Regarding thunderstorm life cycles, the _______________ is the stage where an air parcel is forced to rise, thus cooling, condensing and developing into a cumulus cloud.
a. Thunder Stage
b. Mature Stage
c. Dissipative Stage
d. Cumulus Stage
Cumulus Stage
_____________________ are thunderstorms that develop linearly over hundreds of miles along the leading edge of outflow boundaries, or along a dry line.
a. Downdrafts
b. Super cells
c. Squall lines
d. Supergusts
Squall lines
_____% of all lightning strikes occur cloud-to-cloud.
a. 5%
b. 80%
c. 60%
d. 23%
80%
Hail is precipitation in the form of ice pellets that only forms in ______________________ clouds.
a. Nimbostratus
b. Cumulus
c. Cirrus
d. Cumulonimbus
Cumulonimbus
The number one weather related cause of death in the United States is:
a. Flash floods
b. Lightning strikes
c. Tornadoes
d. Microbursts
Flash floods
A violently rotating column of air is termed a "tornado" when it:
a. touches the ground
b. leaves the base of the clouds
c. has a diameter greater than 3 miles
d. descends toward the ground
touches the ground
_________________ are formed as the moisture in thunderstorm downdrafts evaporates, cools, becomes denser and spreads out laterally as it hits the ground. Can produce cold winds reaching 100 mph.
a. Hail
b. Microbursts
c. Squall lines
d. Super cells
Microbursts
_________________typically mean storms that have lightening, but little to no precipitation reaching the ground.
a. Orthographic lifting
b. Dry thunderstorms
c. Shock storms
d. Convection storms
Dry thunderstorms
About _______% of all the tornadoes in the world occur in the United States.
a. 60
b. 75
c. 95
d. 33
75
The Enhanced Fujita scale ranges from a weak EF0 to a rare and obliterating _____.
a. EF3
b. EF6
c. EF5
d. EF12
EF5
Regarding thunderstorm life cycles, the _______________ is the stage where an air parcel is forced to rise, thus cooling, condensing and developing into a cumulus cloud.
a. Thunder Stage
b. Mature Stage
c. Dissipative Stage
d. Cumulus Stage
Cumulus Stage
_____________________ are thunderstorms that develop linearly over hundreds of miles along the leading edge of outflow boundaries, or along a dry line.
a. Downdrafts
b. Super cells
c. Squall lines
d. Supergusts
Squall lines
_____% of all lightning strikes occur cloud-to-cloud.
a. 5%
b. 80%
c. 60%
d. 23%
80%
Hail is precipitation in the form of ice pellets that only forms in ______________________ clouds.
a. Nimbostratus
b. Cumulus
c. Cirrus
d. Cumulonimbus
Cumulonimbus
The number one weather related cause of death in the United States is:
a. Flash floods
b. Lightning strikes
c. Tornadoes
d. Microbursts
Flash floods
A violently rotating column of air is termed a "tornado" when it:
a. touches the ground
b. leaves the base of the clouds
c. has a diameter greater than 3 miles
d. descends toward the ground
touches the ground
_________________ are formed as the moisture in thunderstorm downdrafts evaporates, cools, becomes denser and spreads out laterally as it hits the ground. Can produce cold winds reaching 100 mph.
a. Hail
b. Microbursts
c. Squall lines
d. Super cells
Microbursts
_________________typically mean storms that have lightening, but little to no precipitation reaching the ground.
a. Orthographic lifting
b. Dry thunderstorms
c. Shock storms
d. Convection storms
Dry thunderstorms
About _______% of all the tornadoes in the world occur in the United States.
a. 60
b. 75
c. 95
d. 33
75
The Enhanced Fujita scale ranges from a weak EF0 to a rare and obliterating _____.
a. EF3
b. EF6
c. EF5
d. EF12
EF5