This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Agriculture > Weather > Meteorology > Principles Of Meteorology – Quiz 20 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Principles Of Meteorology Quiz 20 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which factor is NOT a part of hurricane formation? A) Warm, moist air rises rapidly. B) Area of high pressure created. C) As the air rises, it cools and condenses to form clouds. D) Winds are drawn into the area and begin to spin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Area of high pressure created. 2. A storm with thunder and lightning and typically also heavy rain or hail A) Thunderstorm. B) Hurricane. C) Tornado. D) Earthquake. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thunderstorm. 3. Sun rays warm the sand on a beach, what kind of heat transfer is this? A) Conduction. B) Radiation. C) Convection. D) Subjection. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Radiation. 4. Rose makes a cup of hot tea. She places the cup of tea on the kitchen table and waits for it to cool off. When she picks up the cup a few minutes later, she notices the kitchen table is warm where the cup used to be. Which best explains the flow of energy between the cup and the table? A) Heat transferred from the cup to the table to warm the table. B) Cold transferred from the table to the cup to cool the tea. C) Heat transferred from the cup to the table, and cold was exchanged between both. D) Cold transferred from the table to the cup, and heat was exchanged between both. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heat transferred from the cup to the table to warm the table. 5. The second layer of the atmosphere is the A) Stratosphere. B) Troposphere. C) Mesosphere. D) Thermosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stratosphere. 6. How does the latitude of a region affect its climate? A) By increasing the length of days throughout the year. B) By increasing the amount of energy the land can absorb. C) By determining the angle of sunlight throughout the year. D) By determining the rate that tectonic plates move. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) By determining the angle of sunlight throughout the year. 7. If an area is experiencing consecutive days of cloudy weather with light/heavy precipitation, this weather is called .....? A) Cold-front weather. B) Warm-front weather. C) Occluded-front weather. D) Stationary front weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stationary front weather. 8. Movement of air from land to sea at night, created when cooler, denser air from the land forces up warmer air over the sea A) Sea breeze. B) Low pressure. C) Altitude. D) Land breeze. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Land breeze. 9. Clouds have an anvil top because that is where ..... is found. A) The top of the troposphere. B) The bottom of the troposphere. C) The top of the stratosphere. D) The bottom of the mesosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The top of the troposphere. 10. Electromagnetic waves traveling through empty space is an example of- A) Radiation. B) Potential. C) Conduction. D) Convection. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Radiation. 11. Which of the following are the effects of an occluded front? A) Cooler weather and rain or snow. B) Drizzly rain then warm weather. C) Clear skies then rain. D) Thunderstorms, heavy rain, or snow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thunderstorms, heavy rain, or snow. 12. Generally all wind will travel from ..... to ..... A) Warm fronts to cold fronts. B) High pressure to Low pressure. C) Low pressure to high pressure. D) Cold fronts to warm fronts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) High pressure to Low pressure. 13. A front along which a cold air mass thrusts beneath a warmer air mass A) Warm front. B) Cold front. C) Stationary front. D) Occluded front. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cold front. 14. What type of weather does a cold front create? A) Light rain/fog. B) Heavy rain. C) Warm weather. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Heavy rain. 15. Which front leads to steady rain for several days? A) Stationary front. B) Occluded front. C) Cold front. D) Warm front. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stationary front. 16. This protects Earth from harmful UV rays: A) Clouds. B) Exosphere. C) Ozone. D) Troposphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ozone. 17. Air pressure is greater ..... A) At the top of the mountain. B) At the bottom of the mountain. C) At the center of the mountain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) At the bottom of the mountain. 18. As altitude decreases A) Air pressure increases. B) A low pressure system develops. C) Air pressure stays the same. D) Air pressure decreases. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Air pressure increases. 19. What is the 2nd most abundant gas in the atmosphere? A) Carbon Dioxide. B) Argon. C) Oxygen. D) Nitrogen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Oxygen. 20. Energy transfer through convection is primarily restricted to- A) Fluids. B) Liquids. C) Gases. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 21. The tropical winds running from 0 to 30 degrees latitude are called: A) Polar winds. B) Trade winds. C) Polar westerlies. D) Subtropical westerlies. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Trade winds. 22. What organization tracks the weather in the United States? A) National Air and Space Administration. B) The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. C) The Meteorological Society. D) National Weather Service. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) National Weather Service. 23. As altitude increases, temperature in the ..... increases (warms). A) Stratosphere, mesosphere. B) Troposphere, mesophere. C) Troposphere, thermosphere. D) Stratosphere, thermosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stratosphere, thermosphere. 24. As a quartz pebble is transported by a stream, the pebble will become more rounded as a result of A) Dissolving as water is running over the rock. B) Abrasion by colliding with other rocks. C) Deposition in well-sorted layers. D) Resistance to weathering and erosion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abrasion by colliding with other rocks. 25. Which statement best describes the weather shown by the blue triangles going one way and the red semicircles going the other way on a line on a weather map? A) A warm front brings drizzly weather. B) A cold front can cause heavy rain, thunder, and lightning. C) A stationary front may produce rainy or snowy weather for several days. D) An occluded front can cause light to heavy precipitation that may last several days. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A stationary front may produce rainy or snowy weather for several days. 26. Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere absorb ..... radiation from Earth's surface and re-radiates some of it back to Earth. A) Ultraviolet. B) Sound. C) Radio. D) Infrared. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Infrared. 27. Cloud droplets collide to form larger droplets in a process called ..... A) Condensation. B) Coalescence. C) Convection. D) Composition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Coalescence. 28. Which location on Earth receives the most solar radiation in any given year. A) The Tropics. B) The Oceans. C) The Continents. D) The Poles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Tropics. 29. What type of front creates strong/severe thunderstorms a possiblity? A) Warm. B) Cold. C) Occluded. D) Stationary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Occluded. 30. Sun light, radio waves, and UV light are all examples of this method of heat transfer. This type of energy can travel through a vacuum of space. A) Conduction. B) Convection. C) Radiation. D) None of above. 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