1.

Atmosphere is heated by
A. Solar Radiation
B. Heat from earth surface
C. From above

2. What type of fog emerges if humid and almost saturated air is forced to
rise upslope of hills or shallow mountains by the prevailing wind?
A. Advection fog
B. Steaming fog
C. Radiation fog
D. Orographic fog

3. The QNH at an airfield located 200 metres above sea level is 1009hPa.
The air temperature is 10°C lower than a standard atmosphere. What is the
QFF?
A. Less than 1009hPa

B. It is not possible to give a

definitive answer
C. More than 1009hPa

D. 1009hPa

4. The amount of water vapour which air can hold largely depends on:

A. relative humidity
B. air temperature
C. stability of air
D. dew point
5. What is the approximate composition of the dry air by volume in the
Troposphere?

A. 21% oxygen, 78% nitrogen, and the rest other gases

B. 10% oxygen, 89% nitrogen, and the rest other gases
C. 88% oxygen, 9% nitrogen, and the rest other gases
D. 50% oxygen, 40$ nitrogen and the rest other gases
6. Why are indications about the height of the tropopause not essential for
flight documentation in the tropics?

A. The tropopause is generally well above the flight level actually flown
B. The meteorological services are unable to provide such a chart
C. The temperatures of the tropical tropopause are always very cold and
D. therefore not important
E. Tropopause information are of no value

7. The height and the temperature of the tropopause are respectively in the
order of:

A. 16 km and -40oC over the poles

B. 16 km and -75oC over the equator
C. 8 km and -40oC over the equator
D. 8 km and -75oC over the poles

8. In relation to the total weight of the atmosphere, the weight of the

atmosphere between mean sea level and a height of 5500m is:

A. 25%
B. 1%
C. 50%
D. 99%

9. Which of the following statements concerning the tropopause is correct?

A. The temperature of the tropopause at the equator and at the poles is

equal
B. The temperature remains constant above and below the tropopause
C. The temperature of the tropopause at the equator is higher than at
the poles
D. The temperature lapse rate changes abruptly at the tropopause
10. An outside air temperature of -35oC is measured while cruising at FL
200. What is the temperature deviation from the ISA at this level?

A. 5oC colder than ISA

B. 10oC warmer than ISA
C. 5oC warmer than ISA
D. 10oC colder than ISA
11. For both saturated and unsaturated air instability will occur when the

A. environmental lapse rate is greater than both dry adiabatic lapse rate
and saturated adiabatic lapse rate
B. environmental lapse rate is greater than saturated adiabatic lapse
rate but less than dry adiabatic lapse rate
C. environmental lapse rate is less than both dry adiabatic lapse rate
and saturated adiabatic lapse rate
D. dry adiabatic lapse rate is less than saturated adiabatic lapse rate but
greater than environmental lapse rate

12. The station pressure used in surface weather charts is:

A. QNE
B. QFE
C. QNH
D. QFF

13. What is approximate vertical interval which is equal to a pressure change

of 1hPa at an altitude of 5,500m?

A. 15m (50 ft)

B. 8m (27 ft)
C. 30m (105 ft)
D. 9m (30 ft)
14. According to definition, flight levels are surfaces with constant air
pressure determined from a certain pressure value. Which is this value?

A. 1013.25 hPa
B. 1025.13 hPa
C. Actual QFE
D. Actual QFF

15. A rising parcel of air which has no heat entering or leaving it, will:

A. reduce in pressure, rise in temperature, decrease in density

B. maintain volume, decrease in density, reduce in pressure
C. maintain pressure, reduce in density, increase in volume
D. reduce in pressure, decrease in density, increase in volume

16. Under what condition does pressure altitude have the same value as
density altitude?

A. When the altimeter has no position error

B. At sea level when the temperature is 0oC
C. At standard temperature
D. When the altimeter setting is 1013.2 hPa

17. If you are flying at FL 120 and the outside temperature is -2oC, at what
altitude will the freezing level be?

A. FL 110
B. FL 130
C. FL 150
D. FL 90

18. During a night with a clear sky, surface temperature

will…………………….., RH will……………………. And dew point
will………………………………….

A. Fall , rise , rise

B. Rise , rise , fall
C. Fall , rise , remain same
D. Fall , fall , remain same
19. On a clear sky, continental ground surface, wind calm, the minimum
temperature is reached Approximately

A. half an hour after sunrise

B. half an hour before sunrise
C. at the moment the sun rises
D. one hour before sunrise

20. What prevents air from flowing directly from high-pressure areas to
low-pressure areas?

A. Coriolis force.
B. Surface friction.
C. Pressure gradient force

21. Cloud mist or dew will always form when:

A. Water vapour is present in the atmosphere

B. When the dew point and temperature are equal
C. The air is stable

22. From which measurement of atmosphere can stability be determined?

A. Surface temperature
B. The dry adiabatic lapse rate
C. The ambient lapse rate

23. Which of the following is correct?

A. For unstable air the ELR must be steeper than the SALR and the
DALR
B. For stable air the ELR must be steeper than the SALR and the DALR
C. For conditionally unstable air the ELR must be steeper than the SALR
and DALR
24. At sea level the temperature is 26°C; dew point temperature is 23°C.
Assume ELR = 2°/1000’ and SALR = 1.5°C/1000’. At what height do you
expect to find neutral stability?

A. 3500’
B. 1500’
C. 4000

25. During a Chinook wind the air on the leeward side of the mountain is
warmer because of:

A. SALR
B. A steep DALR
C. Moisture being lost on the windward side.