This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Weather > Principles Of Meteorology – Quiz 64 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Principles Of Meteorology Quiz 64 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What protects humans from UV rays? A) Greenhouse gas. B) Asthenosphere. C) Ozone layer. D) Troposphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ozone layer. 2. What is a dew point(best answer) A) The Clouds. B) Pressure and Humidity. C) Capacity. D) Saturation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pressure and Humidity. 3. In the global pattern of prevailing winds, winds that blow from polar high toward the subpolar low A) Polar easterlies. B) Trade winds. C) Easterlies. D) Westerlies. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Polar easterlies. 4. The ..... has a major effect on both global wind patterns and surface currents in the ocean, and is even responsible for the direction that hurricanes spin. A) The water cycle. B) The Coriolis effect. C) The ozone layer. D) The tilt of the Earth's axis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Coriolis effect. 5. When the Sun's UV rays reach Earth, it is A) Conduction. B) Radiation. C) Diffusion. D) Convection. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Radiation. 6. Cold air tends to move which direction in the northern hemisphere? A) Towards the north. B) Towards the south. C) Towards the east. D) Towards the west. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Towards the south. 7. How are decreasing temperatures likely to affect air density A) They will increase the air density. B) They will decrease the air density. C) They will stabilize the air density. D) They can either increase or decrease air density. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They will increase the air density. 8. Continental tropical ( southwest desert of the United States) A) Warm and humid. B) Cold and dry. C) Cool and humid. D) Warm and dry. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Warm and dry. 9. Falling ice crystal are called ..... A) Snow. B) Hail. C) Freezing rain. D) Rain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Snow. 10. What atmospheric layer contains most of the mass of Earth's atmosphere? A) Thermosphere. B) Troposphere. C) Stratosphere. D) Mesosphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Troposphere. 11. What is the lowest layer of the atmosphere? A) Troposphere. B) Stratosphere. C) Mesosphere. D) The ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Troposphere. 12. Valley glaciers are in the mountains but the ones that cover whole continents are called A) Ice ages. B) Ice sheets. C) Icebergs. D) Icecream. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ice sheets. 13. The existence of which group of organisms spans the shortest geologic time? A) Birds. B) Humans. C) Dinosaurs. D) Placoderm fish. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Humans. 14. What is the percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere? A) 78%. B) 0%. C) 21%. D) 1%. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 21%. 15. An area is described as having mild temperatures in the summer and being cool and rainy in the winter. On a day in May, the area experienced snow. What best describes this day in terms of weather and climate? A) The weather was different from the normal climate. B) The climate was different from the normal weather. C) Weather and Climate are no different. D) Weather and Climate are changing into new properties. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The weather was different from the normal climate. 16. In what layer do people live? A) Mesosphere. B) Stratosphere. C) Thermosphere. D) Troposphere. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Troposphere. 17. Constantly moving system of deep-ocean circulation driven by temperature and salinity. It moves water around the globe. A) California Current. B) Global Conveyor Belt. C) Surface Currents. D) Gulf Stream. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Global Conveyor Belt. 18. Neither air masses move. What type of front? A) Warm. B) Cold. C) Stationary. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stationary. 19. What impact does the Coriolis effect have upon global winds in the northern and southern hemispheres? A) Global winds blow counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere. B) Global winds blow clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern hemisphere. C) Global winds flow clockwise in both the northern and southern hemispheres. D) The Coriolis effect has no impact upon global winds in the northern and southern hemispheres. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Global winds blow clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the southern hemisphere. 20. Which is not an element of weather and climate A) Precipitation. B) Lake. C) Humidity. D) Wind. 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