FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT GEOS 220 EXAM 4

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT GEOS 220 EXAM 4

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-Guarantee passing score -50 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: ________ weather forecasting is an area that relies heavily on statistical averages obtained from past weather events (climatic data)

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Longe range

Question 2: The traditional tornado alley is

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Texas-Oklahoma-Kansas-Nebraska-South Dakota Question 3: An updraft that develops a rotational circulation is a distinguishing characteristic of a

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supercell thunderstorm Question 4: What general circulation wind belt is the place of origin for hurricanes?

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trade winds

Question 5: These types of images are views of the earth the way an astronaut would see our planet from space

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visible images Question 6: A hurricane is approaching your location along the North Carolina coast from the southeast. Within hours, the wind changes from very strong onshore to calm. This means that

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the eye is overhead and the other half of the system is yet to come Question 7: By convention, the mature stage of the life cycle of a thunderstorm cell begins when

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precipitation first reaches Earth's surface

Question 8: The gust front occurs

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at the leading edge of a thunderstorm downdraft Question 9: Tornadoes are most likely to develop in the ______ sector of an intense extratropical cyclone

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southeast Question 10: What is the current air temperature represented on the station model shown above?

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75 degrees Farenheit Question 11: In the United States, a mesoscale convective complex is most likely to develop in

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the Great Plains

Question 12: A feature sometimes present in thunderstorms that may prolong the mature stage is (are)

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a tilted updraft Question 13: At what time of day is an air-mass thunderstorm more likely to develop?

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midafternoon

Question 14: The Enhanced -Fujita Intensity Scale (EF-scale) is applied to

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tornadoes

Question 15: In the United States, thunderstorms are most frequent in

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central Florida

Question 16: Sustained surface winds in a hurricane are

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119 km per hour (74 mph) or higher Question 17: Of the nearly 1300 or so tornadoes that strike the United States each year, perhaps ______ will be rated EF5

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only 1 Question 18: These satellites were placed in orbit over the equator and remain fixed over a point on Earth because they keep pace with the earth's rate of rotation

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geostationary satellites

Question 19: These satellites circle the earth in a north-to-south direction, and obtain images of the entire Earth twice a day by drifting about 15 degrees westward over the earth's surface during each orbit.

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polar satellites Question 20: Tropical cyclone formation requires a sea-surface temperature of at least 80 F through an ocean depth of at least ______ meters

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45

Question 21: A squall line usually forms

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in the mT air along or ahead of a cold front Question 22: Appearance of a flat anvil top indicates that the developing thunderstorm cloud (cumulonimbus) has reached a(n) ______ portion of the atmosphere

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extremely stable

Question 23: Tornadoes most often move toward what direction?

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northeast Question 24: When sustained winds in an intensifying tropical disturbance reach 37 km per hr or higher, the storm system is called a

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tropical depression

Question 25: A hurricane differs from a mature extra

tropical cyclone in that a hurricane

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All the above. has no fronts, develops within a uniform warm and humid air mass, is more intense but smaller, is a warm-core system