Chapter 17 Test
Weather Patterns
Please do not write on the test. Answer all questions on the answer sheet.
1. What type of air mass forms near the tropics and has low air pressure?
a. Maritime
b. Tropical
c. Continental
d. Polar
2. What type of air moss forms over land?
a. Maritime
b. Tropical
c. Continental
d. Polar
3. What type of air mass forms north and south of 50 degrees latitude?
a. Maritime
b. Tropical
c. Continental
d. Polar
4. What type of air mass is warm and moist?
a. Maritime Polar
b. Maritime Tropical
c. Continental Tropical
d. Continental Polar
5. What type of air mass is cold and moist?
a. Maritime Polar
b. Maritime Tropical
c. Continental Tropical
d. Continental Polar
6. What type of air mass is warm and dry?
a. Maritime Polar
b. Maritime Tropical
c. Continental Tropical
d. Continental Polar
7. What type of air mass is cold and dry?
a. Maritime Polar
b. Maritime Tropical
c. Continental Tropical
d. Continental Polar
8. The area where air masses meet and do not mix is called?
a. Air mass
b. Maritime
c. Pressure
d. Front
9. Which type of front is this?
a. Cold front
b. Warm front
c. Stationary front
d. Occluded front
10. The symbol for an occluded front is?
a.
b.
c.
d.
11. Which type of front is this?
a. Cold front
b. Warm front
c. Stationary front
d. Occluded front
12. The symbol for a warm front is?
a.
c.
13. Which type of front is this?
a. Cold front
b. Warm front
c. Stationary front
d. Occluded front
b.
d.
14. The symbol for a cold front is?
a.
c.
b.
d.
15. What is a violent disturbance in the atmosphere?
a. Air Mass
b. Front
c. Storm
d. Cloud
16. What type of cloud forms a thunderstorm?
a. Stratus
b. Cumulonimbus
c. Nimbostratus
d. Cirrus
17. What would be formed in this picture?
a. Cold front
b. Thunder
c. Thunderstorm
d. Lightning
18. What forms first thunder or lightning?
a. Thunder
b. Lightning
19. What would be the tornado with the highest wind speeds?
a. F3
b. F1
c. F5
d. F4
20. Why should you not play golf in a thunderstorm?
a. You could get struck by lightning.
b. You could slip and fall.
c. The greens are too wet for birdies.
d. It is too hard to hit the ball straight.
21. What is a rapidly whirling funnel shaped cloud that reaches down from a storm cloud to
touch Earth’s surface?
a. Hurricane
b. Thunderstorm
c. Anticyclone
d. Tornado
22. What is issued if a tornado is seen on the ground?
a. First Aid Kit
b. Tornado Watch
c. Tornado Warning
d. A hope for the best
23. What forms over warm water as a low pressure area or tropical disturbance and gains its
energy from the warm humid air at the ocean’s surface?
a. Hurricane
b. Thunderstorm
c. Anticyclone
d. Tornado
24. Where is the safest place to be if a tornado is coming your way?
a. Another planet
b. The basement of a well built building
c. The attic
d. The front porch
25. What is the most destructive aspect of a hurricane?
a. Winds
b. Storm Surge
c. Eye
d. Rain
26. What is the arrow pointing at in the picture?
a. Winds
b. Storm Surge
c. Eye
d. Rain
27. Where do most of the tornadoes in the United States form?
a. Tornado Alley
b. Florida
c. Nimbostratus Clouds
d. Illinois
28. What is a sudden, violent flood when water rises very rapidly?
a. Storm Surge
b. Flood
c. Flash Flood
d. Tornado
29. What is depicted in this picture?
a. Maritime Polar
b. Winter
c. Lake Effect Snow
d. Blizzard
30. Why are desert areas prone to flash floods?
a. Ground absorbs the water faster
b. Dry parched ground does not absorb water well
c. Lack of vegetation
d. They are typically hot areas
31. What is the first rule of flood safety?
a. Do not dance in flood waters
b. Do not drive in flood waters
c. Do not walk in flood waters
d. Move to higher ground
32. Who would most likely want to predict the weather?
a. Students
b. Farmers
c. Astronauts
d. Waitresses
33. Which scientist studies and predicts weather?
a. Geologist
b. Astronomer
c. Oceanographer
d. Meteorologist
34. What do the capitol H and L represent on the following weather map?
a. Tornadoes
b. Fronts
c. Clouds
d. Areas of Pressure
35. Modern meteorologists use what mainly to study and predict weather?
a. Weather spotters
b. Satellites
c. Weather Balloons
d. Telescopes
36. What is the weather pattern that occurs every 2-7 years off the coast of South America and
has a butterfly effect on weather around the world?
a. Hurricane Andrew
b. La Nina
c. El Nino
d. El Tornado
37. What does the butterfly effect theory discuss?
a. Large changes in systems can have dramatic effects
b. Small changes in systems can have dramatic effects
c. Butterflies cause hurricanes
d. Butterflies affect the outcome of the world
38. What are isobars?
a. Lines of equal pressure
b. Lines of equal temperature
c. Lines of barometric tendency
d. Lines of solid weather defense
39. What are the dark jagged lines on the following weather map?
a. Air Masses
b. Fronts
c. Storms
d. Tornadoes
Use the following chart for questions 40-43.
40. What is the temperature in New York?
a. 62
b. 76
c. 74
d. 78
41. What is the cloud cover in Charleston?
a. Clear
b. Rain
c. Thunderstorm
d. Partly Cloudy
42. What is the wind speed in Chicago?
a. 1-2
b. 15-20
c. 3-8
d. 9-14
43. What is the wind direction in Fort Worth?
a. Northeast
b. Southwest
c. Southeast
d. Northwest