Meteorology Test 2004-05

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  1. What kind of front generally produces precipitation over a large area?

    2. Your answer:
    cold
    warm
    wet
    occluded

  2. What weather instrument is used to measure relative humidity?

    3. Your answer:
    anemometer
    bimetal thermometer
    psychrometer
    barometer

  3. What are the two most abundant elements in the air?

    4. Your answer:
    oxygen and helium
    nitrogen and oxygen
    oxygen and hydrogen
    nitrogen and argon

  4. What is the spinning motion of a planet on its axis?

    5. Your answer:
    rotation
    orbit
    revolution
    ellipse

  5. How long does it take the Earth to make on complete rotation?

    6. Your answer:
    12 hours
    24 hours
    36 hours
    48 hours

  6. How are clouds classified?

    7. Your answer:
    form and altitude
    color and shape
    size
    altitude and color

  7. What kinds of clouds cover large areas of sky, often blocking out the sun?

    8. Your answer:
    cirrus
    stratus
    nimbus
    cumulus

  8. What does a moving air mass do when it encounters a mountain range?

    9. Your answer:
    heats up
    sinks
    rises and cools
    stops

  9. What kind of cooling results from the expansion of rising air?

    10. Your answer:
    expansive
    forceful lifting
    advective
    adiabatic

  10. What is formed when a cold air mass overtakes a warm air mass?

    11. Your answer:
    a warm front
    a cold front
    an occluded front
    a polar front

  11. What is the movement of the earth around the sun?

    12. Your answer:
    spin
    revolution
    ellipse
    rotation

  12. Where does the Earth's axis always point toward during its orbit?

    13. Your answer:
    Polaris
    the Sun
    Orion
    the Moon

  13. How long does it take for the Earth to revolve around the Sun?

    14. Your answer:
    1 year
    2 years
    3 years
    4 years

  14. What is the actual amount of water vapor in a volume of air expressed as?

    15. Your answer:
    relative humidity
    dew point
    saturation point
    specific humidity

  15. What rain producing method could eventually end droughts?

    16. Your answer:
    squall lining
    electromagnetic stimulation
    cloud seeding
    rain dancing

  16. What kinds of clouds may form in fair weather and look like popcorn?

    17. Your answer:
    nimbus
    cirrus
    stratus
    cumulus

  17. What warm Pacific current occurs about every 3-10 years and lasts about one year effecting overall weather patterns?

    18. Your answer:
    El Nino
    El Gato
    El Senor
    El Dio

  18. What happens to air passing over a mountain range as it rises, expands, and cools?

    19. Your answer:
    it loses moisture
    it disappears
    becomes humid
    forms clouds

  19. How do ocean currents influence temperture?

    20. Your answer:
    by heating or cooling the air
    by high and low tides
    by the coriolis effect
    by salinity

  20. What would be expected to be found on a mountain slope facing toward prevailing winds as opposed to the side away from the prevailing winds?

    21. Your answer:
    desert
    more vegetation
    tundra
    less vegetation

  21. What state contains the biggest variety of climatic regions?

    22. Your answer:
    California
    New York
    Washington
    Florida

  22. What is the smallest, most violent, and shortest-lived severe storm?

    23. Your answer:
    a typhoon
    a tornado
    a monsoon
    a hurricane

  23. What type of solar radiation causes sunburn?

    24. Your answer:
    infrared
    gamma
    ultraviolet
    microwave

  24. How would air flowing down mountain slopes generally feel?

    25. Your answer:
    cold and dry
    cold and wet
    warn and moist
    warm and dry

  25. What type of fog usually forms over inland rivers and lakes?

    26. Your answer:
    steam fog
    advection fog
    upslope fog
    radiation fog

  26. What happens to warm air as it rises?

    27. Your answer:
    it cools
    sublimation
    it gets hotter
    deposition

  27. What are the air masses formed over the ocean called?

    28. Your answer:
    continental
    maritime
    polar
    tropical

  28. What happens to cool air as it descends from off a mountan top?

    29. Your answer:
    it warms
    sublimation
    deposition
    it cools

  29. What are the lines on a weather map called that connect points of equal atmospheric pressure?

    30. Your answer:
    pressure points
    graphs
    isobars
    plots

  30. What climate zone is Vancouver, Washington located in?

    31. Your answer:
    variable
    marine west coast
    humid sub tropical
    middle latitude steppe

  31. What is any moisture that falls from the air to the earth's surface called?

    32. Your answer:
    sleet
    precipitation
    snow
    rain

  32. What type of fog forms when the layer of air in contact with the earth becomes chilled below its dew point and it's water vapor condences into droplets?

    33. Your answer:
    advection fog
    upslope fog
    radiation fog
    steam fog

  33. What kinds of air masses are moist?

    34. Your answer:
    maritime
    polar
    continental
    tropical

  34. What kind of fog is really a kind of cloud formation at ground level?

    35. Your answer:
    radiation fog
    advection fog
    steam fog
    upsolpe fog

  35. What is relative humidity always expressed as?

    36. Your answer:
    as a number
    as a temperature
    as a percentage
    statistically

  36. What does the air temperatures capacity for holding water become when air temperature drops?

    37. Your answer:
    lower
    irregular
    greater
    zero

  37. What type of fog is common along coasts, where warm moist air from above the water moves in over a cooler land surface?

    38. Your answer:
    radiation fog
    steam fog
    advection fog
    upslope fog

  38. What is the process by which the atmosphere traps warming solar rays at the earth's surface called?

    39. Your answer:
    smog
    greenhouse effect
    impact theory
    coriolis effect

  39. What are air masses formed over the land called?

    40. Your answer:
    polar
    continental
    tropical
    maritime

  40. What is a long line of heavy thunderstorms called?

    41. Your answer:
    squall line
    an obstacle
    storm line
    occlusion

  41. What kind of front is associated with short lived and sometimes violent weather?

    42. Your answer:
    cold
    warm
    occluded
    wet

  42. How often do weather stations all over the world report weather conditions?

    43. Your answer:
    every 4 hours
    every 6 hours
    every 8 hours
    every 10 hours

  43. What do the terms nimbo and nimbus mean?

    44. Your answer:
    rain
    powerful
    cold
    sleet

  44. What does a rain gauge measure?

    45. Your answer:
    precipitation
    cloud size
    humidity
    water vapor

  45. What consists of alternating clear and cloudy layers of ice?

    46. Your answer:
    rain
    silver iodide
    hailstones
    frost

  46. What forms when the dew point is below 0 degrees Celcius?

    47. Your answer:
    drizzle
    mist
    rain
    frost

  47. What kinds of air masses are dry?

    48. Your answer:
    tropical
    polar
    continental
    maritime

  48. What is a cool wind moving from water to land called?

    49. Your answer:
    continental wind
    land breeze
    tidal wind
    sea breeze

  49. What occurs as a result of deposition?

    50. Your answer:
    frost
    dew
    snow
    ice

  50. What is the most common form of solid precipitation?

    51. Your answer:
    snow
    frost
    hail
    ice

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