This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Agriculture > Weather > Meteorology > Principles Of Meteorology – Quiz 19 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Principles Of Meteorology Quiz 19 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. When a rapidly moving cold air mass overtakes a slow-moving warm air mass, the result is a(an) ..... A) Cold front. B) Occluded front. C) Warm front. D) Stationary front. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cold front. 2. Local winds differ from global winds because local winds A) Are caused by unequal heating within a small area and blow in specific directions (only north or only south, for example) over short distances. B) Are caused by unequal heating within a small area and can change directions. C) Are caused by unequal heating within a large area and blow in specific directions over short distances. D) Are caused by unequal heating within a large area and can change directions. unequal heating within a large area and can change directions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Are caused by unequal heating within a small area and can change directions. 3. A polar climate is? A) Warm and cool. B) Consistently moderate. C) Consistently cool. D) Consistently warm. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Consistently cool. 4. The symbol on a weather map for a cold front is what? A) A line with squares on it. B) A line with circles on it. C) A line with semi-circles on it. D) A line with triangles on it. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A line with triangles on it. 5. The study of earth's atmosphere and its phenomenon. A) Meteorology. B) Chemistry. C) Geology. D) Water Cycle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Meteorology. 6. Connected lines of equal pressure A) Longitude. B) Lines of altitude. C) Isobars. D) Barometer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Isobars. 7. What are two factors determining both climate and weather? A) Latitude and humidity. B) Meteorologists and Hydrologists. C) Wind patterns and upwellings. D) Personality and Ethics. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Latitude and humidity. 8. Describe an air mass which forms over canada in terms of temperature and moisture A) Wet and warm. B) Wet and cold. C) Dry and warm. D) Dry and cold. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dry and cold. 9. What percent of the Earth's atmosphere is Oxygen? A) 21%. B) 1%. C) 78%. D) 62%. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 21%. 10. What type of clouds produce tornadoes? A) Nimbostratus. B) Cumulonimbus. C) Circocirrus. D) Cumulous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cumulonimbus. 11. Brings gentle rains. What type of front? A) Warm. B) Cold. C) Stationary. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Warm. 12. Before it becomes a hurricane, it is called a A) Tropical storm surge. B) Tropical typhoon. C) Tropical storm. D) Tropical cyclone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tropical storm. 13. What percent of the Earth's atmosphere CO2, Argon, and other gases? A) 78%. B) 21%. C) 1%. D) 62%. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 1%. 14. What drives the water cycle to continue? A) Gravity. B) Salt in the Ocean. C) Clouds. D) The Sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The Sun. 15. What direction does wind move? A) High pressure to low pressure. B) It doesn't move. C) Low pressure to high pressure. D) It's random. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) High pressure to low pressure. 16. Increase in which gas is primarily responsible for increased global warming? A) Nitric oxides. B) Methane. C) Carbon dioxide. D) Water vapor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carbon dioxide. 17. What is the Freezing Level? A) Level where air temperature drops to 0$^\circ$C, importatnt for icing condition. B) Level where air becomes saturated. C) Air humidity reaches 100%. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Level where air temperature drops to 0$^\circ$C, importatnt for icing condition. 18. As a hurricane moves through warm waters, the water evaporates and the storm intensifies. What is the most likely effect as a hurricane moves inland? A) The hurricane gains moisture. B) The hurricane becomes stronger. C) The hurricane becomes weaker. D) The hurricane gains wind speed. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The hurricane becomes weaker. 19. Which of these best describes climate rather than weather? A) Wind speed is changing as a storm moves through an area. B) The temperature is decreasing in a slow-moving cold front. C) Annual high temperatuers in the summer have increased over many decades. D) The rainfall during one year was greater than the rainfall during the next year. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Annual high temperatuers in the summer have increased over many decades. 20. The rotation of the Earth causes the change in ..... here on Earth A) Day and night. B) Seasons. C) Moon phases. D) Temperature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Day and night. 21. What does it mean when a form of the word "nimbus" is added to the names of clouds? A) The clouds are dark in color. B) A storm is coming. C) The clouds are at a middle altitude. D) The clouds produce precipitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The clouds produce precipitation. 22. Tundra and ice cap climates are examples of ..... climates. A) Temperate maritime. B) Polar. C) Temperate continental. D) Tropical. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Polar. 23. What is a GAMET? A) Chart of wind and temperature aloft. B) Area forecast for particular FIR and low levels (GND up to FL100). C) Synoptical analysis chart. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Area forecast for particular FIR and low levels (GND up to FL100). 24. The average yearly rainfall for Miami, Florida is about 58 inches. During the year, Miami goes through a dry period where it receives very little rainfall. Which factor is most likely responsible for the dry period? A) Location of latitude north of the equator. B) Cold air moving in from the north. C) Warm air moving in from the Atlantic Ocean. D) Distance from the Gulf Stream current. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cold air moving in from the north. 25. What causes wind? A) Conduction currents. B) Radiation currents. C) Tropical currents. D) Convection currents. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Convection currents. 26. What is a fast moving ribbon of air that moves from west to east in the northern hemisphere A) Agriculture. B) Polar. C) Mariculture. D) Jet stream. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jet stream. 27. Outgassing refers to A) Changes in the total amount of water on Earth through evapotranspiration. B) A steady-state equilibrium in the water system caused by cycles of evaporation and condensation. C) The dynamic equilibrium between surface and ocean water. D) The process in which water and water vapor emerge from deep layers within and below the Earth's crust. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The process in which water and water vapor emerge from deep layers within and below the Earth's crust. 28. The atmosphere is made up primarily of A) Oxygen. B) Water Vapor. C) Carbon Dioxide. D) Nitrogen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nitrogen. 29. The instrument used to measure air pressure is ..... A) A barometer. B) A thermometer. C) A meter stick. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A barometer. 30. In witch direction does low pressure rotate A) Left to right. B) Counter-clockwise. C) Up and down. D) Clockwise. 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