1. It brings much moisture, clouds, haze and fog, sometimes rain in the Gibraltar Strait.

LEVANTER

2. This is a dry south-easterly wind that blows on the South African coast during Summer.
CAFÉ DOCTOR

3. This is a southerly wind in the Mediterranean coming from North Africa: it causes fog.
SCIROCCO

4. This is a squall occurring at the passage of a cold front in Rio de la Plata, it blows from the north and back suddenly
to a S or SW direction; Frequent in June to September.
PAMPERO

5. This is an unpredictable and violent wind rising suddenly in Aleutian waters especially close to the mountainous
coast of the islands in that region.
WILLIWAW

6. This is a NW wind in the Persian Gulf, Gulf of Oman and along the Markran coast.
SHAMAL

7. It occurs during winter in the northern part of America.

TEHUANTEPECER

8. This is a strong N or NW wind in the Gulf of Lyons of gale force and produces rough seas.
MISTRAL

9. This refers to a squall in the East Indies.

BRUBU

10. This is a north to north easterly wind which periodically blows through the gap in the mountain ranges of central
America. It is named after the Gulf of Papagayo on the Pacific coast near Costa Rica.
PAPAGAYO

11. This is a thunderstorm or violent squall especially in the Mediterranean.

BORASCO

12. Refers to a south wind on the SE coast of Australia that occurs mainly in summer; as a warning a long cumulus roll
appears on the horizon and the wind drops to a calm then suddenly blows with gale force accompanied by rapid fall in
temperature.
SOUTHERLY BUSTER

13. This is a violent north to northwesterly wind funneled through the Gulf of Tehuantepec on the Pacific coast of
Mexico and can be felt up to 100 miles.
TEHUANTEPECER

14. It is a north wind of gale force along the coast of Chile. Gulf of Mexico and western Caribbean during winter.
NORTHER

15. This refers to katabatic wind that blows down the slopes of the mountains on the north and east coast of the
Adriatic Sea; often dangerous as it often blows without any warning and in violent gust.
BORA

16. Refers to east wind in the Strait of Gibraltar.

LEVANTER

17. This is a squally frequent wind that occurs from May through August between Cabo de Sao Tome and Cabo Frio
on the Coast of Brazil.
ABROHOLAS

18. This is an east wind of the west coast of Africa between Cape Verde and the Gulf of Guinea in November to March.
It brings clouds of dust and sand from the Sahara.
HARMATTAN
19. This is a strong NE wind in the central and western Mediterranean Sea in Malta and Sicily.
GREGALE

20. Refers to a squally wind from the SW during the month of May to October, in the Strait of Malacca and west coast
of Malaya.
SUMATRA

21. Which of the following is used as a basis in estimating wind force at sea?
BEAUFORT SCALE

22. How do you interpret wind direction?

FROM WHERE IT COMES

23. Which of the following types of wind blows along curved isobars?
GRADIENT

24. What is used to locate the high and low pressure areas in the northern and southern hemisphere?
BUYS BALLOT’S LAW

25. The horizontal movement of air is known as _____

WIND

26. What wind direction and speed are observed on board a moving ship?
APPARENT WIND

27. What wind direction and speed is observed on board a moving ship?
APPARENT WIND

28. What do you call the downward movement of air?

SUBSIDENCE

29. Which of the following regions has an average high pressure throughout the year?
SOUTH INDIAN OCEAN

30. When the temperature in some areas becomes high, the air pressure in that are ______
DECREASES

31. Which of the following direction is the movement of the Anabatic wind as it blows to the slopes of the mountain?
ASCENDING

32. What kind of local winds refers to a south wind on the SE coast of Australia that Occurs mainly in summer as a
warning a long cumulus roll appears on the horizon and the wind drops to a calm then suddenly blows with the gale
force accompanied by rapid fall temperature?
SOUTHERLY BUSTER

33. What causes wind?

UNEVEN HEATING OF THE EARTH’S SURFACE

34. What is used to locate the high and low pressure areas in northern and southern hemisphere?
BUY BALLOT’S LAW

35. Which of the following is used as a basis in estimating wind force at sea?
BEAUFORT SCALE

36. Which of the following statement is correct regarding atmospheric pressure?

THE HIGHER IS THE PLACE, THE LESSER IS THE ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE BECAUSE THE WEIGHT OF
AIR ABOVE IS LESS THAN AT SEA LEVEL.

37. Instrument use to measure the wind speed.

ANEMOMETER
38. How many hours is the maximum duration of time a synoptic chart can be used to forecast ahead?
24 – 48 HOURS

39. What is called where air is going upward bringing its warmth to the upper atmosphere?
TURBULENCE

40. When ca you confirm that LPA is existing in the vicinity where presently your vessel is?
THE BAROMETER READING IS 1008 MILIBARS

41. Depression sometimes called mid-latitude cyclones, are areas of low pressure located
between how many latutide?
30° and 60°

42. What is the region covered for time being by the winds forming the storm?
STORM FIELD

43. What is an instrument that receive a copy of analysis of weather observation?

FACSIMILI

44. What is an air mass sitting over land will have experienced limited evaporation, so it will be
considered to be dry?
CONTINENTAL

45. What occurs when the pressure is lower than that in tropical depressions and wind speeds
reach to 34 to 63 knots?
TROPICAL STORM

46. What is the central almost windless area within the ring of hurricane force wind, and where
the atmospheric pressure is lowest?
VORTEX

47. What is the area of low pressure is surrounded by one closed isobars on none at all, and
there is no strong wind?
TROPICAL DISTURBANCE

48. What polar region is located at the northernmost part of Earth?

ARCTIC

49. What wind circulation around the low pressure area in Northern Hemisphere?
COUNTER CLOCKWISE AND INWARD

50. What occurs when the pressure at the centre is much lower and the sustained winds are 64
knots or over?
HURRICANE

51. What is the transition zone where a cold air mass is replacing a warmer air mass?
COLD FRONT

52. What is an extensive portion of the atmosphere near the earth’s surface with approximately
the same horizontal distribution of temperature, humidity and lapse rate throughout acquired
after remaining for sometime over a large portion of the earth’s surface?
AIR MASS

53. What is the front that occurs when cold and warm air masses meet?
OCCLUDED FRONT
54. What is the boundary between the deep cold artic air and the shallower less cold polar air
of the N/S high latitudes?
ACTIVE FRONT

55. What is the boundary line between polar and tropical air masses and this is not very vertical
but inclined toward the pole?
POLAR FRONT

56. What is an area of relatively low pressure with closer isobar, it bring strong wind, cloudy
skies and heavy rain?
DEPRESSION

57. What kind of front is when the warm air mass is advancing towards the cold air?
WARM FRONT

58. What is the process where an air mass changes its characteristics has moved and the
movement is slow so that it acquires the characteristics of underlying surface?
MODIFICATION

59. What is a large body of air that has relatively uniform temperature and humidity
characteristics?
AIR MASS

60. What is a line of separation on the earth’s surface between a cold air mass and a warm air
mass; above the earth’s surface it is called Frontal Surface?
FRONT

61. Occluded fronts appear blue in weather maps.

FALSE
62. Anticyclone is an area of low pressure that brings bad weather.
FALSE
63. The rotation of the Earth creates the Coriolis Force which modifies the directions of the wind.
TRUEMETEO MIDTERMS REVIEWER
64. Substances like air always move from high pressure to low pressure.
TRUE
65. What causes wind?
UNEVEN HEATING OF THE EARTH’S SURFACE
66. Pressure ridges and throughs can become “blocking systems”.
TRUE
67. Pressure differences are relative to surrounding air masses.
TRUE
68. In low pressure area, the air tends to move upward.
TRUE
69. “Blocking Systems” can act as steering mechanisms that reflect weather systems to other
regions.
TRUE
70. Depression is an area of high pressure that brings good weather.
FALSE
71.The air high pressure areas subsides
TRUE
72. Pressure trough and ridges will not form on the surface and are not aloft.
FALSE
73. In a High Temperature area, the air sinks and as it sinks, it warms up.
TRUEMETEO MIDTERMS REVIEWER
74. The roughness of the Earth’s surface will not impede air movement.
FALSE
75. A cold front moves faster than a warm front.
TRUE
76. In a High Pressure area, the air sinks and as it sinks, it warms up.
TRUE
77. In a Low pressure area, the air tends to move upward.
TRUE
78. Toughs and ridges form when pressure systems are not precisely concentric, becoming
elongated.
TRUE
79. A cold front moves faster than a warm front.
TRUE
80. Pressure trough and ridges will not form on the surface and are not aloft.
FALSE

81. What is an extensive portion of the atmosphere near the earth’s surface with approximately
the same horizontal distribution of temperature, humidity and lapse rate throughout acquired
after remaining for sometime over a large portion of the earth’s surface that has a nearly uniform
temperature and humidity conditions with light wind?
AIR MASS

82. What is a depression in middle latitudes when part of the cold front overtakes and pushes
the adjacent warm air upward so that in the area involved the warm air is replaced with the
cold air?
OCCLUDED FRONT

83. What is an area of relatively low pressure with closed isobars?

DEPRESSION

84.What is identified by the arrangement of the isobars that are elongated isobars from a low
pressure extending into a high pressure area, usually points toward the equator?
TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE

85. What is a region enclosed between two diametrically opposite high pressure areas and two
low pressure areas?
COL

86. What refers to when neither air mass is moving?

STATIONARY FRONT

87. What is an extension of an anticyclone formed by elongated isobars extending outwards

from the center of high pressure?
WEDGE

88. What refers to when the cold air mass is advancing towards the warm air? This is
represented by a blue line in weather map.
COLD FRONT

89. It refers to move predominantly is a NE’ly direction in the Northern hemisphere and SE’ly in
the Southern hemisphere but may move in any direction, rarely in a W’ly direction.
POLAR FRONT DEPRESSIONS

90.What is a line of separation on the earth’s surface between a cold air mass and a warm air
mass?
FRONT

91. What do we call areas where air masses form?

SOURCE REGIONS

92. It refers to either cold or warm depending on whether they are of arctic or polar, or tropical
and equatorial origin. They are also described as maritime if they formed over the oceans, or
continental it formed over the land. Since a cold air and warm air mass have different
characteristics, they do not mix.
AIR MASSES

93. What refers to when the warm air mass is advancing towards the cold air?
WARM FRONT

94. What is identified by the arrangement of the isobars that are elongated isobars from a low
pressure extending into a high pressure area, usually points toward the equator?
TROUGH

95. It refers to move predominantly in a NE’ly direction in the Northern hemisphere and SE’ly in
the Southern hemisphere but may move in any direction, rarely in W’ly direction.
POLAR FRONT DEPRESSIONS

96. What do we call the boundary line between polar and tropical air masses?
POLAR FRONT

97. What month mostly Western North Pacific Tropical revolving storm occurs?
FROM APRIL TO DECEMBER

98. What month mostly South Pacific and Australian Area – From longitude 105° to 160°
between latitudes 50°S and 20°S Tropical revolving storm occurs?
FROM DECEMBER TO APRIL

99.It is a region of high pressure with closed isobars and can be identified in a synoptic or
prognostic chart by values of isobars which are increasing toward the center where the pressure
is the highest.
ANTICYCLONE

100. What do we call an area where there is a definite rotary circulation of the wind and one or
more closed isobars surround the low pressure area, and with wind speed less than 34 knots?
TROPICAL DEPRESSION

101.What are computer generated forecast showing the expected pressure pattern at a specific
future time?
PROGNOSTIC CHARTS

102. Identify the following statement is True of False. The wind circulation around the systems
is clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise and outward in the Southern
Hemisphere.
TRUE

103. What refers to the pressure is lower than in a tropical depressions and wind speed reaches
34 to 64 knots?
TROPICAL STORM OR SEVERE TROPICAL STORM
104. What Latitudes doe’s Tropical revolving storms do not occur due to the very little effect of
the Coriolis force and its absence at the equator?
LATITUDE 5°N AND 5°S

105. What month mostly North Indian Ocean, Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea Tropical revolving
storm occurs?
FROM FEBRUARY TO OCTOBER

106. It is a region enclosed between two diametrically opposite high pressure areas and two
low pressure areas.
COL

107. It is identified by the arrangement of the isobars that are elongated isobars from a low
pressure extending into a high pressure area, usually points toward the equator.
TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE

108. It describe the state of the atmosphere over a large area at a given moment?
SYNOPTIC WEATHER MAPS

109. What month mostly South Indian Ocean – West of Longitude 100°E and south of latitude
10°S Tropical revolving storm occurs?
FROM DECEMBER TO MARCH

110. What we call an extension of an anticyclone formed by elongated isobars extending

outwards from the center of high pressure?
RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE

111. What is refer to the areas on the surface of the earth where the atmospheric pressure is
not normal for that pace due to change in the condition of the atmosphere, mainly caused by
changes in temperature?
PRESSURE SYSTEMS

112. What refers to the opposite of depression?

ANTICYCLONE

113. What month mostly North Atlantic Tropical revolving storms – South of Lat. 35°N from
north of Caribbean to the Gulf of Mexico occurs?
JUNE TO NOVEMBER

114. What do we call the area of low pressure is surrounded maybe by one closed isobars or
none at all, and there is no strong wind?
TROPICAL DISTURBANCES

115. What do we call a trough of low pressure?

V-SHAPE DEPRESSION