JPATS Weather - NETC

FRONTAL MECHANICS REVIEW QUESTIONS
JPATS AVIATION WEATHER BOOKLET
1. Which one of the following parameters of an air mass are generally uniform when measured
across any horizontal direction?
a. Pressure and stability
b. Pressure and moisture
c. Temperature and pressure
d. Temperature and moisture
2. Which one of the following correctly indicates the four frontal properties used to locate and
classify fronts?
a. Pressure, wind, stability, and slope
b. Pressure, temperature, dew point, and wind
c. Pressure, temperature, dew point and slope
d. Pressure, wind, dew point, and stability
3. Which one of the following indicates two of the five factors that influence frontal weather?
a. Slope and stability
b. Slope and pressure change
c. Stability and winds
d. Stability and pressure change
4. With frontal passage, the winds of a cold front will shift from the ______to the ______, and
the winds of a warm front will shift from the ______ to the ______.
a. southeast to the northwest, southeast to the northwest
b. southeast to the southwest, southwest to the northwest
c. southwest to the northwest, southeast to the southwest
d. northwest to the southwest, southwest to the southeast
5. In one respect, embedded warm-front thunderstorms present a greater flying hazard than
cold-front thunderstorms because the warm-front cumulonimbus clouds ______.
a. may be hidden in stratus type clouds.
b. generally contain a great amount of cloud-to-ground lightning.
c. have lower bases and lie closer to the earth’s surface.
d. are much more violent and turbulent.
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