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1. How do temperatures change as a mid-latitude wave cyclone moves over you?

a) Temperatures change from warm to hot to cold

b) Temperatures change from hot to warm to cold

c) Temperature do not change very much

d) Temperatures go from cool, to warm, to cold

2. How do mid-latitude wave cyclones move?

a) They are moved by the trade winds from west to east.

b) They are moved by the polar jet stream from west to east.

c) They are moved by the polar easterlies from east to west.

d) They are moved by the polar jet stream from east to west.

3. What type of precipitation is associated with a warm front?

a) Hail from cumulonimbus clouds formed along the warm front boundary.

b) Gentle rain from nimbostratus clouds.

c) A mix of heavy snow and hail from nimbostratus clouds.

d) Heavy downpours of rain from cumulonimbus clouds formed along the warm front boundary.

4. Where do mid-latitude storms form?

a) At the intertropical convergence zone

b) Where continental tropical air masses occur

c) In the belt of the trade winds

d) Along the polar front in the mid-latitudes.

5. What is the wet (or saturated) adiabatic lapse rate (WALR)?

a) Air warms at a rate of about 5.5 degrees F as it rises 1000 feet.

b) Air cools at a rate of about 2.7 degrees F as it rises 1000 feet (or 5 degrees C/1000 meters). This rate of cooling is different from the dry adiabatic lapse rate, because latent heat is released.

c) It is the rate of change of temperature in the atmosphere. If you were to climb a ladder up into the atmosphere, it would be the temperature of the thermometer you are holding.

d) Air cools at a rate of about 10 degree C as it raises 1000 meters.

6. What is the lifting condensation level?

a) It is the rate of temperature decrease as a parcel of dry (unsaturated air) rises

b) It is amount of condensation that occurs when an air parcel rises.

c) The elevation where the relative humidity reaches 100% (the dewpoint). It marks the base of cumulus clouds, indicating the elevation where the adiabatic lapse rate shifts from the dry to the wet rate.

d) It is process of condensation that occurs when an air parcel rises.