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1. a) What is a thunderstorm?
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b)What are the essential ingredients for a thunderstorm to start?
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c) Where in the world do most thunderstorms occur? Why?
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d) What distinguishes a severe thunderstorm?
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2. Explain the role of convection and latent heat release in the development
of thunderstorms.
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3. Explain the relationship between updrafts and down drafts. How are each
formed?
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4. How do hailstones grow? Why are they layered?
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5. a) How are thunder and lightning
generated?
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b)Why do we see lightning and then hear thunder?
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6. a) What are the implications of a slow rotation within a thunderstorm?
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b) What is a wall cloud?
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c) What is a tornado?
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7. a) Under what synoptic (frontal) conditions do tornados tend to form?
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b) What is the funnel cloud? Why does it appear to descend?
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8. Geographically where do most
tornados occur? Why?
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9. a)Why do tornados tend to track from the southwest to northeast?
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b)Why do most tornados tend to occur in the springtime in the Midwest?
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10. Why are tornados so destructive?
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11. What is the difference between a tornado watch and a tornado warning?
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12. a)What is doppler
radar ?
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b)What does it show?
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c)Why does it help in the forecasting of tornados?
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13. a)How big are hurricanes?
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b)Where do they occur?
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c) Why do they not occur at the equator?
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d)Why is peak hurricane season Aug-Oct in the Northern hemisphere?
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14. a) What is the "eye" of a hurricane?
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b) How would you identify it on a satellite image?
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c) Describe and explain happens to wind speed in a transect across the
eye.
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15. How is a storm surge generated? Why is it so destructive?
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16. a)What is the source of energy for a hurricane?
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b)Why do hurricanes dissipate when they hit land or move over the northern
Atlantic Ocean?
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17. What controls the direction hurricanes
track ?
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18. a) What are seasonal
hurricane forecasts based on?
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b) What are the predictions for the current year?
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19. a) What do thunderstorms, tornados and hurricanes have in common?
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b) How are they different? Consider their scale (spatial and temporal),
source of energy, and spatial occurrence.
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