This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Weather > Meteorology > Principles Of Meteorology – Quiz 56 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Principles Of Meteorology Quiz 56 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What type of clouds are layered and covers most of the sky? A) Cumulous. B) Cirrus clouds. C) Stratus Clouds. D) Nimbus clouds. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stratus Clouds. 2. If you see #1 on a surface map, what type of weather would you expect? A) Heavy precipitation along the front followed by cooler weather. B) Heavy precipitation along the front followed by warmer weather. C) Clouds with possible drizzle along the front followed by cooler weather. D) Cooler weather with no significant precipitation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heavy precipitation along the front followed by cooler weather. 3. Wind is caused by A) Differences in altitude. B) Difference in pressure. C) Differences in temperature. D) Differences in latitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Difference in pressure. 4. What is the most abundant gas in today's Atmosphere? A) Oxygen. B) Carbon Dioxide. C) Nitrogen. D) Methane. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nitrogen. 5. Winds that blow from the west are called ..... A) Easterlies. B) Polars. C) Westerlies. D) Temperates. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Westerlies. 6. Earths Ancient Atmosphere contained gases such as Amonia, Methane, and lots of Carbon Dioxide. These gases were released into the early atmosphere by ..... A) Humans. B) Volcanoes. C) Plants. D) The moon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Volcanoes. 7. The Northern Lights appear in which layer of the atmosphere? A) Troposphere. B) Thermosphere. C) Exosphere. D) Mesosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thermosphere. 8. What kind of heat transfer is related to wind formation? A) Conduction. B) Convection. C) Radiation. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Convection. 9. The ..... is the layer above the troposphere where temperatures increase as altitude increases. It gets warmer in this layer the higher up you go because this layer contains the ozone layer that absorbs UV rays from the Sun. A) Troposphere. B) Stratosphere. C) Mesosphere. D) Thermosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stratosphere. 10. Louisa put a bowl of water and a bowl of sand in the sun. She put a thermometer in each bowl. Then she recorded the temperature at the start and after 30 minutes. After 30 minutes, the sand had heated more than the water.Louisa's experiment proved that A) Sunlight heats liquids more than solids. B) Different materials heat up at different rates. C) Sunlight does pass through water. D) Different materials absorb the same amount of heat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Different materials heat up at different rates. 11. Two air masses that meet and do not advance A) Cold front. B) Warm front. C) Stationary front. D) Occluded front. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stationary front. 12. What is the percentage of nitrogen in Earth's atmosphere? A) 1%. B) 21%. C) 78%. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 78%. 13. The layers of the atmosphere are classified by changes in A) Altitude. B) Temperature. C) Weather. D) Percent of air molecules. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Temperature. 14. In which layer of the atmosphere do all storms occur? A) Stratosphere. B) Thermosphere. C) Troposphere. D) Mesosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Troposphere. 15. Long, gray, dark A) Cirrus. B) Cumulus. C) Stratus. D) Cirrostratus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stratus. 16. The hot and humid weather in Texas during the summer is most likely due to what type of air mass? A) Continental polar. B) Continental tropical. C) Maritime polar. D) Maritime tropical. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Maritime tropical. 17. Usually happens and is over quickly. What type of front? A) Warm. B) Cold. C) Stationary. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Warm. 18. Suppose the parcel of the air rises adiabatically. What happens with its PRESSURE? A) Remains constant. B) Increases. C) Decreases. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Decreases. 19. When was weather data in Saskatchewan first recorded? A) Yesterday. B) 1883. C) 1800. D) 1983. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1883. 20. Heat energy traveling through space is an example of ..... A) Convection. B) Density. C) Radiation. D) Conduction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Radiation. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesWeather QuizzesPrinciples Of Meteorology Quiz 1Principles Of Meteorology Quiz 2Principles Of Meteorology Quiz 3Principles Of Meteorology Quiz 4Principles Of Meteorology Quiz 5Principles Of Meteorology Quiz 6Principles Of Meteorology Quiz 7Principles Of Meteorology Quiz 8Principles Of Meteorology Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books