This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Weather > Principles Of Meteorology – Quiz 11 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Principles Of Meteorology Quiz 11 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. As you travel from the surface of the Earth up through the atmosphere into outer space, the gases become A) More dense. B) Less dense. C) Higher in temperature. D) Consistently lower in temperature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Less dense. 2. Which of these circumstances will cause a hurricane originate? A) If the hurricane moves over warmer water. B) If the hurricane moves over colder water. C) If the hurricane moves over dry land. D) If the hurricane moves into drier air. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) If the hurricane moves over warmer water. 3. Tornado Alley has many tornadoes because the jet stream brings cool, dry, high-pressure air masses from Canada. What type air mass does it collide with to form a tornado? A) Dry, warm, high-pressure air masses from the Atlantic Ocean. B) Moist, cool, low-pressure air masses from Canada. C) Dry, cool, high-pressure air masses from Alaska. D) Moist, warm, low-pressure air masses from the Gulf of Mexico. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Moist, warm, low-pressure air masses from the Gulf of Mexico. 4. What is the hottest and fourth layer of the atmosphere? A) Troposphere. B) Mesosphere. C) Stratosphere. D) Thermosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thermosphere. 5. Which of the following is an example of weather system? A) ENSO. B) Tropical Cyclones. C) Global Warming. D) PDO. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tropical Cyclones. 6. What are the convection zones A) Global trade westerlies. B) Cold warm atlantic. C) Tropical, temperate, polar. D) Abdc. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tropical, temperate, polar. 7. How does humidity affect body temperature? A) Makes the body colder with more water on the skin's surface. B) Makes the body hotter since sweat can't evaporate. C) Both of these are true. D) Neither of these are true. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Makes the body hotter since sweat can't evaporate. 8. Heat would best be transferred by conduction between A) A candle and the air. B) An oven and a glass dish. C) A stove and a copper pot. D) Water and a wooden spoon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A stove and a copper pot. 9. Air pressure pushes in ..... directions. A) All. B) Two. C) Three. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All. 10. A large body of air with similar characteristics throughout A) Air Mass. B) Precipitation. C) Cyclone. D) Isotherm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Air Mass. 11. Thunder is caused by ..... A) The discharge of ultraviolet energy. B) The electric barrier. C) The rapid expansion of superheated air. D) The impact of electricity hitting the Earth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The rapid expansion of superheated air. 12. The stage of the water cycle when water turns from a gas to a liquid. A) Evaporation. B) Transpiration. C) Precipitation. D) Condensation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Condensation. 13. Which layer has the greatest concentration of gas particles (greatest density)? A) Troposphere. B) Mesosphere. C) Thermosphere. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Troposphere. 14. The study of physics, chemistry, and dynamics of atmospheric occurrences is ..... A) Climate. B) Weather. C) Imbalanced heating. D) Meteorology. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Meteorology. 15. When rapidly moving cold air mass runs into a warm air mass the cold air slides under the warm air. This is called a ..... A) Cold front. B) Warm front. C) Stationary front. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cold front. 16. Low pressure means ..... skies. A) Clear. B) Cloudy. C) Vanishing. D) Empty. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cloudy. 17. The current condition of the air outdoors, such as temperature, cloud cover, wind speed, and rain fall. A) Climate. B) Prediction. C) Weather. D) Warm Front. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Weather. 18. The small sub-layer of the atmosphere that contains charged particles (ions) is the ..... A) Magnetosphere. B) Mesosphere. C) Ionosphere. D) Troposphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ionosphere. 19. The large puffy (cotton candy looking) are very pretty, but are they fair weather clouds or storm clouds? A) Fair weather clouds. B) Ocean clouds. C) Storm clouds. D) Desert clouds. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fair weather clouds. 20. Lines on a map that connect points of equal temperature are A) Boundaries. B) Isobars. C) Isotherms. D) Station models. 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