Influences on Weather

How can landforms affect weather?

• Prevailing winds spread out.

• The water evaporates in the ocean, then condenses and precipitates.

• Prevailing winds bring humid air over the mountains which cools, condenses into clouds and causes precipitation on one side of the mountain.

• The warm front moves over the cold front causing rain.

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An air mass usually brings the weather of ...

• its destination

• its source location

• its path of movement

• an undetermined source

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Which statement best explains why weather systems usually move from west to east across the United States?

• Fronts move from west to east.

• The jet stream moves from west to east.

• Pressure systems form over the Rocky Mountains and move east.

• Weather systems originate over the pacific Ocean and move east.

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If city A is at the coast, and city B is far inland, which statement is most likely true if there is a cold surface current near city A?

• During the fall, city B experiences more hurricanes than B.

• During the summer, city B experiences cooler weather than city A.

• During the winter, city B has warmer weather than A.

• During the spring, city B has more thunderstorms than A.

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The town of Kokomo had two rainstorms in November. Storm 1 had more rainfall than Storm 2. The temperature of the surrounding areas was the same before both storms. What would explain why Storm 1 had more rainfall than Storm 2? Before Storm 1, the air parcel at the surface could have been:

• warmer, so when cooler air from above moved down, it lost more energy.

• warmer, so when the air parcel moved higher, it lost more energy.

• cooler, so the air parcel had low energy and remained near the surface.

• cooler, so when the air parcel moved higher, it gained more energy.

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An air mass that forms over the North Pacific Ocean brings what kind of weather to the Pacific coast?

• Dry and Warm

• Dry and Cold

• Wet and Warm

• Wet and Cold

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Day 1 and Day 2 in Greenville started with the same amount of water vapor in the air parcels there. It rained at the end of Day 2 but it did not rain at the end of Day 1. What could have happened to the air parcel to cause rainfall on Day 2?

• The air parcel was warmer than the surrounding air, so it lost energy.

• The air parcel was warmer than the surrounding air, so it gained energy.

• The air parcel was at the same low temperature as the surrounding air, so it had low energy.

• The air parcel was cooler than the surrounding air, so it gained energy.

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In order for a hurricane to form, the water must be ________.

• Cool

• Warm

• Cold

• Hot

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Many summer storms in North Carolina are caused by air masses moving

from which area?

• Virginia

• Africa

• Pacific Ocean

• Gulf of Mexico

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Hurricanes experienced in Texas are the result of the heat energy absorbed and the water evaporated from -

• natural springs in Texas.

• oceans in the tropics or equator

• large lakes in South America.

• reservoirs heated by industry.

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