Principles Of Meteorology Quiz 65 (20 MCQs)

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1. Bodies of water are ..... to heat and hold heat ..... than rocks and soil.

Correct Answer: C) Slower, longer.

2. The temperature at which air reaches a state where it can hold no more water.

Correct Answer: C) Dew Point.

3. What type of weather does the area at the equator most likely have?

Correct Answer: B) Warmer weather with evaporation and rain.

4. What does a thermometer do

Correct Answer: A) Measures air temperature.

5. What type of front may be rainy or foggy for several days?

Correct Answer: B) Stationary.

6. What causes global winds and convection in the atmosphere?

Correct Answer: D) Unequal heating of the Earth by the sun.

7. Which of the following maps is best for analyzing changes in climatic patterns of diverse ecosystems?

Correct Answer: B) A map that shows the climate zones for different regions around the world.

8. What air mass brings warm, humid temperatures?

Correct Answer: C) MT.

9. Degrees Celsius would be how many Kelvin?

Correct Answer: A) 473.

10. Two belts if wind that blow almost constantly from easterly directions and are located on the north and south sides of the equator

Correct Answer: B) Trade winds.

11. How do tornadoes form

Correct Answer: B) High and cold air meets.

12. What is the definition of weather?

Correct Answer: B) The specific condition of the atmosphere at a particular place and time.

13. What cloud is most likely associated with severe weather

Correct Answer: B) Cumulonimbus.

14. What term describes the process by which gases hold heat in the atmosphere (like a blanket)?

Correct Answer: A) Green house effect.

15. A radiosonde is:

Correct Answer: C) A tool for upper atmosphere data that has sensors and a radio transmitter suspended from a balloon.

16. Which layer is the furthest from the surface of Earth?

Correct Answer: A) Exosphere.

17. Low combo cloud

Correct Answer: D) Stratocumulus.

18. The apparent deflective force of Earth's rotation on all free-moving objects, including the atmosphere and oceans

Correct Answer: A) Coriolis Effect.

19. Ways clouds can form (ways of cooling required for saturation)?

Correct Answer: B) Frontal uplift, Convection, Low preasure uplift.

20. The primary source of oxygen for Earth's atmosphere during the past half billion years or so appears to be:

Correct Answer: A) Photosynthesis.