This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Weather > Meteorology > Principles Of Meteorology – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Principles Of Meteorology Quiz 4 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the energy source for the water cycle? A) The sun. B) The earth. C) Water. D) The moon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The sun. 2. All forms of water that fall from clouds A) Latent heat. B) Precipitation. C) Radiation. D) Stability. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Precipitation. 3. What is happening when heat rises A) Density. B) Conduction. C) Radiation. D) Convection. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Convection. 4. It is hypothesized that in the next 200 years, the lowest land areas on Earth could be submerged beneath rising oceans. Which climate change would most likely cause this to occur? A) Global warming. B) Decreased winds. C) The start of an ice age. D) Increased desertification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Global warming. 5. How many hurricanes occur in the Atlantic Ocean each year? A) About 5. B) About 10. C) About 15. D) Around 25. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) About 10. 6. Earth is unevenly heated due to its? A) Oceans and moon. B) Tilt and shape. C) Gravity and clouds. D) Climate and weather. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tilt and shape. 7. Large clouds that often produce thunderstorms are called ..... A) Stratus clouds. B) Cumulonimbus clouds. C) Cirrus clouds. D) Nimbostratus clouds. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cumulonimbus clouds. 8. As a warm moist air mass moving northward collides with a strong cold air mass moving southward, what observations will most likely be made? A) No observations. B) Clouds form. C) Temperatures stay the same. D) No clue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Clouds form. 9. The air in the troposphere has a greater density than the air in any other layer of the atmosphere. A) True. B) False. C) Huh?. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 10. Which statement best describes the weather shown by the red semicircles 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: A) A warm front brings drizzly weather. 11. Weather in the United States moves ..... A) East to West. B) West to East. C) North to South. D) South to North. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) West to East. 12. The Coriolis effect is due to the ..... of Earth. A) Revolution. B) Rotation. C) Shape. D) Density. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rotation. 13. Air masses from northern Canada. Often associated with drops in temperature A) Maritime polar. B) Maritime tropical. C) Continental polar. D) Continental tropical. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Continental polar. 14. The air pressure above the ocean off the coast of Florida is much higher compared to the air pressure above the coast. What direction would the wind blow in this situation? A) From the ocean, vertically(up) into the sky. B) From the ocean to the coast. C) From the coast to the ocean. D) From the coast, vertically(up) into the sky. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) From the ocean to the coast. 15. Warm air mass that does not carry water: A) Continental tropical. B) Continental polar. C) Maritime tropical. D) Maritime polar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Continental tropical. 16. Which of these gases have the most significant impact on the temperature of Earth's Atmosphere? A) Nitrogen and Argon. B) Oxygen and sulfur dioxide. C) Hydrcholoric acid and hydrogen. D) Carbon dioxide and water vapor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carbon dioxide and water vapor. 17. What are Isobars? A) Lines of Equilibrium. B) Lines of Iso. C) Lines of equal air pressure measured in millibars. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lines of equal air pressure measured in millibars. 18. Form at high altitudes. Look long and feathery. Made of ice crystals. They are often seen before weather changes and precipitation. A) Stratus. B) Nimbostratus. C) Fog. D) Cirrus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cirrus. 19. Where does the energy that powers a hurricane originate? A) From funnel clouds. B) Outside a stationary front. C) Outside a subliming water. D) From warm and moist air. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) From warm and moist air. 20. What does air moving from areas of high pressure to low pressure cause? A) Weather. B) Wind. C) Worldwide wind belts. D) None of above. 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