloudiness and light to moderate
precipitation well ahead of the front - ✔✔Warm Front
Name that Front:
Essentially no movement, winds blow parallel to the front in opposite directions on both sides -
✔✔Stationary Front
Name that Front:
When a cold front catches up to a warm front - ✔✔Occluded Front
What are the 4 mechanisms that can force air to rise? - ✔✔Convection, Convergence, Orographic and
Frontal lifting
Which type of front is associated with heavy precipitation? - ✔✔Cold Front
What are the 4 life cycle stages of a middle latitude cyclone? - ✔✔Cyclogenesis
Open wave formation
Occluding
Dissipation
What are the 4 types of thunderstorms? - ✔✔Single Cell
Multi Cell
Squall Line
Supercell
What are the 3 stages of ordinary thunderstorm development? - ✔✔Cumulus stage
Mature stage
Dissipating stage
