Quiz #4 Study Guide Pt. 2
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Thunderstorms. Ordinary
single
cell
(air mass) and severe thunderstorms
(what would make a thunderstorm severe). Life cycle of an air mass
thunderstorm. How can the dissipation of one storm lead to the
formation of
another? Thunderstorm features and, in some cases, processes that
produce them:
gust front, anvil cloud, shelf cloud, mammatus clouds, microburst. Wind
shear.
Why can a storm with a tilted updraft become stronger and last longer
than a
storm with a vertical updraft? Supercell thunderstorms. Mesocyclone and wall clouds. Hook echo on radar.
Tornadoes. Average characteristics: low
pressure core, duration, length
of path on the ground, diameter, speed of rotating winds, speed and
usual
direction of the movement on the ground. Life cycle. What causes the
tornado
cloud? Tornado season (when do the most tornadoes occur, when do the
strongest
tornadoes occur). Fujita scale. Tornado winds and damage. Multiple
vortices,
suction vortices. Tornado watches and
warnings.
Lightning. What creates the electricity
in thunderstorms? Normal
distribution of electrical charge in a thunderstorm. Intracloud and
cloud-to-ground lightning. Sequence of events in a multi-stroke
cloud-to-ground
lightning flash: stepped leader, upward connecting discharge, first
return
stroke, dart leader(s) and subsequent return stroke(s). Unusual
types
of lightning and rocket-triggered lightning. Lightning hazards and
safety. What
produces thunder? Determining the distance to a lightning strike.
How/why
do lightning rods and cars offer protection from lightning?
Sample Questions from
the Fall
2000
packet.
Quiz #6: 1-5,
7-11,
13-16 Final Exam: 4, 28, 33a, 39,
51
Hurricanes. We will begin this
material before Quiz #4, but it
won't be on the quiz.
Reviews
Mon., Apr. 26 |
4-5 pm |
Haury 216 |
Tue., Apr. 27 |
4-5 pm |
Haury 129 |
Wed., Apr. 28 |
4-5 pm |
Haury 129 |
Warning:
If you plan to come to the review(s), be prepared to demonstrate that
you have begun to study for the quiz and are at least somewhat familiar
with all of the material on the Quiz #4 Study Guide.