With the Doppler radar, a radar transmitter sends out ____, and when they strike an object, some are reflected and scattered back to the antenna.
a. microwave pulses
b. laser beams
c. soundwaves
d. ultraviolet lightwaves
e. light beam
Q. 2In recent years, most of our knowledge about what goes on inside a tornado-generating thunderstorm has been gathered through the use of ____.
a. vortex chambers
b. spotter networks
c. algorithms
d. Doppler radar
e. storm chasers
Q. 3A ____ is a rotating column of air that is connected to a cumuliform cloud over a large body of water.
a. cumulus tornado
b. waterspout
c. landspout
d. spicket tornado
e. funnel cloud
Q. 4Landspouts are weak, short-lived tornadoes that occur with rapidly building ____ clouds in places such as the High Plains.
a. cumulus congestus
b. cumulus fractus
c. altocumulus
d. cirrocumulus
e. nimbostratus
Q. 5Landspouts are weak, short-lived tornadoes that occur with rapidly building ____ clouds in places such as the High Plains.
a. cumulus congestus
b. cumulus fractus
c. altocumulus
d. cirrocumulus
e. nimbostratus
Q. 6Tornadoes that form along a gust front are commonly called ____.
a. invisible tornadoes
b. dust devils
c. false tornadoes
d. windnadoes
e. gustnadoes
Q. 7Tornadoes that do not occur in association with a mid-level mesocyclone of a supercell are called ____.
a. megacyclones
b. funnel clouds
c. nonsupercell tornadoes
d. quasi-tornadoes
e. tornado vortices
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