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Contents
1 METEOROLOGY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
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1. METEOROLOGY
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1.1 METEOROLOGY
1. What most likely happens when a cold 4. An isobar map measures
air mass comes into contact with a warm, A. Temperature
moist air mass?
B. Wind
A. Sunshine
C. Precipitation
B. Fog
D. Air pressure
C. Precipitation
D. Temperature stays the same 5. What type of cloud produces a thunder-
storm?
2. What part of the year for us is the south A. cumulonimbus
pole angled towards the Sun
B. ground fog
A. summer
C. cirrus
B. winter
D. stratus
3. What type of weather is Denver most
likely experiencing? Notice the type of 6. The dry adiabatic lapse rate is
front that has just passed through. A. 9.8oC/km
B. 6oC/km
C. 8oC/km
D. 11oC/km
7. Where would you find the windiest
weather?
A. High humidity, cooler temperatures A. A
B. Low humidity, cooler temperatures B. B
C. Rainy, cold weather C. C
D. Rainy, humid weather D. D
1. C 2. B 3. B 4. D 5. A 6. A 7. B
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8. In North America, weather GENERALLY B. snow

moves from C. sleet

A. east to west D. hail
B. north to south
13. Air pressure and altitude are related
C. west to east
A. Directly
D. south to north
B. Indirectly
9. This tool photographs clouds and sends C. Not
data to meteorologists.
D. none of above
A. camera
14. How is wind named?
B. iPhone 5
A. where it’s coming from
C. satellite
B. where it’s going
D. radar
15. this is the boundary between 2 air masses
10. where do maritime air masses form?
A. front
A. over land
B. isotherm
B. over the ocean
C. isobar
C. over the arctic
D. intermediate bar
D. over the south pole
16. What is the only atmosphere layer that
11. This is the symbol for a weather front. has water vapor?ther
A. thermosphere
B. troposphere
C. stratosphere
D. Mesosphere
17. At the beach in the summertime, the trans-
A. Cold
fer of heat from the sand to the bottoms
B. Warm of your feet is called
C. Stationary A. radiation
D. Occluded B. fission
12. Name this precipitation. C. conduction

D. convection
18. Why is the atmosphere important?
A. It keeps in the cold from space
B. It protects from the Sun’s heat
C. It allows for extreme changes in day
and night temperatures
A. rain D. none of above
8. C 9. C 10. B 11. B 12. D 13. B 14. A 15. A 16. B 17. C 18. B 19. B
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19. The tropopause is 23. Which statement correctly defines wind?

A. the boundary between tropical and po- A. Wind is the movement of air from an
lar air masses area of low pressure to an area of high
B. the boundary between the tropo- pressure
sphere and the stratosphere B. Wind is the movement of air to a colder
C. the layer of high ozone concentration area in the atmosphere.
D. the boundary between Earth’s surface C. Wind is the movement of air from an
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and atmosphere area of high pressure to an area of low
pressure.
20. The label L indicates an area of low-
D. Wind is the movement of air pushed
around and bouncing off Earth’s surface.
24. the heat energy store in water vapor

A. latent heat
B. heat
C. dew point
D. none of above
A. Pressure
B. Temperature 25. What is a difference between hurricanes
C. Elevation and tornados:
D. Rainfall A. One forms during the day and one
forms at night
21. which zone above would you find the dol-
B. One forms in the winter and oneforms
drums, an area of low pressure?
during the summer
C. One forms in the winter and one forms
during thefall
D. One forms on land and one forms over
water
26. As altitude increases, what happens to the

atmosphere pressure?
A. 0-30 degrees latitude A. It decreases.
B. 30-60 degrees latitude B. It increases.
C. 60-90 degrees latitude C. It becomes cold.
D. none of above D. It becomes hot.
22. Which cloud brings nice weather?
27. A forecast that involves comparing cur-
A. Cumulonimbus rent weather patterns to past weather
B. Cumulus patterns is called
C. Stratus A. a digital forecast
D. none of above B. an analog forecast
20. A 21. A 22. B 23. C 24. A 25. D 26. A 27. B

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C. a station model 32. This tools measures in inches or centime-

ters.
D. the isobar

A. wind vane
28. The center of a hurricane is called the B. anemometer
A. center C. rain gauge
B. brain D. compass
C. eye
33. A record of weather data for a particular
D. circle site at a particular time is a(n)
A. station model
29. What types of storms usually occur in sum-
mer? B. topographic map
A. tropical cyclone C. isopleth model
B. thunderstorm D. climate map
C. typhoon 34. What climate would you expect for New
D. depression Delhi, India? It’s latitude is 28◦ N.
A. Polar
30. Why does warm air rise above cold air?
B. Temperate
C. Tropical
D. none of above
35. Fuel for a hurricane

A. warm, rising vapor
A. Warm air is less dense B. cool, sinking vapor

C. strong wind
B. Warm air is more dense
D. occluded fronts
C. Cold air is stronger than warm air
D. none of above 36. Which type of air mass is warm and hu-
mid?
31. The following data were recorded over
the course of an afternoon in Gaston
County:Measurement 4:00 PM 6:00 PM
8:00 PMWind Speed 5 12 20Tempera-
ture 95 87 81Humidity (%) 50 73 85
What type of front more than likely came
through?
A. Cold Front A. Continental polar
B. Warm Front B. Continental tropical
C. Stationary Front C. Maritime polar
D. Occluded Front D. Maritime tropical
28. C 29. B 30. A 31. A 32. C 33. A 34. B 35. A 36. D 37. A
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37. What causes warm air to rise? 41. In unsaturated air, as air rises, it cools at
A. the fact that it’s less dense than cold 100C/KM. Which lapse rate it refer to?
air A. Dry adiabatic lapse rate
B. The fact that it weighs more than cold B. Wet adiabatic lapse rate
air C. Environmental lapse rate
C. The fact that it has higher pressure D. Normal lapse rate
than cold
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D. the fact that its more dense than cold 42. The US is primarily affected by this global
air wind belt.
A. Coriolis
38. What term describes the layer of gases
that surround the Earth? B. Westerly
C. Easterly
A. Atmosphere
D. Trade
B. Clouds
C. Wind 43. These type of fronts cause quick changes
in weather and once they are gone the
D. Air
weather is cooler.
39. occurs when a boundary between air A. Cold Front
masses stops advancing
B. Warm Front
A. Warm Front
44. clouds that form vertically causing thun-
B. Cold Front
derstorms and strong winds What type of
C. Occluded Front cloud is it and what class of cloud is it in?
D. Stationary Front A. Cumulus, low clouds
40. Which answer best describes what hap- B. Nimbostratus, low clouds
pens to the warm air mass of a warm C. Stratocumulus, low clouds
front? D. Cumulonimbus, low clouds
45. Which weather condition best reflects the

passing of a cold front?
A. The warm air mass collides with a cold

air mass moving toward it.
B. The warm air mass slides over the top
of the cold air mass.
A. Pressure
C. The warm air mass rises between two
cold air masses. B. Wind direction
D. The warm air mass remains in one C. Temperature

place for a long period of time. D. Precipitation
38. A 39. D 40. B 41. A 42. B 43. A 44. D 45. C 46. A

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46. Intensity of Turbulence that causes a mod- 51. Give the number and name of the layer in
erate chance in a aircraft altitude or atti- which Earth’s weather occurs.
tude. Food service and walking is difficult,

loose objects move around.
A. Moderate
B. Light
C. Severe
D. none of above A. 1.Troposphere
B. 3.Mesosphere
47. What is a TAF?
C. 2.Stratosphere
A. Report of real weather observed at
given aerodrome at certain time D. none of above
B. Forecast of weather for given aero-
52. Which diagram best represents heat trans-
drome and time period
fer mainly by the process of conduction?
C. Meteorological area report for given
FOR
D. none of above
48. Which weather tool measures precipita-

tion?
A. thermometer
B. rain gauge A. 1
C. barometer B. 2
D. anemometer C. 3
D. 4
49. Mass of cold air taking over where warm
air has been is 53. What is a true fact about the mesosphere?
A. stationary front A. it is the hottest layer
B. cold front B. meteors burn up here
C. warm front C. the ozone layer is found here
D. funny D. Northern Lights happen here
50. What is a front? 54. What type of clouds look like puffy cotton
A. a spike in temperatures balls and indicate fair weather?
A. stratus
B. a cold area
B. cirrus
C. is a boundary between large masses
of air with different densities C. cumulus
D. a warm area D. cloud
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55. The most common gas in the atmosphere 59. is the process by which solar radiation is
is known as what? retained by a substance & converted into
heat energy
A. Nitrogen
A. ionization
B. Oxygen
B. reflection
C. Carbon Dioxide
C. scattering
D. Trace gases
D. absorption
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56. What is a cold front? 60. Choose the correct option
A. A place where a warm air mass is
pushing a cold air mass out of the way
B. A place where a cold air mass is push-
ing a warm air mass out of the way
C. A place where 2 air masses meet but
no movement is taking place
D. A place where a cold air mass is being
squeezed by 2 warm air masses
57. The air in the center of a tornado has
A. Low Clouds
B. Low Temperatures
C. Light Wind
D. Low Air Pressure
A. High pressure, so that materials on the 61. What is the dewpoint for the following
ground can be rapidly sucked up station model?
B. Low pressure, so that materials on the

ground can be rapidly sucked up
C. Pressures vary between high and low,
so that materials spin around in a circle
D. Medium pressure
58. The layers of the atmosphere that get

colder as altitude increases are
A. thermosphere and troposphere A. 10◦ F
B. meosphere and troposphere B. 23◦ F
C. stratosphere and thermosphere C. 65◦ F
D. thermosphere and mesosphere D. 75◦ F

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62. Name that front 66. What do this symbol mean?

A. cold front A. Moderate icing
B. warm front B. Moderate turbulence
C. occluded front C. Strong wind
D. stationary front D. none of above
63. High pressure systems are associated with 67. what measures wind speed?
weather. A. barometer
A. rainy B. thermometer
B. hot C. hygrometer
C. clear, fair D. anemometer
D. cloudy 68. Where are the highest winds in the hurri-
cane found?
64. What role does air pressure play in
weather systems? A. at the extreme outside, because they
have to move faster the further they are
from the middle
B. in the center, called the eye of the hur-
ricane
C. in the storm surge of the hurricane
D. in the eyewall of the hurricane
A. Its force determines the strength of 69. Which storm can bring hail?
the wind
B. It creates downdrafts that blow from
the shore
C. It is the primary cause of trade winds
D. It determines how high or low the tide
is.
65. What is atmosphere?
A. the layer of gases that surrounds Earth
B. melting snow and spring rains A. thunderstorm
C. Underground and Shallow Ground Wa- B. tornado
ter C. hurricane
D. Aquifer and Artesian wells D. none of above

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70. Isotherm connects points of equal 74. COLD Front conditions

A. Pressure A. Stable
B. Temperature B. Unstable
C. Moist 75. What is a thermometer?

D. Wind Speed A. A device to measure temperature
B. A device to measure wind speed
71. What is likely to happen with the move-
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ment of the front pictured on the map in C. A device to measure humidity
the city of Miami in the next few? D. A device to measure altitude
76. To determine how much precipitation oc-

curred, which tool would you use?
A. psychrometer
B. hydrometer
C. rain gauge
D. anemometer
77. If temperature decreases then air density

A. The warm front is moving north so they
will do what?
will get good weather
A. increase
B. The cold front is moving East and it will
bring rain B. decrease
C. The cold front is moving west so they C. nothing

will have clear weather D. none of these
D. The Warm front is moving south so 78. What characteristics do thunderstorms,
they will experience warm weather hurricanes, and tornadoes all share?
A. They all form over dry and hot desert
72. Heat transfer between two substances
regions.
that are in contact is called
B. They are all easily predicted by
A. conduction
weather forecasters.
B. thermal energy C. They are all formed when warm and
C. convection moist air rapidly rises.
D. radiation D. They always are formed from when
water vapor condenses near the ground.
73. the lines on a weather map connect equal
79. What units are used to measure tempera-
areas of temperature
ture by most of the world?
A. contour lines A. Kelvin
B. isotherms B. Fahrenheit
C. isobars C. Celsius
D. longitude D. Inches

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80. Low pressure is usually associated with 84. An air mass has formed over the source re-
what type of weather gion of the Gulf of Mexico. What type of
air mass is it?

A. tropical continental
B. tropical maritime
C. polar continental
D. polar maritime
85. What causes storms? select all that apply

A. clear, fair A. Clouds form when warm, moist air
B. cloudy, rainy rises, expands, and cools to the dewpoint
temperature.
C. bright blue skies
B. Rain, thunder, lightning or snow
D. sunshine
C. High pressure centers and fronts
81. Which type of cloud is this?
D. Low-pressure centers and fronts.
86. This is the symbol for a(n)
A. Cirrus A. warm front

B. Stratus B. cold front
C. Cumulus C. stationary front
D. Cumulonimbus D. occluded front
82. In which layer of the atmosphere do we 87. Low pressure will usually bring what kind
live? of weather?
A. stratosphere
A. Sunny
B. thermosphere
B. Calm
C. troposphere
C. Stormy
D. mesosphere
D. none of above
83. In what layer of the atmosphere is the
ozone layer found? 88. What tool measures air pressure?
A. stratosphere A. Thermometer
B. mesosphere B. Barometer
C. troposphere C. Anemometer
D. thermosphere D. Rain gauge

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89. what clouds come with nice, fair weather B. northeast

A. cumulus C. southwest
B. stratus D. southeast
C. cirrus
94. The number one thing hurricanes need is
D. none of above
90. pressure systems are characterized by A. warm water
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rising air. B. cold air from cold fronts
A. High C. cold water
B. Low
D. strong warm front
91. A hurricane usually occurs during
95. this device is used to measure wind speed
A. summer & winter
A. barometer
B. summer & spring
B. thermometer
C. fall & spring
C. the cage
D. fall & summer
D. anemometer
92. What is the wind direction?
96. When a hurricane reaches land, its inten-
sity decrease as the result of
A. increase in pressure and temperature
B. successive up drafts into the eyewall
C. friction and the lack of warm, moist air
D. lack of cold, dry to fuel the storm
97. What are the two most abundant gases

in the atmosphere and what are their per-
centages?
A. North
A. Nitrogen 78%, Oxygen 21%
B. Southeast
B. Water vapor, air mass
C. Eastern
C. wind, clouds
D. none of above
D. fronts, air mass
93. What direction is the warm front moving?
98. How does surface air flow in a middle-
latitude cyclone in the Northern Hemi-
sphere?
A. divergent and counterclockwise
B. divergent and clockwise
C. convergent and clockwise
A. northwest D. convergent and counterclockwise

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99. In what layer of the atmosphere is the 104. Is the amount of pressure change. What
ozone? is the name of this?

A. troposphere A. Humid
B. mesosphere B. Gradient
C. thermosphere C. Wind
D. stratosphere D. Land Breeze
100. A breeze blowing toward the sea from 105. What forms when two air masses meet?
the land, especially at night, owing to the A. Flood
relative warmth of the sea. What is the B. Cloud
name of this?
C. Front
A. Humid
D. Climate
B. Gradient
106. Air pressure is greatest:
C. Wind
A. closer to Earth
D. Land Breeze
B. farther from Earth
101. which of the following do meteorologist
107. Meteorology is the study of what?
study
A. The earth’s atmosphere
A. wind speeds
B. Meteorites
B. ocean
C. The layers of the earth filled with me-
C. weather patterns teorites
D. All of the above D. All of the above
102. In what layer of the atmosphere does 108. a model that shows the weather condi-
weather take place? tions at a specific location on Earth’s sur-
A. troposphere face
B. mesosphere A. Foot model
C. thermosphere B. Weather Model
D. stratosphere C. Station Model
D. Grocery Model
103. Choose the correct option
109. Cool air
A. rises
B. sinks
110. An ozone molecule is made up of how
many oxygen atoms?
A. convective lifting A. 2
B. orographic lifting B. 4
C. convergence C. 3
D. none of above D. none of above

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111. Short term forecast are not the most ac- 116. as a source of noise gets closer and fur-
curate and detailed forecast ther away the noise it makes will appear
to be different. What is this known as?
A. True
A. the doppler affect
B. False
B. radar
112. Choose the best forecast for Chicago on C. the doppler radar
Saturday.
D. the coriolis affect
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117. What does D represent?
A. rain
B. warmer temperatures
C. snow A. Occluded front
D. sunny skies B. Warm front
C. Cold front
113. what is the coldest layer of the atmo-
sphere? D. Stationary front
A. troposphere 118. what famous person did we talk about
B. stratosphere A. trenton thunder
C. mesosphere B. dallas raines
D. thermosphere C. kristen cornet
D. Jim Cantore
114. In what layer of the atmosphere are me-
teors found? 119. Low or High Pressure2
A. thermosphere
B. stratosphere
C. mesosphere
D. troposphere
115. Which of the following months is a hurri-

cane is most likely to occur? A. high pressure
A. January B. low pressure
B. September
120. When a cold front collides with a warm
C. March front this type of cloud will form.
D. December A. Cumulonimbus

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B. Cirrus 125. air is more dense and tends to sink

C. Stratus A. cold

D. Cumulus B. warm
121. The blue H on a weather map shows- C. moist
A. high temperatures D. dry
B. high humidity 126. Which layer of the atmosphere contains

C. high pressure the greatest amount of water vapor?
D. high wind speed A. Thermosphere

B. Troposphere
122. What statement describes the general
movement of air masses? C. Mesosphere
A. They move from high pressure to low D. Stratosphere
pressure
127. What type of front is shown?
B. They move from high altitude to low al-
titude
C. They move from low humidity to high
humidity
D. The move from low temperature to
high temperature
A. Warm Front
123. The diagram above represents a
B. Cold Front
C. Occluded Front
D. Stationary Front
128. What weather would you find at a sta-

tionary front?
A. warm front
A. Many days of wet weather
B. cold front
B. Dry, warm temperatures
C. occluded front
C. A mix of dry and wet days
D. stationary front
D. Mild weather
124. What layer of the atmosphere is the High-
est? 129. A cold, dry air mass would be called-
A. Mesosphere A. continental tropic
B. Stratosphere B. continental polar
C. Troposphere C. maritime polar
D. Thermosphere D. continental maritime

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130. The vertical movement of ascending and B. I follow the rules as best I can and
descending air is sometimes get in trouble.
A. Air C. I don’t really try very hard to follow the
B. Wind rules and am in trouble often.
C. Current D. I try very hard to follow the rules but I

still manage to get in trouble.
D. none of above
E. I don’t try to follow the rules and don’t
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131. What is a cold front? care if I get in trouble.
A. Boundary between two air masses 135. Which city has partly cloudy skies?
B. Cold air moves into an area occupied
by warm air.
C. Boundary between high and low pres-
sure
D. Warm air moves into an area occupied
by warm air.
132. Which type of air mass is cold and dry? A. Boise

B. New York
C. Atlanta
D. dallas
136. A higher albedo means

A. less reflection
A. Continental polar B. more reflection
B. Continental tropical C. greater absorption
C. Maritime polar D. none of above
D. Maritime tropical
137. A mound of water driven toward coastal
133. A dry bulb has a temperature of 4 0 Cel- areas by hurricane winds is called a
sius and a wet bulb of 10 Celsius. The A. Cyclone
dewpoint temperature is
B. Supercell
A. 4
C. Storm surge
B. 6
D. cold front
C. -4
D. 12 138. What causes hail to grow large?
A. Downdrafts
134. How do you feel your behavior follows
classroom rules? B. Updrafts
A. I follow the rules as best I can and C. Cold Temperatures

never get in trouble. D. none of above

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139. coal, oil and gas are D. collection, precipitation, condensation,

A. nonrenewable forms of energy and evaporation

B. renewable forms of energy 145. What layer of the atmosphere contains
C. solar energy the ozone layer?
D. airmass A. Mesosphere
B. Stratosphere
140. Air that is moving is called
C. Troposphere
A. coriolis
D. Thermosphere
B. humidity
146. How long do tornadoes last?
C. wind
A. For minutes or hours
D. temperature
B. For months or years
141. the study of weather. A meteorologist
C. For days or weeks.
that studies weather.
D. A few minutes or less
A. Weather Man
B. True 147. What kind of water is most common on
Earth?
C. False
A. Salt Water
D. Meteorology
B. Fresh Water
142. What is the greenhouse effect?
148. Which weather station shows the highest
A. The warming of a planet due to relative humidity?
trapped radiation.
B. The cooling of Earth due to air pollu-
tion.
C. The heating of a solid, such as a rock.
D. none of above
143. The instrument used to measure air pres-
sure is A. 1
A. a barometer B. 2
B. a thermometer C. 3
D. 4
C. a meter stick
D. none of above 149. On a weather map, “High” refers to
144. Where does the water cycle begin?

A. precipitation, condensation, evapora-
tion, and collection
B. precipitation, condensation, evapora-
tion, and collection
C. evaporation, condensation, precipita-
tion, and collection A. Temperature

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B. Rain fall C. mesopause

C. Altitude D. thermopause
D. Pressure 155. Which absorbs most of the ultraviolet ra-
150. What is a station model diation reaching the earth from the sun.
What is the name of this?
A. A record of weather data for a particu-
lar site at a particular time A. Ozone Layer
B. Condensation
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B. A model of a station
C. recent data C. Relative Humidity
D. weather for the rest of the week D. Dew point
151. mountain top 156. Which layer of the atmosphere do thun-

derstorms take place in?
A. high pressure
A. Troposphere
B. low pressure
B. Stratosphere
152. Which type of air mass most likely has C. Mesosphere
highhumidity and high temperature?
D. Thermosphere
A. cP
B. cT 157. name that cloudhigh clouds = 20, 000 ft
to 40, 000 ft (these are made of ice crys-
C. mT tals)
D. mP A. layer
153. According to the map, hurricanes and ty- B. alto
phoons start near the middle of the globe
C. gray
or along the
D. none of above
158. What tool measures barometric pres-

sure?
A. barometer
B. hygrometer
C. wind direction
A. Equatorial region D. thermometer
B. Temperate zone 159. Where is ozone found?
C. polar climate zone
D. Arctic ocean
154. what separates the troposphere and the

stratosphere?
A. tropopause
B. stratopause A. 10 km up

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B. 30 km up 164. A thunderstorm just ended. It is now

cooler, less humid and the air pressure is
C. 70 km up
rising.What is the weather prediction for

D. 100 km up the next few hours?
A. foggy
160. what falls out of clouds?
B. tornado
A. evaporation
C. sunny
B. transpiration
D. thunderstorms likely
C. precipitation
165. What is a meteorologist?
D. run off
A. It is someone who studies meteors.
161. When heat rises cools then sinks B. It’s a scientist who studies and reports
A. high pressure on weather patterns.
B. convection current C. It is a scientist who is an astronaut.
C. low pressure D. It is a scientist who studies the earth

and rocks.
D. stratospheric pressure
166. What kind of breeze is this and when
162. this device is used to measure air pres- would it form?
sure
A. thermometer
B. barometer
C. anemometer
D. wind vane
163. What is a warm front? A. Land breeze-daytime

B. Land breeze-nighttime
C. Sea breeze-daytime
D. Sea breeze-nighttime
167. Which climate zone is North Carolina de-

fined in
A. Warm air mass becomes caught be- A. warm temperate
tween cold air masses
B. cool temperate
B. two air masses meet and stay sepa-
C. highland
rate
D. none of above
C. Warm air moves over cold air and re-
places it 168. Which gas in our atmosphere is most
D. Cold air moves under warm air and abundant?
pushes it up A. Argon

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B. Oxygen B. Polar cell

C. Nitrogen C. Ferrel cell
D. Carbon Dioxide D. ITCZ
169. What direction does the winds blow in a
174. This symbol represents what type of
high pressure system located in the north-
front?
ern hemisphere?
A. clockwise
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B. counterclockwise
170. When a warm front occurs, what type of

weather does it bring?
A. thunderstorms A. cold front
B. warm and clear
B. warm front
C. hail
C. stationary front
D. clouds and long rains
D. occluded front
171. Why is the sun important to the water
cycle? 175. Weather happens in the
A. The sun is the source of energy that A. troposphere
powers the water cycle.
B. mesosphere
B. The sun gives light so that people can
see the water cycle happening. C. stratosphere
C. The sun’s gravity causes the tides D. exosphere
which are important to the water cycle.
D. The sun isn’t important to the water cy- 176. What gas makes the majority of our at-
cle. mosphere?
172. The receives the most direct and con-

centrated light.
A. south pole
B. equator
C. north pole
D. none of above
173. Which weather cell is between 60 de-

grees latitude and the poles?
A. nitrogen
B. oxygen
C. hydrogen
A. Hadley cell D. greenhouse gases

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177. Which of the following are three tools are 181. What is the name of the atmospheric
used to help measure weather? layer we live in?
A. speedometer

B. anemometer
C. barometer
D. hygrometer
Explanation:
Speedometers are used to measure how

fast an object is moving; like the one
found in cars. It is NOT used to measure
weather. A. troposphere
178. an instrument for measuring the speed of B. mesosphere
the wind, or of any current of gas. What
is this instrument call? C. stratosphere
A. Dew Point D. thermosphere

B. Anemometer
182. A cold, dry air mass that moves over
C. Barometric Pressure warm, tropical waters will likely become
D. Temperature
A. warmer and drier
179. What part of the year for us is the north
pole angled towards the Sun B. colder and wetter
A. summer C. warmer and wetter
B. winter D. colder and drier
180. All of these diagrams are examples of
183. A/An is a large body of air that has
rising air and then hence cloud formation.
the same properties as the Earth’s surface
These systems could also be referred to as
over which it develops.
A. front
B. air mass
C. cloud
D. tornado
184. What direction do local winds blow?

A. High to Low
A. low pressure systems
B. high pressure systems B. Low to High
C. low convective systems C. West
D. high convective systems D. East

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185. What kind of weather happens along a C. saturation point

Warm Front? D. humidity
A. Thunderstorms
189. What is the network of weather stations
B. Days of Rain! located across the United States called?
C. Nothing A. a ceilometer
D. Wind B. Automated Surface Observing System
(ASOS)
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186. What is the amount of cloud cover for the
following station model? C. radiosondes
D. weather radar system
190. How is the greenhouse effect produced?
A. 25%
B. 50% A. When solar energy trespasses the at-
mosphere.
C. 75%
B. When some energy is reflected back to
D. 100% earth.
187. What type of front is this? C. When the green house is burned.
D. When the sun doesn’t emit radiation.
191. The most common type of precipitation is
A. Warm Front
B. Cold Front A. rain
C. Stationary Front B. snow
D. none of above C. sleet

D. hail
188. the amount of water vapor in the air com-
pared to its saturation point 192. Something good
A. relative humidity A. Yes
B. dew point B. No

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C. Maybe 198. What area receives less of the Sun’s en-

D. Never ergy

A. poles
193. Weather can be explained by
B. equator
A. elevation
B. latitude 199. Which one shows a warm front?
C. temperature A.
D. all of the choices
194. Earth receives energy from the sun B.

through what method of heat transfer?
A. conduction
C.
B. convection
C. radiation
D. none of the above D.
195. Warm water helps create what? 200. Measures air temp
A. Hurricanes A. Thermometer
B. Tsunamis B. Barometer
196. Which of the following is NOT a possible C. Psychrometer
consequence of global warming? D. Anemometer
A. more frequent and intense hurricanes
201. What is a front?
B. rising sea level
A. precipitation
C. reduction in secondary pollutants
B. high and low pressure
D. more frequent and intense droughts
C. A boundary between two air masses.
197. Most of the damage done by a hurricane D. precipitation and high pressure
is the result of
202. Dew Point is the
A. water
A. temperature air cools down to reach
B. wind condensation (or turn into a liquid)
C. tornadoes B. temperature where ice melts to liquid
D. lightning water

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C. temperature where ice turns directly 207. How is heating on Earth’s surface differ-
into water vapor ent depending on location?
D. time of day when dew on the ground A. Different places on Earth are at differ-
disappears ent angles to the Sun. The greater the
area is covered, the smaller amount of
203. How do greenhouse gases increase our heat per unit
temperatures?
B. The cloud cover in a specific region will
A. Allow UV radiation to reach earth’s sur- radiate more energy and send it back to
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face the atmosphere, thus cooling the area.
B. Create a hole in the ozone layer that
C. The trade winds along the equator pro-
lets in heat
vide thermal energy to locations within its
C. Trap thermal energy from returning to path. The closer to the equator, the more
space trade winds you receive.
D. none of above D. The area’s of the atmosphere that con-
tain the most dust and dirt particles, re-
204. What is a GAMET?
flect energy back into the atmosphere pre-
A. Chart of wind and temperature aloft venting full thermal energy to reach the
B. Area forecast for particular FIR and surface.
low levels (GND up to FL100)
208. This layer is where weather occurs.
C. Synoptical analysis chart
A. troposphere
D. none of above
B. thermosphere
205. If the air is “saturated”, that means: C. exosphere
D. stratosphere
209. what does a meteorologist study?
A. weather
B. bones
C. plants
A. the air is full of water D. animals
B. the air is partially full of water
210. Which type of air would you find at air
C. it’s amount of water vapor in the atmo- mass C?
sphere right now
D. how much liquid water it potentially
can hold
206. what is it called when water flows over
land traveling back to the ocean
A. runoff
B. transpiration
C. infiltration
D. barometer A. cold, dry

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B. warm, humid A. thermometer

C. warm, dry B. wind vane

D. cold, humid C. anemometer
211. Most common carriers of meteorology is D. rain gauge
A. climate changes 217. What cools off faster during a land
B. weather forecasting breeze?
C. climate post casting A. the ocean
D. broadcasting B. the land
212. A high pressure system means we might C. cold front
have this weather. D. warm front
A. Snow blizzard
218. What phenomenon would deflect a kite
B. Sunny and dry
to the left in the southern hemisphere?
C. Rain storm
A. Greenhouse effect
D. Tornado
B. Butterfly effect
213. In what layer do people live?
C. Polar effect
A. Mesosphere
D. Coriolis effect
B. Stratosphere
C. Thermosphere 219. Air temperature, visibility and precipita-
tion are the only components that charac-
D. Troposphere terise weather.
214. This is air in motion- A. True
A. heat B. False
B. chill
220. The tendency for objects to move to the
C. wind right in the Northern Hemisphere and the
D. clouds to the left in the Southern Hemisphere is
due to the:
215. Meteorologists use satellited and
weather balloons to keep track of the
weather.
A. False
B. True
216. This weather instrument is a
A. Eckman’s spiral
B. Coriolis effect
C. Westerlies
D. Gyres

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221. Hurricanes typically form over

A. cold ocean water
B. tropical rain forests
C. warm ocean water
D. very dry land masses
222. Humidity is to blame for that muggy,
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steamy feeling you experience on some
hot summer days. What gas in the atmo- A. cold, dry
sphere causes humidity? B. warm, humid
A. oxygen C. warm, dry
B. helium D. cold, humid
C. methane 227. Air is warmer and less dense at the equa-
D. carbon dioxide tor because the equator receives more
223. Wind is caused mainly by air pressure dif- A. wind

ferences that result from B. solar radiation
A. uneven heating of the Earth’s atmo- C. air pressure
sphere. D. condensation
B. absorption of ultraviolet radiation by
Earth’s land masses. 228. The Great Barrier Reef is the largest liv-
ing structure on Earth and can be seen from
C. radiation of heat from Earth’s land space. Which Branch of Earth Science does
masses to water bodies. it belong in?
D. rotation of Earth on its axis. A. Meteorology
224. Which of the following might indicate it’s B. Geology
about to rain. C. Oceanography
A. A quick drop in temperature. D. Astronomy
B. A sudden rise in temperature. 229. El Nino & La Nina are associated with
C. A quick drop in barometric pressure. A. movement of air along the Polar East-
D. A sudden rise in barometric pressure. erlies
B. movement of large areas of warm wa-
225. Type of air mass:cold and dry
ter in Atlantic Ocean
A. Continental polar
C. movement of large areas of warm wa-
B. Continental arctic ter in Pacific Ocean
C. Maritime polar D. movement of air pollution across the
D. Maritime Tropical US
226. Which type of air would you find at air 230. FG

mass D? A. Broken

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B. Mist A. higher air pressure

C. Fog B. lower air pressure

D. none of above C. no difference in air pressure
231. A is used to measure relative humid- D. warmer temperatures
ity.
236. What type of instrument is used to mea-
A. Thermometer
sure wind speed?
B. Barometer
A. a ceilometer
C. hygrometer
B. a barometer
D. Isotherm
C. a hygrometer
232. The amount of water in the air
D. an anemometer
A. Dew point
B. Rain 237. When visiting the beach, Felicity ob-
served that a breeze blew in from the
C. Isobar ocean during day and out toward the ocean
D. Humidity at night. Which factor is MOST responsible
for the direction of land and sea breezes in
233. are used on weather maps to indicate coastal regions?
high and low pressure systems.
A. the revolution of Earth around the Sun
A. isotherms
B. the uneven heating between the land
B. circles
and water
C. triangles
C. the gravitational pull of Earth on the at-
D. isobars mosphere
234. Which type of front causes large amounts D. the daily rise and fall of tides in a reg-
of rain and snow? ular pattern
A. cold front
238. A forecast that relies on numerical data
B. warm front is called
C. stationary front A. an analog forecast
D. occluded front B. a station model
235. The person standing at the top of this C. an isopleth
mountain will experience than the per-
D. a digital forecast
son standing at the bottom of the moun-
tain. 239. What kind of weather is most closely as-
sociated with low pressure systems?
A. Cold and dry
B. Sunny and dry
C. Warm and humid
D. Cloudy and rainy

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240. What happens to the air pressure as you B. They have cooler temperatures than
travel farther in the atmosphere? places at lower altitudes.
A. air pressure decreases C. They have warmer temperatures than
B. air pressure increases places at lower altitudes.
D. They have less predictable tempera-
C. air pressure stays the same
tures than places at lower altitudes.
D. there is no air pressure
246. What are tornadoes?
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241. The amount of precipitation in an area is A. a storm with thunder and lighting and
measured and collected by which weather typically also heavy rain or hail
tool?
B. a storm that can be the same as thun-
A. Anemometer derstorms, but can be even more danger-
B. Rain Gauge ous
C. Wind Vane C. a mobile, destructive vortex of vio-
D. Barometer lently rotating winds having the appear-
ance of a funnel shaped cloud and beneath
242. Is higher or equal to the AIR TEMP, CON- a large storm system.
DENSATION occurs.What is this call? D. a huge storm with strong winds and
A. Dew Point storm surges
B. Anemometer 247. A warm and dry air mass is best de-
C. Barometric Pressure scribed as
D. Temperature A. continental tropical
B. continental polar
243. Which air mass is the source of much of
the precipitation in the central and eastern C. maritime tropical
United States? D. maritime polar
A. mP 248. Check the option that is not true about
B. cT hail:
C. cP A. It falls from the clouds as balls of ice
D. mT B. Is formed from violent air currents
hurling ice pellets around in the clouds
244. What types of air masses would be C. It has to be below freezing for hail to
warmer? fall
A. Maritime D. Is formed during thunderstorms in cu-
B. Continental mulonimbus clouds
C. Polar 249. a visible mass of condensed water vapor
D. Tropical floating in the atmosphere
A. jet stream
245. In general, what is true about places at
higher altitudes in the troposphere? B. cloud
A. They have the same temperatures as C. doldrums
places at lower altitudes. D. wind

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250. What can cloud seeding cause? 254. what instrument is used to measure wind
A. Keep you dry speed

B. Allow rain to fall over a very large A. sling psychrometer
area. B. barometer
C. Cause rain to fall from a cloud that nor- C. anemometer
mally wouldn’t produce rain. D. rain gauge
D. Rain to fall from clear skies.
255. As you go higher in the atmosphere the
251. Low or High Pressure1 molecules
A. Are closer together
B. Are farther apart
C. Stop moving
D. none of above
256. What causes the air to spin?
A. The land around the tornado
A. high pressure
B. Warm/wet air sinks below the
B. low pressure
cold/dry air and it is pushed upwards
252. High pressure creates sunny, clear skies. C. A cloud reaches down from the sky
A. True D. Cold/dry air sinks below the
B. False warm/wet air and it is pushed upwards
253. As the air temperature increases, the 257. Which of these does not help form wind?
air’s capacity for water vapor:
A. Air densities causing warm air to rise

and cool to sink
B. Precipitation
C. Variation of temperatures on Earth
D. Cloud Coverage
258. Which is the driving force of the water
A. increases cycle?
B. decreases A. Wind
C. remains the same B. Sound
D. is unrelated to air temperature and C. Sun
can either increase or decrease D. Rotation of the earth

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259. Cumulus is a 264. Forecasting TemperatureKelvin freezing

A. Low level cloud point of water
B. High level cloud

C. Medium level cloud
D. none of above
260. What causes the Coriolis effect?
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A. seasons A. -273
B. Earth’s rotation B. 273
C. the prevailing westerlies C. 0
D. Earth’s tilted axis D. 100
261. The study of Earth’s atmosphere is called 265. Choose the best forecast for Los Angeles
on Saturday.
A. Meteorology
B. Aeronomy
C. Climatology
Explanation:Meteorology is t he study of
Earth’s atmosphere (mainly the lower
part), atmospheric events, and the atmo-
spheric effects on our weather.
D. none of above A. cooler temperatures
262. The temperature at which air is saturated
and condensation forms is the: C. low pressure
A. dew point D. snow
B. rain point 266. The atmosphere is
C. wind point A. the layer in which weather occurs
D. relative humidity B. the layer that contains the ozone layer
263. Which side of the mountain has more C. the layer of water in the oceans
rain? D. the layer of gases that surrounds Earth
267. At the beach, the wind blows toward the

ocean at night because
A. the land holds more heat than the
ocean
B. the ocean holds more heat than the
A. Windward (blue) land
B. Leeward (red) C. the land and ocean cool down at ex-
C. Rain Shadow actly the same rate
D. Ocean D. there is low pressure all around

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268. Rotation of the Earth causes 274. Why do inland cities tend to have greater
A. Day and Night Cycle variations in temperature than coastal
cities?

B. Apparent movement of the sun
A. Due to the presence of surface cur-
C. Moon phases rents such as the gulf stream.
D. none of above
B. Due to the presence of mountains such
269. Bodies of water are to heat and hold as the Rockies.
heat than rocks and soil. C. Due to a greater concentration of solar
A. quicker, less energy inland.
B. quicker, longer D. Due to the presence of deep ocean cur-
C. slower, longer rents such as the global conveyor belt.
D. quicker, longer 275. Choose the correct option

270. is the composition of gases that make up
air at sea level. By volume, it is com-
posed of nitrogen (78.09 percent), oxy-
gen (20.95 percent), argon (0.93 percent),
carbon dioxide (0.03 percent), and several
trace gases
A. air molecules
B. WATER VAPOUR
A. convective lifting
C. AEROSOLS
B. orographic lifting
D. DRY AIR
C. convergence
271. The amount of water vapor in the air is
D. none of above
known as
A. dew point 276. Which instrument measures liquid precip-
B. humidity itation?
C. relative humidity A. Rain gauge

D. rain B. Wind vane
272. A rain gauge measures what? C. Anemometer
A. Air pressure D. Barometer

B. Wind speed 277. What tends to congregate along a dry-
C. Amount of rain fall line?
D. Wind direction A. bugs, birds, bats
273. arid B. cats, dogs, rabbits

A. high pressure C. wolves, groundhogs, horses
B. low pressure D. snakes, owls, ants

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278. what type of cloud is fluffy like cotton B. snow

balls? C. sleet
A. stratus D. hail
B. cloud
284. Charges inside a cloud causes
C. cumulus
A. thunder
D. cirrus
B. rain
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279. Hot air has C. lightning
A. low pressure D. storms
B. high pressure
285. The only cloud that can produce thunder,
C. no pressure lighting and hail
D. high school A. clouded
280. What types of air masses would be B. cirrus
colder? C. cumulonimbus
A. Maritime D. stratocumulus
B. Continental
286. Earth’s temperature is increasing
C. Polar
A. conduction
D. Tropical
B. radiation
281. This gas makes up 78% of the atmo- C. global warming
sphere
D. greenhouse effect
A. oxygen
B. nitrogen 287. The pressure inside a hurricane is
C. ozone A. High
D. carbon dioxide B. Low
282. True or False:Solid particles that water 288. Which of the following best describes the
vapor condenses on to form a cloud is con- primary wavelengths of radiation emitted
densation nuclei by Earth’s surface?
A. false A. longer than those emitted by the sun
B. true B. shorter than those emitted by the sun

C. about the same as those emitted by
283. Name this precipitation. the sun
D. none of the above
289. The warming of Earth’s atmosphere from

heat absorbed by certain gases in the at-
mosphere
A. Greenhouse Effect
A. rain B. Photosynthesis

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C. Ozone depletion B. rain

D. Stromatolites C. wind

D. a decrease in elevation
290. what does the rnge for meso scale range
to? 294. Based on these graphs, in which place
A. a few centimeters to a few feet? would you rather live if you need a very
wet climate?
B. a few miles to 620 miles?
C. a few hundred to a few thousand
miles?
D. or it just focuses on wind patterns?
A. Boston
291. Convection currents involve warm air
and cooler air B. San Francisco
295. What conditions commonly produce thun-
derstorms in the summer?
A. cold & high humidity
B. cold & low humidity
C. hot & low humidity
D. hot & high humidity
296. Storm moving in or out?decreased cloud
coverage; stable atmosphere
A. storm moving in
B. storm moving out
A. Sinking, rising
B. Rising, sinking 297. This symbol represents
C. Staying in place, rising

D. Sinking, staying in place
292. Which type of front has fast moving cold

air that forces warm air up quickly causing A. a cold front
thick cumulus clouds and sometimes thun- B. an occluded front
derstorms?
C. a stationary front
A. cold front D. a warm front
B. warm front
298. A spinning column of low-pressure air
C. occluded front that moves in a narrow path over land is
D. stationary front called a
A. hurricane
293. When air moves from an area of high
pressure to an area of low pressure, it B. thunderstorm
causes- C. tornado
A. an increase in temperature D. typhoon

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299. Name this weather tool and what does it A. Mesosphere

measure? B. Thermosphere
C. Stratosphere
D. Troposphere
303. what is a stationary front?

A. where a cold and warm front meet and
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neither moves very much
B. a cold front
C. a warm front
A. rain gauge, precipitation D. none of these
B. barometer, air pressure 304. EMBD
C. thermometer, temperature A. Temporary change
D. anemometer, wind speed B. Permanent change
300. Which of the following describes the C. Embeded in a layer
weather on the windward side of a moun-
D. none of above
tain?
A. warm, dry, little precipitation 305. Two important factors that are needed
in weather forecasting are:1. accuracy of
B. cool, dry, frequent precipitation
the data 2. the amount of weather instru-
C. cooler, humid, frequent precipitation ments available
D. like a desert A. True
301. Winds moving in opposite directions cre- B. False
ating a funnel cloud over land. What has
just formed? 306. When rain forms in relatively warm air
falls through a layer of freezing air what
A. Hurricane does it produce?
B. Tornado A. Rain
C. Thunderstorm B. Sleet
D. High Pressure C. Dew
302. In which layer of the atmosphere does D. Frost
weather occur?
307. what type of weather does an occluded
front bring
A. nothing
B. rain/snow
C. light rain
D. heavy precipitation.

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308. Meteorology is the study of 312. What kind of weather is usually associ-
A. wheat ated with a high pressure system?

B. worms A. Sunny weather
C. smiles B. Precipitation (rain, snow, etc.)
D. weather
313. ?
309. Where do most hurricanes develop?
A. Middle of the United States
B. Near the Equator
C. Near Canada and Alaska
D. Antarctica
310. If Stephanie lives in Michigan (Right
above the red line), which of these state-
ments is the she most likely to hear on her
local weather channel?
A. New York Yankees

B. New York Mets
C. New York Knicks
D. none of above
A. The weather will be warming up as the
warm front pushes in, but be prepared for 314. When temperature is higher, air pressure
strong thunderstorms! is
B. The weather will be cooling off as the A. higher
cold front pushes in, but be prepared for
strong thunderstorms! B. lower
C. Be prepared for cloudy skies and
315. clouds can form any time air is rising and
warmer weather this afternoon, you might
cooling-this is called
need an umbrella for a light drizzle.
D. Be prepared for cloudy skies and A. atmosphere lifting
warmer weather this afternoon, you need B. atmosphere sinking
to pack an umbrella for this afternoon’s
thunderstorms!
316. Which of the following is not a weather
311. What do meteorologist study? variable?
A. High and low pressure systems and A. Moisture
weather fronts
B. Temperature
B. If it’s going to rain or not
C. How the clouds move C. Clouds
D. The parametric pressure systems D. Pressure

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317. Which would be best categorized as heat 322. Large wall or dome of water that rushes
transfer by conduction? into the coastline as a result of a hurricane
A. Feeling the heat from a light bulb while making landfall
holding your hand from 6 inches away.
B. Feeling the heat from a light bulb with
your hand when touching the bulb.
C. Warming your body under the sun in
summer.
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D. Wearing a white shirt to stay cool on a
summer day.
318. What is the outer most main layer of
Earth’s atmosphere? A. storm surge
A. Thermosphere B. typhoon
B. Troposphere 323. This gas makes up 21% of the gases in

C. Stratosphere Earth’s atmosphere.
D. Mesosphere A. Nitrogen
B. Helium
319. Which cloud type is best described as
sheets or layers that cover much or all of C. Oxygen
the sky? D. Hydrogen
A. cumulus
324. Someone who studies the weather.
B. cirrus
A. rain gauge
C. stratus
B. taxonomists
D. alto
C. meteorologist
320. What is a warm front?
D. satellites
A. Cold air moves into an area occupied
by warm air 325. The stratosphere is located between the
B. Warm air moves into an area occupied A. thermosphere and mesosphere
by warm air B. core and mantle
C. Cold air moves into an area occupied C. troposphere and mesosphere
by cold air
D. exosphere and mesosphere
D. Warm air moves into an area occupied
by cold air E. your head and Uranus
321. What does the earth’s atmosphere pro- 326. What layer of the atmosphere is the cold-
tect the earth from? est
A. meteors A. Mesosphere
B. the sun’s heat B. Stratosphere
C. solar wind C. Troposphere
D. all of the above D. Thermosphere

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327. What kind of precipitation falls as water 333. Water begins to evaporate when you add
droplets, then freezes as it hits the ground, to it.
covering surfaces with ice.

A. cold
A. sleet B. ice
B. hail C. water cycle
C. snowpocalypse D. heat
D. freezing rain
334. What type of weather can this type of
328. What type of air mass originated over cloud bring?
the ocean, near Alaska?
A. Continental Tropical
B. Maritime Tropical
C. Continental Polar
D. Maritime Polar
329. Prefix for clouds at high altitudes-
A. layer A. Clear weather
B. alto B. Thunderstorms and tornados
C. heap C. steady rain or snow
D. gray D. Sunny day
330. The coriolis effect deflects wind which di- 335. Water vapor is water in the form of
rection in the northern hemisphere A. gas
A. to the right B. droplets
B. to the left C. crystals
C. to the north D. minerals
D. to the south
336. This type of front is associated with long
331. Rain or snow is usually associated with and steady rain.
air pressure. A. warm front
A. rising B. cold front
B. falling C. stationary front
C. missing D. occluded front
D. constant
337. Suppose the parcel of the air rises adi-
332. What are the 2 most abundant gases in abatically. What happens with its RELA-
Earth’s atmosphere? TIVE HUMIDITY?
A. carbon dioxide and oxygen A. Remains constant
B. carbon dioxide and nitrogen B. Decreases
C. nitrogen and oxygen C. Increases
D. nitrogen and hydrogen D. none of above

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338. What causes differences in air pressure? 343. What begins as a group of thunderstorms
traveling over tropical ocean waters?
A. Wind
A. Tsunami
B. Oceans
B. Hurricane
C. Plants
C. Typhoon
D. Clouds
D. Tornado
339. Which color of the visible light has the 344. What is the temperature?
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longest wavelength?
A. Yellow
B. Red
C. Violet
D. Green
340. A balloon-borne package of sensors that

gathers upper-level temperature, air pres-
sure, and humidity is
A. A Radiosonde A. 29
B. A Satellite B. 95
C. A Hygrometer C. 72
D. Doppler Radar D. none of above
341. Moving air is called 345. How does a hurricane gain power?
A. wind A. It moves over colder water.
B. currents B. It moves over land.
C. The evaporation of cool water
C. Coriolis Effect
D. The evaporation of warm water.
D. windows
346. Which type of UV radiation is the bulk of
342. Label 1 which reaches Earth’s closest atmosphere?
A. UVA
B. UVB
C. UVC
D. none of above
347. Where do tornadoes start?
A. Polar Easterlies
B. Prevailing Westerlies
C. Trade Winds (NE)
D. Trade Winds (SE)

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A. Over the ocean near the equator 352. Label 2

B. In the clouds that create blizzards

C. In the clouds of severe thunderstorms
D. Any time that it rains
348. I notice the pressure is dropping. There

might be a storm coming in. Which tool am
I using? A. Polar Easterlies
A. anemometer B. Prevailing Westerlies
B. barometer C. Trade Winds (NE)
C. thermometer D. Trade Winds (SE)
D. hygrometer 353. This weather tool will help measure tem-

perature degrees in Fahrenheit and Celsius
349. Cold air mass that is carrying water is: A. Anemometer
A. continental tropical B. Thermometer
B. continental polar C. Weather Vane
C. maritime tropical D. Barometer
D. maritime polar
354. How do we name air masses?
350. Science of studying and predicting A. Water and temperature
weather B. Air pressure
A. Biology C. moisture and temperature
B. Psychology D. Cold and warm
C. Meteorology
355. How did cyanobacteria help form an at-
D. Weatherology mosphere that animals and people can sur-
vive in?
351. Based on the picture, what direction is
A. Converted Oxygen to CO2 using photo-
the wind blowing?
synthesis
B. Added more CO2 into the air
C. Added more water vapor into the air
D. Converted CO2 to Oxygen using photo-
synthesis
356. In the northern hemisphere, winds blow

A. TO to the east A. north
B. FROM the east B. south
C. To the South C. right
D. To the North D. left

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357. Which city is close to a warm front? 361. Contain the ionosphere, creates Aurora
Borealis & Radio (FM & Am). What is this
Layer call?
A. Thermosphere
B. Ozone Layer
C. Condensation
D. Relative Humidity
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A. Chicago
362. How are winds named?
B. New York
A. where they came from
C. Boise
B. where they are going
D. Denver
363. Which front does this image represent?
358. Analog Forecast
A. All of the above
B. Based on a comparison of current
weather patterns with similar weather
patterns from the past
C. Present weather
A. Cold front
D. Future weather
B. Stationaryfront
359. the force caused by the weight of the air C. Occluded Front
above us
D. Warmfront
A. air pressure
364. Which system results in drier, fairer
B. air mass
weather?
C. warm front
D. isobar
360. Which type of pressure system is pic-

tured?
A. high pressure
B. low pressure
C. hurricane
D. weather system
A. high
365. a large body of air that has properties
B. low similar to the part of Earth’s surface over
C. medium which it develops
D. none A. Meteorology

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B. Air front C. A rainstorm that produces thunder,

C. Air mass lightning, strong winds, hail.
D. High pressure systems with precipita-

D. none of above
tion
366. Which type of front is near Seattle? 370. What is the phrase change from gas to
liquid called?
A. precipitation
B. evaporation
C. condensation
D. sublimation
371. What are surface ocean currents caused
A. cold front by?
B. warm front A. Migration of the vertical rays of the
C. occluded front sun
B. Jet streams
D. stationary front
C. Sun
367. What does this symbol indicate on a D. Wind
weather map?
372. What type of front is shown here?
A. High pressure system A. Warm front

B. Low pressure system B. Occluded front
C. Cold front C. Stationary front
D. Warm front D. Cold front
373. What are the names of the 5 layers of
368. On a weather map, which type of front
Earth’s atmosphere?Label 2
is shown by a line with triangular points
on one side?
A. warm
B. stationary
C. occluded
D. cold
A. thermosphere
369. What is a thunderstorm? B. mesosphere
A. Associated with warm fronts C. troposphere
B. Associated with high pressure D. none of above

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374. When a warm air mass slides on top of 380. Ice caps and the tundra are features of a
a cold air mass, and you have drizzly rain climate.
and then warmer weather, what type of A. dry
front is it?
B. tropical
A. warm front
C. polar
B. cold front
D. temperate
C. occluded front Explanation:both are located above the 60
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D. stationary front degree latitude lines.
375. How long do hurricanes last? 381. Which type of cloud is this?
A. For minutes or hours
B. For months or years
C. For days or weeks.
D. A few minutes or less
376. What causes weather?
A. Clouds
A. Cirrus
B. Oceans
B. Stratus
C. Sun
C. Cumulus
D. Rain
D. Cumulonimbus
377. Air with a relative humidity of 100 per-
cent is said to be 382. Name the front
A. Saturated
B. Unsaturated
C. Hot
D. Muggy
378. what is happening when heat rises A. cold front
A. density B. hot seat
B. conduction C. stationary front

D. warm front
C. radiation
D. convection 383. The psychrometer above tells about hu-
midity. If the temperature on both of the
379. do you think that if people start taking wet and dry bulb are the same, what is
care of our earth, will our climate get bet- the relative humidity?
ter
A. yes
B. no
C. im not sure
D. none of above

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A. 100% 387. What is the function of the ozone layer?

B. 50% A. to allow UV rays to get to Earth

C. 0%
B. to block UV rays from getting to Earth
D. none of above
C. To keep oxygen in
384. Which of these is NOT necessary for cloud
formation? D. to allow meteors to get to Earth
A. Cooling air
388. At which point does gravity factor into
B. Particle of salt/dust/ice in the air
the movement of water in the water cy-
C. Warming air cle?
D. Air saturated with water
385. Which atmospheric circulation cell is be-
tween 0-30 degrees latitude lines?
A. A
B. B
C. C
A. Hadley cell
B. Polar cell D. D
C. Doldrums
389. What direction is the warm front moving
D. Ferrel cell on the map?
386. Which type of image is this?
A. North
A. Radar
B. South
B. Satellite
C. Isotherm C. East
D. Isobar D. West

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390. How do oceans affect weather patterns? C. 50 Degrees F

A. Ocean water is evaporating, decreas- D. 500 degrees F
ing the temperature and humidity of the
surrounding air to form rain and storms. 394. What is the Air density change with alti-
tude?
B. Ocean water currents transport warm
water around the equator and cold water A. Density increases with greater alti-
around the poles. tude
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C. Ocean water is constantly evaporating B. Density remains constant with greater
increasing the humidity and air tempera- altitude
ture of the air around it. C. Density decreases with greater alti-
D. Ocean currents transport cold water tude
from the equator throughout the earth. D. none of above
391. The general movement of low-pressure 395. The temperature, humidity, precipitation,
centers across the United States is from cloud cover, and wind on a particular day
in a particular area.
A. east to west
A. weather
B. west to east
B. climate
C. north to south
396. The layer of the Earth‘s atmosphere up
D. south to north
to 30.000ft AMSL (according to ISA at the
392. Using the above map, which of the fol- equator) is called?
lowing would be true about London KY a A. Troposphere
month before camp started?
B. Stratosphere
C. Ionosphere
D. Atmosphere
397. Scientists who study weather and try to

predict it are called
A. astronomers
B. climatologists
A. The temperature would be around 65
C. meteorologists
B. The wind direction would be northwest
D. weatherologists
C. A thunderstorm was taking place
D. The wind speed is 20 knots 398. The Earth’s atmosphere is mainly made
of
393. If the temperature is 100 degrees C out-
A. water
side, what is the best estimate of the tem-
perature in degrees F? B. snow
A. 100 degrees F C. wax
B. 212 degrees F D. air

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399. If the relative humidity is 100% what is 403. The science and study of atmosphere
the chance of precipitation for that day? A. Relative Humidity

A. no chance B. Meteorology
B. very likely C. Air Density
C. likely D. none of above
D. none of above 404. What tool helps us measure the temper-

ature?
400. The barometer shown shows the change A. Your finger
in pressure from 1025 Hpa to 1010 Hpa.
B. Hammer
This change may cause what type of
weather C. Thermometer
D. Paper
405. what precipitation type starts out as
snow and melts as it falls through the at-
mosphere and then freezes when it hits
the ground
A. rain
B. snow
C. sleet
D. freezing rain
A. Lower pressure which causes storms E. hail
B. Lower pressure brings good weather 406. Which ingredient is NOT necessary for se-
C. High pressure which brings good vere thunderstorm development?
weather A. cold air
D. Higher pressure which brings storms B. instability
C. moisture
401. What type of storm most likely develops
as air masses interact with warm water? D. lift
A. Hurricane 407. It is important to factor in a location’s

prevailing winds.
B. Tornado
A. Clouds
C. Blizzard
B. Air
D. Monsoon C. Breeze
402. Compared to warm air, cool air is D. Rain
A. less dense and has a higher pressure 408. What type of pressure is associated
with thunderstorms, hurricanes, and torna-
B. more dense and has a higher pressure does?
C. more dense and has a lower pressure A. High
D. less dense and has a lower pressure B. Low

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409. Which statement best describe the impor- B. The tide carries the wind to the shore
tance of making weather predictions? as it moves back and forth.
A. not important at all C. Conduction of heat from the warm wa-
B. somewhat important because they are ter produces wind from the ocean.
always accurate information D. Air over land heats faster than air over
C. important because they can provide water, which causes convection.
possible warnings to people
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414. It is a branch of science that deals with
D. none of above
the study of the atmosphere and its phe-
410. Lines that connect points of equal pres- nomena, including both weather and cli-
sure are called? mate.
A. Isobars A. Astronomy
B. Isolines B. Meteorology
C. Isotherms C. Geology
D. Contour lines D. Ecology
411. What do isobars represent on a weather
map? 415. During a tornado you should follow which
of these precautions:
A. humidity
A. If you are in a car, go inside a shelter
B. location
B. If you are in a mobile home, get inside
C. temperature
a sturdy building
D. air pressure
C. Stay away from windows
412. Which state has both high pressure and
D. Protect/cover your head
mixed precipitation?
E. all of the above
416. What happens to the temperature if more

greenhouse gases are released into the at-
mosphere?
A. Temperature goes up
B. Temperature goes down
A. Washington
B. Minnesota 417. The area at which 2 air masses meet and
typically has clouds and/or precipitation is
C. firstdefia
called
D. Wyoming
A. air mass
413. A sea breeze blows from the ocean to- B. front
ward the shore. Why does this occur?
C. continental polar
A. High pressure over the land causes a
downdraft to occur. D. anticyclone

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418. In the Northern Hemisphere, winds as- 423. What type of air mass originated over
sociated with a lowpressure system blow land, near the equator?

A. counterclockwise toward the center B. Maritime Tropical
B. clockwise toward the center C. Continental Polar
C. counterclockwise outward from the D. Maritime Polar
center
424. clouds can form when air becomes
D. clockwise outward from the center
A. unstable
419. Which layer of the atmosphere protects B. strong
Earth’s surface from being hit by most me- C. stable
teoroids?
D. weak
A. troposphere
425. Extreme weather changes caused by the
B. stratosphere
shifting of the wind and pressure belts
C. mesosphere A. Monsoons
D. thermosphere B. Prevailing winds
420. What happens at a cold front? C. Coriolis Effect
A. Cold air mass meets warm air mass D. Jet streams
B. Warm air mass meets cold air mass 426. What characteristics are used to classify
air masses?
C. Cold air mass catches up with warm
air mass A. temperature and humidity
D. Cold and warm air mass meet but no B. pressure and temperature
movement C. latitude and longitude
D. wind speed and location
421. A gaseous envelope surrounding the
earth 427. Which letter corresponds to Trade
A. Sky Winds?
A. A
B. Oxygen
B. B
C. Atmoshere
C. C
D. none of above
D. D
422. soon means
428. What force keeps planets moving around
A. Within 6 hours of time of issue the sun instead of bouncing around space?
B. Within 6-12 hours of time of issue A. gravity
C. More than 12 hours from time of issue B. light
C. sun

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429. what it Meteorology

A. Study of rocks
B. Study of weather
C. Study of space
D. Study of bvsjdbvibbi
430. In a high pressure area
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A. the winds will be moving clockwise A. Contrail
B. the winds will be moving counter- B. Broken
clockwise
C. Fog
C. the winds will be calm
D. Shelf Cloud
D. the air will be rising
435. Even in the summer time, the sun is never
431. Heat from the sun travels to Earth by directly overhead here in Petaluma. Why?
A. conduction A. We are not close enough to the equa-

tor.
B. convection
B. We are too close to the equator.
C. insulation C. We are not close enough to the North
D. radiation Pole.
D. none of above
432. If an air parcel is given a small push up-
ward and it falls back to its original posi- 436. This type of cloud is low, flat and covers
tion, the atmosphere is said to be? the sky. It indicates rainy weather.
A. Stable A. cumulus
B. Unstable B. cloud
C. Adiabatic C. stratus
D. cirrus
D. Isothermal
E. None of these 437. Label 4
433. This phase of the water cycle is when wa-

ter vapor in the air cools and forms clouds.
A. precipitation
B. evaporation
C. hydration A. Polar Easterlies
D. condensation B. Prevailing Westerlies
434. Layer of stratus clouds on or near the C. Trade Winds (NE)

ground. D. Trade Winds (SE)

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438. What is it called when a warm air mass C. melted rock

replaces a cold air mass
D. none of above

A. Cold front
B. Rainy front 444. During the day air over the ocean is
than air over land
C. Occluded front
A. warmer
D. Warm front
B. cooler
439. Change in wind direction, rain showers,
cooler temperatures, all describe a 445. On a weather map, this line represents
A. Storm what type of front?
B. Warm front
C. Cold front
D. none of above
440. As you climb up a mountain what hap- A. Occluded front

pens to the air pressure? B. Warm front
A. decreases
C. Cold front
B. increases
D. Stationary front
C. stays the same
D. none of above 446. This type of cloud is flat layers and the
edges are not clearly defined
441. The city of La Paz, Bolivia is located
above 14, 000 feet. It is difficult to
breathe for tourists. Why?
A. Too much air pressure and denser air
B. Less oxygen due to thinner, less dense
air
C. The ozone layer makes it difficult to
breathe
D. Air pollution A. cirrus cloud
B. cumulus cloud
442. A breeze blowing toward the land from
the sea, especially during the day owing C. stratus cloud
to the relative warmth of the land. What D. cumulonimbus cloud
is the name of this call?
A. Sea Breeze 447. What tool measures air temperature?
B. Station model A. Thermometer
443. The larger, outer planets are made of B. Barometer

A. rock C. Anemometer
B. gas D. Rain gauge

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448. When a warm front is approaching, what C. Cirrus (Ci)

happens? D. Stratocumulus (Sc)
A. advancing cold air pushes up and over
retreating warm air causing warm tem- 453. Large bodies of air that form over land or
peratures and mild rain water in the polar or tropical regions are
called
B. advancing warm air pushes up and
over retreating cold air causing warm tem-
peratures and mild rain
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449. What type of front usually produces sev-
eral hours of light-to-moderate precipita-
tion over a large region?
A. cold front
B. warm front A. cold fronts
C. both warm front and cold front B. air masses
D. neither warm front nor cold front C. low pressure
450. Which of the following terms best de- D. high pressure
scribes air?
454. A scientist that measures and reports
A. mixture weather conditions is a
B. compound
C. element
D. none of the above
451. What weather instrument is used for

pressure?
A. Thermometer A. newscaster
B. Psychrometer B. geologist
C. Anemometer C. meteorologist
D. Barometer D. chemist
452. Identify the cloud 455. Low pressure =

A. Cyclones and bad weather
B. Anticyclones and bad weather
C. Cyclones and sunny weather
D. Anticyclones and sunny weather
456. Clouds form during this phase of the wa-

ter cycle because water vapor cools and
A. Cumulus (Cu) changes back to water droplets.
B. Stratus (St) A. Evaporation

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B. Precipitation B. barometer
C. Condensation C. thermometer

D. Run Off D. anemometer
457. Which state has both high pressure and 460. In what layer of the atmosphere is it the
stationary front? hottest?
A. troposphere
B. mesosphere
C. thermosphere
D. stratosphere
461. name this front

A. New Mexico
B. Minnesota
C. Colorado
D. Wyoming
458. What type of storm front is this?
A. Warm Front
B. Cold Front
C. Occluded Front
D. Stationary Front
459. Name this weather tool.

A. warm front
B. cold front
C. stationary front
D. occluded front
462. Pressure Belts:at the equatorlow pres-

sure (rising air)thunderstormsrain forests
A. horse latitude
A. rain gauge B. ITCZ

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463. Which of the following statements is true

about the graph?
A. 0-30 degrees latitude
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B. 30-60 degrees latitude
C. 60-90 degrees latitude
D. none of above
A. Layer A is the thermosphere because
temperature is decreasing 467. Where would you find a tropical maritime
air mass?
B. Layer B is the stratosphere because
temperature is increasing A. over the ocean, near the equator
C. Layer C is the mesosphere because B. over the ocean, near the poles
temperature is increasing C. over a continent, near the equator
D. Layer D is the troposphere because D. over a continent, near the poles
temperature is decreasing 468. what happens to relative humidity when
the temperature rises?
464. Select the Low Pressure
A. increases
B. decreases
469. Change from liquid water to water vapor
(cooling process)
A. Melting
B. Evaporation
A. 2 C. Freezing
D. Condensation
B. 4
470. what type of cloud is shown?
C. 6
D. 1
E. 3
465. What type of weather does high pressure

systems bring?
A. clear/sunny weather
A. cumulus
B. cloudy/rainy weather
B. cirrus
466. which zone above would you find the C. stratus
trade winds? D. none of above

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471. what precipitation type forms in be- 476. What symbol is this?
low freezing temperatures; water vapor
changes directly into a solid

A. rain
B. snow
C. sleet
D. freezing rain
E. hail
A. warm front
472. What type of storm is indicated by pic-
ture? B. cold front
C. stationary front
D. occluded front
477. Which of the following are a consequence

of widespread weather pattern changes?
A. heat waves, droughts, and large
A. thunderstorm storms occur more frequently
B. blizzard
B. droughts and floods tend to even each
C. hurricane other out on a regular basis
D. tornado
C. large storms tend to do less damage
473. This phase of the water cycle is when wa- than small storms
ter enters the air as water VAPOR.
D. none of above
A. evaporation
B. condensation 478. What two characteristics are air masses
C. precipitation named based on? select all that apply
D. hydration A. temperature
474. What effect does a cold front have? se- B. high pressure
lect all that apply
C. precipitation
A. That area becomes colder
B. Becomes warmer D. Moisture content
C. Has high pressure
479. Heat and moisture are distributed around
D. The area has quick precipitation Earth by
475. WHAT things affect the weather? A. precipitation
A. air pressure
B. global winds
B. temperature
C. humidity C. rain shadows
D. all of the above D. transpiration

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480. What do you called the movement of air 485. Select the High Pressure
from land to sea that occurs during night
time.
A. Land Breeze
B. Air Breeze
C. Water Breeze
D. Sea Breeze
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A. 1
481. When air warms up it causes water va- B. 3

por to form. The amount of water vapor C. 5
in the atmosphere is called D. 7
A. clouds E. 4
B. humidity
486. Which of the following can be impacted
C. dew point by El Niño?
D. air pressure A. the fish industry
B. climate
482. What is the process that is responsible
for adding moisture to the atmosphere C. the farming industry
that could fuel a hurricane? D. all of the above
A. evaporation of ocean water 487. The cold air mass is most likely
B. precipitation due to condensation
C. condensation of water vapor into
clouds
D. movement of clouds through the tropo-
sphere
A. cP
483. Which cloud type forms hail?
B. cT
A. cumulonimbus
C. mP
B. stratus
D. mT
C. cloud
488. What is a warm front?
D. altostratus
A. a warm air mass moving over a slow,
484. What type of weather does a low pres- cold air mass
sure system usually mean B. a cold air mass meeting a warm air
A. Cold and Dry mass and neither moving
C. a fast, dense, cold air mass moving be-
B. Sunny and dry
neath a warm air mass
C. Rainy and cloudy
D. a warm air mass cut off from the
D. Earthquakes ground between 2 cold air masses

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489. What type of front is being modeled in 493. The amount of water vapor in the atmo-
the diagram? sphere.
A. Saturation

B. Vaporicity
C. Humidity
494. The layer of the atmosphere where mete-
ors burn up
A. mesosphere
B. thermosphere
A. cold front
C. troposphere
B. warm front D. stratosphere
C. stationary front
495. It is the measurement of the water vapor
D. occluded front content in the atmosphere.
490. Why do hurricanes start near the coast A. Meteorology
of Africa and blow to the US East coast? B. Heredity
A. The sun heats the ocean near the equa- C. Humanity
tor at a greater concentration and creates
D. Humidity
low pressure
B. The sun heats the ocean near the poles 496. What is the day to day changes in the
and creates high pressure atmosphere measured with humidity, tem-
perature and cloud cover?
C. The sun heats the equatorial zone
more and creates high pressure there A. Weather
D. The wind blows the currents higher B. Climate
near the equator C. Storms
491. Which location on Earth receives the most D. Earth’s Rotation
solar radiation in any given year. 497. Which level of the atmosphere do you see
A. The Poles weather, clouds, rain, etc?
B. The Oceans A. troposphere
C. The Tropics B. thermosphere
D. The Continents C. mesosphere
D. exosphere
492. When you roast marshmallows and touch
the metal why does it burn your finger? 498. What can be used to see cloud formations
A. Heat moves from cold to warm. over large areas of the Earth.
B. Metals are good conductors. A. Anemometer
C. Marshmallows are good insulators. B. Berometer
D. Convention occurred through the C. doppler radar
metal. D. Satellites

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499. If you drop an object with a density of C. stationary front

1.45 g/cm3 into a cylinder with a liquid D. occluded front
that has a density of 2.03 mL, where will
it wind up? 504. The actual barometric pressure is
A. it will sink to the bottom
B. it will float at the top
C. it will remain suspended in the middle
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D. none of above
500. Temperature decreases as altitude in-

creases in the Troposphere.
A. 138.0 mb
B. 1138.0 mb
C. 1013.8 mb
D. 9130.8 mb
505. When isobars are closer together, what

A. True does that signify?
B. False A. stronger winds
501. All affect climate except B. an area of no wind
C. clear skies
D. clouds
506. Low-pressure systems are usually asso-

ciated with weather.
A. cold and dry
B. cloudy and rainy
A. Elevation C. sunny and dry
B. Latitude D. warm and humid
C. Longitude 507. What causes wind?
D. Proximity to oceans A. differences in air pressure
502. Warm Fronts bring B. differences in gravity
A. warmer and cool air C. difference in oxygen
B. humid and warmer air D. differences in the thermosphere
503. Cold air replaces warm air 508. An example of precipitation is snow.
A. cold front A. True
B. warm front B. False

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509. The exchange of heat or moisture be- C. Cold

tween an air mass and the underlying sur- D. Warm
face is called

A. air mass modification 514. High thin, white, feathery clouds made of
ice crystals
B. air mass weather
A. Cirrus
C. air mass convection
B. cumulus
D. climate
C. Isobar
510. As you increase in altitude, air pressure
D. Barometer
decreases.
A. True 515. What is the wind aloft?
B. False
511. On the weather map below where is the

greatest amount of precipitation likely to
occur?
A. direction:270◦ =W, velocity:65 kt

B. direction:090◦ =E, velocity:65 kt
C. direction:270◦ =W, velocity:16 kt
D. none of above
A. Location W 516. What does temperate climate mean?

B. Location X A. Seasons
C. Location Y B. Cold all the time
D. Location Z C. Hot all the time
D. none of above
512. The heating of the lower layer of the at-
mosphere from radiation absorbed by cer- 517. What is the dew point at this station?
tain heat absorbing gases is called
A. the adiabatic effect
B. the greenhouse effect
C. the photosynthesis effect
D. smog
A. 75 degrees
513. How do we characterize an air mass that
forms over the ocean? B. 61 degrees
A. Dry C. 987 degrees
B. Wet D. 11 degrees

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518. winds curve because the Earth is spinning 523. As you go to the top of a mountain, what
A. Coriolis Effect happens to the temperature?
B. Horse Effect A. nothing

C. Polar Easterlies B. it decreases
D. Prevailing Westerlies C. it increases
519. About 10 kilometer above Earth’s surface D. it fluctuates between warm and cold
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are bands of high speed wind called
They blow from west to east at speeds of 524. It takes energy to warm up a body
200 to 400 kilometer per hour. of water than it does to warm up an equal
area of land.
A. some
A. jet streams
B. jet airplane B. equal
C. jet setter C. less

D. jet propulsion D. more
520. What weather instrument allows us to 525. the amount of solar radiation received
find the dew point and relative humidity from the sun.
A. Thermometer A. insulation
B. Psychrometer B. insolation
C. Anemometer
C. nuclear fusion
D. Barometer
D. hallucination
521. Particles move slower and closer to-
gether as air 526. A is a self-recording instrument
A. gets warmer A. barometer
B. gets colder B. stevenson ‘s screen
522. A short term variation in the atmosphere C. thermograph
that interacts and affects the environment
D. barograph
is called
A. Climate 527. Which global wind system influences the
B. Weather weather in the United States?
C. Atmospheric weather A. Prevailing Westerlies
D. Barometric Pressure B. Polar Easterlies

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528. Which kind of pressure system brings 532. where does the majority of weather take
cold and wet weather place?

A. Troposphere
B. Stratosphere
C. thermosphere
D. mesosphere
533. All air is under pressure but if it is rising

then the air is said to be unstable and the
pressure is
A. High Pressure
A. higher
B. Low Pressure
B. lower
529. What happens when it becomes harder 534. Water vapor is one of the components of
for meteorologists to predict the weather? the air in the atmosphere. What change
A. they are barely able to warn people causes the vapor in the air to form clouds?
about quickly intensifying storms like Hur- A. As air rises in the atmosphere, it be-
ricane Otis in Mexico comes warmer and cannot hold as much
B. the models and calculations that they water.
have been using for decades are sufficient B. As air cools, water vapor in the air con-
to predict the quickly changing weather denses to liquid or solid state.
patterns
C. Air rises, the water becomes heavier
C. there is a general consensus that me- and changes form.
teorologists just like to read the news and
D. none of above
have no real idea about weather
D. none of above 535. The coldest layer.
A. troposphere
530. Clouds form when water vapor in the air
B. thermosphere
into tiny water droplets
C. exosphere
A. condenses
D. mesosphere
B. cools
C. heats 536. The main source of energy that drives all
weather patterns is
D. none of above
A. the sun
531. What landform causes the rain shadow B. the core
effect? C. the moon
A. mountains D. the ocean
B. lakes
537. In Australia, which natural hazard causes
C. plains the most deaths overall?
D. valley A. floods

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B. cyclones 541. A cold front is approaching Minneapolis.

What will happen to the air temperature?
C. heatwaves
D. hailstorms
538. What is the scale that is used to measure

tornadoes?
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A. stay the same
B. increase
C. decrease
D. none of above
542. Convection takes place because

A. Mohs Scale A. warm air is more dense than humid air
B. Enhanced Fujita Scale B. warm and cold air have the same den-
sity
C. Saffir Simpson Scale
C. cold air is less dense than warm air
D. McDonalds Scale
D. cold air is more dense than warm air
539. puffy white, fair-weather clouds
543. Higher in the atmosphere, there are
fewer molecules and atoms, so that atmo-
spheric pressure decreases with altitude.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
544. How can clouds impact temperature dur-

A. cumulus ing the day and night?
B. cirrus A. The presence of clouds during the day
decreases the temperature; the presence
C. stratus
of clouds during the night increases the
D. none of above temperature.
B. The presence of clouds during the day
540. What instrument is used to measure air
increases the temperature; the presence
pressure?
of clouds during the night decreases the
A. sling psychrometer temperature.
B. anemometer C. The presence of clouds during the day
does not impact the temperature; the
C. rain gauge
presence of clouds during the night in-
D. barometer creases the temperature.

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D. The presence of clouds during the day B. air pressure

decreases the temperature; the presence C. ozone
of clouds during the night does not impact

the temperature. D. rain
545. On average, how much of the sun’s 550. Where is the ozone layer?
energy that reaches Earth’s outer atmo- A. tropopause
sphere is reflected back into space? B. stratopause
A. 10 percent C. mesopause
B. 20 percent D. thermopause
C. 30 percent
551. A continental air mass is always fairly
D. 50 percent
A. dry
546. Strong tropical storms with high winds B. damp
are called
C. cold
A. hurricanes
D. hot
B. blizzards
C. tornadoes 552. What type of weather is represented by
the station model:
D. thunderstorms
547. What happens in Tornado Alley to create

so many tornadoes?
A. The rate of condensation is higher than
the rate of precipitation
B. Warm air from Canada meets cold air
from Virginia A. Warm and clear skies
C. Cold, dry air from Canada meets warm B. Cloudy and rainy
dry air from Gulf of Mexico C. Cold and dry
D. Warm air in Texas clashes with even D. Snowstorm
warmer air in Texas
553. What is the symbol for a cold front?
548. A location’s current weather condition is
25 degrees F with no precipitation. What
type of air mass is in the region?
A. Continental Polar
B. Continental Tropical
C. Maritime Polar
D. Arctic
549. is a condition of Earth’s atmosphere

at any time. A. 1st one
A. weather B. 2ne one

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C. 3rd one
D. 4th one
E. 5th one
554. How is sleet formed?

A. Snowflakes fall, go through an area of
cold air and turns into sleet before hitting A. cold and dry
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the ground B. cold and wet
B. Rain falls, freezes in an area of cold air C. warm and wet
above the ground and falls as ice pellets
before hitting the ground D. warm and dry
C. Hail pellets that melt a little before hit- 558. What is Dew Point?
ting the ground A. Temperature of freezing point
D. water droplets that freeze when reach- B. Temperature of saturation
ing the surface of the ground
C. Heat Exchange
555. All weather activity occurs in which layer D. Preasure drops down
of the atmosphere?
559. The temperature at which air is saturated
A. stratosphere with water vapor and condensation occurs
B. troposphere is called
C. mesosphere A. humidity
B. air pressure
D. thermosphere
C. dew point
556. Tornado Alley is located where D. relative humidity
A. cool, dry, high pressure air masses
560. What happens when isobars get closer to-
from the North meet the warm, humid, low
gether?
pressure air masses from the South
A. Steep, strong winds
B. the cold, dry, low pressure air masses
from the South meet warm, humid, low B. Low, weak winds
pressure air masses from North.
561. What are air masses?
C. the warm, dry, high pressure air
A. Large pockets of air that may cover ten
masses from the South meet warm, rainy,
thousand or more square miles
air masses from North.
B. temperature
D. the cold, humid, high pressure air
masses from the North meet cold, high C. wind
pressure air mass from the South. D. water
557. What does cT mean? 562. identify or name the image shown

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A. short distances
B. long distances

C. the oceans
D. many continents
566. What does this symbol represent?
A. wet and dry bulb thermometer

B. psychrometer
C. sling psychrometer A. warm front
D. thermometer B. cold front
563. air pressure is depicted on a weather map C. occluded front
using
D. stationary front
A. H
B. L 567. is an atmospheric pressure-measuring in-
strument that does not use any type of liq-
C. isobars uid.
D. R
A. liquid barometer
564. Which type of air mass is over Southern B. aneroid barometer
California?
C. psychrometer
D. dry bulb thermometer
568. A large rotating low-pressure system

that forms over warm waters of oceans
near the equator is
A. a hurricane
A. Continental polar B. to tornado
B. Continental tropical C. a thunderstorm
C. Maritime polar D. a typhoon
569. What is the dew point temperature if the
565. Local winds are wind that blow over dry bulb temp is 16 C and the wet but is
10 C?
A. 9
B. 8
C. 4
D. 10

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570. What type of clouds are layered and cov- 575. Compared to a warmer air mass, a colder
ers most of the sky? air mass
A. Cumulous A. can hold more water
B. Cirrus clouds B. can hold less water
C. Stratus Clouds C. is less dense
D. nimbus clouds D. is lighter

576. What type of weather is associated with
NARAYAN CHANGDER
571. What front is moving through the NW a warm front?
part of the US?
A. Warm weather with light precipitation
B. Cold weather with no precipitation
C. Warm weather and thunderstorms
D. Cool weather and thunderstorms
577. When the air temperature is increasing,
the relative humidity of the air is
A. increasing
A. Stationary
B. decreasing
B. Warm
C. remaining the same
C. Occluded D. none of above
D. Cold
578. A body of air that has the same tem-
572. Assign general circulation principals for perature and moisture levels throughout is
High pressure areas called what?
A. Convergency and ascending flow A. Fronts

B. Air Masses
B. Divergency and descending flow
C. A cold front
573. What does the earth’s atmosphere do? D. A warm front
A. help to regulate the temperature on
579. Name this precipitation.
Earth
B. Help UV rays to reach the Earth’s sur-
face
C. Creates meteors in the sky
D. Keep ocean waters cold
574. Measures liquid principal

A. Thermometer A. rain
B. Rain gauge B. snow
C. Psychrometer C. sleet
D. Anemometer D. hail

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580. When lightning moves through the air, C. Lines drawn to places of different tem-
the air gets very hot. The hot air expands peratures
rapidly. As it expands, it makes the air vi-

D. Lines drawn to places of different pres-
brate. These vibrations release energy in sures
the form of sound waves called
585. What is an occluded front?
A. thunder
A. a warm air mass moving over a slow,
B. particles
cold air mass
C. lightning
B. a fast, dense, cold air mass moving be-
D. none of above neath a warm air mass
581. Which layers of the atmosphere are the C. a warm air mass cut off from the
hottest? ground between 2 cold air masses
A. troposphere & thermosphere D. a cold air mass meeting a warm air
mass and neither moving
B. stratosphere & thermosphere
C. mesosphere & thermosphere 586. What is the wind speed?
D. troposphere & stratosphere
582. Sample Station ModelLabel 10
A. 6 mph
A. pressure trend-rising, sinking, staying B. 5knots
B. wind direction speed C. 4knots
C. dew point D. none of above
D. air pressure in millibars 587. What layer of the atmosphere is where
583. Which area has the lowest pressure? weather happens?
A. A A. Troposphere
B. B B. thermosphere
C. C C. mesosphere
D. stratosphere
D. D
588. NS
584. What are isobars?
A. No change
A. Lines connecting places of equal tem-
perature B. No Significant Report
B. Lines drawn connecting places of C. A layer of fog
equal pressure D. none of above

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589. Lightning and thunder can form during A. Monday

unstable atmospheric conditions in which B. Wednesday
types of clouds?
C. Thursday
A. Altostratus
D. Friday
B. Alto cumulus
594. What is the average amount of energy of
C. Cumulonimbus
motion of each molecules of a substance
D. Cloudy called?
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590. What color is the sky? A. dew point
A. Blue B. air pressure
B. Green C. relative humidity
C. Purple D. temperature
D. No color 595. What are the names of the first four lay-
ers of the atmosphere shown?
591. What is the Air temperature change with
altitude?
A. Temperature increases with greater
altitude
B. Temperature decreases with greater
altitude
A. Troposphere 2. Mesosphere 3. Strato-
C. Temperature remains constant with
sphere 4. Exosphere
greater altitude
B. Troposphere 2. Stratosphere 3. Meso-
D. none of above
sphere 4. Thermosphere
592. How does the Coriolis Effect affect hurri- C. Exosphere 2. Thermosphere 3. Meso-
canes? sphere 4. Stratosphere
A. It controls how big they will be be D. none of above
B. It determines what direction they will 596. Which of the following measure amount
spin in of water in the air?
C. It controls how strong they will be A. Hygrometer or psychrometer
D. It determines where they form B. barometer
593. A class is planning a trip to the beach. C. anemometer
They would like to choose a day that will D. none of above
be the most sunny yet have a lower tem-
perature for the daily high. Based on this 597. the layers of the atmosphere are sepa-
five-day prediction, which day should they rated by what?
choose? A. geographical location
B. differences in temperature
C. air pressure
D. weather

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598. Virginia is in the mid latitudes. Which A. rain

best describes Virginia’s climate? B. snow

A. Temperate C. sleet
B. Tropical
D. hail
C. Subtropical
604. Meteorologists measure wind SPEED us-
D. Subpolar
ing a
599. what are isotherms? A. speedometer
A. lines connecting places of equal tem- B. wind vane
perature
C. anemometer
B. lines drawn connecting places of equal
pressure D. none of above
C. lines drawn to places of different tem- 605. The layer of the atmosphere where ozone
peratures exists.
D. lines drawn to places of different pres- A. troposphere
sures
B. ionosphere
600. Air moves from areas of pressure to C. stratosphere
areas of pressure.
D. thermosphere
A. high to low
B. low to high 606. How does the air move in a sea breeze?
A. wind moves from north to south
601. water from trees and plants evaporates
into the air B. wind moves from ocean to the land
A. run off C. wind moves from the land to the ocean
B. precipitation D. wind moves from south to north
C. evaporation 607. What types of clouds would you see dur-
D. transpiration ing a thunderstorm?
A. Ozone
602. Weather occurs here (only layer with wa-
ter!).What is this Layer call? B. Stratus clouds
A. Atmosphere C. Cirrus clouds
B. Troposphere D. Cumulonimbus clouds
C. Stratosphere 608. Choose the correct option
D. Mesosphere
603. Name this precipitation.
A. Warm Front

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B. High Air Pressure

C. Cold Front
D. High Temperatures
609. In pressure systems, air rises

A. high
B. low
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C. medium A. warm front
D. none B. precipitation
C. humidity
610. A weather front occurs two cold air
masses meet and push/force the warm air D. air pressure
in the middle upwards.
613. The cold polar easterlies blow away from
the
A. Cold
B. Warm
C. Stationary A. poles
D. Occluded B. equator
C. horse latitudes
611. What is number 2?
D. warm areas
614. What does this symbol on a weather map

indicate?
A. warm front
B. cold front
C. stationary front
D. occluded front
612. the amount of water vapor in the air

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A. High pressure system 619. At night the land is and the air
B. Low pressure system A. warm, rises

C. Cold front B. warm, sinks
D. Warm front C. cool, rises
D. cool, sinks
615. What type of front is this?
A. Cold 620. Why is the equator so much warmer than
the poles?
B. Warm
A. The sun’s rays are coming in at a steep
C. Occluded angle and are more concentrated
D. Stationary B. The sun’s rays are coming in at a shal-
low angle and are spread out over a large
616. What is an example of climate? area
A. It is 75◦ C outside C. The Greenhouse Effect traps a greater
B. It will rain tomorrow amount of gases around the equator
C. The average annual rainfall for Jack- D. Convection currents in the Earth’s
sonville is 50 inches. mantle are more focused on the equator
D. It is cold this morning. 621. What is the symbol for a Warm Front?
A.
617. Earth’s atmosphere is held down by
A. radiation
B.
B. gravity
C. magnetism
C.
D. conduction
D. none of above
618. The way scientists classify clouds is
based on their 622. Air pressure and density are related
A. Directly
B. Indirectly
C. Not
D. none of above
623. The amount of water vapor in the air

A. Size and color A. humidity
B. Shape and density B. climate
C. Size and density C. generalization
D. Shape and height D. none of above

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624. Which layer of the atmosphere do we live 629. What is a tornado?

in?
A. exosphere
B. thermosphere
C. mesosphere
D. troposphere
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625. Identify the cloud A. a sensor that measures wind speed,
temperature, pressure, and direction
B. a first-room floor room without win-
dows in the middle of a house
C. a person who studies winds and
shares his or her findings with others
D. spinning wind that forms a funnel and
can cause a lot of damage
A. Stratus (St)
630. What type of weather would you expect
B. Cumulus (Cu) from the pressure system pictured?
C. Nimbostratus (Ns)
D. Altocumulus (Ac)
626. Tornadoes are known as a Low Pressure

System.
A. True
B. False
A. clear
627. Clear weather occurs when an area is un- B. cloudy
der a
C. hot
A. low pressure system
D. stormy
B. hot pressure system
C. cold pressure system 631. As you go higher in the troposphere (the
layer of the atmosphere that is closest to
D. high pressure system Earth) the temperature
628. What are the characteristics of a mar- A. Increases

itime polar air mass? B. Decreases
A. warm and humid C. Stays the same
B. cold and humid D. first decreases then increases
C. dry and hot
632. Which type of air would you find at air
D. dry and cold mass A?

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636. The Coriolis effect influences

A. neither wind speed nor wind direction

B. both wind speed and wind direction
C. wind speed
D. wind direction
637. Lines joining places on a map that have
the same air pressure are called
A. cold, dry A. Isobars
B. warm, humid B. Isotherms
C. warm, dry C. Barometric lines

D. Pressure lines
D. cold, humid
638. Which type of front is pictured?
633. What does mT mean?
A. Cold front
B. Warm front
C. Occluded front
A. cold and dry
D. Stationary front
B. cold and wet
639. What is the makeup of Earth’s atmo-
C. warm and wet
sphere?
D. warm and dry A. 78% nitrogen, 20% oxygen, and 2%
other gases.
634. Which word best describes the eye of a
hurricane? B. 72% nitrogen, 20% oxygen, and 8%
other gases.
A. stormy
C. 2% nitrogen, 20% oxygen, and 78%
B. windy other gases.
C. cold D. 14% nitrogen, 80% oxygen, and 6%
D. calm other gases.
640. A tool used to measure air pressure is
635. SPECI
called a
A. Aerodrome Special MET report A. barometer
B. Special report B. hygrometer
C. Special TAF report C. thermometer

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641. What is the average weather for a par- 645. True or False:Changes in wind speed and
ticular time and region called? direction can indicate a storm or change of
temperature
A. drought
B. weather A. True
C. emissions B. False
D. climate 646. A good example of weather happening

slowly is which one of the following?
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642. What type of front is this? When a cold
air mass collides with a warm air mass A. Flash flooding
and slides under it, pushing it up very B. Haze
quickly, making huge tower of cumulonim-
bus clouds; results in colder weather, thun- C. Rainfall
derstorms and/or possibly tornadoes. D. The leaves changing color
A. Cold front
647. Transfer of heat by the flow of material
B. Warm Front
A. convection
C. Stationary Front
B. conduction
D. Occluded Front
C. radiation
643. Why do clouds and precipitation usually D. solar power
occur along the frontal surface?
A. cool air sinks, compresses, and warms 648. A front is moving across Oklahoma and
Texas bringing warm humid air behind it.
B. cool air, rises, compresses, and cools Which of the following labels should be
C. warm air rises, expands, and cools used to mark this front on a map?
D. warm air sinks, expands, and warms
644. What is layer “B” of the atmosphere?
A. IV only
B. II and III
C. II only
D. I and III
649. Which type of air mass originates in

northern Canada?
A. Stratosphere A. cP
B. Mesosphere B. cT
C. Thermosphere C. mP
D. Exosphere D. mT

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650. The different layers of Earth’s atmo- 655. Sample Station ModelLabel 5
sphere can be categorized by variations in

A. air pressure
B. humidity
C. temperature
D. dew point
651. What happens to water vapor as it rises
higher and higher into the air? A. temperature
A. it cools, and condenses B. precipitation
B. it evaporates C. dew point
C. it stays as water vapor D. air pressure in millibars
D. nothing 656. The farther you live from the ocean, the
more likely your climate will be a cli-
652. When air contains as much moisture as
mate.
possible at a specific temperature, it is:
A. marine
A. at its dew point
B. saturated B. subtropical
C. at its dew point AND saturated C. continental
D. none of the rest D. tropical
653. Where would the highest air pressure be 657. What type of air mass forms at low lati-
measured? tudes?
A. in a vacuum A. continental
B. outer space B. maritime
C. Mt. Everest C. polar
D. sea level D. tropical
654. Which states are experiencing rain? se- 658. This instrument measures air pressure
lect all that apply A. thermometer
B. rain gauge
C. anemometer
D. barometer
659. Temperatures increase with altitude in

these layers of the atmosphere.
A. Washington A. tropopause and stratopause
B. Oregon B. stratopause and mesopause
C. Minnesota C. mesopause and thermopause
D. Virginia D. stratopause and thermopause

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660. At what point do scientists classify an 665. Warm air

area’s weather as its climate? A. rises
A. 1 year
B. sinks
B. 5 years
C. 15 years 666. Weather-producing fronts are parts of
storm systems called
D. 30 years
A. middle-latitude cyclones
661. Name that front.
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B. hurricanes
C. tropical storms
D. tornadoes
667. Low pressure on a weather map is shown

with
A. Cold Front
A. the word LOW
B. Warm Front
B. the red letter L
C. Stationary Front
C. the blue letter L
D. Occluded Front
D. the symbol for air pressure
662. Do sea breezes typically happen during
the day or night? 668. What causes water to fall to the ground
A. Day A. gravity
B. Night B. atmospheric pressure
663. What weather tool measures air temper- C. barometric pressure
ature?
D. temperature
A. anemometer
B. barometer 669. A cloudlike mass or layer of minute water
droplets or ice crystals near the surface of
C. thermometer Earth, appreciably reducing visibility
D. wind vane
A. Fog
664. What type of clouds are these? B. Dew
C. Steam
D. Hail
670. What might happen when moving air is

forced upwards by a mountain range?
A. The air warms, forming clouds
A. cumulonimbus B. The air cools, forming clouds
B. cumulus C. Nothing happens
C. cloud D. The air condenses, breaking apart
D. cirrus clouds

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671. Which weather tool measures wind B. RADAR

speed?
C. LIDAR

A. anemometer
D. None
B. barometer
C. thermometer 677. What most likely occurs when a fast mov-
ing cold air mass moves into a region of
D. wind vane
warmer, moist air?
672. What is the contour interval of the iso- A. It causes light precipitation for a long
bars on a weather map time
A. chmb
B. It causes light precipitation for a short
B. amp time
C. 8mb C. It causes heavy precipitation for a long
D. none of above time
673. How do we characterize an air mass that D. It causes heavy precipitation for a
forms over land? short time
A. Dry 678. What is a storm?
B. Wet
A. High pressure centers
C. Cold
B. A violent disturbance of the atmo-
D. Warm sphere with strong winds and usually rain,
674. the energy we receive from the sun thunder, lightning, or snow
comes via C. Violent clouds with high pressure cen-
A. conduction ters
B. convection D. Violent clouds with low pressure cen-
C. radiation ters
D. none of these 679. What happens to the density of the air as

you increase in altitude?
675. Convection currents are formed in the at-
mosphere when cold air pushes warm air A. density increases
upward. Which property of the air is most
B. density decreases
responsible for the formation of convec-
tion currents? C. density stays the same
A. Chemical Composition D. none of above
B. Density Differences
680. Used to measure wind direction
C. Temperature
A. Barometer
D. Pressure
B. Anemometer
676. Which instrument can provide vertical
profile of atmosphere? C. Thermometer
A. Sounder D. Wind Vane

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681. What is relative humidity? C. uneven heating, rotation of the earth,

A. humidity that is related to other humid- differences in the properties of land, air
ity and water
B. condensation D. none of above
C. clouds 685. What does symbol # 2 mean?

D. the amount of water in the air com-
pared to the amount of water the air can
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hold-a ratio
682. A high pressure system is located north

of New York City. What type of weather
will be experienced there?
A. stationary front
B. occluded front
C. warm front
D. cold front
686. Low pressure areas would likely have

A. clear, sunny skies A. cloudy weather
B. cloudy and rainy B. clear weather
683. Which states may experience severe C. sunny weather

thunderstorms? select all that apply D. storms
687. Which type of front is fast moving and

causes abrupt weather changes?
A. stationary front
B. warm front
C. cold front
A. Washington D. occluded front
B. Florida 688. What is colder arctic or polar?

C. Georgia A. Arctic
D. Alabama B. Polar
684. What are some of the major factors that 689. Water evaporates and becomes
determine climate?
A. clouds
A. differences in the properties of high
and low pressures in the span of a week B. rain
B. gravitational pull of the sun and the C. snow

moon over a 24 hour span D. dew

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690. Which storm has winds higher than 35

miles per hour, happens in the winter with
possible white-outs and lots and lots of

snow?
A. thunderstorms
B. tornadoes
C. hurricanes A. New Mexico
D. blizzards B. Kansas
C. Iowa
691. The hot and humid weather in Texas dur-
ing the summer is most likely due to what D. Missouri
type of air mass?
695. The place where two air masses meet.
A. continental polar
A. air mass
B. continental tropical
B. air pressure
C. maritime polar
C. water cycle
D. maritime tropical
D. front
692. Identify the type of front that is shown
in the image. 696. Warm air will rise because
A. it has a high density and low pressure
B. it has a low density and high pressure
C. it has a low density and low pressure
D. it has a high density and high pressure
697. This is the layer where most commercial

A. Occluded Front jet airliners fly.
B. Cold Front
C. Stationary Front
D. Warm Front
693. What kind of clouds form in flat layers?

A. cumulus
A. Troposphere
B. stratus
B. Stratosphere
C. cumulonimbus
C. Mesosphere
D. cirrus
D. Thermosphere
694. Which states are experiencing a cold
front? select all that apply 698. What does mP mean?

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703. this type of front occurs when a colder air

mass comes in and replaces a warmer air
mass
A. cold front
B. warm front
C. occluded front
A. cold and dry D. polar front
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B. cold and wet
704. Long term forecast are Less reliable than
C. warm and wet
short-term forecast
D. warm and dry
A. False
699. When water vapor gas begins to change
B. True
back into a liquid this is called.
A. evaporation 705. Water molecules in the vapor form are
B. condensation arranged more randomly than in liquid wa-
ter.
C. water cycle
A. True
D. precipitation
B. False
700. Used to measure wind speed
A. Barometer 706. When saturated air is cooled, some of the
B. Anemometer water vapor will condense to form clouds
or precipitation
C. Thermometer
A. true
D. Wind Vane
B. false
701. What type of front is shown?
707. What is the name the name of this
weather tool?
A. Warm Front
B. Cold Front
C. Occluded Front
D. Stationary Front
702. We use this tool to measure air pressure?
A. barometer A. Rain Gauge
B. anemometer B. Telescope
C. thermometer C. Wind Vane
D. wind sock D. Anemometer

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708. Tropical seas have a high rate of evapora- B. Thermalbars

tion because of the direct rays of the sun. C. Isobars
Because of this high rate of evaporation,

we would expect the water in tropical seas D. Isoparabolic intervals
to have than seas in colder climates.
712. the molecules move away from each
A. less algal growth other, bump into each other less, and cool
B. cooler temperatures down
C. higher salt concentrations A. adiabatic cooling
D. a lower density B. adiabatic heating
709. What type of weather can this type of 713. What is the Air pressure change with al-
cloud bring? titude?
A. Pressure increases with greater alti-
tude
B. Pressure decreases with greater alti-
tude
C. Pressure remains constant with
greater altitude
D. none of above
A. Clear weather
714. On the coast of Georgia, warm air usu-
B. Thunderstorms and tornados
ally picks up water vapor over the Atlantic
C. Heavy rain only Ocean. What will happen when the warm,
D. Sunny day mosit air moves over hot, dry land?
A. The warm air will rise, causing water
710. a line drawn to connect points of equal
vapor to condense and form clouds.
atmosphere.
B. The warm air will cool, causing water
A. Isobar
vapor to evaporate and be absorbed by
B. Barometer the land.
C. Thermometer C. The warm air will rise, causing water
D. Anemometer vapor to evaporate from air and generate
winds.
711. Air pressure is expressed on maps using
D. The warm air will sink, causing water
vapor to condense and form snow.
715. The distance north or south of the equa-

tor
A. longitude
B. latitude
C. key
A. Contour lines D. scale

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716. This weather instrument is an 720. what precipitation type forms when a
raindrop passes through a layer of freez-
ing air near the Earth’s surface forming ice
pellets
A. rain
B. snow
C. sleet
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D. freezing rain
E. hail
721. An area is described as having mild tem-

peratures in the summer and being cool
and rainy in the winter. On a day in May,
the area experienced snow. What best de-
A. wind vane scribes this day in terms of weather and
climate?
B. anemometer
A. The weather was different from the
C. barometer normal climate
D. thermometer B. The climate was different from the nor-
mal weather
717. What type of cloud is very high up in the C. Weather and Climate are no different
sky?
D. Weather and Climate are changing into
A. Stratus new properties
B. Cirrus
722. During which time of year are hailstorms
C. Cumulus more common?
D. Cumulonimbus A. autumn months
B. spring months
718. What layer of the atmosphere protects
the Earth from meteoroids C. summer months
D. winter months
A. stratosphere
B. mesosphere 723. Blizzards form in which type of air mass?
C. exosphere
D. none of above
719. Which front is there little movement?

A. warm front
B. cold front
C. occluded front A. Continental polar
D. stationary front B. Continental tropical

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C. Maritime polar C. hot summers and little precipitation

D. Maritime tropical D. mild climates with humidity and high

precipitation
724. What happens with Relative Humidity,
when air is cooled? 730. A maritime polar air mass is
A. RH increase A. Dry and Cold
B. RH decrease B. Wet and Cold
C. RH remains constant C. Wet and Warm
D. none of above D. Dry and Warm
725. What is an enormous thunderstorm that 731. Name the front
consists primarily of a single violently ro-
tating updraft?
A. supercell
B. hail
C. nor’easter
D. right
A. cold front
726. The curving of winds and ocean currents
B. warm front
because of Earth’s rotation is called
C. occluded
A. Coriolis Effect
D. stationary front
B. convection
C. convection current 732. Which layer is the furthest from the sur-
face of Earth?
D. global winds
A. exosphere
727. Lowest layer of the atmosphere
B. troposphere
A. lifting
C. stratosphere
B. troposphere
D. mesosphere
C. wind funnel
733. the atmospheric lifting that happens
D. nitrogen
when air is warmer than the atmosphere
728. What is the function of the ozone layer? around it
A. to allow UV rays to get to Earth A. convective lifting
B. to block UV rays from getting to Earth B. orographic lifting
C. To keep oxygen in C. convergence
D. to burn up meteors D. none of above
729. Polar Climates are 734. Cloudy nights can be warmer than clear
A. cold all year with little precipitation nights because clouds trap heat
B. mild climates with moderate precipita- A. produced by the friction of air particles
tion B. generated from tropical winds

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C. released from Earth’s interior 740. What type of front is see in this picture?
D. absorbed by Earth during daylight
hours
735. The amount of water vapor in the at-

mosphere compared to how much it could
hold.
A. Saturation
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A. cold front
B. Vaporicity
B. warm front
C. Humidity
C. cold and warm front
D. occluded front
736. What was causing the hole in the Ozone?
741. Which instrument measures air pressure?
A. Ill
A. barometer
B. CFCs
B. anemometer
C. Methane
C. thermometer
D. Greenhouse gases
D. weather balloon
737. Significant weather charts report cloud E. wind wave/compass rose
base and top?
742. What kind of front is pictured here?
A. meters AGL
B. in 100’s feet AAL
C. in 100’s feet AMSL
D. none of above
738. What type of energy transfer goes

through solids?
A. Warm front
A. Conduction
B. Cold front
B. Convection
C. Stationary Front
C. Radiation
D. Occluded front
D. Friction
743. When a warm air mass gently slides on
739. Auroras occur where Earth’s magne- top of a cold air mass, and you have driz-
tosphere traps high-energy particles in zly rain and then warmer weather, what
which region of the atmosphere? type of front is it?
A. Troposphere A. warm front
B. Stratosphere B. cold front
C. Thermosphere C. occluded front
D. Mesosphere D. stationary front

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744. What is thermal turbulence? 750. Increase in which gas is primarily respon-
A. Vertical currents of air sible for increased global warming?
A. Carbon dioxide

B. Inteference of the horizontal flow of
air by surface features B. Water vapor
745. An air mass is often defined as a C. Methane

widespread body of air that is approxi- D. Nitric oxides
mately homogeneous.
751. What gas is important for weather to oc-
A. True cur in the troposphere?
B. False
A. carbon dioxide (CO2)
746. the atmospheric lifting that happens B. water vapor (H2O)
when air is forced up and over elevated
C. nitrogen (N)
land; the air expands and cools as it is
lifted up and over D. trace gases
A. convective lifting 752. A(n) is the boundary where two air
B. orographic lifting masses meet.
C. convergence A. air mass
D. none of above B. storm
C. collision
747. are instruments used for measuring tem-
perature or temperature gradient by using D. front
many different principles.
753. A maritime airmass form over the
A. hydrometer
A. Ocean
B. hygrometer
B. Land
C. anemometer
C. Atmosphere
D. Thermometers
D. Under Water
748. All the following are characteristics of the
Sun EXCEPT: 754. What does the ozone layer do?
A. Provides light and thermal energy A. It absorbs the rain for us.
B. Is made of gases B. It polluts our atmosphere by burning

fossil fuels.
C. Is composed of rock
C. It absorbs most of the ultraviolet from
D. Is a medium-sized star the sun.
749. Which type of front can lead to clouds and D. It protects us from hurricanes.
rain for several days?
755. when pressure increases; molecules
A. warm front move closer together and bump into each
B. stationary front other to create heat
C. cold front A. adiabatic cooling
D. occluded front B. adiabatic heating

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756. These types of front happen when warm B. Wind vane

air comes in and last a long time bringing C. Psychrometer
warmer weather.
D. Saturated Air
A. Cold Front
B. Warm Front 761. The suns rays heat the atmosphere
A. conduction
757. Select the Horse
B. convection
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C. radiation
D. none of above
762. A warm front is here. Is the air pressure

going to increase or decrease?
A. 5 A. increase
B. 4 B. neither
C. 6 C. decrease
D. 1 D. both
E. 3 763. Is the amount of force applied to a unit
area of surface. What is this call?
758. What type of weather do cirrus clouds
usually bring? A. Dew Point
A. hot weather B. Anemometer
B. fair weather C. Barometric Pressure
C. stormy weather D. Temperature
D. cold weather 764. TEMPO is indicator for?
759. The difference between the “moist” and A. Permanent gradual change
“dry” adiabatic rates is due to:
B. Permanent immediate change
A. The fact that saturated air is always un-
C. Temporary change
stable
D. none of above
B. the fact that an unsaturated air parcel
expands more rapidly than a saturated air 765. What does the “L” on a weather map
parcel mean
C. the fact that moist air weighs less than
dry air
D. the fact that latent heat is released by
a rising parcel of saturated air
760. Air holds as much water vapor as possi-

ble (100%) at a given temperature and
pressure. What is this instrument call?
A. Barometer A. low pressure

1.1 METEOROLOGY 85
B. lonely pressure 770. What are the highest ratings for hurri-
C. lumpy pressure canes and tornadoes, respectively?

D. lucky pressure
766. Which weather tool measures air pres-

sure?
A. thermometer
B. barometer
C. anemometer
A. EF 5 and Category 5
D. psychrometer
B. EF 5 and Category 4
767. Lowpressure zones at the equator and in
C. EF 6 and Category 5
subpolar regions cause
A. changes in vegetation D. EFG and HIJ
B. rain shadows 771. How many mb of air pressure is 29.23
C. cloud formation inches?
D. extreme temperatures A. 1011mb
768. A front is B. 1040 mb
A. where warm air is cooling at earth’s C. 990 mb
surface
D. 1036 mb
B. a line where hot and cold air are sepa-
rating
772. Rainy weather occurs when an area is un-
C. a line where two different air masses der a pressure system
meet
A. high
D. where cold air is rising and forming
rain clouds B. cold
769. Weather conditions over a long period of C. low

time is D. warm
773. Air pressure pushes in directions.

A. all
B. two
C. three
D. none of above
A. Weather
B. Climate 774. Maritime air masses form over
C. Meteorology A. Land
D. The Water Cycle B. Water

1.1 METEOROLOGY 86
775. About 75% of the world’s tornadoes hap- 779. Which group of people are most at risk
pen in the United States during Springs and from heatwaves?
early Summer when cold, dry from Canada
A. lazy people
meets warm, moist air from the Gulf of
Mexico. This relatively flat part of the B. old people
country is known as
C. tall people
D. very young people like babies
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780. QNH
A. Preasure AAL at the airport
B. Preasure AMSL at the airport
A. Tornado Paradise C. Preasure AGL at the airport
B. Thunderstorm Lane D. none of above
C. Tornado Alley
D. Hurricane Row 781. the most amount of water vapor each lo-
cation can hold
776. What does symbol # 4 mean?
A. saturation point
B. humidity
C. relative humidity
D. dew point
782. Air pressure and water vapor content are

A. stationary front related.
B. occluded front A. Directly

C. warm front B. Indirectly
D. cold front C. Not
777. High humidity means the air is very D. none of above
A. wet
783. Cold fronts will bring-
B. dry
C. cold A. higher pressure and warmer tempera-
tures
D. warm
B. lower pressure and warmer tempera-
778. Water is found in the atmosphere. tures
A. True
C. higher pressure and cooler tempera-
B. False tures
C. True and False D. lower pressure and warmer tempera-
D. None of the above tures

1.1 METEOROLOGY 87
784. What is the symbol for a warm front? 788. The average kinetic energy of molecules
is
A. Pressure

B. Temperature
C. Condensation
D. Precipitation
789. Cold, dry air affecting the northern
United States in winter often comes from
A. maritime polar air masses

A. 1st one
B. maritime tropical air masses
B. 2nd one
C. continental polar air masses
C. 3rd one D. continental tropical air masses
D. 4th one
790. What is the temperature lapse rate in Tro-
E. 5th one posphere according to ISA?
A. -2◦ C/1000 ft
785. What layer of the atmosphere has the
ionsphere B. +20◦ C/1000 ft
C. -2◦ C/1 km
A. thermosphere
D. -2◦ F/10000 ft
B. mesosphere
791. Which cloud type is associated with thun-
C. exosphere
derstorms?
D. troposphere A. Altostratus
786. What meteorology equipment measures B. Cumulonimbus

the speed of the wind. C. Cirrus
A. Anemometer D. Cirrocumulus
B. Berometer 792. What is the independent variable in your

hypothesis? (a) What is the dependent
C. Rain gauge variable in your hypothesis? (b)
D. Weather gauge A. a altitude
B. b temperature
787. Why does the troposphere have the
greatest pressure? C. air pressure
A. Gravity pulls air molecules to the sur- D. wind speed
face. 793. What is the calmest part of a hurricane?
B. It is the least dense. A. Eye
C. It contains very cold air. B. Eye Wall
D. It does not have the greatest pres- C. Storm surge
sure. D. Edge

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794. Which layer of the atmosphere do mete- 799. The lowest layer, where weather occurs
oroids burn up in? is called the
A. Troposphere A. Thermosphere
B. Stratosphere B. Mesosphere
C. Mesosphere
C. Troposphere
D. Thermosphere
D. Stratosphere
E. Exosphere
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800. Compare an air mass formed over cen-
795. The day to day temperature and precipi-
tral Mexico with an air mass formed over
tation are called-
the Gulf of Mexico. Which would be more
A. climate dense? Why?
B. weather A. The central Mexico air mass would be
796. Winds are made when air moves from more dense because it is drier.
B. The central Mexico air mass would be
A. low to high pressure more dense because it is wetter.
B. high to low pressure C. The Gulf of Mexico air mass would be
C. the south to the north more dense because it is drier.
D. none of above D. The Gulf of Mexico air mass would be
more dense because it is wetter.
797. James plans to climb to the top of Mount
Everest. Which of the following state- 801. What direction is the cold front moving?
ments about his climb will be the most ac-
curate?
A. Air pressure will rise and the tempera-
ture on a thermometer will increase.
B. Air pressure will fall and the tempera-
ture on a thermometer will decrease.
C. Air pressure will rise and the tempera-
ture on a thermometer will decrease.
D. Air pressure and thermometer will not A. Northeast
change. B. Northwest
798. Which air mass produces Seattle’s heavy C. Southeast
winter precipitation? D. Southwest
802. This type of front results in the same

weather for several days
A. warm
B. continental tropical B. cold
C. maritime polar, north Pacific ocean C. stationary
D. maritime polar, north Atlantic ocean D. occluded

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803. Which direction do winds blow in a high

pressure system? (2)

A. storm surge
B. eye wall
C. wind speed
D. rainfall
A. Clockwise 807. Why do kids choose the bottom bunk at

camp? (Think scientific reasons!)
B. Counter-clockwise
C. Away from the center
D. Towards the center
A. Cold air sinks because it is more dense
804. Select 3 things often included in a meteo-
and it would be cooler.
rologist’s weather report.
B. The mattresses were more comfort-
A. temperature
able on the bottom bunk.
B. ozone levels C. They couldn’t climb to the top of the
C. star charts bunk.
D. cloud cover D. Warm air sinks because it is more
E. wind speed dense and they wanted to be warm.
808. How far away from a thunderstorm can

805. This type of cloud is puffed up with a flat
lightning strike?
base. It is found in all layers of the atmo-
sphere. A. 10-15 miles
B. 2-3 miles
C. 5-8 miles
D. 20-25 miles
809. You hear lightning and see thunder.

A. True
A. Cirrus B. False
B. Cumulus 810. Choose the correct option
C. Stratus
D. Fluffyus
806. The most dangerous aspect of a hurricane

that comes ashore is the

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A. High Pressure 816. The pressure applied by a column of air

B. Warm Front above Earth’s surface is called
C. Cold Front A. low pressure
D. Mountains B. high pressure
C. under pressure
811. Label 3
D. air pressure
817. What is a natural contributor to air pollu-
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tion?
A. Polar Easterlies
C. Trade Winds (NE)
D. Trade Winds (SE) A. Automobile exhaust
B. Slash-and-burning of the rainforests
812. The layer of the atmosphere containing
the ozone layer is C. Fossil fuel refineries
A. troposphere D. Volcanic eruptions
B. stratosphere 818. During the day, cool, sinking air over the
C. thermosphere ocean replacing warm, rising air over the
land would cause wind to move
D. mesosphere
A. towards the shore
813. A funnel-shaped cloud that touches B. towards the sea
Earth’s surface is called a
A. hurricane 819. Wind is caused by differences in weather.
B. cyclone A. True
C. tornado B. False
D. thunderhead 820. Tornadoes are measured on what scale?
814. Cirrus is a A. Fujita
A. Low level cloud B. Richter
B. High level cloud C. Mercalli
C. Medium level cloud D. None of the above
D. none of above 821. What are the brilliant light displays that
occur over the ionosphere called?
815. In what direction do winds always blow?
A. humidity
A. From areas of high pressure to areas
of low pressure B. aurora borealis
B. From areas of low pressure to areas C. sulfuric acid
of high pressure D. none of above

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822. What type of air mass forms over land 828. The slope of a linear equation, repre-
areas? sented in the simplest form as change in
A. continental field value/ distance. What is the name

of this?
B. maritime
C. polar A. Humid
D. tropical B. Gradient
823. do you think that our climate is getting C. Wind
hotter
D. Land Breeze
A. yes
B. no 829. Which front is this?
824. Name that front.
A. Cold Front
B. Warm Front
C. Stationary Front
D. Occluded Front
A. Warm front
825. In the Southern Hemisphere, winds blow
B. Cold front
A. north
B. south C. Occluded front
C. left D. Stationary front
D. right
830. What absorbs ultraviolet rays in the at-
826. Where do we see condensation happen- mosphere?
ing in the water cycle?
A. troposphere
A. ocean water
B. clouds B. stratosphere
C. run off C. ozone layer
D. ground water/ soil
D. greenhouse gases
827. What protects us from ultra violet radia-
tion 831. What is a front where two air masses
A. Greenhouse Gases meet but neither is moving to replace the
other?
B. Thermosphere
C. Mesosphere A. stationary front
D. Ozone Layer B. occluded front

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832. How do you determine the volume of a B. Warm front

regular solid? C. Stationary front
A. Measure the length, width, and height. D. Occluded front
Times the 3 numbers together.
B. Water displacement method 836. Which severe weather event causes
widespread straight-line wind damage?
C. Use a graduated cylinder
A. right
D. Measure the mass and then divide by
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density. B. blizzard
C. hail storm
833. How are the two air masses interacting
in the front? D. nor’easter
837. Which of these is not a step in the forma-

tion of clouds?
A. Warm air is colliding with cold air send- A. air expands as it rises
ing the cold air up into the atmosphere B. air warms to the dewpoint
quickly
C. air cools to the dewpoint
B. Cold air is colliding with cold air send-
D. water vapor condenses
ing the cold air up into the atmosphere
slowly 838. Which of the following are classroom
C. Warm air is colliding with cold air send- rules?
ing the warm air up into the atmosphere A. Raise your hand to speak silently
slowly
B. Follow all directions quickly the first
D. Cold air is colliding with warm air send- time given
ing the warm air up into the atmosphere
quickly C. Stay in your assigned seat
D. Respect yourself, your peers, your
834. How long does one rotation of the Earth teacher, and your surroundings.
take?
A. 12 hours 839. METAR LKNA 282100Z 07006KT 3000
BR OVC004 08/08 Q1004 RMK YLO=
B. 24 hours Visibility
C. 1 hour A. 4000 m
D. none of above B. 3000 ft
835. Cold air catches up to cold air C. 3000 m
A. Cold front D. 10000 ft

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840. What does the ozone layer protect us 846. Using the picture above, in what layer of
from? the atmosphere is the ozone layer?

A. precipitation and temperature
B. Stationary front
C. harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun
D. warm front
841. It is used as the amount of water vapor

In the air as a percentage or the totaln
amount that could be held at its current
temperature A. Troposphere
A. water vapour content B. Stratosphere
B. Humidity C. Mesosphere
C. Relative Humidity D. Exosphere
D. Absolute Humidity
847. This is the symbol for a
842. What is a cooler air mass moving to re-
place a warm air mass?
A. cold front
B. warm front
843. Albedo can best be described as

A. the temperature at the equator
A. Stationary Front
B. the amount of solar radiation ab-
B. Occluded Front
sorbed
C. Cold Front
C. the amount of solar radiation reflected
D. the air pressure during El Nino D. Warm Front
844. What is the highest category? 848. What are the names of the 5 layers of
Earth’s atmosphere?Label 1
A. category 2
B. category 3
C. category 4
D. category 5
845. This person’s career is to forecast the

weather-
A. Meteorologist A. troposphere
B. Marketing B. thermosphere
C. Mailman C. exosphere
D. Meteorology D. none of above

1.1 METEOROLOGY 94
849. A pellet of hail 855. What are thunderstorms?

A. Sleet A. a storm with thunder and lighting and
typically also heavy rain or hail
B. Snow
B. a storm that can be the same as thun-
C. Frost derstorms, but even more dangerous
D. Hailstone C. a mobile, destructive vortex of vio-
lently rotating winds having the appear-
850. The strength of a sea breeze depends on ance of a funnel shaped cloud and advanc-
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. the heat of the day ing beneath a large storm system.
B. the difference between the tempera- D. a huge storm with strong winds and
ture of the sea and the land storm surges
C. the wind speed 856. If an air mass is rising, it must be
D. the amount of precipitation that day A. cold and less dense
B. cold and more dense
851. a rising air mass cools because the air
pressure decreases C. warm and more dense
D. warm and less dense
A. adiabatic cooling
B. adiabatic heating 857. the loss of water from plant leaves is
A. precipitation
852. When liquid water changes into gas
B. run off
called water vapor this called
C. infiltration
A. condensation
D. transpiration
B. evaporation
858. What weather tool measures the amount
C. precipitation
of precipitation that falls to the Earth?
D. runoff
853. Type of air mass:extremely cold and very

dry
A. Maritime Tropical
B. Continental Polar
C. Continental Arctic
D. Maritime Polar
854. how long doe you have to go to school to

be a meteorologist?
A. 1 A. Thermometer
B. 2 B. Anemometer
C. 4 C. Rain Gauge
D. 5 D. Weather Vane

1.1 METEOROLOGY 95
859. Drag the variables into the correct places 864. In which layer of the atmosphere do
in the following hypothesis regarding the satellites orbit?
relationship between altitude and temper-

ature in the thermosphere.If altitude (a) A. mesosphere
then temperature (b) B. exosphere
A. a increases
C. thermosphere
B. b decreases
D. none of above
C. remains the same
D. none of above 865. As temperature decreases, more water
860. Current, short-term variations in the at- can be held in the air.
mosphere are referred to as A. True
A. Humidity
B. False
B. lapse rate
C. Weather 866. Which is the correct symbol for a station-
D. The Ionosphere ary front?
861. what happens to global warming when

the greenhouse effect increases?
A. decreases
B. increases
862. The is the beginning source of energy A.

for the water cycle.
A. sun
B. wind
C. geothermal
D. volcano
863. Select the Rising Air
B.
A. 2
B. 4
C. 6
D. 1 C.
E. 3

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871. The two types of fronts are
A. High and Low

D.
B. Warm and Cold
C. Hot and Cool
NARAYAN CHANGDER
D. Near and Far
872. What type of wind is this?
867. What does this symbol on a weather map

indicate?
A. land breeze
B. sea breeze
A. High pressure system C. global wind
B. Low pressure system D. tsunami
C. Cold front 873. After a cold front passes, the tempera-

ture will
D. Warm front
A. increase
868. This tool measures in millibars or inches
B. decrease
of mercury.
C. stay the same
A. anemometer
D. none of above
B. thermometer
874. The actual atmospheric conditions always
C. barometer
have the same parameters as ISA
D. wind vane
A. true
869. Particles move faster and farther apart B. false
as air
A. gets warmer
B. gets colder
870. The hottest layer.

A. troposphere
B. thermosphere
C. exosphere
D. mesosphere

1.1 METEOROLOGY 97
A. anemometer 881. Lightning forms when clouds become

B. Christmas ornament charged with
A. electricity

C. wind vane
D. barometer B. particles
C. dust
876. Wind Systems:cold dense air that sinks
towards the poles D. rain
A. polar easterlies 882. What sort of weather do you expect at a

B. prevailing westerlies low pressure?
C. trade winds
D. none of above
877. A is a storm with rain, thunder, and

lightning.
A. blizzard
B. spring shower
C. tornado
D. thunderstorm
878. Which of the following terms best de-

scribes air? A. Clear skies
A. element B. Stormy
B. compound C. Nothing in particular
C. mixture D. none of above
D. none of the above 883. Which tool measures wind speed?
879. How long does it take the Moon to orbit A. Anemometer
the Earth? B. hygrometer
A. 365 days C. Barometer
B. One month D. Wind Vane
C. 10 years
884. What happens at a front?
D. none of above
A. the weather stays the same
880. Why is it cooler at the poles? B. the weather changes
A. the sun shines at an angle at the poles
so the light is more intense 885. Name that front
B. the sun shines directly at the poles

C. the sun will never reach the poles
D. the sun shines at an angle at the poles
so the light is less intense

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A. cold front C. stationary front

B. warm front D. occluded front
C. occluded front 889. in what layer of the atmosphere is the
D. stationary front International Space Station?
A. troposphere
886. The never-ending circulation of water be-
tween Earth the the atmosphere is called B. mesosphere
C. stratosphere
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D. thermosphere
890. Is there more oxygen or nitrogen in our
current atmosphere?
A. Oxygen
B. Nitrogen
A. Climatology 891. The deflection of air due to the rotation
B. Weatherology of the Earth is called
C. Meteorology A. The Coriolis Effect
D. The Water Cycle B. The Doppler Effect

C. The Bystander Effect
887. The equator is warmer because it re-
D. The Wind Effect
ceives
892. What impact will capping inversion have
on cloud growth?
A. limit and prohibit
B. increase
C. no impact
D. none of above
893. Where you will find Aurora Borealis
A. Indirect sunlight in the form of Ultra- (Northern Lights)
Violet Radiation. The sun is able to focus A. troposphere
most of its energy directly at the polar re- B. ionsophere
gions
C. exosphere
B. Direct sunlight in the form of Ultra-
Violet Radiation. The sun is able to focus D. mesosphere
most of its energy directly at the equator 894. Why is Earth’s surface unequally heated
than at the polar regions. by the Sun?
888. This forms when warm air slowly moves A. Earth is a sphere
into an area covered by cooler air. B. The Sun is 93 million miles away
A. warm front C. Varying thickness of atmosphere
B. cold front D. Global warming

1.1 METEOROLOGY 99
895. In which situation would you use C. The wind deflects the currents to the
weather instruments? left in both hemispheres.

A. To predict an upcoming storm D. The wind deflects the currents to the
B. To decide what to eat for lunch right in both hemispheres.
C. To figure out why your head hurts 900. Violent cyclonic storm that develops in
D. To predict the future tropical regions.
896. What does nimbus mean

A. Rain
B. Snow
C. Lightning
D. Thunder
897. A is brings heavy snow and wind in
a short amount of time. A. The boy
A. blizzard
B. Hurricane
B. snow flurries
C. Wallaby
C. thunderstorm
D. none of above
D. hurricane
901. Water moving from a high to a low area
898. What does symbol # 3 mean? is known as a watershed.
A. True
B. False
902. At a warm front, warm air meets and

moves cold air.
A. over
A. Cold Front B. under
B. Warm Front C. through
C. Stationary Front D. behind
D. Occluded Front Explanation:Cold air is heavier so it sinks,
warm air is less dense and rises over the
899. The Coriolis effect deflects wind direction. cold air.
How does this process impact ocean sur-
face currents? 903. The result of photosynthesizing algae
and over saturation of iron oxide reactions
A. The wind deflects the currents to the
resulted in
right in the Northern Hemisphere and to
the left in the Southern Hemisphere. A. Free nitrogen molecules in the atmo-
B. The wind deflects the currents to the sphere
left in the Northern Hemisphere and to the B. Free sulfur molecules in the atmo-
right in the Southern Hemisphere. sphere

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C. Free oxygen molecules in the atmo- C. on average of every 2000 years

sphere D. none of above
D. Free carbon molecules in the atmo-
909. Gale warnings are issued at Beaufort
sphere
force
904. An air mass that forms over an ocean is A. 7
called B. 8
A. Continental C. 9
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B. Maritime D. 10
C. Polar
910. What is wind?
D. Tropical A. Vertical air movement
Explanation:over the ocean-marine
B. Rising air
905. Why does sand heat up faster than wa- C. Horizontal air movement
ter during the daytime, and then cool off
D. Sinking air
faster at night?
A. Water has a higher heat capacity than 911. This type of front can bring strong storms
sand. A. cold
B. Water moves around more. B. warm
C. Water starts of colder than sand. C. stationary
D. Water evaporates allowing it to cool. D. occluded
906. What are the two main factors that de- 912. What are the COLD front properties?
termine climate the most? A. Precipitation starts well ahead of
A. Warm and dry air frontal line
B. Stationary and Occluded front B. Precipitation starts at or closely be-

hind frontal line
C. Air Pressure and Heat
913. What is likely to happen with the move-
D. Precipitation and temperature
ment of the front pictured on the map in
907. Which of the sets of arrows (wind direc- the city of Minneapolis in the next few
tion) below is WRONG? days?
A. red
B. green
C. blue
D. They’re ALL wrong
E. They’re ALL right
908. How often to meteoroids hit Earth accord-

A. The warm front is moving north so they
ing to NASA scientists?
will get good weather
A. on an almost daily basis B. The cold front is moving East and it will
B. on average of every 100 years bring rain

1.1 METEOROLOGY 101
C. The cold front is moving west so they A. low

will have clear weather B. high
D. The Warm front is moving south so

C. medium
they will experience warm weather
D. unknown
914. The boundary between two air masses is
known as: 918. Which abbreviation of an air mass can be
identified as dry and hot?
A. front
B. storm
C. climate
D. flood
915. what is the difference between a hurri-
cane and a tropical storm?
A. geographic location
B. size
A. cP
C. strength
B. mP
D. altitude
C. cT
916. This tool reads the pressure in the air D. mT
919. NOSIG
A. No Significant change
B. No Significant Weather
C. No significant Wind Gust
D. none of above
920. Which direction do winds blow in a low

pressure system? (2)
A. Thermometer
B. Barometer
C. Rain Gauge
D. Anemometer
917. Cool air has pressure.
A. Clockwise
B. Counter-clockwise
C. Away from the center
D. Towards the center

1.1 METEOROLOGY 102
921. How long does it take the Earth to orbit B. a line where hot and cold air are sepa-
the Sun? rating
A. 24 hours C. a line where two different air masses
B. 365 days meet
C. 10 years
rain clouds
D. none of above
925. If a scientist were trying to figure out
NARAYAN CHANGDER
922. The deflection of wind due to the Coriolis what direction the wind from a storm were
effect is strongest at coming from, what tool would they use?
A. the equator A. thermometer
B. the midlatitudes B. hygrometer
C. midnight C. anemometer
D. the poles D. wind vane
923. Which type of air would you find at air 926. This is the amount of moisture in the air?
mass B?
A. heat
B. cold
C. humidity
D. condensation
A. cold, dry
B. warm, humid
C. warm, dry A. convective lifting
D. cold, humid B. orographic lifting
924. A front is C. convergence
D. none of above
928. What air mass characteristics will an air

mass over the Gulf of Mexico (South At-
lantic Ocean)
A. cool and dry
B. cold and wet
A. where warm air is cooling at earth’s C. warm and wet

surface D. warm. and dry

1.1 METEOROLOGY 103
929. Which tool measures air pressure, tem- 934. How are air masses classified by humid-
perature, AND humidity? ity?

A. barometer A. tropical (warm)
B. thermometer B. continental (dry)
C. weather balloon C. maritime (humid)
D. radar D. polar (cold)
930. During the night air over the land is 935. Air subsides in the center of a(n)
than air over the ocean
A. low-pressure system
A. warmer
B. high-pressure system
B. cooler
C. jet stream
931. What does E represent? D. area of surface convergence
936. A weather predication is a

A. fortune
B. guess
C. forecast
D. opinion
937. CB
A. Occluded front
A. Tower cumulus
B. Warm front
B. Cumulonimbus
C. Cold front
C. Cumulus
D. Stationary front
D. none of above
932. Regions where air comes together to
form vertical currents are regions of 938. What is the greatest source of moisture
in the atmosphere?
A. Convection
A. lakes and rivers
B. Convergence
B. streams
C. Divergence
C. glaciers
D. Conduction
D. oceans
933. Warm air catches up to cold air; moves
slowly; brings a few days of rain and 939. What air mass brings warm, humid tem-
clouds peratures?
A. cold front A. cP
B. warm front B. cT
C. stationary front C. mT
D. occluded front D. mP

1.1 METEOROLOGY 104
940. Why does Wilmington have less fluctua- 944. Which of these is NOT a name for a hur-
tion in temperature throughout the year ricane?
compared to Charlotte?
A. Because Charlotte experiences high
pressure most of the time and Wilmington
experience low pressure most of the time.
B. Because Charlotte is closer to the
mountains than Wilmington
NARAYAN CHANGDER
C. Because Wilmington is close to the
A. Typhoon
ocean and the ocean doesn’t fluctuate in
temperature due to its low specific heat B. Anticyclone
D. Because Wilmington is close to the C. Cyclone
ocean and the ocean doesn’t fluctuate in D. Tropical Cyclone
temperature due to its high specific heat
945. As altitude increases, pressure
941. Water falling from clouds, including rain, A. increases
snow, sleet, & hail
B. decreases
A. humidity
C. stays the same
B. weather
D. rises
C. climate
946. Air pressure is greater in which beaker?
D. precipitation
942. is the opposite of condensation.

A. Evaporation
B. Precipitation
C. Transpiration A. Beaker B
D. Percolation B. Beaker C
943. Which city can expect to see a NW wind 947. which zone above would you find the po-
over the next 24 hours? lar Easterlies?
A. Dallas, Texas A. 0-30 degrees latitude

B. Atlanta, Georgia B. 30-60 degrees latitude
C. Minneapolis, Minnesota C. 60-90 degrees latitude
D. Miami, Florida D. none of above

1.1 METEOROLOGY 105
948. Climate is different than weather be- 953. name that cloudmade of ice
cause A. cumulus

A. Weather is short term, climate is over B. stratus
long periods of time
C. cirrus
B. Weather deals with precipitations, cli-
D. none of above
mate with temperature
C. Climate deals with precipitations, 954. What are four-to seven-day forecasts
weather with temperature based on?
D. Weather and climate are the same A. patterns and cycles
B. current weather
949. pressure systems are characterized
by fair weather. C. circulation patterns of the troposphere
A. High D. observation of cloud and precipitation
movement
B. Low
955. Low clouds (like fog), that are thick,
950. What is the percentage of oxygen in cover the sky, and block the sun. Usually
Earth’s atmosphere? bring rain or snow.
A. 99%
B. 21%
C. 78%
D. 15%

A. Stratus
B. Cumulus
C. Cirrus
D. none of above
956. Which type of clouds are flat and found
A. warm front at low altitudes?
B. cold front A. Stratus
C. stationary front B. Cirrus
D. occluded front C. Cumulus
D. none of above
952. Describe a polar climate.
A. dry and cold year round 957. Fog that is formed when warm, moist air
comes in contact with colder air
B. warm year round, high humidity and
rainfall A. Advection fog
C. variety of climate patterns, seasons, B. Sea smoke
moderate precipitation C. Clouds
D. none of above D. Smoke

1.1 METEOROLOGY 106
958. What are the layers of the atmosphere? C. cold air at point A and cold air at point
A. nitrogen, oxygen, and CO2 B
B. thermosphere, mesosphere, strato- D. warm air at point A and warm air at

sphere, and troposphere point B
C. inner core, outer core, crust, mantle 963. Why is it necessary to limit the release
D. cumulus, cloud, cirrus of CFCs into the atmosphere?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
959. Despite the morning clouds late in the af-
ternoon, the sun appeared and the temper-
ature increased.
A. Weather
B. Climate
960. Wind blows always

A. They are causing increases in acid rain
A. From high pressure to low pressure
B. They increase CO2 levels
B. From low pressure to high pressure
C. They are destroying the ozone layer
C. From left to right
D. They increase greenhouse gas build-
D. none of above up
961. What is climate?
964. Which type of air creates cumulonimbus
A. weather clouds?
B. rain, sleet, snow, or hail A. Hot, humid air
C. average weather in a region over a B. Cold, humid air
long period of time
C. Hot, dry air
D. the amount of ice cream available in a
city D. Cold, dry air
962. What type of air was at point A and point 965. warm air mass is caught between 2
B to produce this front? cooler air masses; pushes the warm air up
A. occluded front
B. stationary front
C. cold front
D. warm front
966. The circulation of air produces

A. Convection circles
A. cold air at point A and warm air at point
B. Convection cells
B
C. Conduction cells
B. warm air at point A and cold air at point
B D. Circumpolar convection

1.1 METEOROLOGY 107
967. Cold air catches up to another cold air 972. What causes the seasonal shift of wind
mass and forces the warm air up; bring- and pressure belts?
ing brief periods of rain and clouds (severe

A. Air flowing from high to low pressure
thunderstorms)
A. cold front B. Land has a higher specific heat than
water
B. warm front
C. Migration of vertical rays of the sun
C. stationary front
D. Water heating up faster than land
D. occluded front
968. Which of the following can change from 973. What type of clouds do you see when
one state of matter to another at the tem- there is severe weather coming?
peratures and pressures experienced at
Earth’s surface?
A. nitrogen
B. water
C. carbon dioxide
D. oxygen
969. when was the first thermometer made?

A. cumulus
A. 1814
B. stratus
B. 1714
C. cumulonimbus
C. 1614
D. cirrus
D. 1914
970. Select all of the following that describe 974. Which layer of the atmosphere contains
Low Pressure. the ozone layer, which protects us from
the sun’s harmful rays?
A. It rains 2 inches overnight
B. the temperature drops 10 degrees F in
30 minutes
C. a tornado touches down
D. none of above
971. When a fast moving cold air mass moves

into a slower moving warm air mass, we
may experience severe storms and we will
have cooler weather. What type of front
is this?
A. warm front A. troposphere
B. cold front B. mesosphere

C. occluded front C. stratosphere
D. stationary front D. thermosphere

1.1 METEOROLOGY 108
975. Which overall conditions would be true if 978. In the picture, what type of air mass usu-
you compare London, KY to Virginia Beach, ally forms in region A and moves along the
VA (located right on the Atlantic ocean at path of the arrow?
the same latitude?)
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. London, KY will have warmer summers
and colder winters than Virginia Beach, A. continental tropical
VA. B. continental polar
B. Virginia Beach will have cooler sum- C. maritime tropical
mers and warmer winters than London,
D. maritime polar
KY.
C. Virginia Beach will have cooler sum- 979. Algae fossils that are the oldest found on
mers and colder winters than London. Earth (to date)
A. Outgassing
D. Both cities will have the same climate.
B. Glacial ice cores
976. What are the names of the 5 layers of C. Banded iron formations
Earth’s atmosphere?Label 4-bottom, near
D. Stromatolites
Earth
980. What does ELR mean?
A. Environmental lapse rate
B. It is lapse rate of unsaturated air
C. It is lapse rate of saturated air
D. none of above
A. exosphere 981. It is the precipitation of liquid drops of

water. There are also other forms of pre-
B. troposphere cipitation such as snow, sleet, and hail.
C. thermosphere A. Rain
D. none of above B. Wind
C. Air
977. Stratus is a
D. Breeze
A. Low level cloud
982. The main human activity that releases
B. High level cloud greenhouse gases is
C. Medium level cloud A. using bottled water
D. none of above B. burning fossil fuels

1.1 METEOROLOGY 109
C. texting on cellphones 989. Isobars that are increasing towards the

D. eating meat center of the loop show a low pressure or
high pressure?

983. What enables atmosphere of earth to A. Low Pressure
stay in place?
B. High Pressure
A. gravity
B. air pressure 990. What is mechanical turbulence?
C. types of air molecules A. Vertical currents of air
D. clouds B. Inteference of the horizontal flow of
air by surface features
984. Type of air mass:Cool and moist
A. Continental Polar 991. How do you measure the volume of an
irregular solid?
B. Maritime Polar
A. Measure the length, width & height.
C. Continental Tropical Times all 3 numbers together.
D. Maritime Tropical B. Put it in water and see how much wa-
985. what are the two main gases in the at- ter was displaced.
mosphere? C. Use a ruler and calculator
A. argon and oxygen D. Pour the irregular solid in a graduated
B. nitrogen and argon cylinder
C. oxygen and nitrogen 992. What can you expect to happen when
D. carbon dioxide and oxygen moist air cools below its dew point?
986. Cold Fronts bring

A. Cooler and drier air
B. Warm and humid air
987. Most important weather phenomena oc-

cur in the
A. mesosphere
A. Evaporation
B. troposphere
B. Condensation
C. stratosphere
C. Sublimation
D. thermosphere
D. Evapo-transpiration
988. Which term best describes how the
earth’s atmosphere is heated? 993. Weather can be explained by
A. Spirally A. wind speed
B. Unevenly B. air pressure
C. Circularly C. wind direction
D. Kinetically D. all of the choices

1.1 METEOROLOGY 110
994. The rain shadow effect is associated with 999. Cloud Identification-what prefix do most
of the names of these clouds have in com-
A. oceans mon
B. rivers
C. latitude
D. mountains
NARAYAN CHANGDER
995. An orbit is
A. The spinning of the Earth
B. The path that Earth follows around the
Sun
C. The path that the Sun follows around
the Earth A. cir
D. none of above B. strat

C. alto
996. rapidly means:
D. none of above
A. Moving at more than 45 knots
1000. Which does not refer to the largest
B. Moving at 35 to 45 knots storm on Earth?
C. Moving at 25 to 35 knots
D. none of above
997. High pressure systems are associated

with what type of weather?
A. cool, wet weather A. Hurricane
B. clear, dry weather B. Typhoon
C. cloudy, wet weather C. Tornado
D. cloudy, dry weather D. Cyclone
998. Which front does the picture represent? 1001. Wind Systems:central latitude wind sys-
tem (between 30N and 30S)
A. polar easterlies
B. prevailing westerlies
C. trade winds
D. none of above
1002. Type of air mass:hot and very dry
A. cold front A. Continental tropical
B. warm front B. Continental polar
C. stationary front C. Maritime polar
D. occluded front D. Maritime tropical

1.1 METEOROLOGY 111
1003. Meteors burn up here 1007. How do clouds form?

A. Thermosphere A. A. Water vapor rises, cools, and con-

denses.
B. Mesosphere
B. A. Water vapor sinks, cools, and con-
C. Stratosphere
denses.
D. Troposphere C. Water vapor rises, heats up, and evap-
orates.
1004. Moisture condensed from the atmo-
sphere and deposited in the form of small D. Water vapor sinks, heats up, and evap-
drops upon any cool surface orates.
A. Dew 1008. If a large, strong continental Polar air-
B. Frost mass collides with a smaller, weaker
maritime tropical airmass, what weather
C. Rain would most likely happen?
D. Fog A. This warm front would most likely re-
sult in sharply increasing temperatures
1005. What kind of weather does a stationary and strong storms with heavy precipita-
front bring? tion.
B. This cold front would most likely re-
sult in gently increasing temperatures and
light rain.
C. This cold front would most likely result
in sharply decreasing temperatures and
strong storms with heavy precipitation.
A. Light rain followed by clear weather D. This warm front would most likely re-
sult in sharply decreasing temperatures
B. Many days of cloudy wet weather
and light rain.
C. Severe thunderstorms and rain
1009. According to the graph, how does air
D. Cold and dry weather density change with altitude?
1006. high, thin feathery clouds
A. cumulus
B. cirrus
C. stratus
A. Density increases as altitude in-
D. none of above creases

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B. Density stabilizes as altitude in- C. The Low temperature increased every

creases day.
C. Density varies as altitude increases D. none of above
D. Density decreases as altitude in-
creases 1015. What comes with a low pressure sys-
tem?
1010. Why does air have pressure?
A. Because air has mass A. Storms
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B. Because air has no mass B. Sunny and clear
C. Because air has vapor
1016. Which of the following could contribute
D. because of clouds to an increase in pollution?
1011. During a land breeze, the air over the A. high wind velocity
sea rises due to it’s low pressure.
B. occurrence of rain and snow
A. True
B. False C. change in amount of sunlight
1012. Which weather tool measures wind di- D. heavy auto traffic
rection?
1017. The layers of the atmosphere are sepa-
A. anemometer
rated according to this change.
B. barometer
A. Altitude
C. thermomether
D. wind vane B. Air Pressure
C. Temperature
1013. Katabatic wind blows
A. Down the hill when temperature drops D. Distance from the sun
(late afternoon-evening)
B. Uphill when temperature increase 1018. what cloud are often found when a
storm is approaching; transition clouds
C. From east to west
A. cumulus
D. Always in right direction on the North-
ern hemispehre B. stratus
1014. Which of the following is an accurate C. cirrus
statement about the temperature data for
this week? D. none of above
1019. Areas of high pressure flow

A. clockwise and outward
B. clockwise and inward
A. Day 2 High is warmer than Day 4 High.
C. counterclockwise and outward
B. The High temperature increased every
day. D. counterclockwise and inward

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1020. Using the map, which statement is true 1025. Which layer of the atmosphere do we
for this particular day? live in?

A. troposhphere
B. mesosphere
C. stratosphere
D. thermosphere
A. It is raining in Danville. 1026. Weather can be explained by

B. A cold front had just moved through A. precipitation
Denver.
B. temperature
C. Air moves from low to high so it is prob-
ably windy in Miami C. humidity
D. Is is snowing in Billings, MT. D. All of the choices
1021. The temperature at which air becomes 1027. Which instrument measures humidity?
saturated
A. Hydrometer
A. Humidity
B. Anemometer
B. Front
C. Thermometer
C. Dew Point
D. Barometer
D. Cold Front
1022. The name of the system that causes the 1028. The minute-by-minute condition of the
winds to spin in a hurricane air outside is
A. The Coriolis Effect
B. The Corleone Affect
C. The Circular Wind Phenomenon
D. The East-West Effect
1023. Which layer of the atmosphere has all
of Earth’s weather? A. Weather
A. mesosphere B. Climate
B. stratosphere
C. Meteorology
C. troposphere
D. The Water Cycle
D. thermosphere
1029. is water that sinks below the sur-
1024. Which letter corresponds to low pres-
face, but moves toward the ocean.
sure area of the Doldrums?
A. A A. ground water
B. B B. surface runoff
C. C C. air mass
D. D D. precipitation

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1030. The type of cloud the is feathery 1035. A is used to detect the direction of
A. cumulus the wind
A. thermograph
B. cirrus
B. wind sock
C. cumulonimbus
C. barograph
D. stratus
D. wind vane
1031. Which of the following is the correct or-
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der of the atmosphere layers from Earth 1036. What increases air’s ability to hold more
to space? water vapor?
A. troposphere, stratosphere, meso- A. increased wind speed
sphere, thermosphere, exosphere B. decreased temperature
B. troposphere, mesosphere, thermo- C. increased temperature
sphere, exosphere, stratosphere
D. increased air pressure
C. thermosphere, stratosphere, meso-
sphere, troposphere, exosphere 1037. Name the front
D. troposphere, stratosphere, meso-
sphere, exosphere, thermosphere
1032. What flow does is the Polar Jet Stream

generally?
A. West to East
B. West to South A. cold front
C. North to West B. warm front
D. South to East C. flags
D. stationary front
1033. The average weather condition of an
area over a very long period of time is 1038. Which layer of the atmosphere is the
A. weather middle layer?
A. Troposphere
B. climate
B. Stratosphere
C. climber
C. Mesosphere
D. wind
D. Thermosphere
1034. The following characteristics explain
E. Exosphere
what type of air mass:Winter-Warm/Dry
Summer-Hot/Dry Forms over Southwest 1039. Which two properties characterize an
US and Mexico air mass?
A. Continental Polar A. temperature and moisture
B. Maritime Polar B. temperature and location
C. Continental Tropical C. temperature and pressure
D. Maritime Tropical D. moisture and pressure

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1040. Which city is experiencing thunder- 1044. This type of cloud is uniform and looks
storms? like flat sheets. It is found in the lower
layer of the atmosphere and can be fog.

A. Denver
B. New York
A. Cirrus
C. Miami
B. Cumulus
D. Boise
C. Stratus
1041. clouds form in low, flat layers. D. Fluffyus
1045. Winds are named after the direction
they are blowing
A. to
B. from
C. at
D. none of above
A. Cirrus
1046. Students in a science class performed an
B. Stratus experiment with hot and cold water. They
C. Cloudy dyed the hot water red and the cold water
blue. When the students layered the wa-
D. Cumulonimbus ter, they noticed that the hot water rose
1042. A dry and hot air mass would be to the top and the cold water sank. What
was this demonstrating?
A. Maritime polar
A. Radiation
B. Maritime tropical
B. Air Pressure
C. Continental tropical
C. Evaporation
D. Continental polar D. Density
1043. Climate can be described as 1047. What type of front has slower moving
A. a region’s average weather conditions warm air going slowly over the top of cold
over a long period of time air making clouds and a gentle, steady rain
that lasts for a long time?
B. cloud coverage that changes during a
soccer game A. cold front
C. short term physical conditions such as B. warm front
temperature C. occluded front
D. none of above D. stationary front

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1048. They are highest clouds in the sky. They 1053. The contrary to GUST is
look curly, white and feathery. Usually A. calm
mean good weather. What cloud type is
this? B. lull
1054. What does Adiabatic proces mean?

A. Proces without external heat ex-
change
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B. Proces with external heat exchange
1055. Conduction
A. Cirrus
B. Stratus
C. Cumulus
D. none of above
1049. Why do hurricanes inflict more damage

than tornadoes? A. transfer of energy by flow
A. they are larger B. transfer of energy by touch
B. they last longer C. transfer of energy by waves and rays

D. transfer of energy by wind
C. also associated with flooding and
strong rains 1056. Which tool measures air pressure?
D. all of the above A. Thermometer
B. Barometer
1050. Clouds are classified by the height
where they usually occur. C. Wind Vane
A. True D. hygrometer
B. False 1057. What type of cloud acts like a blanket
and covers the whole sky?
1051. A dry and cold air mass would be
A. Stratus
A. Maritime polar B. Cirrus
B. Continental polar C. Cumulus
C. Maritime tropical D. Cumulonimbus
D. Continental tropical 1058. Which layer is considered space?
1052. is the current state of the atmo- A. thermosphere
sphere. B. troposphere
A. Climate C. mesosphere
B. Weather D. exosphere

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1059. What is the Heat Index dependent on? 1064. this a large volume of air with a charac-
Check all that apply. teristic temperature and humidity

A. Humidity A. cloud
B. Time of day B. isobar
C. Temperature C. intermediate bar
D. Wind speed D. air mass
1060. An anemometer measurees
1065. Long, warm periods that occur between
A. wind direction ice ages are called
B. wind speed A. ice breaks
C. air temperature B. hot periods
D. rain fall
C. global melt downs
1061. are lines joining places on a map that D. interglacials
have the same air pressure.
A. Millibars 1066. Pressure Belts:30N/30Shigh pressure
(sinking air)little to no wind movement
B. Isotherms
A. horse latitude
C. Boundaries
B. ITCZ
D. Isobars
Explanation:Air pressure measurement- 1067. The symbol for high pressure is a circle
barssame-iso with
1062. What is the precipitation? A. nothing inside it
B. the letter L inside it
C. the letter H inside it
D. none of above
1068. Which tropical storm has winds that can

reach up to 120 km/hr and can be up to
1500 km in diameter?
A. Hurricanes
B. Hailstorms
A. sleet C. Thunderstorms
B. freezing rain
D. Tornadoes
C. rain
D. none of above 1069. Climate is determined by
A. latitude and precipitation
1063. What type of weather does a high pres-
sure system bring? B. dew point and wind
A. Stormy weather C. temperature and latitude
B. Clear skies, little rain D. precipitation and temperature

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1070. Shoreline erosion and coastal flooding 1075. A sea breeze is caused by warm air
are two consequences of over the land during the day.
A. increased rates of evaporation A. sinking
B. a global rise in sea level
B. rising
C. volcanic eruptions
C. condensing
D. the greenhouse effect
D. blowing
1071. ALONG a stationary front, what type of
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weather should you expect?
1076. 3 ways clouds can form (ways of cool-
A. long periods of rain ing required for saturation)?
B. clear and cold
A. Precipitation, High preasure uplift,
C. tornado Convection
D. hurricane
B. Frontal uplift, Convection, Low prea-
1072. When the air is thick and dense, it has sure uplift
air pressure.
C. Cold front, 100% RH, wind shear
A. HIGH
D. none of above
B. LOW
C. no (none) 1077. The study of the Earth’s atmosphere to
D. none of above explain forecast weather conditions is
A. Climatology
B. Weatherology
C. Meteorology
A. thermometer D. The Water Cycle

B. anemometer
1078. Which of the following may cause
C. rain gauge longterm changes in climate?
D. barometer
A. volcanic eruptions
1074. Warm saturated air contains water
B. changes in the shape of Earth’s orbit
vapor than cold saturated air.
A. more C. changes in ocean circulation
B. less D. changes in solar output

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1079. What is a blizzard? 1083. What is the temperature?

A. A huge storm that formed over warm

land that has winds over 74 miles per
hour.
B. A winter snowstorm that produces
heavy snow and winds of 35 miles per
hour or greater.
C. A winter snowstorm that produces
snow and winds of 10 miles per hour or A. 138
greater. B. 76
D. A winter snowstorm that produces C. 55
snow and winds of 200 miles per hour or
greater. D. 3
1084. What is the pressure?

1080. Which type of front causes rain/storms
followed by cooler dry weather?
A. cold front
B. warm front
C. stationary front
D. occluded front
1081. Pak Chong Meteorological Station A. 138

Which meteorological center is under the B. 76
supervision of which province?
C. 55
A. Lower Northeastern Meteorological
D. 3
Center, Nakhon Ratchasima Province
B. Upper Northeastern Meteorological 1085. evaporation is to water vapor as con-
Center, Khon Kaen Province densation is to
C. Upper Northeastern Meteorological A. high pressure

Center, Sisaket Province B. liquid water
D. Lower Northeastern Meteorological 1086. Long-term variations in weather for a
Center, Ubon Ratchathani Province particular area make up the of an area.
1082. What do differences in air pressure A. climate
cause B. stability
A. Snow C. weather
B. Rain D. meteorology
C. Sun 1087. In pressure systems, air sinks:
D. Wind A. high

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B. low 1093. Use Figure 17-2 to pick the correct an-

C. medium swer choice.
D. none A. temperature neither decreases nor in-
creases
1088. Which type of front is located near
B. temperature decreases with increas-
Boston?
ing altitude
C. temperature increases with increas-
ing altitude
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D. air pressure increases
1094. What is an air mass?
A. large volume of air that is named for its
A. warm front source region which gives the air mass its
temperature and moisture characteristics
B. cold front
B. large volume of air that has both warm
C. stationary front
and cold air
D. occluded front
C. large volume of air that has high humid-
1089. as altitude increases air density does ity and warm air
what? D. large volume of air that is classified ac-
A. increases cording to its air pressure
B. decreases 1095. when air is cooled near its dewpoint
C. stays the same near the ground
D. none of these A. Columbus
1090. On a weather map, an air mass that is B. cumulus
very warm and dry would be labeled C. Cirrus
A. mP D. Stratus
B. mT
1096. The symbol on a weather map for a
C. cP warm front is what?
D. cT A. a line with triangles on it
1091. This type of forecast is created by ap- B. a line with circles on it
plying physical principles and mathematics C. a line with semi-circles on it
to atmospheric variables
D. a line with circles on it
A. digital
1097. When a warm air mass and a cold air
B. analog
mass meet and neither can move the other,
1092. Which choice puts the planets in order? the result is a(n)-
A. Earth, Mercury, Jupiter A. warm front
B. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus B. stationary front
C. Mars, Saturn, Mercury C. cold front
D. none of above D. occluded front

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1098. What type of air mass forms over A. proteins

oceans? B. Earth’s present conditions

A. continental C. early Earth’s conditions
B. maritime
D. they didn’t mean to mimic anything in
C. polar particular
D. tropical
1103. A boundary between two air masses
1099. The layers of the atmosphere that get of different density, moisture, or temper-
hotter with increased altitude are the ature is called a
A. thermosphere and mesosphere A. Station model
B. troposphere and mesosphere B. Front
C. thermosphere and stratosphere C. Low pressure
D. stratosphere and mesosphere D. Radio Model
1100. Once the sun’s energy reaches the 1104. This forms when dense air quickly
earth’s atmosphere through radiation, it moves into an area occupied by warm air.
is circulated within the atmosphere and A. warm front
oceans through
B. cold front
A. conduction
C. stationary front
B. convection
D. occluded front
C. insulation
D. radiation 1105. Which city is closest to a high pressure
system?
1101. The process of roasting a marshmallow
in a campfire would be an example of
which type of heat transfer?
A. Radiation
B. Conduction
C. Confection
D. none of above A. New York
1102. The apparatus in the miller-urey experi- B. Miami
ment was used to mimic what? C. Minneapolis
D. Boise
1106. Which satellite can be used for rainfall

measurement?
A. QUICKbird
B. TRMM
C. IRS-P6
D. None

1.1 METEOROLOGY 122
1107. What type of precipitation are actually 1112. The function of the ozone layer is to
frozen rain drops
A. snow
B. sleet
C. hail
D. rain
1108. When does a sunspot occur?
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A. allow UV rays to get to Earth
A. when there aren’t enough particles on
the sun to create heat B. block UV rays from getting to Earth
B. when too many particles on the moon C. keep oxygen in
get reflected from the sun’s rays
D. allow meteors to get to Earth
C. when too many particles moving on the
sun get stuck together 1113. What type of breeze happens near the
D. none of above ocean at night?
1109. What is a boundary between two air A. Land Breeze
masses of different density, moisture, or
B. Sea Breeze
temperature
A. Station model 1114. High Pressure systems usually are asso-
B. Front ciated with and low-pressure systems
C. Low pressure are associated with
D. High pressure A. fair weather, clouds and precipitation
1110. When air masses collide is called what? B. fair weather, fair weather
A. Air Mass C. clouds and precipitation, fair weather
B. Front D. the jet stream, fronts
C. Weather
D. Climate 1115. All will happen if the ozone layer contin-
ues to disappear, except
1111. What is the dew point?
A. Increase sea level

A. 138
B. Melting of polar ice
B. 76
C. 55 C. Lower rates of cancer
D. 3 D. Increase sea surface temperatures

1.1 METEOROLOGY 123
1116. A storm wiht lightning and thunder, 1120. The movement in the air caused by dif-
composed of cumulonimbus clouds and usu- ferences in air pressure?
ally associated with gusty winds, heavy

A. Rain
rain and sometimes, hail and tornadoes.
B. Wind
A. Hail storm
C. Air
B. Thunderstorm
D. Earthquake
C. Sandstorm
E. Tsunami
D. none of above
1121. The barometer shows the air pressure is
1117. Name the front dropping. What kind of weather will likely
pass through our area in the coming days?
A. clear, fair weather
B. cloudy, rainy weather
1122. The ocean current that travels up the At-
A. warm front lantic Ocean and heats up the United Kin-
B. stationary front dom is
C. cold front A. Gulf Shores
D. ice cream cones B. Gulf Stream
C. Gopher
1118. What front is being forecast for this
state? D. Gulf Coast
1123. Which of the following affects the cli-
mate of an area?
A. ocean currents
B. large bodies of water
C. large cities
D. all of these
A. cold front 1124. The layer that has ions.
B. warm front A. troposphere
C. stationary front B. exosphere
D. occluded front C. ionosphere
D. thermosphere
1119. Fair weather can usually be expected
with the approach of which of the follow- 1125. What do meteorologists use instru-
ing? ments to measure?
A. anticyclone A. fire
B. low pressure system B. earth
C. cyclone C. wind
D. none of these D. height

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1126. Which layer of the atmosphere contains 1131. What are needed to form a hurricane?
a special form of oxygen called the ozone
layer?
A. mesosphere
B. stratosphere
C. thermosphere
D. ionosphere
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1127. What types of weather is associated
with a maritime tropical? A. Moisture and heat
A. dry and warm B. Temperature and low pressure
B. dry and cold C. Thunderstorms and dry air
C. wet and cold
D. Humidity and cool water
D. wet and warm
1132. Which front does this image represent?
1128. It’s awfully windy today! Which tool
should I use?
A. anemometer
B. barometer
C. thermometer
D. hygrometer A. Cold front
1129. Give the number and name of the layer B. Stationaryfront
that contains the ozone layer.
C. Occluded Front
D. Warmfront
1133. Which layer is the outermost layer?

A. troposphere
A. 1.Troposphere B. thermosphere
B. 2.Stratosphere C. exosphere
C. 3.Mesosphere D. mesosphere
D. none of above
1134. Type of front:when warm air overtakes
1130. Warm air rises, condenses, and precipi- cold air
tation occurs.
A. Warm
A. high pressure and cyclone
B. low pressure and cyclone B. Cold
C. high pressure and anticyclone C. Occluded

D. low pressure and anticyclone D. Stationary

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1135. What does the “L” on a weather map C. stratus

mean D. none of above

1139. The deflection of wind and water due to
the rotation of the Earth
A. Greenhouse Effect
B. Coriolis Effect
C. Milankovitch Cycles
D. Global Warming
A. low pressure
1140. Which of the following would be used to
B. lonely pressure measure how much snow can be expected
C. lumpy pressure in the next 3 days?
D. lucky pressure A. weather buoy
1136. When environmental Lapse Rate (ELR) B. computer simulator

is equal to the Adiabatic Lapse Rate (ALR), C. barometer
then which of the following occurs? D. none of above
A. Sub adiabatic lapse rate
1141. When we predict the path of a hurri-
B. Super adiabatic lapse rate cane, why is a cone shape used to show
C. Neutral lapse rate the storm’s possible path?
D. Adiabatic lapse rate
1137. Which layer of the atmosphere contains

the ozone layer?
A. Troposphere
B. Stratosphere
C. Mesosphere A. The hurricane might get bigger.
D. Thermosphere B. The hurricane might start to spin the
E. Exosphere opposite way
C. The hurricane might be affected by
1138. low thick clouds (sometimes fog) landmasses in it’s path
D. It is hard to tell exactly where a hurri-
cane will go
1142. What type of cloud is formed at high al-

titudes and is made of ice crystals?
A. cirrus
B. stratus
A. cirrus C. cumulonimbus
B. cumulus D. ground fog

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1143. Dew is most likely to form 1147. What are the high altitude, wispy look-
ing clouds?
A. cumulus
B. cumulonimbus
C. stratus
D. cirrus
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1148. What is a meteorologist?
A. after heavy rain on a humid day A. Someone who predicts the weather
B. when humid air contacts cold ground B. Someone who cooks food
C. when the snow on the ground melts C. Someone who collects dolls
D. during windy nights when it rains D. Someone who fixes things
1144. This is the layer where meteors, or 1149. What is the air pressure tendency?
shooting stars, burn up.
A. Troposphere
B. Stratosphere
C. Mesosphere
D. Thermosphere
1145. A narrow band of fast moving winds

high in the atmosphere
A. Jet Stream
A. Rising
B. doldrums
B. Constant
C. westerlies
C. Falling steadily
D. polar easterlies D. none of above
1146. Which statement correctly defines 1150. The rotation of the earth causes-
wind?
A. The greenhouse effect
A. Wind is the movement of air from ar- B. storms to rotate in the clockwise direc-
eas of low pressure to areas of high pres- tion in the northern hemisphere
sure
C. the coriolis effect
B. Wind is the movement of air to a colder
D. storms to lose velocity in the equato-
area in the atmosphere.
rial zone
C. Wind is the movement of air from ar-
eas of high pressure to areas of low pres- 1151. Lines on a weather map connecting
sure. points of equal atmospheric pressure
D. Wind is the movement of air pushed A. isobars

around and bouncing off Earth’s surface. B. contour lines

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C. isotherms 1157. What does the “H” on the weather map

D. iso points mean

1152. A line connecting points having the same
atmospheric pressure reduced to a com-
mon datum, usually sea level.
A. Isobar
B. Isobathytherm
C. Isobath
D. Isoclinal
1153. The lower the latitude (closer to the A. hot pressure
equator), the-
B. happy pressure
A. higher the temperature
B. lower the temperature C. high pressure
1154. Which front does the picture represent? D. handy pressure
1158. Areas near the ocean are generally

warmer than areas father inland during
the
A. summer
B. winter
A. cold front C. windows
B. warm front
D. pressure
C. stationary front
D. occluded front 1159. The moist adiabatic lapse rate is
1155. A large volume of air that has nearly the A. 9.8oC/km
same temperature and humidity is called
what? B. 8oC/km
A. front C. 6oC/km
B. air pressure
D. Feel/how much
C. air mass
D. precipitation 1160. Across the U.S., planetary winds blow
1156. What layer of the atmosphere has the from the
ozone layer A. East to West
A. stratosphere
B. West to East
B. mesosphere
C. exosphere C. Northeast to Southwest
D. troposphere D. Southwest to Northeast

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1161. Why is Earth’s atmosphere important to 1166. Planet Earth rotates. How does this mo-
living things? tion affect global winds?
A. It is a weather pattern that forms over A. It causes the winds to curve.
tropical Pacific Ocean B. It causes the winds to blow.
B. They are calm to weak winds located C. It causes the winds to move straight
near the equator and it is a global wind from the equator to the poles.
C. It provides underground water D. There is no wind movement.
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D. It provides all the gases needed to
1167. What type of precipitation is solid and
surive and allows water to exist as a liq-
comes in many different sizes?
uid
A. Hail
1162. sea breeze
B. Rain
A. cool air moves down a mountain slope
C. Sleet
towards a valley
D. Snow
B. warm air rises up a mountain slope
from a valley 1168. What is the name of a scientist who
C. cool land air flows to the ocean at studies weather?
night, causing warm ocean air to rise A. biologist
D. cool ocean air flows to land during the B. geologist
day, causing warm land air to rise C. optometrist
1163. The handle of a metal spoon warms up D. meteorologist
when it is placed in a hot bowl of soup be-
cause of 1169. The receive the light at an angle
which spreads out the concentration of
A. Convection light.
B. Conduction A. equator
C. Radiation B. poles
D. insulation.
1170. Which layer is the outermost layer?
1164. What instrument is used to measure
temperature?
A. a radiosonde
B. a barometer
C. a thermometer
D. an anemometer
1165. Most hurricanes
A. cannot be seen from space
B. cross exposed land A. troposphere
C. become dangerous category 5 storms B. thermosphere
D. lose their power when they move into C. exosphere
cooler waters or moves over land D. mesosphere

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1171. Which of the following electromagnetic 1176. Which area has a higher albedo?
waves has the shortest wavelength? A. Arctic Circle

A. infrared rays B. Virginia
B. ultraviolet C. Cuba
C. radio waves D. Florida
D. X-rays
1172. An anemometer measures
A. wind speed
B. temperature
C. rainfall
D. none of above
A. warm front
1173. Which answer shows the symbol for a
warm front? B. cold front
C. occluded front
D. stationary front
A. 1178. This is the symbol for which type of

front?
B.
C. A. cold front
B. warm front
D.
C. stationary front
1174. Air that has reached its water vapor ca- D. occluded front
pacity is said to be
1179. When water falls from the sky in the
A. dry
form of rain, hail, sleet or snow it is called
B. unstable
C. stable
D. saturated
1175. Liquid or solid water molecules that fall
from earth’s atmosphere and reach the
ground
A. Precipitation A. Weather
B. Condensation B. Cloud dropping
C. Evaporation C. Precipitation
D. none of above D. Condensation

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1180. Where radio signals bounce back to 1186. Which state is not in tornado Alley?
Earth.
A. ionosphere
B. thermosphere
C. troposphere
D. mesosphere
1181. What is the main factor that determines
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global wind patterns? A. Kansas
A. Warm air rising over land allows B. Florida
cooler air from the ocean to blow inland.
C. Texas
B. The uneven heating of Earth’s surface
by the Sun. D. Nebraska
C. The land near the ocean heats up
1187. What instrument measures wind
faster than the ocean water.
speed?
D. none of above
A. anemometer
1182. A is a closed narrow glass tube con- B. barometer
taining liquids, generally
C. thermometer
A. barograph, water
D. rain gauge
B. thermograph, water
C. thermometer, mercury 1188. Which biome is best represented by this
D. aneroid barometer, mercury climatograph?
1183. What causes wind to blow?

A. Differences in longitude
B. Shock waves from clouds
C. Differences in air temperature and
pressure
D. The rotation of the earth
1184. Cool air sinks, no clouds, and clear skies. A. Tundra
A. high pressure and cyclone B. Desert

B. low pressure and cyclone C. Tropical rainforest
C. high pressure and anticyclone D. none of above
D. low pressure and anticyclone
1189. Are symbolic illustrations showing the
1185. What type of breeze happens near the weather occurring at a given reporting sta-
ocean during the day? tion. What is the name of this call?
A. Land Breeze A. Sea Breeze
B. Sea Breeze B. Station model

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1190. A low pressure system usually causes 1196. Of the four locations, which one would
A. Clearing Weather have the most humid air and why?

B. Wet Weather A. Virginia is a coastal state and should
C. Fair Weather be the most humid because of the ocean
bordering one side.
D. none of above
B. Florida should be most humid because
1191. lines on a weather map that connect ar- it is semi-tropical and surrounded by wa-
eas of equal air pressure ter on three sides.
A. isobars
C. Arizona because it is the warmest of
B. barometer the four states.
C. thermometer
D. Alaska because it is the coldest of the
D. none of above four states and is bordered by the ocean.
1192. how is climate climate affecting people
A. they are not affecting people 1197. clouds are made up of
B. it is affecting people by the food we A. water (condensation droplets)
eat, the water we drink, the air we
breathe, and the weather we experience. B. granite
C. it is affecting peoples health C. iron and nickel

D. none of above D. gas
1193. What type of weather and climate data
are recorded? 1198. Within layer 2, what happens to the
temperature as you go higher?
A. precipitation and wind direction
B. precipitation and topography
C. temperature and precipitation
D. topography and wind direction
1194. What tool measures wind speed and di-
rection?
A. Thermometer
A. It increases
B. Barometer
B. It decreases
C. Anemometer
D. Rain gauge 1199. The force exerted by the weight of the
1195. The layers of the atmosphere are classi- air above is called
fied according to changes in A. convergence
A. altitude
B. the Coriolis effect
B. density
C. composition C. divergence
D. temperature D. air pressure

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1200. The troposphere gets colder as you go

up. What is the reason for this?
A. the troposphere is heated by the sun
reacting with oxygen (ozone)
B. the troposphere is heated by Earth’s
surface
A. cloudy
C. the troposphere is heated by Carbon
B. windy
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dioxide heat release
D. it is getting closer to outerspace C. clear skies
D. hurricane
1201. This tool measures wind direction.
1206. What percentage of our atmosphere is
A. anemometer
made up of other gases such as argon, wa-
B. wind vane ter vapor, and carbon dioxide?
C. barometer A. 1%
D. rain gauge B. 21%
C. 78%
1202. Which of the following energy sources
feed hurricanes? D. 90%
A. Precipitation 1207. Cloud type
B. Low Pressure
C. Cold Winds
D. Ocean’s Latent Heat
1203. Why are areas near the equator heated

more than areas near the poles?
A. closer to the sun
A. cumulus
B. receives more direct sunlight
B. altocumulus
C. receives more sun, right
C. cumulonimbus
D. none of above
D. none of above
1204. Urban areas are warmer than rural ar- 1208. The polar zone-
eas because
A. receives the most insolation (solar ra-
A. There are more reflective surfaces diation) and has the least albedo (reflec-
B. More heat is generated by buildings, tion)
cars and industry B. receives the least insolation (solar ra-
C. Rainfall is higher in urban areas diation) and has the highest albedo (reflec-
tion)
D. Sun’s radiation is stronger in cities
C. receives the most insolation (solar ra-
1205. Which of the following best describes diation) and has the highest albedo (reflec-
the weather conditions of location B? tion)

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D. receives the least insolation (solar ra- 1214. In which layer of the atmosphere do
diation) and has the least albedo (reflec- satellites orbit Earth?
tion)

1209. What type of of air mass is dry and A. Troposphere
cold?
A. mP B. Stratosphere
B. mT
C. cP C. Mesosphere
D. cT
D. Thermosphere
1210. What is useful to us about the iono-
sphere?
A. weather is created in this layer E. Exosphere
B. It breaks up large space rocks before
they make contact with Earth
C. it is able to reflect radio waves 1215. Which type of cloud is this?
D. none of above
1211. Which of the following best describes cli-

mate?
A. day to day conditions of the atmo-
sphere at a place in regards to heat, dry-
ness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc.
B. long-term conditions (30 or more
years) of the atmosphere at a place in re-
gards to heat, dryness, sunshine, wind,
rain, etc.
1212. This type of front is associated with pe-

riods of heavy rain.
A. Cirrus
A. warm front
B. cold front
B. Stratus
C. stationary front
D. occluded front C. Cumulus
1213. What clothing might you put on if you
were going to the beach inthe summer? D. Cumulonimbus
A. Long Sleeve Shirt
B. Swimsuit
C. Raincoat 1216. What temperature does this thermome-
D. Gloves ter show?

1.1 METEOROLOGY 134
A. warm
B. global
C. local
D. cold
1219. These are cumulus clouds that have

risen very high into the atmosphere. Rain
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is falling from them and they can lead to
severe thunderstorms and sometimes tor-
nadoes.
A. cloud
B. cumulus
C. stratus
D. cirrus
1220. Low clouds (like fog), that are thick,

cover the sky, and block the sun. Usu-
ally bring continuous precipitation (rain or
snow).
A. stratus
B. cumulus
C. cirrus
D. fog
1221. Less dense air rises.

A. 52 degrees F A. True
B. 34 degrees F
B. False
C. 10 degrees F
D. none of above 1222. When there is LOW air pressure, there
is of air molecules.
1217. In order, what are the correct metric
units for mass, length, and volume? A. a lot
A. pounds, meters, liters B. a little bit

B. grams, inches, liters C. none
C. grams, meters, liters D. none of above
D. grams, meters, ounces
1223. Continental air masses form over
1218. What type of winds are short distance,
A. Land
due to unequal heating in a small area, and
occur as land breeze or sea breeze? B. Water

1.1 METEOROLOGY 135
1224. Without any greenhouse effect the 1230. hot, dry air masses form mostly in sum-
Earth would be mer over dry areas of the southwest and
northern Mexico

A. Fine
B. Too Cold to Support Life A. Continental Polar
C. Very Hot B. Maritime Polar
D. none of above C. Continental Tropical
1225. Year-round heat and heavy rainfall are D. Maritime Tropical
features of a climate.
1231. List the layers of the atmosphere in or-
A. dry
der from the Earth to Space
B. tropical
A. troposphere, stratosphere, meso-
C. polar sphere, thermosphere
D. temperate
B. thermosphere, troposphere, strato-
1226. What would a warm, dry air mass be sphere, mesosphere
named? C. troposphere, stratosphere, thermo-
A. maritime Polar sphere, mesosphere
B. maritime Tropical D. troposphere, stratosphere, thermo-
C. continental Polar sphere, mesosphere, thermosphere
D. continental Tropical 1232. The gradual increase in the temperature
1227. Isobars of the atmosphere is known as
A. horizontal lines A. Greenhouse Effect

B. Lines of unequal pressure B. Global Warming
C. Lines of equal pressure C. Carbon Dioxide Gases
D. parallel lines D. Methane
1233. Warm air
both the ionosphere and the exosphere?
A. troposphere A. rises
B. stratosphere B. sinks
C. mesosphere C. stinks
D. thermosphere D. rice
1229. What type of air mass is found over
1234. If an air mass is sinking, it must be
Antarctica? (cold land)
A. cold and less dense
A. Maritime Polar
B. Maritime Tropical B. cold and more dense
C. Continental Polar C. warm and more dense
D. Continental Tropical D. warm and less dense

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1235. Cloud Identification-what do you think 1238. When a rapidly moving cold air mass
the clouds below 6 km are made of overtakes a slow-moving warm air mass,
the result is a(an)
A. cold front
B. occluded front
C. warm front
D. stationary front
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1239. Which direction do air masses move?
A. North to South
B. East to West
C. South to North
A. water D. West to East
B. ice
1240. What does a thermometer measure?
1236. In which layer of the atmosphere does A. length
ozone protect us from the sun’s UV radia- B. amount of humidity
tion?
C. temperature
A. troposphere
D. wind speed
B. stratosphere
1241. Saturated means
C. mesosphere
A. full of dry air
D. none of above
B. full of water vapor
1237. What is weather? C. half full of moisture
D. half full
1242. a fast-moving warm air mass overtakes
a slower cold air mass; the warm air
moves over the cold air
A. cold front
B. warm front
C. stationary front
D. occluded front
A. What’s happening in space at a time 1243. Whether the day will be rainy or dry
and place. can be predicted somewhat accurately by
B. What’s happening in our atmosphere a long-term forecast at the range.
at a time and place. A. one-to two-month
C. The average weather over many years B. four-to seven-day
D. The average temperature over many C. one-to three-day
years. D. one-to two-week

1.1 METEOROLOGY 137
1244. T/F Sea smoke:Fog caused by cold air D. it allows heat to leave the earth so that
flowing over a body of comparatively the earth is cool
warm water, the vapor condensing in

small convective columns near the wa- 1250. Which layer is known to have “shooting
ter surface and giving the appearance of stars”?
smoke or steam A. mesosphere
A. True B. stratosphere
B. False C. thermosphere
1245. Typical WARM Front clouds D. exosphere
A. CB, TCU
1251. Which of the following steps SHOULD
B. NS, CU NOT be taken in preparation for a cyclonic
C. NS, ST storm?
D. ST, CU A. Have battery operated radios and
flashlights
1246. What is meteorology?
B. Leave town even though you weren’t
A. The study of meteors. ordered to evacuate
B. The study of weather. C. Board up your house
C. The study of climate. D. Have plenty of food and water
D. The study of the atmosphere.
1252. What is the process in which a liquid
1247. What happens to the air pressure of the turns into a gas?
air as you go higher in the atmosphere?
A. Evaporation
A. air pressure increases
B. Sublimation
B. air pressure decreases
C. Condensation
1248. It is the movement of wind from sea to D. Precipitation
land that occurs during daytime.
A. Land Breeze 1253. What is the mixture of gases surround-
ing the Earth called?
B. Air Breeze
A. carbon
C. Sea Breeze
B. concentration
D. Water Breeze
C. atmosphere
1249. Which fact about the atmosphere is
D. emissions
WRONG?
A. it contains oxygen for us to breathe, 1254. Which water cycle stage creates clouds?
which allows us to live on earth
A. Transpiration
B. it blocks the sun’s dangerous rays
B. Evaporation
from reaching earth
C. Condensation
C. it traps heat so the earth is a comfort-
able temperature D. Runoff

1.1 METEOROLOGY 138
1255. Which of these is most likely to produce B. cold air moving over a warm lake
heavy thunderstorms? C. high to no capping
A. A warm front D. low wind shear
B. A cold front
1261. What is the symbol for a Cold Front?
C. An area of high pressure
A.
D. An occluded front
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1256. what precipitation type is ice that is B.
tossed around in a cumulonimbus cloud;
does not usually form in the winter
C.
A. rain
B. snow D. none of above
C. sleet
1262. The boundary between troposphere and
D. freezing rain stratosphere is
E. hail A. Lonosphere
1257. What happens to air pressure as alti- B. Atmosphere
tude decreases? C. Troposphere
A. air pressure decreases D. none of above
B. air pressure stays the same
1263. The phase change from water vapor to
C. air pressure increases liquid water is known as:
D. Air pressure does not change.
1258. What’s the humidity and temperature of

a continental tropical air mass?
A. Wet and cold
B. Dry and warm
C. Wet and warm
A. evaporation
D. Dry and cold
B. precipitation
1259. The average daily temperature over a C. condensation
long period of time is known as
D. sublimation
A. Weather
1264. This type of front brings intense pre-
B. Climate
cipitation, sometimes leading to thunder-
C. Biome storms.
D. Atmosphere A. cold front
1260. Which environmental condition is UNFA- B. warm front

VORABLE for lake effect snow? C. stationary front
A. frozen lake D. none of above

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1265. This tool measures the wind speed. 1270. What is the current state of the atmo-
A. barometer sphere called?

B. anemometer A. stability
C. thermometer B. weather
D. my dog when he sticks his head out the C. climate

window D. rain
1266. METARs and TAFs report cloud base and 1271. Intensity of turbulence which causes the
top? occupants to feel a light strain on their
A. in 100’s feet AAL seatbelts or shoulder straps.
B. in 100’s feet AMSL A. Severe
C. meters AGL B. Moderate
D. none of above C. Light

D. none of above
1267. Which layer is known as the weather
layer? 1272. Which of the following would be the
A. stratopshere most reliable forecast?
B. thermosphere A. 1-3 day
C. mesosphere B. 4-7 day
D. troposphere C. 1 week
D. 2 week
1268. Choose the best forecast for Miami on
Saturday. 1273. The boundary between two air masses
is called a/an-
A. flood
B. front
C. climate
D. storm
A. sunny skies 1274. How are decreasing temperatures likely

to affect air density
A. They will increase the air density
C. rain
B. They will decrease the air density
D. snow
C. They will stabilize the air density
1269. Wind Systems:wind comes from the D. They can either increase or decrease
east air density
A. polar easterlies
1275. Dead plant material is buried year after
B. prevailing westerlies year. What will happen the material?
C. trade winds A. The material will become less dense
D. none of above over time

1.1 METEOROLOGY 140
B. The density of the material will in- B. mT and cT

crease over time C. cP and mT
1276. As altitude increases what happens to D. mP and cT
the density of the air?
1282. What breeze does the image depict?
A. Increases
B. Decreases
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1277. Which area has the best chance of clear
weather?
A. A
B. B
C. C A. Sea
D. D B. Lunar
1278. do you think that creating tesla cars will C. Solar

benefit the climate D. Land
A. maybe
B. yes
C. no
D. im not sure
1279. What is adiabatic cooling?

A. Air condenses as it rises
B. Temperature of air increases as it
A. anemometer
rises and expands
B. sling psychrometer
C. Air condenses as it falls
C. wind vane
D. Temperature of air decreases as it
rises and expands D. barometer
1280. What must be present to create the 1284. The Coriolis effect is the curving of
magnetic field on Earth? wind across Earth. What causes winds to
curve?
A. an electrical field
A. Earth’s revolution
B. a field of daisies
B. Earth’s magnetic field
C. polarity differences in temperature
over time C. Earth’s rotation
D. none of above D. Earth’s gravitational pull
1281. Which air masses have the greatest ef- 1285. What is a good reason why planes fly
fect on weather conditions in much of the in the stratosphere?
United States? A. the winds here create mild weather
A. mP and cP patterns

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B. lightening doesn’t strike as much here 1291. The type of thunderstorm that produces
C. there is no weather here nearly all of the significant tornadoes is
the

D. none of above
1286. means the temperature changes with-
out adding or removing of heat energy;
the temperature changes only because of
changes in pressure
A. conduction
B. adiabatic process
C. convection A. Thunderstorm cluster
D. radiation B. Squall line
C. Single cell
1287. Measures wind direction and arrow
points where wind comes from (originates D. Super cell
from). What is this instrument call? 1292. The air in the troposphere has a greater
A. Barometer density than the air in any other layer of
B. Wind vane the atmosphere,
C. Psychrometer A. True
D. Saturated Air B. False
1288. what phase of matter does not have a 1293. Which clouds are often associated with
definite shape or volume thunder and lightning?
A. solid A. cirrostratus
B. liquid B. altostratus
C. gas C. cumulonimbus
D. atmosphere D. clouded
1289. Winds blowing inland from oceans tend 1294. “A tropical cyclone is a very strong trop-
to have greater moisture than winds blow- ical storm that starts in the ocean waters
ing over land. How does the high moisture near the equator. The storm moves its
content affect the coastal area climate? way toward where the air is cooler, which
is usually away from the equator. The
A. Dry period wind gets stronger, and the rain gets heav-
B. Heavy Precipitation ier.” What can be concluded about a tropi-
C. Lots of Fog cal storm as it moves away from the equa-
tor?
D. Sunshine
1290. Humidity is the
A. Amount of Water Vapor in the Air
B. Amount of Wind in the Air
C. Amount of Precipitation in the Air
D. Amount of Pressure in the Air

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A. It disappears. 1299. If a cold front is currently passing

B. Its strength does not change. through the city of Denver, what type of
weather conditions is Denver most likely
C. It gets stronger. experiencing?
D. It gets weaker. A. warm, foggy weather
1295. is the study of the atmosphere, at- B. cooler, dry weather
mospheric phenomena, and atmospheric ef- C. hot, dry weather
fects on our weather.
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D. thunderstorms
A. Astronomy
B. Meteorology 1300. What type of weather would a continen-
tal tropical air mass bring?
C. Climatology
A. dry and cold weather
D. Cosmology
B. wet and cold weather
1296. This layer of Earth’s atmosphere is C. dry and warm weather
where jets often fly (near the bottom of
this layer) and ozone gas is found (in the D. wet and warm weather
upper half of this layer).
1301. Which statement is true?
A. exosphere
B. stratosphere
C. troposphere
D. mesosphere
E. thermosphere
1297. Who is the “Father of Thai Meteorol-

A. A is the center of a Low pressure sys-
ogy”?
tem and B is the center of a High pressure
A. Her Royal Highness Princess Maha system
Chakri Sirindhorn Krom Phraya Damrong
B. A is the center of a High pressure sys-
Rajanubhab
tem and B is the center of a Low pressure
B. His Royal Highness Krom Luang system
Chumphon Khet Udomsak
C. A and B are the centers of two Low
C. Somdej Phra Mahitalathibet Adulyadej pressure systems
Vikrom Phra Borommaratchchanok
D. A and B are the centers of two High
D. Major General Phra Chao Wora- pressure systems
wongtheo Krommuean Narathipphong
Praphan 1302. Which clouds show the LEAST Coriolis Ef-
fect?
1298. Which global wind system blows from
the East to the West and begins near the A. A
North and South Poles? B. B
A. Prevailing Westerlies C. C
B. Polar Easterlies D. D

1.1 METEOROLOGY 143
1303. Which shows examples of precipita- 1308. What direction is the cold front moving
tion? on the map?

A. sleet, hail, water
B. run off, hail, snow
C. heat, rain, snow
D. hail, rain, snow
1304. When a material in liquid state isgiven

energy, it changes its phase from liquid to A. Southwest
vapor; the energy absorbed in this process
is called B. Northwest
A. EVAPORATION C. Southeast
B. CONDENSATION D. Northeast
C. HEAT OF VAPORIZATION 1309. Which gas is most important for under-

D. sublimation standing atmospheric processes?
A. carbon dioxide
1305. If the air is only holding one-third as
B. oxygen
much moisture as it can possibly hold,
what is the relative humidity? C. water vapor
A. 50% D. ozone
B. 25% 1310. A storm is a(an)
C. 33% A. “dome” of water that sweeps across
D. 67% the coast where a hurricane lands
B. huge body of air that has similar tem-
1306. What is needed for a thunderstorm to perature, humidity, and air pressure at
form? any given height
A. A stable atmosphere C. boundary where unlike air masses
B. Lightning and thunder meet and do not easily mix
C. An unstable atmosphere D. violent disturbance in the atmosphere
D. Wet sinking air 1311. What two planets are closest to the
Sun?
1307. what is the meaning of conduction
A. Mars and Earth
A. when heat transfers from objects that
are not touching B. Venus and Mercury
B. heat rise C. Neptune and Uranus
C. cold fall D. none of above
D. when heat transfers from objects that 1312. Clouds that look like fluffy, rounded
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C. Hail
D. Snow
1317. Any form of water that falls from clouds
is called
A. dew
B. evaporation
A. cirrus C. condensation
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B. cumulonimbus D. precipitation
C. cumulus 1318. Name the satellite which can provide
D. stratus vertical profile of atmosphere.
A. CALIPSO
1313. This word is used to describe rain, snow,
hail, & sleet. B. MODIS
A. condensation C. GOES
D. INSAT
B. precipitation
C. evaporation 1319. cloud type
D. hydration
1314. Describe the effect that unequal heating

of land and water surfaces near the ocean.
A. The unequal heating of land and wa-
ter surfaces causes breezes to blow in dif-
A. cirrus
ferent directions during the day and night.
The wind blows toward the land by day B. cirrostratus
and toward the ocean at night. C. cirrocumulus
B. Warm air rising over land allows D. none of above
1320. What does a High Pressure system do
C. Prevailing Westerlies to the weather?
D. Polar Easterlies A. Makes a cloudy, gray day
1315. What is the 2nd most abundant gas in B. Makes a sunny, nice day
the atmosphere? C. No change
A. Nitrogen D. none of above
B. Oxygen 1321. Results from Earth’s rotation and
C. Argon causes deflection to the right in the N and
to the left in the S
D. Carbon Dioxide
A. Coriolis Effect
1316. What is precipitation? B. Foucault Pendulum
A. Rain C. Revolution
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1322. What is the coldest layer of the atmo- C. cloudy skies

sphere? D. none of these

A. troposphere
1327. Nimbus is a large rain cloud.
B. mesosphere
A. gray
C. stratosphere
B. pink
D. thermosphere
C. puffy
1323. Which type of front is slow moving and D. white
causes steady rain followed by warmer
weather? 1328. The amount of water vapor in the atmo-
sphere is called
A. occluded front
A. moisture
B. stationary front
B. humor
C. cold front
C. humidity
D. warm front
D. precipitation
1324. A rain gauge measures
1329. The source region of a cP air mass is
A. wind direction
most likely
B. temperature
A. central canada
C. rainfall
B. coastal canada
D. none of above
C. gulf of mexico
1325. What direction is the front moving? D. north Pacific Ocean
1330. The average, year-after-year condi-

tions of temperature, precipitation, winds,
and cloud in an area are known as its
A. climate
B. weather
C. global warming
A. North to South D. seasons
B. East to West
1331. The amount of water vapor present in
C. Its not moving the air is called
D. Higher in the altitude
1326. A student heard the weather forecaster

on television say that an area of low pres-
sure was located over his region of the
state. What type of weather is the area
most likely to experience?
A. sunny skies A. weather
B. clear skies B. humidity

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C. air mass 1337. What is wind?

D. dew point A. air that is moving primarily in a hori-
zontal direction
1332. The amount of water vapor that air can
hold is dependent on B. air that is moving primarily in a vertical
direction
A. location.
C. air that is moving above 15 mph
B. timezone.
D. none of above
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C. humidity
D. temperature. 1338. Measures Dry Bulb (air temp) & Wet
Bulb (cooling temp). What is this instru-
1333. Name the fast moving ribbon of air that ment call?
moves near the top of the troposphere?
A. Barometer
B. Wind vane
C. Psychrometer
D. Saturated Air
1339. What type of precipitation forms as

A. doldrums snow, then raindrops that refreeze before
hitting the ground?
B. jet stream
A. Hail
C. easterlies
D. trade winds B. Rain
C. Sleet
1334. What direction does the wind blow dur-
ing high air pressure in the United States? D. Snow
A. Clockwise 1340. What is the most powerful part of a hur-

B. Counterclockwise ricane?
A. Eye
1335. Clouds are made up of tiny drops of
or ice. The moisture in the cloud affects B. Eye Wall
the weather. C. Storm surge
A. dust D. Edge
B. water
1341. When I cold front is approaching, what
C. cloud particles happens?
D. precipitation A. warm air is pushing under cold air
1336. These clouds are puffy white clouds causing humid weather and lower temper-
with flat bottoms. atures
A. Cirrus B. warm air is pushing under cold air

causing humid weather and higher tem-
B. Cumulus peratures
C. Stratus C. warm air rises, cools, and causes rain
D. none of above and thunderstorms

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D. cold air is pushed over warm air caus- 1347. What storm is a funnel shaped cloud?
ing rain and thunderstorms

1342. All winds are caused by differences in
A. droughts
B. scattered
C. clouds
D. air pressure
1343. The calm area in the center of a hurri-

cane is called the
A. draft
B. funnel
A. tornado
C. eye
B. hurricane
D. squall
C. thunderstorm
1344. A forecast that involves comparing cur- D. none of above
rent weather patterns to past weather
patterns is called 1348. A wet, cold air mass would be-
A. Digital forecast A. maritime tropical
B. Analog forecast B. maritime polar
C. station model C. continental tropical

D. continental polar
D. isobar
1345. What causes thunder?
A. falling precipitation
B. the expansion and contraction of the
air heated by lightning
C. friction between updrafts and down- A. warm front
drafts in a cumulonimbus cloud B. cold front
D. condensation of updrafts C. stationary front
D. occluded front
1346. What form of precipation is actually a
layered ball of ice? 1350. This meteorologist is making a
A. snow
B. hail
C. freezing rain
D. sleet

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A. guess B. Land cools and heats more quickly

B. demonstration than large bodies of water because as it
has a lower specific heat capacity.
C. forecast
1355. What do hurricanes feed on?
D. joke
A. warm tropical water
1351. Indicates the changing of wind in the an-
B. hot water
ticlockwise direction
C. cold artic water
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A. backing
D. rain
B. veering
1356. A cold front often brings
1352. What type of energy transfer causes
A. cool dry temperatures
warm things to rise and cool things to
sink? B. hot temperatures and humid air
A. Conduction C. light rain and fluffy clouds
B. Convection D. heavy rain, gusty wind, and sometimes
thunder/lightning/hail
C. Radiation
1357. What is the center of hurricane called?
D. Friction
1353. This type of Front occurs when cold air

from the Poles dives down to meet warm
air from the equator
A. warm front
B. cold front
C. polar front A. Nose
D. equator front B. Eye
1354. Describe the difference in how land and C. Super Center
water heat and cool. D. Cell
1358. What kind of air mass may have formed
over the south Atlantic Ocean?
A. mt
B. mp
C. ct
D. cp
1359. Which layer of the atmosphere has the
ozone layer?
A. the stratosphere
B. the troposphere
A. Water cools and heats more quickly
thanland because water has a higher spe- C. the mesosphere
cific heat capacity. D. the thermosphere

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1360. Where does weather occur in the atmo- B. summer

sphere? C. rainy season

A. stratosphere D. fall
B. thermosphere
1365. what is it called when precipitation
C. troposphere seeps in to the ground and becomes ground
D. mesosphere water
1361. Convert 11, 032 g to kg. A. evaporation
A. 110.32 kg B. runoff
B. 11032000.0 kg C. infiltration
C. 1.1032 kg D. lithosphere
D. 11.032 kg 1366. What is the calm center of a hurricane
called?
1362. What causes hail to keep getting pushed
back up into the clouds and get bigger? A. funnel cloud
A. Rain B. downburst
B. Wind C. eyewall
C. Temperature D. eye
D. none of above 1367. Cloud Identification-look at the clouds
1363. What kind of front may create two to located at a height of 6 km or higher, what
three hour rain showers (heavy precipi- are they made of?
tation) folllowed by clear, dry and cool
weather?
A. cold front
B. warm front
C. occluded front
D. stationary front
1364. The monsoon framed in the picture will

cause which season?
A. ice
B. water
1368. A large body of air with similar temper-

ature, moisture, and pressure
A. blizzard
B. air mass
C. tropical air mass
A. winter D. weather

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1369. Which two conditions are needed to 1373. The temperature in the Troposphere
form a thunderstorm? A. decreases with altitude.
A. Stable atmosphere & cool sinking air B. increases with altitude.
B. Stable atmosphere & warm rising air C. stays the same with altitude.
C. Unstable atmosphere & cool sinking D. none of above
air
1374. The most thunderstorms per year occur
D. Unstable atmosphere & warm rising in which state?
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air
1370. When an air mass moves into a new lo-

cation it brings
A. Montana
A. Changes in temperature and altitude. B. Florida
B. Changes in temperature and humidity C. Texas
C. Changes in altitude and air pressure D. Virginia
D. Changes in humidity and energy 1375. Where do hurricanes form on Earth?

A. Near the poles and on land
1371. Is it weather or climate?
B. Near the poles and in the ocean
C. Near the equator and in the ocean
D. Near the equator and on land
1376. This forms when fronts are not moving
toward each other, but rather they are
moving parallel to one another.
A. warm front
A. Weather B. cold front
B. Climate C. stationary front
1372. Suppose the parcel of the air rises adi- D. occluded front
abatically. What happens with its PRES- 1377. Which type of front is pictured?
SURE?
A. Remains constant
B. Increases
C. Decreases
D. none of above

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A. Cold front A. high pressure

B. Warm front B. low pressure

C. Occluded front
1382. An air mass is
D. Stationary front
A. A body of air with the same tempera-
1378. These clouds are low in the sky and look ture and moisture throughout.
soft and fluffy. They mean fair weather. B. a body of air that produces rain
C. A body of evaporated water
D. the weight of air
1383. What is the lowest main layer of Earth’s

atmosphere?
A. Thermosphere
B. Troposphere
A. Cirrus
C. Stratosphere
B. Cumulus
D. Mesosphere
C. Stratus
D. none of above 1384. The last layer of the atmosphere
A. troposphere
1379. How do we characterize an air mass
that forms over near the equator? B. mesosphere
A. Dry C. thermosphere
B. Wet D. exosphere
C. Cold 1385. Air temperature generally decreases
D. Warm with increasing
1380. If a scientist were trying to determine
how fast the wind was moving in a hurri-
cane, what tool would they use?
A. hygrometer
B. compass
C. barometer
D. anemometer
1381. Is this showing an area of high pressure
or area of low pressure?
A. elevation latitude
B. convection rate latitude
C. elevation longitude
D. relative humidity longitude

1.1 METEOROLOGY 152
1386. This type of cloud is feathery, wispy

and can be found very high up in the at-
mospher.
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A. Cold Front
A. Cirrus B. Warm Front
B. Cumulus C. Stationary Front
C. Stratus D. Occluded Front
D. Fluffyus 1391. the amount of water vapor in the atmo-
sphere
1387. What is an ISOBAR (isobaric line)?
A. humidity
A. Line connecting points of equal atmo-
B. temperature
spheric pressure
C. forecasting
B. Line connecting points of equal atmo-
spheric temperature D. weather
1392. Relatively strong winds concentrated in

1388. Is this a land or a sea breeze? a narrow stream in the atmosphere, nor-
mally referring to horizontal high altitude
winds.
A. Clear Air Turbulence
B. Jet Stream
C. Wind Shear
D. none of above
A. land breeze
1393. This is the symbol for which type of
B. sea breeze front?
1389. What instrument measures tempera-

ture?
A. barometer
B. anemometer
C. rain gauge
A. cold front
D. thermometer B. warm front
1390. What front is being forecast for this C. occluded front

state? D. stationary front

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1394. What is a METAR? C. hail

A. Report of real weather observed at D. sunny skies

given aerodrome at certain time
1398. Which region would be the warmest dur-
B. Forecast of weather for given aero- ing the winter as a result of its air mass?
drome and time period
C. Meteorological area report for given
FOR
D. none of above
A. central Canada
1395. How do the conditions for a tornado dif- B. Mexico
fer from the conditions for a hurricane?
C. northern California
A. Tornadoes never form when there is
D. Maine
rain, while hurricanes always form with
rain. 1399. What type of front forms when a cold,
B. Tornadoes form under low pressure, dry air mass moves violently into a warm,
while hurricanes form under high pres- humid air mass?
sure A. cold front
C. Tornadoes form in a stable atmo- B. warm front
sphere, while hurricanes form in an unsta- C. occluded front
ble atmosphere
D. stationary front
D. Tornadoes form over land, while hurri-
canes form over bodies of water 1400. A scientist who measures and predicts
weather conditions is known as
1396. is a thermodynamic gradient-
A. an astronomer
stratification layer, that marks the end
of the troposphere B. a geologist
A. mesopause C. a meteorologist
B. stratosphere D. a weatherologist
C. TROPOPAUSE 1401. The temperature of an air mass depends

on its
D. stratopause
A. composition
1397. Choose the best forecast for Minneapo- B. source region
lis on Saturday.
C. area
D. location
1402. Which gas is second abundant in our at-
mosphere?
A. Nitrogen
B. Carbon
A. snow C. Oxygen
B. cloudy skies D. Hydrogen

1.1 METEOROLOGY 154
1403. What layer of the atmosphere is the C. Right in both hemispheres

lowest? D. Left in both hemispheres
A. Mesosphere
1409. In adiabatic cooling, what happens
B. Stratosphere when rising air cools to the dew point?
C. Troposphere A. It expands
D. Thermosphere B. Clouds form
1404. When air is heated, its density C. It keeps rising
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A. increases D. It begins to sink
B. decreases 1410. Which layer of the atmosphere is the
C. remains the same outermost layer?
D. none of above A. Troposphere
B. Stratosphere
1405. This phase of the water cycle is when
liquid and solid water falls from the clouds. C. Mesosphere
A. hydration D. Thermosphere
B. evaporation E. Exosphere
C. precipitation 1411. name that cloudlight, feathery, wispy
D. condensation A. cumulus
1406. In the Northern hemisphere, what is the B. stratus
most damaging quadrant of a Tropical Re- C. cirrus
volving Storm?
D. none of above
A. Front left
1412. occurs when lighter, warmer air ad-
B. Front right
vances over heavier, colder air
C. Back left
A. Warm Front
D. Back right
B. Hot Front
1407. When gases are trapped in the earth’s C. Cool Front
atmosphere
D. Cold Front
A. conduction
1413. Cold air traveling south from Canada is:
B. radiation
A. continental tropical
C. greenhouse effect
D. global warming
C. maritime tropical
1408. The Coriolis Effect causes wind to de- D. maritime polar
flect to the
A. Right in the southern hemisphere, left 1414. In the Northern hemisphere, the Coriolis
in the south force deflects the wind to the
B. Right in the northern hemisphere, left A. Right
in the south B. Left

1.1 METEOROLOGY 155
1415. is the temperature to which air must C. intermediate bar

be cooled to reach saturation. D. Celsius

A. Humid point
1421. In what direction is D front moving?
B. Temperature index
C. Relative Humidity
D. Dew Point
1416. A continental air mass form over the
A. Ocean
B. Land
A. Northwest
C. Atmosphere
B. Northeast
D. Under Water
C. Southwest
1417. What 3 gases are most abundant in the
D. Southeast
atmosphere?
A. helium, radon, and argon 1422. Why does precipitation often happened
along the boundary of a warm and cold air
B. nitrogen, oxygen, and argon
mass?
C. nitrogen, helium, and carbon monox-
A. The warm air cries because the cold
ide
air mass is pushy
D. helium, oxygen, and argon
B. Warm air is cooled causing vapor to
1418. During low pressure, condense
A. hot air rises C. The boundary causes evaporation
B. air sinks D. The boundary is always over water
C. it’s normally cloudy 1423. Which of the following describes a trop-
D. clear sunny days ical continental air mass?
A. Humid and cold
1419. Compared to cold air, warm air has the
potential to B. Humid and warm
A. Carry less water vapor C. Dry & cold
B. Carry more water vapor D. Dry & warm
C. The amount of water vapor is the same 1424. Disturbed, irregular flow of air embed-
ded with irregular whirls, or eddies and
D. none of above waves.
1420. this is the unit in which me measure air A. Turbulence

pressure B. Air Pocket
A. isobar C. Hurricane
B. isotherm D. none of above

1.1 METEOROLOGY 156
1425. If the ozone layer were to be completely 1430. A rapidly moving cold air mass runs into
destroyed life on Earth would a warm air mass. The cold air slides under
A. grow larger the warm air. This is called a(n)
B. get smaller A. cold front
C. die from too much solar radiation B. warm front
D. stay the same C. stationary front

D. occluded front
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1426. What is a large body of air that takes on
the characteristics of the area over which 1431. Which of these weather conditions is
it forms? necessary for the formation of a cyclonic
A. a cloud storm?
B. a climate A. A cold rain falling to the ground
C. an air mass B. Air masses combining in a high pres-
D. a weather system sure system
C. Winds spiraling downward and away
1427. This type of front is associated with from the center of a storm
mild precipitation.
D. Air moving toward the center of a
A. warm front storm and rising into the atmosphere
B. cold front
1432. During the day near the coast, the
C. stationary front breeze blows from-
D. occluded front
A. land to sea
1428. What does C represent? B. sea to land
C. sea to shining sea
D. land to further inland
1433. This winter should be colder than nor-

mal.
A. Weather
B. Climate
A. Occluded front
B. Warm front 1434. What can be found in the troposphere?
C. Cold front A. mostly oxygen with a less nitrogen by

comparison
D. Stationary front
B. mostly nitrogen with less oxygen by
1429. A tornado is a violent rotating column comparison
of air extending from a thunderstorm C. the majority of satellites are orbiting
A. True here
B. False D. none of above

1.1 METEOROLOGY 157
1435. the temperature at which water vapor A. The wind direction would be northwest
turns to water (dew/rain) B. A thunderstorm was taking place

A. relative humidity
C. The wind speed is 20 knots
B. dew point
D. A warm front was moving into the
C. saturation point area.
D. humidity
1441. How do we name air masses?
1436. What is a warm front
A. Water and temperature
A. slow
B. Air pressure
B. mass of warm air taking over where
cold air has been C. Humidity and temperature
C. fast D. Cold and warm
D. mass of cold air taking over where
1442. Where do hurricanes form?
warm air has been
A. over water
1437. dry skies
B. over land
A. high pressure
C. everywhere
B. low pressure
D. none of above
1438. In which layer of the atmosphere is the
weather formed? 1443. Which of these drives the energy to pro-
A. thermosphere duce winds?
B. stratosphere A. water
C. mesosphere B. fossil fuels
D. troposphere C. the sun
1439. Regions that receive less than 25 cm of D. hydroelectricity
rain annually are called
1444. The temperature in the atmosphere gen-
A. deserts erally FROM THE EQUATOR TO THE
B. savannahs POLES, the amount of solar radiation as
C. tundra a result of the inclination of the earth and
the movement of the earth around the sun.
D. steppes
A. decreases
1440. Using the above map, which of the fol-
lowing would be true about London KY a B. increases
month before camp started?
1445. What direction do weather patterns
move in the United States?
A. East to West
B. West to East
C. North to South
D. South to North

1.1 METEOROLOGY 158
1446. What does a barometer measure? 1450. Climate represents the accumulation of
daily and seasonal weather events.
A. True
B. False
1451. Type of front:two cold air masses collide
and forces warm air up.
A. Cold
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B. Warm
C. Occluded
D. Stationary
1452. What type of front is located over the
southern United States in the picture?
A. Temperature
B. Density
C. Pressure
D. none of above
1447. Where is the air pressure the greatest? A. warm front

B. cold front
C. stationary front
D. occluded front
A. 1 1453. What is O3?

B. 2 A. Oxygen
B. Ozone
C. 3
C. Oranges
D. 4
D. Opposites
1448. Along a front, which type of air is al-
1454. Warm air can hold more water vapor
ways forced upwards?
than cold air
A. the wettest air
A. True
B. the driest air B. False
C. cooler, denser air
1455. If the weather forecast of the Meteoro-
D. warmer, less dense air logical Department states that “The area
where the students live has moderate rain-
1449. Which will hold more water, warm air
fall” indicates how much rain the officials
or cold air?
were able to measure.
A. Warm Air A. There is a rainfall amount of 90.1 mil-
B. Cold AIr limeters or more if the weather forecast.

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B. Rainfall ranges from 35.1 to 90 mm. 1461. mT is the symbol for

C. There is rainfall ranging from 10.1 to A. Continental Polar air mass

35 millimetres.
B. Continental Tropical air mass
D. There is rainfall ranging from 0.1 to 10
C. Maritime Tropical air mass
mm.
D. Maritime Polar air mass
1456. WARM Front conditions
A. Stable 1462. What season would you find Santa
Claus?
B. Unstable
A. Winter
1457. The ocean plays an important role in the
B. Summer
formation of storm systems such as hurri-
canes because C. Dry
A. the wide, open area allows strong D. Wet
winds to develop
B. the warm, tropical waters provide the
energy that drives the storm
C. the high tides push the water higher
on the beaches
D. salt water holds thermal energy longer
than fresh water
1458. What is the relative humidity if the dry

A. warm front
bulb is 26 C and the wet bulb is 14C?
A. 20% B. cold front
B. 30% C. stationary front
C. 60% D. occluded front
D. 23% 1464. Which tool measures humidity or the

amount of moisture in the air?
1459. A light breeze and clear skies describe
A. wind vane
A. High Pressure B. barometer
B. Low Pressure C. anemometer
C. Medium Pressure D. hygrometer
D. none of above
1465. What is the Freezing Level?
1460. mT = A. Level where air temperature drops to
A. warm and dry air mass 0◦ C, importatnt for icing condition
B. cold and dry air mass B. Level where air becomes saturated
C. warm and wet air mass C. Air humidity reaches 100%
D. cold and wet air mass D. none of above

1.1 METEOROLOGY 160
1466. What type of weather does low pres- 1471. What happens to the oxygen in the air
sure systems bring? as altitude increases?
A. high/sunny weather A. the oxygen per cubic meter decreases
B. cloudy/rainy weather B. the oxygen per cubic meter increases
C. the oxygen per cubic meter stays the
1467. What weather is currently happening at
same
letter C?
D. the oxygen per cubic meter does not
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change
1472. What conditions must be present in or-

der for hot weather to be called a heat-
wave?
A. Warm overnight temperatures
B. Hot day time temperatures
A. gentle rain C. 3 days or more of hot temperatures
B. thunderstorms D. none of above
C. fog 1473. What is a stationary front?
D. clear skies A. a warm air mass moving over a slow,
cold air mass
1468. What can hold more moisture, warm air
or cold air? B. a fast, dense, cold air mass moving be-
A. Warm Air
C. a warm air mass cut off from the
B. Cold Air ground between 2 cold air masses
1469. Which of the following describes D. a cold air mass meeting a warm air
medium-term weather forecasts? mass and neither moving
(Medium-range Forecast) correctly
1474. At night, clouds act as a blanket by
A. in a period not exceeding 72 hours
A. absorbing incoming radiation
B. 72 hours-10 days B. absorbing outgoing radiation
C. More than 10 days C. reflecting incoming radiation
D. 1 month or more D. reflecting outgoing radiation
1470. What are cold fronts associated with? 1475. The exchange of heat or moisture be-
A. Wind, decrease in temperature, tween an air mass and the underlying sur-
storms, heavy rain. face is called
B. Gentle rain or snow, higher tempera- A. air mass modification

ture, milder weather. B. air mass weather
C. Sunny skies, light winds, cool dry air. C. air mass convection
D. Warm moist air, gentle rain. D. climate

1.1 METEOROLOGY 161
1476. What direction does a low pressure sys- 1481. what type of cloud is shown?
tem move in?

A. clockwise and sinking
B. counterclockwise and rising
1477. Review Earth’s four spheres. Where
would you place the clouds you see each
day?
A. lithosphere
A. cumulus
B. hydrosphere
B. cirrus
C. biosphere
C. stratus
D. atmosphere
D. none of above
1478. What kind of breeze is this what time
of day/night would it form? 1482. Most countries use what unit to mea-
sure degrees?
A. Kelvin
B. Celsius
C. Fahrenheit
D. Hot and Cold
1483. On a summer day, a barometer reading
shows an increase in air pressure (it’s get-
A. Land breeze-daytime ting higher). What type of weather should
B. Land breeze-nighttime be expected?
C. Sea breeze-daytime A. Clear and sunny
D. Sea breeze-nighttime B. Cloudy and rainy
C. Rainy and windy
1479. Which tool measures air pressure?
D. Cloudy and cold
A. barometer
B. thermometer 1484. What does a barometer measure?
C. rain gauge A. temperature
D. none of above B. air pressure
C. dew point
1480. Which of the following best describes
weather? D. humidity
A. day to day conditions of the atmo- 1485. A is a narrow region that separates
sphere at a place in regards to heat, dry- two air masses of different densities.
ness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc. A. disturbances
B. long-term conditions (30 or more B. jet stream
years) of the atmosphere at a place in re-
gards to heat, dryness, sunshine, wind, C. trade winds
rain, etc. D. front

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1486. You place a thermometer in a cup of ice

water, what can youexpect to happen to
the line?
A. It will go up, which means the water is
warmer
B. You can make some lemonade
C. It will go down, which means the wa-
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ter is colder
D. None of the above A. haze
B. light drizzle
1487. what part of the water cycle forms
clouds? C. thunderstorms
A. evaporation D. fog
B. condensation 1491. land breeze

C. transpiration A. cool air moves down a mountain slope
toward a valley
D. run off
B. warm air rises up a mountain slope
1488. This powers the entire water cycle. from a valley
C. cool land air flows to the ocean at
night, causing warm ocean air to rise
D. cool ocean air flows to land during the
day, causing warm land air to rise
1492. This layer of the atmosphere contains

most of the ozone.
A. Clouds
A. troposphere
B. Sun B. thermosphere
C. Plants C. mesosphere
D. Batteries D. stratosphere
1489. An mT air mass is best described as 1493. Atmospheric pressure does this with al-
titude.
A. cold and wet
A. Increases
B. warm and wet
B. Stays the same
C. cold and dry C. Decreases
D. warm and dry D. none of above
1490. The present weather is 1494. Name that symbol.

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B. Detroit Panthers
C. Detroit Pistons

D. Anaheim Angels
1497. which city has the least amount of wa-

ter vapor in the air?
A. City A
A. Cold Front B. City B
B. Warm Front C. City C
C. Stationary Front D. none of above
D. Occluded Front
1498. Earth’s atmosphere is unique among the
1495. What does this instrument tell you? planets and is able to support life because
it contains a large amount of
A. oxygen
B. helium
C. methane
D. water vapor
1499. Hailstones form when warm air rises

very high where it cools down and even-
tually the water vapour turns to ice. True
or false?
A. Wind speed
A. True
B. Wind direction
B. Fals
C. Amount of rain
D. Temperature 1500. Which of the following statements is
NOT true?
1496. Match the logo
A. All objects, at any temperature, emit
radiant energy.
B. The hottest radiating bodies produce
the shortest wavelengths of maximum ra-
diation.
C. Hotter objects radiate more total en-
ergy per unit area than do colder objects.
D. Objects that are good absorbers of ra-
A. Detroit Red Wings diation are good reflectors as well.

1.1 METEOROLOGY 164
1501. During the day air over the land is B. Elevation

than air over the ocean C. Temperature
A. warmer D. Distance from the sun
B. cooler
1507. Warm air rises and the cool air sinks
1502. what tool measures wind direction? demonstrates this type of heat transfer.
A. thermometer
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B. weather vane
C. anemometer
D. hygrometer
1503. Air moves from

A. high to high pressure
B. low to high pressure A. conduction
C. high to low pressure B. convection
D. low to low pressure C. radiation
D. none of above
1504. When a warm air mass and a cold air
mass meet and neither can move the other, 1508. Which step in the water cycle occurred
the result is a(an) when fog was formed?
A. occluded front A. condensation
B. warm front B. evaporation
C. stationary front C. precipitation
D. cold front D. transpiration
1505. Which of these would you NOT expect 1509. Pressure is GREATEST near the earth’s
from a thunderstorm? surface, this is due to the weight of the
whole of the air above any unit surface
area.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
1510. Air flows from areas of (a) pressure to

A. lightning areas of (b) pressure.
B. strong wind A. a high
C. storm surge B. b low
D. heavy rain C. medium
1506. The layers of the atmosphere are sepa- D. absolute

rated according to this change. E. differential
A. Altitude F. gauge

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1511. What equipment is a special kind of C. a line where two different air masses
radar that can determine the rate of pre- meet
cipitation (rain, hail, snow)

A. Anemometer rain clouds
B. Berometer
1516. name that cloudpuffy-looks like cotton
C. doppler radar balls
D. Weather gauge A. cumulus
1512. Air pressure and temperature are re- B. stratus
lated C. cirrus
A. Directly D. none of above
B. Indirectly
1517. What is the wind direction
C. Not
D. none of above
A. Northeast
B. Northwest
C. Southeast
A. temperature D. Southwest
B. precipitation
1518. If differences in air pressure produce
C. dew point winds, what can you conclude about tem-
D. air pressure in millibars perature and air pressure based on the fig-
ure?
1514. This severe weather involves lightning,
rain, and possibly hail
A. thunderstorm
B. tornado
C. hurricane
D. blizzard
A. As warm air rises, it creates an area
1515. A front is of lower pressure, and cooler air flows in
A. where warm air is cooling at earth’s as wind
surface B. Warm air is denser than cold air is, cre-
B. a line where hot and cold air are sepa- ating an area of high pressure the pro-
rating duces wind.

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C. Winds flow from areas of low pressure C. Cumulus

to areas high pressure when temperature D. Cumulonimbus
is warmer
D. Air pressure decreases at night be- 1523. What breeze occurs in the daytime
cause temperature is lower, producing when the sand is hot, warm air above the
land and sea breezes sand rises, and cool air from the sea blows
in?
1519. Daily temperature, daily rainfall, daily A. land breeze
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amount of sunshine
B. sea breeze
A. Weather
B. Climate 1524. How are local and global winds differ-
ent?
1520. Pressure is LEAST near the earth’s sur- A. local wind happens over shorter dis-
face, this is due to the weight of the whole tances, global wind happens over longer
of the air above any unit surface area. distances
A. TRUE B. local wind happens over longer dis-
B. FALSE tances.
C. global wind happens over shorter dis-
1521. An air mass is a large mass of air that
tances
is defined by its temperature and
D. They are the same
1525. What is weather?

A. rain and snow
B. the daily condition of the atmosphere
C. the average weather in a place over a
long time
D. how hot it is
A. Elevation (altitude)
B. Water vapor content (humidity) 1526. These are the highest clouds in the sky.
They look white, thin and wispy. They usu-
C. Strength ally mean good weather.
D. Weather
1522. Which type of cloud is this?
A. Cumulus
B. Cirrus
A. Cirrus C. Stratus
B. Stratus D. none of above

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1527. Fast moving bands of air at the top of 1532. What’s the humidity and temperature of
the troposphere are known as a maritime tropical air mass?

A. Convection cells A. Wet and cold
B. Jet streams B. Dry and warm
C. Land breezes C. Wet and warm
D. Sea breezes
D. Dry and cold
1528. High-pressure systems usually are asso-
ciated with and low-pressure systems 1533. What is an atmosphere?
are associated with A. Made up of 4 layers
A. fair weather, clouds, and precipitation B. Protects Earth from storms
B. fair weather, fair weather
C. A mixture of gases that surrounds a
C. clouds and precipitation, fair weather planet.
D. the jet stream, fronts D. A mixture of elements that surrounds
a planet.
1529. When is Hurricane Season in the Atlantic
Ocean?
1534. What is a cold front?
A. a fast, dense, cold air mass moving be-
B. a warm air mass moving over a slow,
cold air mass
C. a cold air mass meeting a warm air
A. December 1st-July 4th mass and neither moving
B. March 21st-October 3rd D. a warm air mass cut off from the
C. May 15th-September 1st ground between 2 cold air masses
D. June 1st-November 30th
1535. From which atmosphere layer did the
1530. What kind of clouds are found t a cold highest parachute drop commence?
front? A. troposphere
A. cirrostratus B. mesosphere
B. stratus
C. stratosphere
C. cumulus
D. none of above
D. cumulonimbus
1536. If an air mass forms over central Mex-
1531. What happens to the air pressure the
ico, what would it be like?
higher up in space you go?
A. the air pressure increases A. Warm and wet
B. the air pressure decreases B. Warm and dry

C. the air pressure stays the same C. Cold and wet
D. there is no air pressure D. Cold and dry

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1537. Less deaths in 1992 hurricane in Florida 1541. What is the Coriolis Effect and how does
had two reasons. Those reasons are it effect global winds?
A. weather forecasting and hurricane
tracking
B. climate forecasting and tracking
C. climate changes and broadcasting
D. hurricane forecasting and weather
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tracking
1538. cloud type
A. Curving of winds due to rotation of

earth curves wind counterclockwise in
A. cirrus Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in
B. cirrostratus the Southern Hemisphere
C. cirrocumulus B. Movement of ocean currents caused

by earth rotation’ counterclockwise in
D. none of above Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in
1539. a boundary between two air masses of Southern Hemisphere
different density, moisture, or tempera- C. curve of global winds caused by global
ture rotation clockwise in Northern Hemi-
A. Station model sphere and counterclockwise in Southern
Hemisphere
B. Front
D. none of above
C. Low pressure
D. Radio Model 1542. What type of weather does a low pres-
sure system bring?
1540. Where do tropical storms start?
A. stormy, cloudy weather
B. clear skies
1543. What is the relationship between tem-

perature and humidity?
A. Humidity depends on how close a loca-
tion is to a body of water.
B. The warmer the air temperature, the
greater the humidity.
A. northpole
C. As temperature rises, the amount of
B. on the coast water vapor in the air decreases.
C. in the ocean, near the equator D. The warmer the temperature, the
D. in the ocean, near land more likely for precipitation.

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1544. How many spaces do you move a deci- 1548. What does the magnetosphere do for
mal to get from milli to hecto? us?

A. 3 spaces left A. interferes with radio communications
B. 4 spaces right B. keeps our atmosphere in tact
C. 5 spaces left C. makes it warmer in the summer
D. 6 spaces left D. none of above
1549. These clouds a low lying, dark, and have
1545. A rising parcel of air that does not ex-
rain or snow.
change heat with its surroundings is re-
ferred to as? A. cumulus
A. Adiabatic B. stratus
B. Isothermal C. clouded
D. altostratus
C. Advection
D. Forced lifting 1550. What percentage of our atmosphere is
made up of other gases such as argon, car-
1546. What type of map is shown? bon dioxide, methane and helium?
A. 1%
B. 21%
C. 78%
D. 17%
1551. The heating of the troposphere occurs
by the means of what heat transfer?
A. Conduction
A. satellite
B. Convection
B. radar
C. Radiation
C. isobar
D. Stationary front
D. isotherm
1552. The smaller, inner planets are made of
1547. What type of storm front is this? A. rock
B. gas
C. melted rock
D. none of above
1553. What does cP mean?
A. warm front
B. cold front
C. stationary front
D. occluded front

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A. cold and dry B. TROPOSPHERE

B. cold and wet C. TROPOPAUSE
C. warm and wet D. MESOSPHERE
D. warm and dry 1559. involves three air masses of different
temperatures-cold air, cool air and warm
1554. What is the barometric pressure for the air
following station model?
A. Stationary Front
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B. Occluded Front
C. Warm Front
D. Cool Front
1560. What do this symbol mean?
A. 987 mb
B. 998.7 mb
C. 1098.7 mb
D. 1098 mb
1555. when water turns into vapor and goes

into the air
A. evaporation
A. Thunderstorm
B. condensation
B. Wind shear
C. precipitation
C. Icing
D. run off
D. none of above
1556. The ozone layer is in the upper portion 1561. The layer of the atmosphere containing
of this part of the Earths atmosphere the ionosphere and auroras is
A. stratosphere A. troposphere
B. ionosphere B. mesosphere
C. mesosphere C. stratosphere
D. troposphere D. thermosphere
1557. Low humidity means the air is very 1562. This is the symbol for a
A. wet
B. dry
C. cold
D. warm A. Stationary Front
1558. the lowest layer of Earth’s atmo- B. Occluded Front
sphereThought as ZONE OF WEATHER C. Cold Front
A. ATMOSPHERE D. Warm Front

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1563. Is this showing a high pressure area or 1567. Which type of cloud indicates fair
a low pressure area? weather?

A. cloud
B. cumulus
C. cirrus
D. cumulonimbus
1568. The process by which gases in the atmo-

sphere absorb thermal energy and radiate
it back to earth is called
A. high pressure
A. the thermal effect.
B. low pressure B. the greenhouse effect.
1564. What type of front has passed when the C. global warming.
air pressure increases from 980 to 1015 D. radiation balance
and temperatures have dropped?
1569. heat energy traveling through space is
A. cold front
an example of
B. warm front
A. convection
C. occluded front
B. density
D. stationary front C. radiation
1565. When are we most likely to get a D. conduction
storm?
1570. Where do hurricanes form?
A. When there is low air pressure
B. When there is high air pressure
C. When you live in Antarctica
D. none of above
1566. Which state has both low pressure and

rain?
A. Over Mountain ranges

B. Over warm ocean water
C. Over cold ocean water
D. Over open deserts
1571. Which tool measures the wind speed?

A. New Mexico A. barometer
B. Florida B. thermometer
C. California C. anemometer
D. Mississippi D. hygrometer

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1572. How many planets are there in our Solar B. 500 hPa
System? C. 900 hPa
A. ten D. 1013 kPa
B. twelve
1578. This cyclone system can have the lowest
C. eight air pressure and winds with the greatest
D. none of above speed.
A. tornado
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1573. The boundaries between the layers of
the atmosphere are determined based on B. thunderstorm
C. hurricane
A. Humidity D. typhoon
B. Temperature
1579. 3 ingredients needed to form a cloud
C. Elevation
A. water vapor
D. Altitude
B. condensation nuclei
1574. Why is it hotter at the equator? C. rising air
A. the is closer at the equator D. falling air
B. the sun shines more directly at the
1580. In Sydney, what natural hazard is the
equator
most expensive to repair?
C. the equator tilts away from the sun
A. cyclones
D. the sun shines at an angle at the equa-
B. hailstorms
tor
C. bushfires
1575. Isobars are lines on a map joining places
D. heatwaves
that have the same
A. wind speed 1581. Which statement is the most accurate
weather forecast?
B. temperature
A. Reporting on what is already happen-
C. humidity
ing in the air
D. air pressure
B. Predictions about what will happen to
1576. Rain, snow, sleet, and hail are all forms the weather
of C. Reporting on climate change
A. precipitation D. Summary of climate change
B. condensation 1582. This movement of air has constant east-
C. evaporation erly winds the move at 30 degrees North
D. climate & 30 degrees South of the equator.
A. Trade Winds
1577. Atmospheric pressure at mean seal level
is 1000hPa. What approx. pressure do B. Doldrums
you expect at 3000ft AMSL? C. Horse Latitudes
A. 1013 hPa D. Prevailing Westerlies

1.1 METEOROLOGY 173
1583. The leeward side of the mountain- A. rain gauge, anemometer

A. is dry like a desert and has very little B. rain gauge, thermometer

precipitation
C. radar, thermometer
B. has warm moist air rising and lots of
precipitation D. barometer, rain gauge
C. has warm, rising air 1589. This occurs when colder air advances to-
D. is very dry and humid ward warmer air.
A. Warm Front
1584. makes up 78% of the gases in
Earth’s atmosphere. B. Stationary Front
A. Oxygen C. Cold Front
B. Nitrogen D. Occluded Front
C. Hydrogen
1590. What is the scale used to measure hur-
D. other gases ricanes?
1585. the coldest layer
A. mesosphere
B. thermosphere
C. stratosphere
D. ionosphere
A. MPH scale
1586. What is the correct symbol for continen-
tal tropical air mass? B. Fujita Scale
A. cT C. Weight Scale
B. cP D. Saffir/Simpson Scale
C. CT
1591. What was the result of the Miller-Urey
D. A Experiment?
1587. a factor affecting insolation when no in- A. amino acids formed
solation is received at night, the duration
B. nucleotides formed
of solar energy is related to the length of
daylight received at a particular point on C. lipids formed
Earth
D. glucose formed
A. Variation in Latitude
B. Variation in Sun’s Declination 1592. Which instrument is used to measure
the speed of wind?
C. Variation in Length of Daylight
A. rain gauge
D. Variation in Longitude
B. thermometer
1588. The weather just made a forecast of 82
C. anemometer
degrees, with 2 inches of rain. What two
tools will you need to check his prediction? D. barometer

1.1 METEOROLOGY 174
1593. The speed of a cold front is approxi- 1598. What part of the illustration shows
mately? Evaporation?
A. The same speed of the geostrophic
wind
B. Twice the speed of the geostrophic
wind
C. Half the speed of the geostrophic wind
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D. 2/3rds the speed of the geostrophic
wind
1594. Weather forecasts can’t be 100% accu- A. 1

rate because
B. 2
A. Meteorologists don’t understand
weather. C. 3
B. There are too many unpredictable D. 4

small changes that can affect the
weather. 1599. Label 1
C. Fronts can change speed or direction

for no reason at all.
D. Weather balloons sometimes collect
inaccurate data.
1595. A wind vane measures

A. wind height A. convection
B. wind direction B. conduction
C. wind color C. evaporation
D. wind speed D. none of above
1596. Thunderstorms can bring: 1600. What does symbol # 3 mean?
A. Heavy precipitation
B. Thunder and lightning
C. Strong winds
D. All of the above
1597. What is the letter used to show high

Pressure
A. L A. stationary front
B. J B. occluded front
C. P C. warm front
D. H D. cold front

1.1 METEOROLOGY 175
1601. Measures wind speed 1606. what precipitation type is water

A. Thermometer droplets that fall when temperatures are
above freezing

B. Barometer
A. rain
C. Psychrometer
B. snow
D. Anemometer C. sleet
1602. How are air masses classified by tem- D. freezing rain
perature? E. hail
A. tropical (warm)
1607. Heat from the sun reaches you by
B. polar (cold)
A. conduction
C. continental (dry) B. light emission
D. maritime (humid) C. convection
1603. cool, humid air masses form over the icy D. radiation
cold North Atlantic Ocean
1608. cP =
A. Continental Polar A. dry air that is cold
B. Maritime Polar B. wet air that is cold
C. Continental Tropical C. dry air that is warm
D. Maritime Tropical D. wet air that is warm
1604. What cloud is this? 1609. What type of skies follow a cold front?
A. Sunny skies
B. Cloudy skies
1610. Nimbostratus and cumulonimbus clouds

can signal what type of upcoming
weather?
A. fair skies
A. Cumulus B. hot, sunny weather
B. Altostratus C. windy weather
C. Cirrostratus D. rainy weather
D. Cirrus
1611. Where do warm ocean currents come
1605. What is an air mass? from?
A. warm ocean currents come from the
A. Precipitation
southern hemisphere
B. Dry air which formed over land
B. warm ocean currents come from the
C. A large body of air having similar tem- equator
perature and humidity. C. Warm ocean currents come from the
D. A weather station that collects data. poles

1.1 METEOROLOGY 176
D. Warm ocean currents come from the 1616. Water droplets that condense from the
beach air onto cool surfaces near the ground are
called
1612. Why is the increase of Greenhouse
A. fog
gases a big issue?
B. precipitation
A. It causes climate change and increase
in the global temerature C. dew
D. icicles
B. It can lead to a major increase in
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Greenhouses 1617. Name layer 5, which is the outer layer
C. It leads to more factories in which satellites can be found.
D. It causes a major decrease in people A. Exosphere
B. Stratosphere
1613. What type of air mass brings extremely
C. Ionosphere
cold weather?
D. Mesosphere
A. mP
B. cP 1618. The density of air that is heated is
than air that is cooled.
C. cT
A. the same
D. mT
B. higher
1614. Weather maps show gradients and pat- C. lower
terns of D. none of above
1619. billions of tiny water droplets sus-

pended in the air
A. clouds
B. water vapor
C. rain
D. snow
A. air pressure
1620. Cool air
B. coastal migration
A. rises
C. atmospheric pollution B. sinks
D. sea surface temperatures C. rice
1615. In which direction do prevailing wester- D. stinks
lies flow?
1621. Hygrometers measure:
A. from east to west A. Humidity
B. from west to east B. Wind Direction
C. from north to south C. Air temperature
D. from south to north D. Air pressure

1.1 METEOROLOGY 177
1622. What is an example of a renewable 1627. Gas in the atmosphere that protects the
source of energy? Earth from the Sun’s rays

A. coal power A. atmosphere
B. oil power B. troposphere
C. gas power C. ozone
D. solar power D. nitrogen
1628. The form of oxygen that combines three

1623. What causes differences in air pres- oxygen atoms to each molecule, is found in
sure? the stratosphere and shields out harmful
A. even heating of the Earth UV rays from the sun is:
B. Even cooling of the earth A. Argon
C. uneven heating of the earth B. Methane
D. global warming C. Chlorofluorcarbon

D. Ozone
1624. A meteorologist is-
1629. METAR LKNA 282100Z 07006KT 3000
A. a scientist who studies the atmo- BR OVC004 08/08 Q1004 RMK YLO=
sphere. cloud amount and base
B. the study of the atmosphere. A. 8/8 400 ft
C. a tool used to measure wind speed. B. 8/8 400m
D. used to show weather in certain areas. C. 5-7/8 400 ft
Explanation: D. 8/8 800 ft
A meteorologist uses a weather map to 1630. What is name of Indian geostationary

display and discuss the weather. satellite
A. IRS
1625. What layer of the atmosphere has
B. CALIPSO
weather conditions
C. INSAT
A. stratosphere
D. TERRA
B. mesosphere
1631. Based on the weather map, you can see
C. exosphere
that there is a cold front on the part
D. troposphere of the United States. Google a compass if
you do not know your directions.
1626. What type of precipitation is actually a
solid, six sided crystal form of water?
A. snow
B. sleet
C. hair
D. rain

1.1 METEOROLOGY 178
A. western 1636. When a cold air mass takes over a warm

B. northern air mass, it is called
C. southern A. Warm front
D. eastern B. Cold front

C. Occluded front
D. Stationary front
Explanation:
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1637. Why does cold water or land cause a
hurricane to weaken?
A. because the high pressure of the hur-
1632. Warm air rising at the equator and cold
ricane can’t handle the cold water from a
air sinking at the poles is an example of
low pressure system
B. because the land always cools faster
A. radiation
than the ocean
B. conduction
C. because the land breeze shreds the
C. convection hurricane
D. none of above D. because they cut off the energy supply
to the hurricane
1633. Heat transfer by convection is caused by
differences in what two things: 1638. Prediction of the weather.
A. Thickness and material A. Weather vane
B. Weight and electricity
B. Climatologist
C. Temperature and density
C. Forecast
D. none of above
D. Teleportation
1634. Which of the following is most like the
1639. What scale do meteorologists use to de-
greenhouse effect?
scribe the strength of a tornado?
A. touching a hot iron
A. Enhanced Fujita Scale
B. the convection currents inside the
earth’s mantle B. Saffir-Simpson Scale
C. the inside of your car getting hot on C. Beaufort Scale

sunny day D. Fujita Scale
D. popping popcorn in the microwave
1640. Why can a stationary front present a
1635. The Coriolis effect is due to the of risk of flooding?
Earth. A. because it brings dry weather
A. Revolution B. because it can lead to rain that lasts
B. Rotation for several days
C. Shape C. because it is fast moving
D. Density D. because it brings warm weather

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1641. Which of the following is true? 1646. Where can you find a thermometer,
barometer, anemometer, wind vane, hy-
A. Land heats less rapidly than water.
grometer, and rain gauge all in one place?

B. Land heats more rapidly than water.
A. a weather station
C. Land reaches higher temperatures
B. a weather balloon
than water.
C. a weather satellite
D. both b and c
D. none of above
1642. Which type of front is displayed?
1647. Why do most deserts occur at 30◦ N and
S latitudes?
A. Because of the low pressure that ex-
ists there.
B. Because of the high pressure that ex-
ists there.
C. Because of the rising air that exists
there
A. Cold
D. Because of the strong ocean currents
B. Warm
1648. What is another name for cyanobacte-
C. Stationary
ria?
D. Occluded
A. Blue Green Algae
1643. What is the most common gas in the at- B. Green Stuff
mosphere?
C. Water Goop
A. argon
D. General Bacteria
B. nitrogen
1649. name that cloudlow clouds = ground
C. oxygen
level to 5000 ft
D. carbon dioxide A. layer
1644. Air mass will never undergoing specific B. alto
modifications while in transit away from C. gray
the source region.
D. none of above
A. True
B. False 1650. What could form when the Dew Point is
reached? Check all that apply.
1645. What causes a land breeze? What A. Fog
causes a sea breeze?
B. Hail
A. land breeze is caused by land cooling
off quicker, sea breeze is caused by land C. Frost
heating faster D. Clouds
B. they are caused by atmosphere E. Dew

1.1 METEOROLOGY 180
1651. Winds are caused by differences in 1656. What is the relationship between cli-
A. precipitation mate and weather?
B. humidity A. Climate is the average of 30 years of

weather
C. air pressure
B. Weather is the average of 30 years of
D. turbulence climate
1652. The Coriolis effect causes global winds C. Weather and Climate are the same
thing
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to
A. rotate D. There is no relationship between
weather and climate.
B. change directions
C. become stronger 1657. What is the largest type of storm on
Earth?
D. curve
A. Thunderstorms
1653. Differences in altitude and temperature B. Hurricanes
cause
C. Tornadoes
A. Sea Breezes
D. Blizzards
B. Land Breezes
C. Mountain Breezes
D. None
1654. This diagram demonstrates which type

of heat transfer?
A. Cold front
B. Warm front
C. Occluded front
D. Stationary front
1659. Instruments used to measure air pres-
sure are called
A. Conduction
A. thermometers
B. Convection
B. hygrometers
C. Radiation C. hydrometers
D. Insolation D. barometers
1655. Where is the best place to be during a 1660. What weather instrument is used for
thunderstorm? wind speed?
A. In the sea A. Thermometer
B. In the house B. Psychrometer
C. In the pool C. Anemometer
D. On the playground D. Barometer

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1661. If this low pressure system follows the 1665. A heavy rainstorm that includes light-
normal storm track, then it will move to- ning and thunder is a
wards the

A. hurricane
B. thunderstorm
C. tornado
D. plunder storm
1666. What atmospheric process is repre-
sented by the picture?
A. northeast
B. northwest
C. southeast
D. southwest
1662. This type of front can bring strong

storms
A. Radiation
B. Conduction
C. Convection
D. Condensation
1667. Fair weather can usually be expected
with the approach of which of the follow-
ing?
A. cold A. cyclone
B. warm B. anticyclone
C. stationary C. low-pressure system
D. occluded D. none of these

1668. the long term average weather condi-
1663. name that cloudsmooth gray,
tions that occur in a particular region
“blanket”-like
A. precipitation
A. cumulus
B. climate
B. stratus
C. weather
C. cirrus
D. none of above
D. none of above
1669. What is the second lowest main layer of
1664. A higher capping inversions will impact Earth’s atmosphere?
A. lake effect snow A. Thermosphere
B. high humidity B. Troposphere
C. flooding C. Stratosphere
D. none of above D. Mesosphere

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1670. Temperature is measured in 1676. Which city can expect to see an increase
A. degrees in temperatures over the next 24 hours?
B. inches
C. centimeters
D. feet
1671. This tool photographs clouds from high
above Earth, and sends data to meteorol-
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ogists.
A. camera
B. iPhone 5 A. Billings, Montana
C. satellite B. Atlanta, Georgia

D. radar C. Minneapolis, Minnesota
1672. The transfer of heat through a liquid or D. Miami, Florida
gas is called what?
A. Radiation 1677. What direction is A moving?
B. Conduction
C. Convection
D. none of above
1673. Warm air is than cold air
A. denser
B. less dense
C. heavier
A. Northeast
D. none of above
B. Northwest
1674. What happens to a hurricane when it
hits land? C. Southwest
A. Gets bigger D. Southeast
B. Dies out
C. Turns back and moves in the opposite 1678. Why is the ozone content of the strato-
direction sphere important to living organisms?
D. turns to snow A. Ozone gives living organisms more wa-
ter
1675. In the continental US, major wind belts
generally push air masses from B. Ozone protects from the Sun’s infrared
A. west to east radiation
B. south to north C. Ozone gives living organisms rain
C. north to south D. Ozone protects from the Sun’s ultravi-
D. east to west olet radiation

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1679. This weather instrument measures wind 1683. Which type of air mass is pictured in let-
speed. ter “C” (northeastern U.S., around NYC)?

B. Continental tropical
C. Maritime polar
1684. Which branch of Earth Science does this
A. wind vane picture belong in?
B. anemometer
C. barometer
D. thermometer
1680. Which of the following gases is found in
the stratosphere and shields out harmful
UV rays from the sun?
A. Meteorology
A. methane
B. Geology
B. ozone
C. Oceanography
C. argon
D. Astronomy
D. chlorofluorocarbons
1681. Thunderstorms feed off of which of 1685. Land heats up and cools down faster
these variables? than water.
A. Low Pressure A. True
B. Cold air is pushed upwards in the at- B. False

mosphere 1686. which city as the lowest relative humid-
C. Occluded front ity
D. Warm Front & Cold front meet
1682. What type of winds blow constantly,
predictably, and over long distances?
A. land breezes A. City A
B. mountain breezes B. City B
C. global winds C. City C
D. land breezes D. none of above

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1687. In what layer of the atmosphere is the 1691. Sample Station ModelLabel 7
ionosphere?
A. troposphere
B. mesosphere
C. thermosphere
D. stratosphere
NARAYAN CHANGDER
1688. Amount of moisture in the air. What is
the name of this? A. pressure trend-rising, sinking, staying
A. Humid B. wind direction speed
B. Gradient C. dew point
C. Wind D. air pressure in millibars
D. Land Breeze
1692. The weather behind a cold front is dom-
1689. What sort of weather do you expect at inated by which of the following?
a high pressure? A. warm air mass
B. mixed air mass
C. cold air mass
D. none of these
1693. What type of front is it when warm air

and cold air meet, but neither is moving
leading to steady precipitation that lasts
a very long time?
A. cold front
B. warm front
C. occluded front
A. Clear skies
D. stationary front
B. Stormy
C. Nothing in particular 1694. Tim said that Chicago is most likely to
experience rainy weather. Jennifer thinks
D. none of above that Dallas is most likely to experience
rainy weather. Which student is correct?
1690. The temperature at which air reaches a
state where it can hold no more water.
A. Boiling point
B. Condensation
C. Dew Point
D. none of above

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A. Tim because Chicago is the closest to 1698. Which type of scientist studies the
a low pressure system and they produce weather conditions on earth?
precipitation.

A. atmospheric scientist
B. Jennifer because high pressure sys-
B. climatologist
tems produce precipitation
C. hydrologist
C. Both students are correct because all
systems produce precipitation D. meteorologist
D. Neither of the students are correct be-
1699. What type of heat transfer heats up the
cause the cities are not close enough to
troposphere the most?
the system.
A. convection
1695. imminent means
B. radiation
A. Within 6 hours of time of issue
C. conduction
B. Within 6-12 hours of time of issue
D. evaporation
C. More than 12 hours from time of issue
1700. Storm moving in or out?increased cloud
D. none of above coverage; unstable atmosphere
1696. what type of cloud is shown? A. storm moving in

B. storm moving out
1701. CFC’s damage the ozone by turning it

into what?
A. 03
B. 04
C. 02
A. cumulus D. 01
B. cirrus
1702. keeps the Earth at a temperature that
C. stratus supports life.
D. none of above A. cooling effect
1697. The layers of the atmosphere in order B. coriolis effect
from bottom to top are C. greenhouse effect
A. troposphere, stratosphere, meso-
D. temperature gradient
sphere, thermosphere, exosphere
B. troposphere, mesosphere, atmo- 1703. what does meteorologist study
sphere, thermosphere
A. clouds
C. mesosphere, thermosphere, tropo-
B. atmosphere
sphere, stratosphere, exosphere
C. sun
D. thermosphere, stratosphere, meso-
sphere, troposphere, exosphere D. none of above

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1704. Using the map, which statement is true 1709. What type of cloud is this?
for this particular day?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. It is raining in Danville.
A. Cumulus
B. London is in the 80’s
B. Cirrus
C. Air moves from low to high so it is prob-
C. Cloud
ably windy in Miami
D. Stratus
D. Is is snowing in Billings, MT.
1710. Cold air has
1705. Very little rain and lots of hot, dry
weather over a long period of time is called A. low pressure
a: B. high pressure
A. drought C. no pressure
B. flooding D. high school
1706. Is this a land or a sea breeze? 1711. What type of weather can possibly oc-
cur AT a cold front?
A. violent storms
B. calm, clear skies
C. long periods of precipitation
D. light fog / precipitation
A. land breeze
1712. Which instrument measure wind speed?
B. sea breeze
A. barometer
1707. Where we live. B. anemometer
A. stratosphere C. thermometer
B. thermosphere D. weather balloon
C. troposphere E. wind wave/compass rose
D. mesosphere
1713. Is the amount of force applied to a unit
1708. The conditions of the atmosphere at a area of surface. What is this instrument
certain time and place is call?
A. weather A. Barometer
B. climate B. Wind vane
C. climber C. Psychrometer
D. wind D. Saturated Air

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1714. what is the LCL? 1719. What caused the early atmosphere to
A. A band have carbon dioxide, water vapor and am-
monia in it?

B. the point where water vapor conden-
sates back in water. A. Tsunamis
C. aerosols and refrigerants that damage B. Cyanobacteria

the ozone layer. C. Volcanoes
D. the location where hurricanes are D. Animals
called typhoons.
1720. Which state has both high and low pres-
1715. Which of the following measure air pressure systems?
sure?
A. radar
B. rain gauge
C. barometer
D. none of above
1716. the layer of the atmosphere that has A. New Mexico
weather
B. Minnesota
A. troposphere
C. California
B. ionosphere
D. Mississippi
C. thermosphere
1721. hurricanes start as what kind of sys-
D. exosphere
tem?
1717. How far away is a thunderstorm if you A. low pressure
hear thunder 30 seconds after you see
B. high pressure
lightning?
C. stationary
A. 6 miles
D. occluded
B. 3 miles
C. 10 miles 1722. What layer of the atmosphere is the
coldest?
D. 1 mile
A. mesosphere
1718. This picture showes Low and High pres- B. thermosphere
sure area on
C. troposphere
D. stratosphere
1723. Which term is best described as the
movement of air from land to sea?
A. global winds
B. sea breeze
A. Northern hemisphere C. land breeze
B. Southern hemisphere D. local winds

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1724. While we were about to travel to a 1728. What does this symbol represent?
beach. We have heard the weather fore-
cast. In the area where we are going,
there is rain in some areas. Which of the
following is true of this prophecy?
A. There is no rain in 20% of the area.
B. There is no rain in 20% but not more
than 40% of the area.
NARAYAN CHANGDER
C. There is no rain in 40% but not more
D. There is no rain in 60% but not more
1725. What explains the reason for the sea A. warm front
breeze you feel coming from the ocean
when you are at the beach? B. cold front
A. Land heats up and cools down more C. occluded front
quickly than water. D. stationary front
B. Prevailing Westerlies 1729. The force of molecules pressing on a sur-
C. Polar Easterlies face.
D. Warm air rising over land allows A. Air pressure
cooler air from the ocean to blow inland. B. Air current
1726. what causes the rotation of cyclonic C. Wind
storms? D. none of above
A. the sun
1730. What happens at a stationary front?
B. the Coriolis effect
A. Cold air mass meets warm air mass
C. the aurora borealis
B. Warm air mass meets cold air mass
D. temperature
1727. What does symbol # 1 mean? air mass
D. Cold and warm air mass meet but no
movement
1731. Which condition usually means cloudy,
stormy weather?
A. high pressure
B. low pressure
A. stationary front 1732. The Earth acts like a greenhouse that
B. occluded front catches and traps heat from the sun.
C. warm front A. true
D. cold front B. false

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1733. What instrument is used to determine 1736. In a high pressure systems

air pressure?
A. there are few clouds because the air

in moving downward
B. there are many clouds because the air
is very humid
C. there are few clouds because the air
is moving outward
D. there are many clouds because the air
is moving upward
1737. When a warm air mass is trapped be-

A. Aeromometer tween two cooler air masses, it is called
B. Anemometer a/an-
C. Barometer A. warm front
D. Clinograph B. cold front
1734. Which describes the station model C. occluded front
D. stationary front
1738. Cold air exerts pressure than warm

air.
A. the same
B. more
C. less
A. 50% cloud cover, raining and air pres- D. none of above
sure of 1013.9 mb
B. 50% cloud cover, dewpoint tempera- 1739. What city will experience decreasing
ture of 76 degrees celsius and winds at temperatures in the next day?
20 knots
C. 50% cloud cover, dewpoint tempera-
ture of 76 degrees Fahrenheit and winds
from the Northwest
D. none of above
1735. Which ocean would be the least likely to

have hurricanes?
A. Atlantic A. Denver
B. Pacific B. Step
C. Indian C. Memphis
D. Artic D. The Angels

1.1 METEOROLOGY 190
1740. Which answer shows the symbol for a 1744. What is the earth’s atmosphere?
cold front?
A. A spherical ball surrounding the moon
B. The layers of dirt on the earth’s crust
C. The layers of gas that surround the
A. earth
D. The number of meteors orbiting
around earth
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. 1745. BECMG means?
A. Permanent gradual change
C. B. Permanent immediate change
C. Temporary change
D. D. none of above
1741. When compared to current average con- 1746. What is a tornado? select all that apply
ditions, what term would best describe
conditions in Earth’s lower atmosphere if A. A violent disturbance of the atmo-
greenhouse gases were absent? sphere with string winds and rain
A. Colder B. A violent rotating column of air that ex-
tends from a thunderstorm cloud to the
B. Hotter ground.
C. Humid C. Very small storms, usually less than
D. Cloudy 0.5 kilometer in diameter.
D. Low pressure centers and fronts
1742. stormy weather
A. High Pressure System 1747. The temperature of the atmosphere gen-
B. Low Pressure System erally increases with height in the tropo-
sphere, then decreases with altitude in the
1743. Which type of pressure system should stratosphere.
the box be labeled? A. TRUE
B. FALSE
1748. This is the layer of Earth’s atmosphere

that is farthest from Earth’s surface.
Satellites orbit here.
A. exosphere
A. High B. stratosphere
B. Low C. troposphere
C. Stationary D. mesosphere
D. Occluded E. thermosphere

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1749. Hurricanes form in which type of air 1753. Wind Systems:mid-latitude wind sys-
mass? tem (between 30 N/S and 60 N/S)

A. polar easterlies
C. trade winds
D. none of above
1754. Where are the strongest winds and

A. Continental polar heaviest rains in a hurricane located?
C. Maritime polar
1750. How do coastal towns compare to more
inland towns? (2)
A. In the eyewall
B. In the outer bands
C. On the leading edge
D. On the lagging edge
A. Warmer Winter 1755. What type of front is it when a cold air

mass moves quickly and catches up to an-
B. Colder Winter other cold air mass with warm air forced
C. Hotter Summer up over both leaving cooler temperatures
D. Cooler Summer and steady precipitation?
A. cold front
1751. An anemometer measures
A. wind speed B. warm front
B. air pressure C. occluded front
C. amount of rain D. stationary front
D. temperature
1756. a weather instrument used in meteoro-
1752. This type of front is associated with logical science to measure the humidity or
heavy precipitation and/or thunderstorms amount of water vapour in the air
that last for a short period of time.
A. hygrometer
A. warm front
B. cold front B. thermometer
C. stationary front C. ANEMOMETER

D. occluded front D. Psychrometer

1.1 METEOROLOGY 192
1757. What are the sequence of events to 1760. What cloud Type produces severe thun-
make a cloud? derstorms?
A. rising, expanding, cooling, condensa- A. Stratus
tion B. Cumulus
B. rising, contracting, warming, evapora-
C. Cumulonimbus
tion
D. Stratocumulus
C. sinking, expanding, warming, conden-
NARAYAN CHANGDER
sation 1761. Any rapic change in wind direction
D. sinking, contracting, cooling, evapora- and/or speed along the flight path of an
tion aircraft.
1758. how will hybrid cars affect the atmo- A. Jet Stream
sphere B. Wake Turbulence
A. using hybrid cars will harm the at- C. Wind Shear
mosphere because they release harmful D. none of above
gases
B. they will not 1762. This layer or Earth’s atmosphere is the
closest to Earth’s surface. Weather occurs
C. hybrid cars don’t release harmful here.
gases, so it will be better for the environ-
ment A. exosphere
D. im not sure B. stratosphere
C. troposphere
1759. Why do hurricanes lose so much of their
power when they hit land? D. mesosphere
E. thermosphere
1763. What kind of weather are the people at

the equator most likely to experience reg-
ularly?
A. Cooler weather and more rain due to
decreased evaporation.
B. Warmer weather and more rain due to
increased evaporation.
A. they run into high pressure which kills
C. Warmer weather and drier conditions
hurricanes
due to faster evaporation.
B. land is cooler than water therefore the
D. none of above
hurricane loses the energy it needs from
warm temperatures 1764. Which phenomenon can be seen only in
C. the land breezes shear the hurricane the ionosphere?
therefore making it harder for it to stay A. ozone layer
together
B. Aurora borealis
D. the hurricane no longer receives heat
and moisture from the warm ocean it uses C. storm clouds
for fuel D. water vapor

1.1 METEOROLOGY 193
1765. What are the names of the 5 layers of 1769. They are low in the sky and look soft
Earth’s atmosphere?Not labeled-top, near and fluffy. They have flat bases that are
space usually a little darker than the heaping

top.
A. Cirrus
B. Cumulonimbus
C. Cumulus
D. Stratus
A. stratosphere 1770. What causes wind?

B. mesosphere A. An area of low pressure pushes to-
C. exosphere ward an area of high pressure.
D. none of above B. There is an increase in temperature

and an increase in density.
1766. Why is it hard to breath at high alti- C. An area of high pressure pushes to-
tudes? ward an area of low pressure.
A. The percentage of oxygen is lower. D. none of above
B. There is a higher density of air
molecules. 1771. What type of clouds form in flat layers
and cover most of the sky?
C. The amount of oxygen molecules are
spread out. A. cirrus
D. The air pressure is greater than at low B. stratus
altitudes. C. cumulonimbus
1767. A cold front moving into an area can D. cumulus
bring this type of weather
1772. FM means?
A. Warmer Temperatures, Clear Skies
A. Permanent gradual change
B. Colder Temperatures, Clear Skies
B. Permanent immediate change
C. Warmer Temperatures, Clouds
C. Temporary change
D. Colder Temperatures, Clouds, and Pre-
cipitation D. none of above
1768. What happens at a warm front? 1773. What is the relative humidity when the
air temp exactly equals the dew point
A. Cold air mass meets warm air mass
temp?
B. Warm air mass meets cold air mass
A. 100%
B. 50%
air mass
C. 75%
movement D. 25%

1.1 METEOROLOGY 194
1774. The force exerted by the air above is

called
A. convergence
B. air pressure
C. divergence
D. the Coriolis effect A. Wall
NARAYAN CHANGDER
1775. Which of the following determines the B. Eye
properties of an air mass? C. Arm
A. The conditions of the area over which D. Hole
it forms
1780. The atmosphere that surrounds Earth
B. The phase and position of the moon and has weight that pushes down also
when it forms called atmospheric pressure.
C. The exact time of year when it forms A. clouds
D. The geology of the area where it forms B. the climate
1776. What does maritime mean? C. air pressure
A. Dry D. meteorology
B. Hot 1781. When water in lakes, rivers and the
C. Cold ocean is heated by the sun and turns into
water vapor, going up into the sky it is
D. Moist called
1777. What happens to the intensity of solar
energy as latitude increases?
A. It stays the same.
B. It increases.
C. It decreases.
D. It doubles. A. Condensation
B. Evaporation
1778. This storm is a huge storm with strong
winds and heavy rain that forms over the C. Precipitation
ocean. It can cause flooding and other dam- D. Collection
age.
1782. What causes your ears to pop as you
A. blizzard travel up into higher elevations?
B. hurricane A. The high air pressure in the moun-
C. tornado tains(air pressure increases as altitude
decreases).
D. electrical
B. The low air pressure in the mountains
1779. What is the calm area in the center of a (air pressure decreases as altitude in-
hurricane called? creases).

1.1 METEOROLOGY 195
1783. Select the correct temperature shown. 1785. Which type of winds are steady, from a
specific direction, and due to unequal heat-
ing of Earth?

A. warm
B. cold
C. local
D. global
1786. What causes wind?
A. uneven heating of the earth’s surface
B. the amount of oxygen
C. ozone
D. nitrogen
1787. This instrument measures air pressure.
A. anemometer
B. barometer
C. rain gauge
D. thermometer
1788. name that cloudmiddle clouds = 5000 ft
to 20, 000 ft
A. layer
B. alto
C. gray
A. 12 degrees F D. none of above
B. 22 degrees F 1789. Which of the following affects the cli-
C. 2 degrees F mate of an area?
D. none of above A. temperature
B. latitude
1784. Why do sea breezes occur during the C. wind
day?
D. precipitation
A. Water heats up faster than land, so the
air above water is warmer. 1790. What do the wind speeds need to reach
for a storm to be classified as a hurricane?
B. Water cools off faster than land, so the
air above land is cooler.
C. Land heats up slower than water, so
the air stays cooler during the day.
D. Land heats up faster than water, so the
air above land is warmer.

1.1 METEOROLOGY 196
A. 23-39 mph B. warm front

B. 40-73 mph C. occluded front
C. 74 mph D. stationary front
D. 600 mph 1796. Which is the layer of the atmosphere
closest to Earth?
A. troposphere
A. Cold
B. mesosphere
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. Warm
C. stratosphere
C. Occluded
D. none of above
D. Stationary
1797. How does a hurricane lose power? se-
1792. In which step of the water cycle does lect all that apply
water return to Earth’s surface? A. It moves over colder water.
A. Condensation B. It moves over land.
B. Evaporation C. The evaporation of cool water
C. Precipitation D. The evaporation of warm water.
D. Transpiration 1798. the boundary that separates two differ-
1793. The seasons are caused by ent air masses
A. air mass
A. Earth’s varying distance from the sun
B. Anticyclone
B. Earth’s changing rate of rotation
C. front
C. the tilt of Earth’s axis as Earth revolves
around the sun D. cyclone
D. shifting climates on Earth’s surface 1799. Name that front
1794. What does ozone absorb in the atmo-

sphere?
A. ultraviolet radiation
B. white light
C. carbon dioxide A. cold front
D. gamma rays B. warm front
1795. Name that front C. occluded front

D. stationary front
1800. the ozone layer is composed of oxygen
with how many oxygen atoms bonded?
A. 1 (O)
B. 2 (O2)
C. A (A)
A. cold front D. 4 (O4)

1.1 METEOROLOGY 197
1801. The Coriolis effect causes C. Troposphere

A. the Earth to rotate on its axis D. Stratosphere

B. continental deflection
1807. Which global winds directly effect
C. global winds and surface currents to weather in the U.S.?
move in a curved path instead of a straight
line A. Trade Winds
D. global winds and deep ocean currents B. Prevailing Westerlies
to move in a curved path instead of a
C. Polar Easterlies
straight line.
D. Doldrums
1802. Which of the following affects weather
events around the world? 1808. Which of these are not causes global
A. A snow storm warming?
B. Low pressure
C. The boy
D. none of above
1803. What global wind pattern do we live in?

A. Polar Easterlies
B. Westerlies
C. Tradewinds A. excess carbon dioxide
D. none of above B. methane
1804. What type of weather is associated C. CFCs

with a cumulonimbus cloud? D. oxygen
A. Thunderstorms
1809. Why does ozone depletion occur to the
B. drizzle greatest severity at the poles?
C. Tsunamis
A. because it the colder climate
D. drought
B. because of the warmer climate
1805. It is usually the natural horizontal mo-
C. because there are very little human in-
tion of the atmosphere.
habitants in these areas
A. Air
D. none of above
B. Clouds
C. Wind 1810. Areas of low pressure are likely to have
?
D. Rain
A. clear skies
the ozone layer? B. cooler temperatures
A. Mesosphere C. no wind
B. Exosphere D. cloudy skies

1.1 METEOROLOGY 198
1811. What layer of the atmosphere do we A. troposphere

live in? B. thermosphere
A. Troposphere C. exosphere
B. Stratosphere D. mesosphere
C. Mesosphere
1816. Thunder is caused by
D. Thermosphere A. the discharge of ultraviolet energy
NARAYAN CHANGDER
1812. What weather can you expect with a B. the electric barrier
cold front? C. the rapid expansion of superheated air
A. storms, then cool good weather D. the impact of electricity hitting the
B. a few days of rain Earth
1813. What are the characteristics of maritime 1817. The boundary that separates different
polar air masses? air masses is called a(n)
A. Cold and dry A. anticyclone
B. Cold and wet B. storm
C. Hot and wet C. cyclone
D. Hot and dry D. front

1818. The coldest layer of the atmosphere is
1814. Based on the information provided in
the weather map, which city shown most
recently saw a drop in temperature? A. Troposphere
B. Stratosphere
C. Mesosphere
D. Thermosphere
1819. A land breeze occurs
A. at night
B. during the day
A. Boise C. at sunrise
B. Denver D. never
C. Louisville 1820. Why do hurricanes form near the equa-
D. Shreveport tor?
A. Because that is where the Coriolis ef-
1815. The hottest layer of the atmosphere is
fect is the strongest.
the
B. Because the trade winds are the
strongest at low latitudes.
C. Because the ocean water is the
warmest near the equator.
D. Because the Coriolis effect doesn’t ex-
ist at the equator.

1.1 METEOROLOGY 199
1821. What has the highest albedo? 1825. Air masses are classified by which 2
characteristics?

A. the oceans
B. Ice in the Arctic or Antarctic A. temperature and air pressure
C. the ground B. air pressure and wind speed
D. roads C. air pressure and humidity
1822. pick the right scales D. temperature and humidity
A. micro scale 1826. What sphere of the Earth includes the

B. synaptic scale ocean, lakes, river and icecaps?
A. mantle
C. mammoth scale
B. atmosphere
D. small scale
C. hydrosphere
1823. What instrument is this? D. lithosphere
1827. What is the temperature at this station
A. Weather Balloon
A. 75 degrees
B. Weather Satellite
B. 61 degrees
C. Barometer C. 987 degrees
D. Rain Gauge D. 11 degrees
1824. Blue green algae; simple life that intro- 1828. An instrument used to gather upper-
duced oxygen (O2) to the atmosphere bil- atmospheric data that is usually attached
lions of years ago to a weather balloon
A. Outgassing A. anemometer
B. Photosynthesis B. barometer
C. Cyanobacteria C. radiosonde
D. Carbon dioxide D. thermometer

1.1 METEOROLOGY 200
1829. Which gas is considered a major green- 1834. What type of weather occurs as a result
house gas? of an occluded front?
A. methane A. Warm temperatures and precipitation
B. oxygen B. Cool temperatures and thunderstorms
C. hydrogen C. Light winds and precipitation
D. nitrogen D. Strong winds and precipitation
NARAYAN CHANGDER
1830. This tool measures relative humidity.
1835. What type of storm front if this?
A. barometer
B. anemometer
C. wind vane
D. sling psychrometer
1831. During high pressure events,

A. I get really stressed A. Warm Front
B. we have stormy weather B. Cold Front
C. air sinks
C. Stationary Front
D. we have clear sunny days
D. Occluded Front
1832. What is the term for where air masses
meet? 1836. In general, what is true about places at
higher altitudes?
A. Battlefield
A. They have cooler temperatures than
B. Front
places at lower altitudes.
C. Tectonic plate
B. They have the same temperatures as
D. Barometer places at lower altitudes.
1833. Which number illustrates Condensa- C. They have warmer temperatures than
tion? places at lower altitudes.
D. They have less predictable tempera-
tures than places at lower altitudes.
1837. What is a general wind pattern in the

US that moved from west to east?
A. Jet stream
B. Front
A. 1 1838. Temperature in the stratosphere warms

B. 2 as altitude increases.
C. 3 A. True
D. 4 B. False

1.1 METEOROLOGY 201
1839. What is a convection cell? B. Stratus

C. Cumulonimbus

D. Cumulus
1845. Is it weather or climate?
A. an extremely dense and heavy mass of

air
B. a place on the beach where scientists
watch weather A. Weather
C. an instrument scientists use to mea- B. Climate
sure wind speed
1846. which phase of matter has a definite
D. a pattern of rising warm air and sink- shape and volume
ing cool air A. solid
1840. What side is the dry side of the moun- B. liquid
tain? C. gas
A. Windward D. bob
B. Leeward
1847. What is the temperature for the follow-
1841. The higher you go, the air becomes ing station model?
A. More dense
B. Less dense
1842. It snowed 5 inches last night

A. Weather
B. Climate
1843. Which air mass produces Seattle’s

heavy winter precipitation?
A. 4◦ F
B. 76◦ F
C. 80◦ F
C. Maritime polar, north Pacific ocean
D. 129◦ F
D. Maritime polar, north Atlantic ocean
1848. What type of weather is associated
1844. These clouds are the closest to the with a cold front?
ground. Their name means layer-or sheet
like. They bring light & continuous rain or A. Thunderstorms
snow and cover most of the sky. B. Clear skies
A. Cirrus C. Warmer temperatures and tornadoes

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D. Cool temperatures and thunderstorms, C. Standard temperature

rain D. none of above
1849. All the atmospheric phenomena on the 1854. What is most likely to occur AFTER a
Earth like the rains take place in layer. cold front moves through?
A. mesosphere A. wind will blow the clouds in a westerly
B. stratosphere direction toward Alabama
C. thermosphere B. the cold air will cause rain
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D. troposphere C. the clouds will move southeast toward
the ocean
1850. Using the world map, give the overall
conditions for KY and TN D. clear skies and colder weather
1855. In , warm air is squeezed upward be-

tween two cold air masses.
A. stationary front
B. warm front
C. cold front
D. occluded front
A. Tropical 1856. Hurricanes & Tornadoes spin counter-
B. Hot arid clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.
C. Dry winter A. True
D. Mild temperate B. False
1851. As the relative humidity goes up what 1857. name the image as shown
is likely to happen to the dew point?
A. It will increase
B. It will decrease
C. Sometimes it increases, sometimes it
decreases
D. It will not change
1852. What is the Low Pressure symbol?

A. C A. barometer
B. W B. liquid thermometer
C. L C. liquid barometer
D. H D. liquid psychrometer
1853. ST 1858. A cool and humid air mass is best de-
A. Stratus scribed as
B. Standard A. continental tropical

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B. continental polar 1863. Why does a hurricane loose power

C. maritime tropical when it hits land?

D. maritime polar A. They have a time limit
1859. On a weather map, this line shows what B. They get stronger on land
type of front advancing? C. Ocean provides needed moisture
D. none of above
1864. Wind on Earth, including massive

storms like hurricanes, are deflected.
What is the cause of this phenomena?
A. Red Shift
B. Doppler Effect
C. Coriolis Effect
D. Blue Shift
A. warm front 1865. Earth’s current atmosphere is
B. cold front A. 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 0.9% ar-
C. occluded front gon and 0.037% carbon dioxide
D. stationary front B. 78% oxygen, 21%nitrogen, 0.9% argon,
1860. Why is predicting the weather not 0.037% carbon dioxide
100% accurate C. 78% nitrogen, 21% argon, 1% oxygen
A. The earth is always moving D. 78% oxygen, 21% nitrogen, 1% carbon
B. They don’t know there job dioxide
C. There are a lot of variables that go into 1866. The San Andreas Fault slides side to side
predicting the weather resulting in earthquakes. Which Branch of
D. They are always 100% correct Earth Science does this refer do?
1861. What supplies energy to a hurricane A. Meteorology
A. cold water B. Geology
B. cool water C. Oceanography
C. warm water D. Astronomy
D. warm clouds
1867. When a front passes a location, there
1862. What kind of storm can happen anytime will be changes in? (select all that applies)
of the year, and usually brings lightning
A. Precipitation
and thunder?
A. tornado B. Temperature
B. hurricane C. Humidity
C. thunderstorm D. Air volume
D. blizzard E. Wind direction

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1868. A low pressure system means we might 1874. Earth’s rotation makes winds curve,
have this weather. this is called
A. Sunny
B. A clear sky
C. Dry day
D. Stormy or wet
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1869. What type of cloud is billowy and looks
like a cotton ball?
A. Stratus
B. Cumulus A. wind effect
C. Cirrus B. global warming effect
D. none of above C. Coriolis effect
1870. What measures wind speed? D. winds curve effect
A. Barometer 1875. What are the COLD front properties?
B. Wind vane A. Cloud types:cumuliform
C. Anemometer B. Cloud types:stratiform
D. none of above
1876. What does the ozone layer absorb?
1871. slowly means: A. UV rays
A. Moving at less than 15 knots B. clouds
B. Moving at 15 to 25 knots C. water
C. Moving at 25 to 35 knots D. wind
D. none of above 1877. When a warm air mass and a cold air
mass meet, but they push at each other
1872. Which form of precipitation is likely to
and neither one can move, it is called
occur when a layer of air with tempera-
a/an-
tures above freezing overlies a subfreez-
ing layer near the ground? A. warm front
A. rain B. cold front
B. sleet C. occluded front
C. snow D. stationary front
D. hail 1878. TEMPO
1873. A tropical storm has rotating winds A. Temporary

with a high pressure area at its center. B. Temporary change
A. True C. Temperature
B. False D. none of above

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1879. Which air pollution is human induced? 1883. Which heats faster-the sea or the land?
A. the land

B. the sea
1884. When heat rises into the atmosphere

A. conduction
B. convection
C. radiation
A. Sea salt
D. none of above
B. Dust
1885. Pressure moves from
C. Fossil fuel burning
A. Low to High
D. Bolide impact
B. High to Low
1880. This is the layer where most commercial C. It depends on the temperature
jet airliners fly.
D. It depends on the wind speed
A. Troposphere
B. Stratosphere 1886. Which of the following are greenhouse
gases?
C. Mesosphere
D. Thermosphere
1881. Which of the following is NOT a reason

why the atmosphere is important?
A. It is made of many layers.
B. It provides gases living things need. A. Carbon dioxide
C. It provides warm temperatures. B. Methane
D. It protects us from UV rays and mete- C. Water vapor

ors. D. All answers are correct
1882. Name the front 1887. As elevation increases what happens to

temperature? (Think of mountains)
A. Decreases
B. Increases
1888. What instrument measures wind

speed?
A. cold front A. barometer
B. occluded B. thermometer
C. stationary front C. anemometer
D. warm front D. wind vane

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1889. What happens at an occluded front? 1895. Which of the following is true?
A. Cold air mass meets warm air mass A. Land heats more rapidly than water.
B. Warm air mass meets cold air mass B. Land heats more rapidly than water
AND Land reaches higher temperatures
than water.
front
C. Land reaches higher temperatures
than water.
movement
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D. Land heat less rapidly than water
1890. Ocean currents like the Gulf Stream af-
fect world climate by transferring to 1896. Satellites show clouds on earth, while
and from areas radar shows what?
A. wind A. Precipitation
B. heat B. Cable tv
C. sun light
C. sediment
D. temperatures
D. plant life
1897. What does A represent?
1891. Air flow will go from to pressure
areas.
A. Low to High
B. High to Low
1892. Which of the following is the best exam-

ple of conduction?
A. A light bulb warming a lampshade
A. Cold front
B. An egg cooking in a frying pan
B. Warm front
C. Water boiling in a pot
C. Occluded front
D. Gases circulating in the atmosphere
D. Stationary front
1893. Which is caused by differences in air
1898. How much snowfall needs to be
pressure?
recorded to classify a storm as a blizzard?
A. Snow
A. 6 feet
B. Rain B. 2 feet
C. Clouds C. no set amount
D. Wind D. 3 inches
1894. Which type of cloud is most often ob- 1899. In which layer of the atmosphere does
served during a thunderstorm? weather occur?
A. cirrus A. Mesosphere
B. stratus B. Thermosphere
C. cumulus C. Stratosphere
D. cumulonimbus D. Troposphere

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1900. Which of the following could be used to 1905. This weather instrument is a
measure humidity in the stratosphere?

A. computer simulation
B. weather satellite
C. weather balloon
D. none of above
1901. What weather can you expect with a

warm front?
A. storms, then cool good weather
A. anemometer
B. a few days of rain
B. Chicken pointer
1902. Which is most likely the air pressure at
C. wind vane
P?
D. wind sock
1906. Condensation occurs due to what?

A. Warm air falling, and cold air cannot
hold water vapor
B. Warm air rising, and cold air cannot
hold water vapor
C. Cold air rising, and warm air cannot
hold water vapor
A. 1006 mb
D. Cold air falling, and warm air cannot
B. 1008 mb
hold water vapor
C. 1020 mb
1907. Which city is currently experiencing a
D. 1026 mb snow storm?
1903. How does the air move in a land
breeze?
A. From east to west
B. From west to east
C. From the land to the ocean
D. From the ocean to the land A. Seattle
1904. Wind is caused by B. The Angels
A. differences in altitude C. Chicago
B. difference in pressure D. New York
C. differences in temperature 1908. What effect does a warm front have?

D. differences in latitude A. High pressure systems

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B. Warm, lighter air slowly flows on top 1912. What is the exact definition of CAVOK?
of the cold, dense air. A. visibility 10 km or more clouds
C. Warm, lighter air slowly flows on top no clouds below 5000ft no significant
of the warm, dense air. weather NSW
D. Cold, lighter air slowly flows on top of B. visibility 10 000 ft or more clouds no
the cold, dense air. clouds below 5000 m
1909. Which answer shows the symbol for a C. visibility 10 km or more Sky Clear
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stationary front? D. none of above
1913. An electrical discharge from thunder-

storm that may disturb or damage the nav-
A. igation system.
A. Thunderbolt
B. Lightning
C. Electricity
B.
D. none of above
C. 1914. Which of the following is NOT true of

greenhouse gases?
D. A. They absorb Earth’s radiation.
B. They are produced solely by human ac-
1910. What kind of weather does a cumu-
tivities.
lonimbus cloud bring?
C. They are transparent to incoming solar
radiation.
D. They include carbon dioxide and water
vapor.
1915. This gas makes up 21% of the atmo-

sphere
A. ozone
A. clear and sunny
B. light rain B. oxygen
C. hurricane C. nitrogen
D. thunderstorm D. water vapor
1911. An area with high pressure will result in 1916. daily weather forecasts are based
what possible weather? mostly on
A. high winds A. phaSes of the moon
B. high humidity and winds B. ocean currents
C. clear blue skies C. earthquake data
D. thunderstorms D. air mass movement

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1917. Mark looks at the clouds in the sky and

decides that he does not need to take his
umbrella with him today. Which clouds did

Mark most likely see in the sky?
A. cirrus
B. clouded
A. Radar
C. cumulonimbus
B. Satellite
D. none of above C. Isotherm
D. Isobar
1918. Which order is correct from the earth to
space? 1921. What direction does a high pressure sys-
tem move in?
A. thermosphere troposphere exo-
spheremesospherestratosphere A. clockwise and sinking
B. counterclockwise and rising
B. thermosphere troposphere strato-
sphere exospheremesosphere 1922. A low pressure system is located over
Georgia. What type of weather will they
C. exospherethermospheremesosphere
have?
stratospheretroposphere
D. tropospherethermosphere tropo-
sphere stratosphere exospheremeso-
sphere
1919. This weather tool is used to measure
A. clear, sunny skies

B. cloudy and rainy
1923. what is a thermometer
A. it is a closed narrow glass tube which
is used to measure liquids
B. it is an open narrow glass tube which
is used to measure temperature
C. it is a closed straight glass tube which
is used to measure solids
A. Temperature D. it is an opened straight glass tube
B. Rainfall 1924. How does air move?
C. Wind Speed A. From high to low air pressure
B. From low to high air pressure
D. Humidity
C. From dry to wet air pressure
1920. Which type of image is this? D. From wet to dry air pressure

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1925. Which weather tool measures air pres- 1930. Which of the following describes a mar-
sure? itime polar air mass?
A. anemometer A. Humid and cold
B. barometer B. Humid and warm
C. thermometer C. Dry & cold
D. wind vane D. Dry & warm
1931. The gas that makes up most of Earth’s
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1926. True or False? Climate and Weather are
the same things? atmosphere
A. TRUE A. lifting
B. FALSE B. troposphere
C. wind funnel
1927. It is an instrument that measures wind
D. nitrogen
speed. It has three or four horizontal arms
pivoted on a vertical shaft. 1932. Why does air rise over land at the
A. Thermometer beach?
B. hygrometer
C. Barometer
D. Anemometer
1928. What is number 1?
A. cold air gets warmer over land during

the day, which makes it less dense than
the surrounding air, in turn it rises in the
atmosphere.
B. Warm air over the sea moves inland,
A. warm front within which the air would get cooler, and
then rise in the atmosphere
B. cold front
C. Trade winds around the equator blow
C. occluded front the air higher at the beach
D. stationary front D. Land is cooler than water at the beach,
so the air repels away from it.
1929. Even though England is located at a
higher latitude, it has milder temperatures 1933. What should you do if a hurricane is
due to- heading your way?
A. its location near the poles A. pack up and prepare to leave if you live
B. the amount of insolation it receives in on the coast
the winter B. go to a room with windows
C. the Jet stream that moves up from the C. lay low in a ditch if you are stuck out-
equator side
D. more production of coal D. none of above

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1934. This person studies the Earth’s atmo-

sphere and monitors and forecasts the
weather

A. Seismologist
B. Meteorologist
C. Volcanologist
D. Geologist
1935. What happens during the cumulus stage A. A

of a thunderstorm?
B. B
C. C
D. D
1938. The condition or current state of the at-

mosphere at any specific time and place is
called weather.
A. The storm begins to break up
A. True
B. The storm creates lightning thunder
and heavy rain B. False
C. The cool air rises and stratus clouds
1939. Which states are experiencing a low
build
pressure system? select all that apply
D. The warm air rises and cumulus clouds
build
1936. Which front does the picture represent?
A. New Mexico
B. Minnesota
A. cold front C. California

B. warm front D. Wyoming
C. stationary front 1940. when heat is transferred by touch
D. occluded front
A. conduction
1937. Use the picture to the right to answer B. convection
the question. Which letter in the water cy-
C. radiation
cle diagram indicates where transpiration
occurs? D. none of above

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1941. Where can you find pressure systems C. Barometric Pressure

and weather front analysis? D. Temperature
A. in METARs
1947. When gas expands without heat applied
B. in TAFs the temperature will
C. on Synoptical charts A. Increase
D. none of above B. Decrease
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1942. Which of the following three types of 1948. *bonus*if sea levels are low what
UV radiation is the most harmful to life? would that mean
A. UVA A. it would be hot
B. UVB B. it would rain
C. UVC C. it would be cold
1943. Where does the initial source of energy 1949. A severe storm which involves a funnel
come from that creates winds? cloud forming over land is:
A. the moon A. hurricane
B. the sun B. tornado
C. the Earth’s surface C. thunderstorm
D. the rotation of the Earth D. blizzard
1944. What type of front is this weather sym- 1950. Which of the following would measure
bol for? the current air pressure.
A. occluded front A. doppler radar
B. stationary front B. weather satellite
C. warm front C. barometer
D. cold front D. none of above
1945. What is the ratio between how much 1951. Which kind of water would you expect
moisture is in the air vs. how much there the most evaporation from on the surface
could be? of a pond?
A. Relative Humidity A. cold and rainy
B. Dew Point B. hot and rainy
C. Absolute Humidity C. warm and rainy
D. Rain Probability D. warm and sunny
1946. Is the average kinetic energy of 1952. What causes land breezes and sea
molecules. What is this instrument call? breezes to flow at the shore?
A. Dew Point A. Uneven heating and cooling of the land
B. Anemometer and water.

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B. Prevailing winds driven by the angle of C. The tides

the sun’s rays D. Gravity

C. The pull of the moon’s gravity and the
tides 1959. This weather instrument is a
D. The Coriolis effect
1953. Near the top of the troposphere is a nar-

row band of high speed winds called the
A. westerlies
B. jet stream
C. trade winds A. rain gauge
D. local winds B. U.F.O.
C. satellite
1954. What is true about all severe storms?
D. anemometer
A. All severe storms are low pressure
systems 1960. This weather tools measure the temper-
B. All severe storms are high pressure ature outside-
systems A. barometer
C. All severe storms develop into torna- B. anemometer
does
C. thermometer
D. All severe storms occur in all 50 states D. wind sock
1955. When the dew point is the same as the 1961. When are masses collide, different
air temperature, then the is 100% types of can occur.
A. relative humidity A. climate
B. humidity B. ocean waves
1956. Evaporation is caused by C. earthquakes
A. the sun cooling D. weather
B. the sun’s heat energy 1962. winds move from
C. the moons heat energy A. high pressure to low pressure
D. the moon cooling B. low pressure to high pressure
1957. Ice is the gaseous phase of water. 1963. What meteorology equipment measures
the air pressure and whether it is rising or
A. True
falling.
B. False
A. Anemometer
1958. The Coriolis Effect is caused by B. Berometer
A. Earth rotating around the sun C. Rain gauge
B. Earth rotating on its axis D. Weather gauge

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1964. What is a cloud made of? A. high clouds

A. Water Vapor B. middle clouds
B. Cotton candy C. low clouds
C. Thunder D. cloud cover
D. Ponies 1970. How would the climate of a coastal city
1965. Warm air sinks, and cold air rises. differ from that of a city at the same lati-
tude located farther inland?
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A. True
A. The coastal city would have cooler
B. False summers.
1966. A rise in air pressure (high pressure) B. The coastal city would have colder win-
usually indicates ters.
A. Heavy Snows C. The coastal city would have hotter
B. Rainy Conditions summers.
C. Fair Weather D. They are at the same latitude so their
climates would not differ.
D. none of above
1971. Where weather occurs.
1967. What is the Air density change with al-
titude? A. stratosphere
A. Density increases with greater alti- B. thermosphere

tude C. troposphere
B. Density decreases with greater alti- D. mesosphere
tude
1972. In adiabatic cooling, why does air rise?
C. Density remains constant with greater
A. The air is cold
altitude
B. The air is moving
D. none of above
C. Heat from the ground warms the air
1968. They are highest clouds in the sky. They
D. Heat from the sun warms the air
look wispy, white and feathery. Usually
mean good weather. 1973. What type of characteristics will an air
A. Cumulus mass over Antarctica have?
B. Cumulonimbus A. warm and humid
C. Cirrus B. cold and humid
D. Stratus C. warm and dry
D. cold and dry
1974. What gas from the list below is a cause
for global warming?
A. Urethane
B. Oxygen
C. Carbon Dioxide
D. none of above

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1975. occurs when colder air advances toward 1979. What are the names of the 5 layers of
warmer air Earth’s atmosphere?Label 3

A. Warm Front
B. Cool Front
C. Cold Front
D. Hot Front
1976. What side is the wet side of the moun-

A. exosphere
tain?
B. stratosphere
A. Windward
C. troposphere
B. Leeward
D. none of above
1977. A(n) is a large body of air that has 1980. Where do cold ocean currents come
properties similar to the part of Earth’s from?
surface over which it depends.
A. cold ocean currents come from the
southern hemisphere
B. cold ocean currents come from the
equator
C. cold ocean currents come from the
poles
D. cold ocean currents come from the
A. tornado beach
B. pressure system
1981. What material is use for cloud seeding?
C. front
A. Copper-oxideminerals
D. air mass B. silver-iodide crystals
1978. Identify the cloud C. gold-iodidepellets
D. Nickel-bromidecrystals
1982. Name this weather tool.
A. Cumulus (Cu)
B. Cumulonimbus (Cb)
C. Stratus (St)
D. Cirrus (Ci) A. rain gauge

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B. barometer 1988. Which storm is a column of warm air

C. thermometer that spins upward forming a funnel shaped
cloud?
D. anemometer
A. thunderstorm
1983. What is the acronym for the atmo- B. blizzard
sphere’s layers
C. hurricane
A. Monkeys, science, Evan, took
D. tornado
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B. The Science Monkeys Took Evan
1989. What is the wind direction for the fol-
1984. What is the process in which a gas turns lowing station model?
into a liquid?
A. Evaporation
B. Sublimation
C. Condensation
D. Precipitation
1985. What is difference in a storm watch and

a storm warning?
A. Watch:Its possible-conditions exits;
A. north
Warning:It has been seen-take cover
B. east
B. Warning:Its possible-conditions exits;
Watch:It has been seen-take cover C. northwest
D. northeast
1986. Cloud type
1990. Which instrument measure the speed of
wind?
A. wind vane
B. psychrometer
C. anemometer
D. thermometer
A. stratus
1991. What causes the temperature to in-
B. clouded crease as you move through the strato-
C. stratocumulus sphere?
D. altostratus A. You get farther from space.
1987. a most common type of anemometer has B. You get closer to space.
or cups C. The ozone layer absorbs radiation
A. 2 to 3 from the Sun, helping to decrease the tem-
perature in the stratosphere.
B. 3 to 4
D. The ozone layer absorbs radiation
C. 5 to 6 from the Sun, helping to increase the tem-
D. 1 to 2 perature in the stratosphere.

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1992. Wind Systems:move weather across 1997. Sample Station ModelLabel 4

the US from west to east

A. polar easterlies
C. trade winds
D. none of above
1993. What breeze does the image represent?

A. temperature
B. precipitation
C. dew point
D. air pressure in millibars
1998. masses of puffy, white clouds, often

A. Sea with flat bases. They sometimes tower to
great heights and can be associated with
B. Lunar fair weather or thunderstorms
C. Land A. Stratus
D. Solar
B. Cumulus
1994. The water cycle is the movement of C. Cirrus
A. sun D. Cloud
B. water
C. precipitation
D. movement
1995. what tool measures relative humidity?

A. barometer
B. thermometer
C. weather vane
D. hygrometer
1996. Thunderstorms that have intense, rotat-

ing updrafts are called
A. downbursts A. High Air Pressure
B. tornadoes B. High Temperatures
C. supercells C. Heavy Rain
D. air-mass thunderstorms D. Hail

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2000. are huge bodies of air that form 2005. A student predicts that if the air is
over water or land in tropical or polarre- calm on a specific night, a temperature
gions. inversion may occur. How could strong
A. air masses winds prevent a temperature inversion
from forming?
B. cloud masses
A. By stopping gases from forming
C. air pressure
B. By carrying cold air to cold high alti-
D. tropical storms
tudes
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2001. What two types of weather does Low C. Mixing warm air at the top with cool air
Pressure bring? at the bottom
A. dry D. Causing the water cycle to speed up
B. humid
2006. When warm air occupies territory for-
C. rainy merly influenced by cooler air it is called a
D. sunny
2002. In which direction does a hurricane ro- A. warm front
tate? B. cold front
C. occluded front
D. stationary front
2007. Officials who are lecturing students

here What’s your real name-nickname?
What position are you in?
A. clockwise A. Worarak (P’Nice)
B. counterclockwise B. Siwarak (P’Nim)
C. north to south C. Natthaya (Phi Beer)
D. none of above D. Meteorological officer on duty
E. Meteorological officer with expertise
2003. A violently rotating column of air ex-
tending from a thunderstorm to the ground 2008. Working in the direction from the North
A. tornado Pole to the equator, what is the correct
B. hurricane sequence for the three cells.
C. blizzard A. Hadley cell, Polar cell, Ferrel cell

D. tsunami B. Polar cell, Hadley cell, Ferrel cell
C. Polar cell, Ferrel cell, Hadley cell
2004. Which tool is used to measure humidity
(how much water vapor is in the air)? D. Hadley cell, Ferrel cell, Polar cell
A. barometer 2009. Low air pressure moves towards high
B. thermometer air pressure.
C. anemometer A. true
D. hygrometer B. false

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2010. What are the WARM front properties? B. convection

A. Precipitation starts well ahead of C. insulation

frontal line
D. radiation
B. Precipitation starts at or closely be-
hind frontal line 2015. How can a weather satellite be useful
in preparation for cyclonic storms?
2011. The auroras happen when solar winds
A. Satellites can change the direction of
interact with ions in what layer of the at-
the storm
mosphere
B. Satellites can tell people how long the
storm will last
C. Satellites can change the effect of the
storm on the beach
D. Satellites can warm people about the
approaching storm
2016. Which storm forms over water?

A. troposphere
B. stratosphere
C. ionosphere
D. ozonosphere
2012. Which biome is best reresented by this

climatograph?
A. tornado
B. hurricane
C. thunderstorm
D. none of above
A. Tundra 2017. Choose TWO factors that impact air

B. Desert pressure
C. Tropical rainforest A. Temperature
D. none of above B. Altitude

C. Density
2013. Weather in a High Pressure Area is
D. Mass
A. Sunny and mild
E. millibars
B. Cloudy with precipitation
2018. The warmer the air the water vapor
2014. The name for heat transfer between
it can hold.
two solids which are in direct contact or
touching one another is A. less
A. conduction B. more

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2019. Which is likely to occur after moist air 2024. Wind direction is measured by
is cooled below its dew point?
A. wind (weather) vane
A. Evaporation increases
B. Ice crystals melt B. anemometer
C. Water condenses C. barometer
D. Winds are generated
D. Rain gauge
2020. Precipitation in the form of circular or
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irregular-shaped lumps of ice. 2025. Where do hurricanes originate?
A. Snow
A. Warm waters
B. Hail
C. Acid Rain B. Cold waters
D. none of above C. Rivers
2021. A cool and dry air mass would be named D. Streams
and have pressure.
A. continental polar; high 2026. At the beach, wind blows toward the
B. maritime polar; low land during the day because
C. continental polar; low A. the land heats more quickly than the
D. maritime polar; high ocean
2022. Where do we live? B. the ocean heats more quickly than the
land
C. the land and ocean heat at the same

rate
D. the land does not heat up but the ocean

does
A. stratosphere
B. thermosphere 2027. Which is the correct symbol for an oc-
C. troposphere cluded front?
D. mesosphere
2023. Greenhouse gases in the atmosphere
trap heat near Earth’s surface. What are
the greenhouse gases?
A. CO2, water vapor, methane, nitrous ox- A.
ide
B. CO2, gas, carbon monoxide, CFCs
C. Water vapor, fumes, carbon monoxide,
methane
D. nitrous oxide, ozone, UV radiation, gas

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B. some
C. low

D. none
2031. Precipitation is
B.
A. rain, sleet, snow, or hail.
B. only rain.
C. only snow, sleet, or hail.
D. none of above
2032. What kind of air describes “humid” air?

C. A. warm and wet
B. cold and dry
C. cold and wet
D. warm and dry
2033. The higher the latitude (closer to 90 de-

grees), the-
D.
A. higher the temperatures
B. lower the temperatures
C. the less extreme the temperatures are
D. none of above
2028. A high pressure systems usually means 2034. A thermometer measures
A. Wet and cloudy A. distance
B. Cool and dry B. temperature
C. Snowy C. height
D. All of the above D. weight
2029. What properties of air near the ground 2035. What tool is used to measure air pres-
are likely to produce a thunderstorm? sure?
A. moist, low pressure
B. dry, low pressure
C. moist, high pressure
D. dry, high pressure
2030. When warm air rises, pressure

forms at the surface of the land or sea.
A. high A. thermometer

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B. anemometer 2041. What is true about stable air?

C. psychrometer A. It tends to rise.
D. barometer B. It tends to resist rising.
2036. Warm fronts will bring- C. It is associated with severe storms.
A. higher pressure D. It is never associated with precipita-
B. lower pressure tion.
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2037. Which type of pressure system is pic- 2042. The major difference between a tropical
tured? storm and a hurricane is
A. rainfall amounts
B. wind speed
C. air temperature
D. none of above
2043. Where I find clouds.
A. high A. thermosphere
B. low B. stratosphere
C. medium C. troposphere
D. none D. ionosphere
2038. What do meteorologists predict? 2044. Thunderstorms form from the opposite
A. They predict when we will return to charges in what type of cloud?
school
B. They predict the weather
C. They predict when meteorites will hit
the earth
D. They predict who will win the Super
Bowl
2039. The condition of Earth’s atmosphere at a A. Nimbolunimbus
particular time and place is known as
B. Cumulostratus
A. climate
C. Cumulonimbus
B. weather
D. Alto cumulus
2040. The type of heat transfer that happens
through direct contact of molecules or par- 2045. The scale used to measure the size of
ticles with each other is hurricanes is called the
A. Convection A. Saffir-Simpson Scale
B. Conduction B. Cal-Ripkin Scale
C. Radiation C. Richter Scale
D. insulation. D. Enhanced Fujita Scale

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2046. What does the earth’s atmosphere do? 2050. What happens during the mature stage
of a thunderstorm?

A. The storm begins to break up
B. The storm creates lightning thunder
A. Helps to regulate the temperature on and heavy rain
Earth
B. Helps UV rays to reach the Earth’s sur- build
face
D. The warm air rises and cumulus clouds
C. Creates meteors in the sky build
D. Keeps ocean waters cold
2051. warm
2047. What type of weather would you ex- A. high pressure
pect with the pressure system pictured?
B. low pressure
2052. When climbing a high mountain, you get
out of breath easily because
A. the percentage of oxygen in the air de-
creases
B. the air is more dense
C. there is less oxygen in each cubic me-
A. clear ter of air
B. cloudy D. air pressure is greater
C. severe storms 2053. which city has the greatest amount of
D. hot water vapor in the air?
2048. An air mass that moves from the equa-

tor over the Gulf of Mexico would be?
B. Continental Polar A. City A
C. Maritime Polar B. City B
D. Maritime Tropical C. City C
D. none of above
2049. Air moves toward the center of a
pressure system. 2054. data can come from air and land?
A. High A. true
B. Low B. false

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2055. The warming of the atmosphere by the

trapping of heat being radiated to space is
called
A. evaporation
B. condensation
C. the greenhouse effect
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D. radiation
2056. When lightening heats the air around it,

and the air expands quickly, what does
this cause?
A. Barometer
B. hygrometer
C. Rain Gauge
D. Thermometer
2060. Choose the best forecast for Seattle on

A. Thunder Saturday.
B. Wind
C. Precipitation
D. Evaporation
2057. A wet and cold air mass would be a

A. Maritime polar A. rain
B. Continental polar B. sunny skies
C. Maritime tropical C. warmer temperatures

D. snow
D. Continental tropical
2061. What is the High Pressure symbol?
2058. Stratus clouds look like A. C
A. thin, wispy featherlike B. W
B. puffy and white C. L
C. layers of blankets low to the Earth D. H
D. none of above 2062. Regions where air spreads out from the
vertical currents are regions of
2059. What is the name of this tool? A. Convection

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B. Convergence A. Warm air rises because it is less dense

C. Divergence and the top bunk would be too warm.

D. Conduction B. The mattresses were more comfort-
able on the bottom bunk.
2063. What wind system occurs at 30 degrees
north and south of the equator? C. They couldn’t climb to the top of the
bunk.
A. the polar easterlies
D. Cold air sinks because it is less dense
B. the trade winds
and it would be cooler.
C. the jet stream
D. the prevailing westerlies 2069. Which instrument rises high into the at-
mosphere to take many different kinds of
2064. Heat from warm sand at the beach measurements?
moves through the atmosphere by what
method of heat transfer? A. Weather Satelite
A. Convection B. Doppler Radar
B. Conduction C. Weather Balloon
C. Radiation D. Barometer
D. insulation.
2070. Which of these causes wind on Earth?
2065. What types of air masses form over
oceans? A. Sun and it warming Earth’s atmo-
sphere
A. Maritime
B. Continental B. Sun and Moon
C. Polar C. Moon’s gravity

D. Tropical D. Potential Energy
2066. Lines on a map that connect points of 2071. Land heats up and cools down than
equal temperature are called? water
A. Isobars
A. faster
B. Isolines
B. slower
C. Isotherms
C. farther
D. Contour lines
D. slow motion
2067. In the summer we usually experience
high temperatures and very little rain.
2072. Heat would best be transferred by con-
A. weather duction between
B. climate A. a candle and the air.
2068. Why do kids choose the bottom bunk at B. an oven and a glass dish.
camp? (Think scientific reasons!)
C. a stove and a copper pot.
D. water and a wooden spoon.

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2073. What causes wind? 2078. The barometric trend is how much the
A. convection currents pressure has changed over the past
B. conduction currents A. 1 hour

B. 2 hours
C. radiation currents
C. 3 hours
D. tropical currents
D. 5 hours
2074. Compares ACTUAL with MAXIMUM wa-
ter vapor that can be present in air at a 2079. Air that has a 100 percent relative hu-
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given temperature and pressure. What is midity is said to be
the name of this? A. stable
A. Temperature B. dry
B. Barometric Pressure C. saturated
C. Dew Point D. unstable
D. Relative Humidity 2080. The weather forecast tomorrow says
there will be a 15 mph northeast wind and
2075. What is the name of this map?
a high temperature of 52 degrees. What
three instruments will a meteorologist use
to make this prediction?
A. anemometer, wind vane, thermometer
B. barometer, hygrometer, wind vane
C. thermometer, satellite image, hygrom-
eter
A. Isotherm Map D. wind vane, satellite image, barometer
B. Isobar Map 2081. Dangerous phenomena related to THUN-
C. Barometric Pressure Map DERSTORMS?
D. Humidity Map A. CAVOK, Hails, Turbulence, Icing
B. Light showers, Turbulence, Good visi-
2076. How are air masses described?
bility, Hails
A. by their size and number of clouds
C. Icing, Hails, Low visibility, Turbulence
B. by their temperature and speed
D. none of above
C. by their location and altitude
2082. A is a large, swirling, low-pressure
D. by their temperature and moisture system that forms over the Atlantic
content Ocean.
2077. The earth’s atmosphere is held in place
by what?
A. gravity
B. the moon
C. solar flares
D. the stars

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A. blizzard 2086. Thunderstorms are the result of which

B. cold front type of pressure system?

C. tornado A. Low
D. hurricane B. High
2083. This is an area near the equator that has 2087. How are tornadoes and thunderstorms
relatively calm and light wind similar?
A. Trade Winds A. They form under high pressure and a
warm front
B. Horse Latitudes
B. They form under low pressure and a
C. Doldrums
cold front
D. Polar Easterlies
C. They form under high pressure and an
2084. A barometer can be used as an altimeter occludedfront
(an instrument for determining altitude at- D. They form under no pressure and a hot
tained) because front
A. air pressure is greater at higher alti-
tudes 2088. What happens to water after it falls
from clouds as rain?
B. there is less water vapor at lower ali-
titudes A. forms a puddle
C. the temperature is lower at lower alti- B. soaks into the ground
tudes C. All of the above
D. the air pressure is less at higher alti-
D. runs off mountains and hills in bodies
tudes
of water
2089. Wind in the Northern hemisphere turn
to the because of the Coriolis Effect.
A. Cold air is approaching Location A A. right

B. Warm air is approaching Location A B. left
C. Cold air is approaching Location B C. top
D. Warm air is approaching Location B D. south

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2090. Where a warm air mass is caught be- D. Radiation is the transfer of heat
tween two cooler air masses, a(n) through liquids and gases
front occurs
A. cold 2095. The fall of water, snow, sleet, hail from
the sky?
B. warm
A. weather
C. stationary
B. precipitation
D. occluded
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C. humidity
2091. What is the wind speed at this station
D. climate
2096. When a front comes in, the temperature

changes fairly
A. suddenly
B. gradually
A. 3 knots
B. 15 knots 2097. Does the exosphere have a gravita-
C. 25 knots tional pull?
D. 30 knots A. yes
2092. Which of the following could be used to B. no

track a hurricane’s path over the last 3
days? 2098. What is the wind speed for the follow-
ing station model?
A. weather satellite
B. weather buoy
C. weather balloon
D. none of above
2093. Typical COLD Front clouds

A. CB, TCU, CU
B. NS, CU
C. NS, ST
D. ST, CU A. 10 knots
2094. Which statement is true about radia- B. 15 knots
tion?
C. 20 knots
A. Radiation is the transfer of heat
through electromagnetic waves D. 25 knots
B. Radiation is the transfer of heat 2099. Colder air replaces warmer air
through direct contact.
A. Warm front
C. Radiation is more dangerous than con-
duction. B. Cold front

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2100. When a group of fishermen heard the B. 1036.0 mb

news on television that a storm was blow- C. 1003.6 mb
ing from the east to the west. So the boat

was parked on the west coast of the is- D. 9003.6 mb
land. But then a storm hit and many ships
2105. Collectively, the states of Texas, Okla-
sank. What misunderstanding was caused
homa, Kansas and Nebraska, where tor-
by this accident?
nadoes occur often, are all called
A. A sudden change in the direction of a
storm’s movement.
B. The size of the island where the boat
moored.
C. Actual wind speed
D. The direction the wind blows and the
direction the storm moves. A. Tornado towns
2101. when the soil cannot absorb water so B. Storm centers
the water flows down to a body of water C. Tornado Alley
A. transpiration D. Cyclone counties
B. evaporation
2106. The temperature to which air must be
C. run off cooled in order to become saturated is the:
D. precipitation
2102. the Coriolis affect makes which of the

following occur
A. objects in north hemisphere rotate or
deflect to the right
B. objects in the south to deflect or rotate
to the left A. Relative Humidity
C. Cyclone rotation B. Mixing Ratio
D. all of these are caused by the coriolis
C. Dew Point Temperature
affect.
D. Wet-bulb Temperature
2103. is the process by which water vapor
in the air is changed into liquid water. 2107. whats the farthest scale range?
A. Evaporation A. meso scale
B. Precipitation B. micro scale
C. Transpiration C. synaptic scale
D. Condensation D. global scale
2104. Un-abbreviate 036 from a station 2108. Stratus clouds formed at ground level
model. are called what?
A. 903.6 mb A. fog

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B. sleet A. rain gauge

C. snow B. barometer
D. freezing rain C. thermometer
2109. To determine the relative humidity, D. anemometer
what tool would you use?
2112. The movement of water into the air as
A. Ruler
water vapor and back to the Earth’s sur-
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B. graduated cylinder face as precipitation.
C. anemometer A. evaporation
D. psychrometer
B. condensation
2110. Use the diagram to determine which C. water cycle
statement is correct.
D. precipitation
2113. A is the lines between air masses.

A. low pressure system
B. high pressure system
C. front
A. The air at location 3 is more dense than D. none of above
the air at location 6.
B. The air at location 2 is rushing in to 2114. Which do meteorologist NOT use to col-
take the place of the colder air at location lect data?
3. A. Time of sunrise
C. Location 1 heats up and cools down B. Air pressure
slower than location 7.
C. Air temperature
D. High pressure air at location 2 is taking
the place of the low pressure air at loca- D. Humidity
tion 3.
2115. The higher up you go in the atmosphere,
2111. Name this weather tool. the the pressure.
A. higher
B. lower
2116. This is a gas produced by decomposition

of waste
A. Carbon Dioxide
B. Methane
C. Ozone
D. Nitrous Oxide

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2117. What unit do thermometers measure 2123. The weather forecast tomorrow says
in? there will be a 15 mph northeast wind and
a high temperature of 52 degrees. What

A. Degrees
three instruments will a meteorologist use
B. Inches to make this prediction?
C. Centimeters A. anemometer, wind vane, thermometer
D. Yards B. barometer, hygrometer, wind vane
2118. Climate is the average of weather condi- C. thermometer, satellite image, hygrom-
tions in an area over a long period? TRUE eter
OR FALSE? D. wind vane, satellite image, barometer
A. TRUE 2124. The temperature of the atmosphere gen-
B. FALSE erally decreases with height in the tropo-
sphere, then increases with altitude in the
2119. What does Doppler Radar tell us? stratosphere.
A. the speed of a storm’s movement A. TRUE
B. the amount of rain B. FALSE
C. both of these 2125. Europe has a warmer than expected cli-
D. neither of these mate due to a brushing up against it.
A. warm ocean current
2120. Because air has mass, it exerts a force
per unit area called B. cold ocean current
A. Evaporation C. deep ocean current
B. Air pressure D. warm front
C. Sphere 2126. This instrument measures the amount of
D. Transpiration rain
A. wind vane
2121. High-level clouds are as follows except:
B. barometer
A. Cirrus
C. rain gauge
B. Altostratus
D. anemometer
C. Cirrocumulus
2127. Winds are caused by
D. none of above
2122. Place the Earth, Sun, and Moon in order

from large to small.
A. Sun, Earth, Moon
B. Sun, Moon, Earth
C. Moon, Earth, Sun
D. none of above

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A. equal heating of the Earth’s atmo- A. six’s minimum and maximum ther-
sphere. This is due to the indirect sunlight mometer
penetrating the atmosphere in the tropics, B. stevenson’s screen
and direct sunlight penetrating the atmo-
sphere in the polar regions. C. barograph
D. wind vane
B. unequal heating of the Earth’s atmo-
sphere. This is due to the direct sunlight 2131. METAR LKNA 282100Z 07006KT 3000
penetrating the atmosphere in the trop- BR OVC004 08/08 Q1004 RMK YLO=
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ics, and indirect sunlight penetrating the wind direction and strenght
atmosphere in the polar regions.
A. 070◦ /6 km
2128. Evaporation occurs when water changes B. 070◦ /6 kt
into C. 282◦ /10 kt
A. transpiration D. none of above
B. snow
2132. Air moves away from the center of a
C. solid pressure system.
D. vapor A. High
2129. As you travel from the surface of the B. Low
Earth up through the atmosphere into 2133. What are the COLD front properties?
outer space, the gases become
A. Precipitation showery and intensive
A. higher in temperature
B. Precipitation steady and light-
B. more dense moderate
C. less dense
2134. Which state generally has the highest
D. always lower in temperature average rate of tornadoes?
2130. which is this instrument? A. Florida
B. Kansas
C. Texas
D. none of above
A. Stationary Front
B. Occluded Front
C. Warm Front
D. Cold Front

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2136. Global warming is caused by A. 101

A. greenhouse gases B. 195

B. fossil fuel use C. 019
C. cars and boats D. 119
D. all of the above 2140. The three parts of the water cycle are
2137. Where would you find the ozone layer?
A. Precipitation, Transformation, Indica-

tion
A. stratosphere B. Evaporation, Transportation, Collec-
B. thermosphere tion
C. exosphere C. Condensation, Evaporation, Transfor-
D. mesosphere mation
D. Precipitation, Evaporation, Condensa-
2138. What type of clouds are these? tion
2141. This storm has a funnel shaped cloud
made of swirling winds and can be very
destructive.
A. tornado
B. thunderstorm
C. blizzard
A. Cirrus
D. hurricane
B. Cloudy
C. Cumulonimbus 2142. Which states are experiencing a high
pressure system? select all that apply
D. Cumulus
2139. What is the station model code for a
barometric pressure of 1019.5 mb?
A. New Mexico
B. Minnesota
C. Oregon
D. Wyoming

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2143. What type of front is missing from this 2149. the long-term pattern of temperature
weather map? and precipitation is-
A. Cold A. climate
B. Warm B. weather
C. Occluded 2150. In what areas of the world do hurri-
D. Stationary canes form?
A. Warm ocean waters
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2144. What type of air mass would form over
the northern Pacific Ocean? B. Polar ocean waters
A. cT C. On lakes and rivers
B. cP D. Over the central plains of the U.S
C. mP 2151. Global winds that blow west to east are
D. mT called
2145. Source of all energy in our atmosphere A. westerlies
A. ions B. easterlies
B. water cycle C. trade winds
C. The Moon D. jet stream
D. The Sun 2152. A sea breeze occurs
2146. RA+ A. at night
A. Light rain B. during the day
B. Moderate rain C. at sunrise
C. Heavy rain D. never
D. none of above 2153. Look at the graphic for the pictures.
2147. BKN
A. Becomming
B. Broken
C. Mist
D. none of above
A. The cooler morning temperatures
2148. As a warm moist air mass moving caused the evaporating water to con-
northward collides with a strong cold air dense and form fog.
mass moving southward, what observa-
tions will most likely be made? B. The cloud was descending from the sky
as the pressure began to increase.
A. No observations
C. Evaporation was taking place from the
B. Clouds form lake.
C. Temperatures stay the same D. Transpiration was occuring to add to
D. No clue the fog.

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2154. What is a front? 2159. A major difference between fronts is

that
A. when four air masses meet

A. in cold fronts, air masses are moving
B. when three air masses meet
in the same direction
C. when two air masses meet
B. in warm fronts, air masses are moving
D. none of above in opposite directions
2155. The information on a can include C. in cold fronts, air masses are moving
cloud cover, temperature, wind direction in different directions
and speed, precipitation and barometric D. air masses are moving against each
pressure. other in both fronts
A. station model
2160. When an active cold front overtakes a
B. wind vane warm front,
C. wind sock A. an occluded front forms
D. tornado scale B. the fronts cancel each other out
2156. humidity C. cloud formation ceases
A. high pressure D. a stationary front forms
B. low pressure 2161. What are the WARM front properties?
2157. The layer of our atmosphere in which A. Precipitation:steady and light-

weather occurs is the moderate
A. troposphere B. Precipitation:showery and intensive
B. stratosphere 2162. When you touch a hot spoon, heat is

C. mesosphere transferred by from the spoon to your
hand.
D. exosphere
A. conduction
2158. What is the present weather for the fol- B. radiation
lowing station model?
C. convection
D. none of above
2163. large body of air with the same temper-

ature and humidity
A. weather
B. front
A. rain
C. wind
B. thunderstorms
D. air mass
C. drizzle
D. fog 2164. Name that front.

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2169. what causes storm surges?

A. global warming
B. hurricanes
C. tropical storm
A. Cold Front
D. none of these
B. Warm Front
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C. Stationary Front 2170. The atmosphere is composed of
D. Occluded Front
A. mostly oxygen
2165. Knowledge of air stability is important
B. all hydrogen
because:
A. It determines the direction of move- C. a mixture of gases
ment of storms D. H20
B. It determines the vertical motion of air
C. It determines the vertical motion of air 2171. The warmest layer of the atmosphere is
D. It determines the movement of high-
pressure areas A. Troposphere
2166. Which front is this? B. Stratosphere
C. Mesosphere
D. Thermosphere
2172. Our defense shield from meteors. What

is this Layer call?
A. Warm front
A. Atmosphere
B. Cold front
B. Troposphere
C. Occluded front
D. Stationary Front C. Stratosphere
2167. Atmosphere merges with space here D. Mesosphere
A. Mesosphere
2173. Which best explains why you might see
B. Ionosphere dew on the grass in the morning when it
C. Stratosphere did not rain?
D. Exosphere A. The temperature in the air has warmed
to the point of saturation
2168. Where is Tornado Alley located?
A. Near the equator of the Earth B. The relative humidity has decreased
B. Near the North Pole C. The temperature in the air has cooled
C. South Central Los Angeles to the point of saturation
D. Middle states of United States D. It has to rain in order for dew to form

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2174. How can an average person know what 2178. Water heats up and cools down than
the weather will be like on a day? land

A. They can watch the news. A. faster
B. They can look at the clouds. B. slower
C. They can look at a thermometer to see C. slow motion
the temperature.
D. farther
D. All of these answers.
E. None of these answers. 2179. Which agency is responsible for
weather forecasts based on weather
2175. Sample Station ModelLabel 2 maps? radar and satellite Which ministry
does it belong to?
A. Meteorological Department, Ministry
of Agriculture and Cooperatives
B. Meteorological Department, Ministry
of Digital Economy and Society
C. Meteorological Department, Ministry
of Science and Technology
A. high clouds
D. Meteorological Department, Ministry
B. middle clouds of Education
C. low clouds
2180. What is a hurricane?
D. cloud cover
A. A winter snowstorm that produces
2176. What causes the winds to veer to the heavy snow and winds of 35 miles per
right in the northern hemisphere and to the hour or greater.
left in the southern hemisphere?
B. A huge storm that formed over warm
A. rotation of the Earth water that has winds over 74 miles per
B. orbit of the Earth around the sun hour.
C. moon phases C. A huge storm that formed over cold
D. air resistance water that has winds over 74 miles per
hour.
2177. Cloud type
D. A huge storm that formed over warm
water that has winds over 100 miles per
hour.
2181. A rotation is
A. The spinning of the Earth
B. The path that Earth follows around the
A. cumulus Sun
B. altocumulus C. The path that the Sun follows around
C. cumulonimbus the Earth

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2182. Most of flying occurs in the A. Weather

A. Stratosphere B. Climate
B. Troposphere C. Front
C. Lonosphere D. Precipitation
D. none of above 2187. Which states are experiencing a station-
ary front? select all that apply
2183. Which of the following best explains
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why temperature increases in the thermo-
sphere as you increase in altitude?
A. air pressure increases
B. the interaction of solar radiation with
ozone molecules
C. air pressure decreases A. Colorado
D. absorption of solar radiation in huge B. Kansas
amounts due to the widely spaced atoms,
which will ionize these atoms C. Iowa
D. Wyoming
2184. Contains the Ozone Layer ( O3). What
is this Layer call? 2188. Scientist who study the atmosphere are
called
A. Atmosphere
A. Radiologist
B. Troposphere
B. Meteorologist
C. Stratosphere
C. Weather men
D. Mesosphere
D. Scientist
2185. What layer of the atmosphere does 2189. This occurs when lighter, warmer air ad-
weather occur in? vances over heavier, colder air
A. Stratosphere A. Warm Front
B. Troposphere B. Stationary Front
C. Mesosphere C. Occluded Front
D. Thermosphere D. Cold Front
2186. This is the spot where two different air 2190. What creates the wind’s movement?
masses (warm and cold) meet. A. Unequal heating of Earth’s surface
B. Earth’s rotation
2191. Cumulus and cirrus clouds can signal
what type of upcoming weather?
A. fair skies
B. hot, sunny weather
C. windy weather
D. rainy weather

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2192. What is the second most abundant gas A. Continental Tropical

in the atmosphere? B. Maritime Tropical

C. Arctic
D. Continental Polar
2197. Boundary between mesosphere and
thermosphere
A. Mesopause
B. Troposphere
A. Nitrogen C. Thermopause
B. Oxygen D. none of above
C. Argon
2198. Which is not a main factor that affect
D. Carbon Dioxide precipitation.
2193. Condensation is when rain falls down A. prevailing winds
from the sky. B. presence of mountains
A. True C. seasons
B. False D. amount of water
2194. storm warnings are issued at Beaufort 2199. What type of cloud creates thunder-
force storms?
A. 7 A. Stratus
B. 8 B. Cirrus
C. 9 C. Cumulus
D. 10 D. Cumulonimbus
2195. Forecasting TemperatureFahrenheit 2200. In Figure 20-2, a(n) (a) air mass would
freezing point of water most likely be found at the point labeled
C and a(n) (b) air mass would be found at
the point labeled G.
A. a mT
B. b cP
C. cT
A. 100 D. mP
B. 32 2201. The movement of a gas or liquid in a cir-
C. 0 cular path is called
D. 373 A. convection
B. convection current
2196. A warm humid air mass from the Gulf of
Mexico delivers rain to Texas. This would C. global winds
be classified as what type of air mass? D. Coriolis effect

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2202. Describe a tropical climate. A. sunny skies

A. dry and cold year round B. warmer temperatures
B. warm year round, high humidity and C. snow
rainfall D. sleet
C. variety of climate patterns, seasons,
moderate precipitation 2208. Which of the following affects the cli-
mate of an area?
D. none of above
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. elevation
2203. The front end of an advancing air mass? B. temperature
A. A Front C. wind
B. The shoreline D. precipitation
C. Air Mass Leader
2209. This type of front doesn’t move for a
D. Weather long time, and the 2 air masses tend to
2204. Air at different temperatures moves by move sideways
A. wind A. cold front
B. jet streams B. occluded front
C. storms C. stationary front
D. sun D. warm front
2205. The condition of Earth’s atmosphere at a 2210. What is one difference between cy-
particular time and place is called climate. clones and anticyclones?
A. True A. amount of them
B. False B. their color

C. their sizes
2206. Large, severe storm that forms over
tropical oceans and loses power when it D. direction of wind circulation
reaches land 2211. Which satellite have highest temporal
A. tornado resolution?
B. hurricane A. TERRA
C. Monsoon B. Landsat
D. anti-cyclone C. IRS-P6
2207. Choose the best forecast for New York D. None

on Saturday. 2212. A costal breeze blowing from sea to
land caused by the temperature difference
when the land surface is warmer than the
sea surface and usually occurs during the
day.
A. Sea Breeze
B. Land Breeze

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C. Wind Breeze 2216. who invented the barometer?

D. none of above A. Daniel Fahrenheit

B. Torcelli
2213. These clouds are puffy and white and
sometimes appear to have a flat bottom. C. Albert Einstein
A. cumulus D. Steve Jobs
B. cumulonimbus 2217. What can you infer about low-and high-
C. cirrus pressure air masses?
D. stratus A. low pressure systems are associated
with stormy weather
2214. Which abbreviation of an air mass can B. high pressure systems are associated
be identified as cold and humid? with cyclones
C. low and high pressure systems must
meet to form a hurricane
D. low pressure systems are associated
with the southern hemisphere
2218. In , warm air displaces cold air and

it develops a gradual frontal slope.
A. occluded front
A. cP
B. stationary front
B. mP
C. cold front
C. cT
D. warm front
D. mT
2219. Why does warm air rise?
2215. Which gas is beneficial to us not being
fried by UV rays?
A. Warm air is more dense than cooler

air.
B. Warm air has more pressure than
A. Nitrogen
cooler air.
B. Ozone
C. Warm air is less dense than cooler air.
C. Ill
D. Warm air has a higher dew point than
D. CFCs cooler air.

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2220. The layer of the atmosphere containing A. Richter scale

our weather is B. Saffir Simpson scale
A. thermosphere
C. Enhanced Fujita Scale
B. stratosphere
D. Mercator Scale
C. troposphere
2225. What is the calmest part of a hurricane?
D. mesosphere
2221. During the night air over the ocean is
NARAYAN CHANGDER
than air over land
A. warmer
B. cooler
2222. conduction is the transfer of heat energy
through what?
A. eye wall
A. heated air or water
B. rain bands
B. touch
C. storm surge
C. electromagnetic waves
D. eye
D. none of these
2223. What is the cloud type? 2226. To do their job, meteorologists:
A. look at satellite photos and maps
B. draw maps
C. use Maths and Science to predict the
weather
D. Follow meteors as the shoot through
space
2227. What causes convection currents in the

atmosphere?
A. Solar heating of the atmosphere
A. light stratus
B. cool air rising and warm air sinking
B. heavy cirrus
C. transfer of heat through direct con-
C. heavy altocumulus tract
D. none of above D. Warm air rising and cool air sinking
2224. Tornadoes are measured using which
2228. Waves of 10 meters are considered to
type of scale?
be
A. phenomenal
B. marvellous
C. very high
D. high

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2229. Moisture falling from the sky is 2233. This picture shows what type of front?
A. rice

B. cotton
C. petals
D. precipitation
2230. According to the map, hurricanes start A. cold front

over
B. warm front
C. stationary front
D. occluded front
2234. What type of weather will you see

along a cold front?
A. Thunderstorms
B. Sunny skies
A. Warm water areas
C. Gentle rain
B. Costal Regions in Africa only
D. No weather
C. polar climate zone
D. England and Greenland 2235. What term describes the process by
which gases hold heat in the atmosphere
2231. Choose the best forecast for Boise on (like a blanket)?
Saturday. A. Green house effect
B. clouds
C. wind
D. water
2236. What happens when the air tempera-

ture drops to its Dew Point?
A. cloudy A. The air will be fully saturated

B. The air will be fully saturated
B. cooler temperatures
C. Water freezes
C. snow
D. none of above
D. rain
2237. Winds that blow steadily over very long
2232. Clouds are created by- distances are called
A. convection currents A. convection
B. cold air sinking B. global winds
C. higher pressure C. Coriolis Effect
D. none of above D. convection current

1.1 METEOROLOGY 244
2238. when was the first major study of me- 2243. Clouds are made up of
teorology?
A. 340 BCE
B. 1234
C. 400 BCE
D. 1345
NARAYAN CHANGDER
2239. What is layer “C” of the atmosphere?
A. Water Vapor
B. Cotton Balls
C. Smoke
D. Energy
2244. Higher in the atmosphere, there are
fewer molecules and atoms, so that atmo-
spheric pressure increases with altitude.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
A. Toposphere
2245. Which city is experiencing cloudy skies
B. Exosphere and rain?
C. Thermosphere
D. Mesosphere
2240. Which changes faster?

A. weather
B. climate
A. New York
2241. Why would a hurricane lose strength? B. Seattle
A. It goes into warmer waters. C. dallas
B. It hits land. D. Boise
C. It goes into more equatorial regions. 2246. What would the temperature need to be
in City C to get 100% relative humidity
D. A thunderstorm occurs.
2242. Earth’s rotation makes global winds

curve. This is called the
A. convection effect A. 17C
B. global effect B. 30C
C. Coriolis effect C. 20C
D. rotational effect D. 12C

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2247. Forecasting TemperatureCelsius freez- 2252. What is climate?

ing point of water

A. 100 A. What’s happening in space at a time
B. 0 and place.
C. 32 B. What’s happening in our atmosphere

at a time and place
D. 373
C. The average weather over many years
2248. This type of front occurs when a cold D. The average temperature over many
front catches up with a warm front years.
A. Occluded Front
2253. In which layer of the atmosphere does
B. Cold Front weather occur?
C. Warm Front A. Troposphere
D. Stationary Front B. Stratosphere
2249. Which of the following can change from C. Mesosphere
one state of matter to another at the tem- D. Thermosphere
peratures and pressures experienced at
E. Exosphere
Earth’s surface?
A. nitrogen 2254. Thunderstorm clouds are called-
B. carbon dioxide
C. water
D. oxygen
2250. The area of the Earth that gets the most
direct sunlight is the
A. Poles A. Cirrus
B. equator B. Stratus
C. mid-latitudes C. Cumulus
D. continents D. Cumulonimbus
2251. Water Vapor rises from the Earth’s sur- 2255. The ozone layer protects living things on
face during this phase of the water cycle. Earth from
A. Condensation A. visible light
B. Evaporation B. infrared rays
C. Precipitation C. ultraviolet radiation
D. Run Off D. carbon dioxide

1.1 METEOROLOGY 246
2256. What is the temperature at this station 2261. What would a maritime Tropical air
model? mass be described as?
A. warm, dry
B. warm, moist
C. cold, dry
D. cool, moist
2262. when a faster cold air mass runs into a
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. 78
slower warm air mass; the denser cold air
B. 75 slides under the lighter warm air; warm
C. 3 air pushed up
D. information not given A. stationary front
2257. Wind is measured with both B. occluded front

A. Speed and size C. warm front
B. Size and direction D. cold front
C. Direction and temperature 2263. Looking at the weather map, which city
D. Speed and direction would you expect dry and fair weather?
2258. This is the scientific study of atmo-

sphere, weather and climate.
A. Marketing
B. Meteorologist
C. Meteorology
D. Astronaut
2259. What changes occur in pressure and den- A. Charleston, WV
sity as you ascend (go up) in the atmo- B. Houston, TX
sphere?
C. Orlando, FL
A. pressure and density decrease
D. Oklahoma City, OK
B. pressure and density increase
C. pressure and density stay the same 2264. Which city can expect to see an decrease
in temperatures over the next 24 hours?
D. pressure increases and density de-
creases
2260. When a rapidly moving cold air mass re-
places and pushes up on a slower-moving
warm air mass, the result is a(n)-
A. stationary front
B. cold front
C. warm front A. Billings, Montana
D. occluded front B. Atlanta, Georgia

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C. Minneapolis, Minnesota C. Water condenses and forms

D. Miami, Florida clouds/rain
D. Water evaporates

2270. Oxygen makes up percent of the at-
mosphere.
A. 78
B. 30
C. 21
D. 1
2271. Which tool is used to measure the direc-
A. high clouds tion the wind is blowing?
B. middle clouds A. barometer
C. low clouds B. anemometer

C. wind vane
D. cloud cover
D. hygrometer
2266. Dry air is 78% nitrogen and 21%
2272. What breeze occurs at night because the
A. hydrogen water stays warmer than the sand?
B. oxygen A. sea breeze
C. carbon dioxide B. land breeze
D. none of above 2273. What is the prevailing wind?
2267. What percentage of our atmosphere is A. Average wind direction across a region
made up of “other” gases B. Bands of westerly moving air
A. 1% C. Winds from the south
B. 78% D. Movement of air from low to high pres-
C. 21% sure
D. none of above 2274. What tool is used to measure the mass

of a substance?
2268. What kind of weather is a low-pressure A. graduated cylinder
system most likely to bring?
B. triple beam balance
A. Clear weather
C. erlenmeyer flask
B. Hot, sunny weather
D. hydrometer
C. Clouds and possible storms
2275. Large areas of air with similar charac-
D. Light breezes teristics
2269. What happens when dew point and tem- A. Front
perature are the same? B. Air masses
A. Relative humidity is 0% C. Anemometer
B. Clear Skies D. Moisture

1.1 METEOROLOGY 248
2276. An instrument that is used to measure 2281. What happens when a warm front
air pressure is moves through?
A. barometer A. clear skies, then rain
B. psychrometer B. long periods of precipitation
C. thermometer C. tornado or thunderstorm, then cold
temperatures
D. anemometer
D. light rain, then warmer temperatures
NARAYAN CHANGDER
2277. It is made up of a dry bulb thermometer
and a wet-bulb thermometer is made up 2282. What type of tool can be used to view
of a dry bulb thermometer and a wet-bulb rainfall trends most accurately?
thermometer. A. Balloon
A. Barometer B. Siphon rain gauge
B. hygrometer C. weather radar
C. Anemometer D. automatic weather detector
D. Thermometer 2283. A wet and hot air mass would be a
A. Maritime tropical
2278. What causes the temperature to in-
crease in the stratosphere? B. Maritime polar
A. Nitrogen C. Continental polar
B. Ozone D. Continental tropical
C. Water Vapor 2284. Where do warm ocean currents come
D. carbon dioxide from
A. the poles
2279. Why is the equator hotter than the
B. near the land
poles?
C. the equator
A. The equator is closer to the sun
D. middle of the oceans
B. The equator gets direct radiation at no
angle 2285. Which is NOT a characteristic of the Fu-
jita tornado intensity scale?
A. wind speed
B. duration
C. size of funnel cloud
D. destruction
2286. The process where volcanic eruptions re-
lease gases from the Earth’s interior
A. Occluded Front A. Outgassing
B. Stationary Front B. Photosynthesis
C. Warm Front C. Stromatolites
D. Cold Front D. Climate change

1.1 METEOROLOGY 249
2287. Wind is the horizontal movement of air 2292. The Dew Point is
caused by what? A. the temperature when air becomes

A. difference between night and day saturated.
B. differences in uneven heated air B. the humidity when air becomes satu-
C. difference between land and sea rated.
D. differences in altitude C. the time for a Code Red.
D. none of above
2288. Using the world map, give the overall
conditions for KY and TN 2293. Air pressure with increasing alti-
tude.
A. Increases
B. Decreases
Explanation:
A. Tropical
B. Hot arid
C. Dry winter
2294. Air moves from high pressure to low
D. Warm summer
pressure.
2289. The change of state from a liquid to a A. True
gas.
B. False
A. evaporation
2295. How many degrees F is 36 C
B. condensation
C. precipitation A. 5
D. Water Cycle B. 204

C. 131
2290. What is the wind speed of Hurricane
force? D. 96
A. >35 2296. Practically all clouds & storms occur in
B. >34 this layer of the atmosphere.
C. >63 A. Stratosphere
D. >36 B. Thermosphere
C. Troposphere
2291. this type of front is when a warmer air
mass moves in to replace a colder one D. Mesosphere
A. cold front 2297. People live in the or the inner layer
B. warm front of the atmosphere.
C. occluded front A. Exosphere
D. stationary front B. Stratosphere

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C. Ionosphere 2303. stormy

D. Troposphere A. high pressure
2298. Is there ozone in the mesosphere? B. low pressure
A. yes 2304. The force of a Hurricane decreases as it
B. no moves over land because of
A. a lack of warm, moist air
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. mountain ranges
C. cold ocean currents
D. a high pressure system
2305. What term describes people who study

weather and try to predict it?
A. meteorologist
A. Occluded Front
B. Scientist
B. Stationary Front
C. chemist
C. Warm Front
D. Mathematician
D. Cold Front
2306. Which type of front is associated with
2300. It is a class of instruments used to mea-
the front not moving in either direction?
sure atmospheric pressure.
A. Cold
A. Barometer
B. Warm
B. Anemometer
C. Stationary
C. Thermometer
D. hygrometer D. Occluded
2301. Earth’s atmosphere is made up of 2307. what type of air mass may come from
of nitrogen. The remaining is made up of northern Canada?
carbon dioxide, water vapor, and other A. cT
gases.
B. mT
A. 1/4
C. cP
B. 2/3
D. mp
C. 1/5
D. 3/4 2308. Identify the cloud
2302. The symbol on a weather map for a cold

front is what?
A. a line with triangles on it
B. a line with semi-circles on it
C. a line with squares on it
D. a line with circles on it

1.1 METEOROLOGY 251
A. Starts (St)
B. Cumulonimbus (Cb)

C. Cirrus (Ci)
D. Altocumulus (Ac)
2309. Which of the following events is most

likely to occur at 2:00 PM in the table be- A. look at similar time frames
low? B. ignore time all together
C. review different time periods
D. take into account hurricane activity
2313. What is it called when a cold air mass

replaces a warm air mass
A. Warm front
B. Stationary front
A. earthquake C. Cold front
B. strong winds D. None of the above
C. rain showers 2314. This tool helps a meteorologist see on-
D. evaporation coming weather.
2310. These clouds are the closest to the

ground. Their name means layer-or sheet
like. They bring rain or snow and cover
most of the sky.
A. Cirrus
B. Stratus A. satellite image/radar
C. Cumulonimbus B. rain gauge
D. Cumulus C. T.V.
2311. What kind of front may bring a whole D. forecast

day of overcast skies and light rain fol- 2315. Which city has the highest the highest
lowed by warm, moist weather? temperature?
A. cold front
B. warm front
C. occluded front
D. stationary front
2312. When comparing trends in atmospheric

data you should A. dallas

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B. Chicago 2320. Warm air mass that does not carry wa-
C. The Angels ter:
A. continental tropical
D. Miami
D. maritime polar
NARAYAN CHANGDER
2321. What is a reason why CFCs began pollut-
ing the atmosphere shortly after WWII?
A. Cold Front A. Hairspray use increased when the hair
B. Warm Front style popularized by the so-named Broad-
way swept the nation
C. Stationary Front
B. Because Americans wanted to prove
D. Occluded Front to the world that they dominated not just
militarily, but in technological marvels like
2317. Cloud type the ice cream machine
C. With an increasing number of Ameri-
cans owning cars, the use of CFCs sky-
rocketed
D. none of above
A. stratus 2322. In a sea breeze, the air is warmer above

the
B. clouded
A. land
C. stratocumulus
B. ocean
D. altostratus
C. sky
2318. What is the letter used to show L Pres- D. beach
sure
2323. What direction is the cold front moving
A. L
on the map?
B. H
C. J
D. P
2319. What is the layer of gases that sur-

rounds the planet and makes conditions on
Earth suitable for living things?
A. gravity A. Southwest
B. density B. Northwest
C. air pressure C. Southeast
D. atmosphere D. Northeast

1.1 METEOROLOGY 253
2324. What does this image show D. 1

E. 3

2328. when was the barometer invented
A. cold front
B. warm front
C. stationary front
D. occluded front
2325. What is the Wind Chill dependent on?

Check all that apply. A. 1834
A. Humidity B. 1634
B. Time of day C. 1734
C. Temperature D. 1934
D. Wind speed 2329. Why does a hurricane slow down when
it hits land?
2326. Describe the temperature differences of
land and water surfaces near the ocean. A. The wind stops it
A. The uneven heating of Earth’s surface B. It stops raining
by the Sun. C. It loses its energy source
B. Warm air rising over land allows D. The air is different
2330. What is the boundary between two
C. Land heats up and cools down more
masses of air with different densities?
quickly than water.
A. jet stream
D. The unequal heating of land and water
surfaces causes breezes to blow in differ- B. front
ent directions during the day and night.
2331. Study of earth’s atmosphere including
2327. Select the ITCZ/Doldrums climate and weather is known as
A. Geology
B. Astrology
C. Climatology
D. Meteorology
2332. The trophosphere is where weather oc-

A. 2 curs.
B. 4 A. True
C. 6 B. False

1.1 METEOROLOGY 254
2333. The lines on the weather map that con- 2339. What happens during the dissipating
nect points of equal pressure are stage of a thunderstorm?
A. isobars
B. isogrids
C. contour lines
D. isotherms
NARAYAN CHANGDER
2334. Do land breezes typically happen during
the day or night? A. The storm begins to break up
A. Day B. The storm creates lightning thunder
and heavy rain
B. Night
2335. Energy from the sun is transferred to build
the earth by which type of heat transfer? D. The warm air rises and cumulus clouds
A. Conduction build
B. Convection 2340. the atmospheric lifting that happens
C. Radiation when warm and cold air meet the warm
air is forced upwards, it expands and cools
D. none of above
A. convective lifting
2336. Which situation best represents conduc-
B. orographic lifting
tion?
C. convergence
A. Heat from a campfire
D. none of above
B. A hot air balloon taking off
C. Touching a hot piece of metal 2341. What is the symbol for a Stationary
Front?
D. Getting sunburned
A.
2337. What area receives more of the Sun’s
energy?
B.
A. poles
B. equator
C.
2338. What was a consequence of rain from
Hurricane Florence in North Carolina? D. none of above
A. storm surges reached the coast of
Charlotte 2342. Hurricanes form when
B. giant pits filled with coal ash leaked A. A cold front meets a warm front
C. coastal farming was subjected to pro- B. updrafts in a thunderstorm rotate

longed droughts C. warm, moist air rises over an ocean
D. none of above D. air pressure explodes

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2343. Which city has the lowest temperature 2347. A measure of the amount of water va-
on the map? por in the air is called what?
A. Rigidity

B. Moisture
C. Humidity
D. Fog
2348. Warmer air mass replaces a cooler one
A. Minneapolis A. Warm front

B. Cold front
B. Seattle
C. New York 2349. Which climate experiences seasonal pe-
riods of perpetual night?
D. Denver
A. humid tropical
2344. What instrument measures air pres- B. humid midlatitude
sure?
C. highland
A. barometer D. polar
B. anemometer
C. rain gauge
D. thermometer
2345. This forms when an active cold front

overtakes a warm front.
A. warm front
A. Cold Front
B. cold front
B. Warm Front
C. stationary front
C. Stationary Front
D. occluded front D. Occluded Front
2346. A is moving in, so this must be a 2351. Maritime air masses form
front.
A. only in summer
B. only in winter
C. over water
D. over land
A. thunderstorm, warm
B. bank of high wispy clouds, warm
C. tornado, occluded
D. thunderstorm, cold

1.1 METEOROLOGY 256
A. Cold front B. Cold Front

B. Warm front C. Stationary Front
C. Occluded front D. Warm Front
D. Stationary front
2357. The natural motion of air
2353. Areas near the ocean are generally
A. coriolis effect
colder than areas farther inland during the
B. clouds
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. summer
B. winter C. sinking
C. fall D. wind
D. spring 2358. What is the cloud cover?

2354. What is a scientist that studies weather
called?
A. Biologist
B. Weather person
C. Weather-news person
D. Meteorologist
2355. are wispy, feathery, and composed

entirely of ice crystals.
A. 1/2
B. 95
C. 72
D. none of above
A. Cirrocumulus clouds 2359. What front is moving through Alaba-
B. Cirrus clouds maand Georgia?
C. Altostratus clouds
D. Altocumulus clouds
2356. Identify the type of front that is shown

in the image.
A. Warm
B. Occluded
C. Stationary
A. Occluded Front D. Cold

1.1 METEOROLOGY 257
2360. By some estimates, when do scientists 2365. At 30◦ N and 30◦ S you find many high
predict that the ozone will be mostly re- pressure systems. Why?
paired?

A. It is an area of dry air sinking.
A. 2041
B. It is an area of dry air rising.
B. 2100
C. It is an area of wet air sinking.
C. 2250
D. It is an area of wet air rising.
D. none of above
2366. Water in the form of gas is called
2361. What is the speed of gale force winds?
A. ice
A. >34
B. hail
B. >33
C. >32 C. sleet
D. >35 D. water vapor
2362. What two types of weather does High 2367. When the air is full of water and has a
Pressure bring? relative humidity of 100% it is said to be
A. humid
A. full
B. dry
C. rainy B. humid
D. sunny C. saturated
D. warm
2363. Cold air and warm air meet and stalls
(neither move); brings many days of rain 2368. This is the layer of gas that surrounds
and clouds Earth.
A. Cold front A. Atmosphere
B. Warm front
B. Clouds
C. Stationary front
C. weather
D. Occluded front
D. climate
2364. What are the parameters of the Atmo-
sphere at MEAN SEA LEVEL according to 2369. What are long-term forecast less reli-
ISA model? able?
A. Preassure 1013 hPa Temperature + A. it is impossible for computers to model

10◦ C Density 1, 2 kg/m3 Humidity 0, 0% all the different variables that could occur
B. Preassure 1013 hPa Temperature + B. Meteorologist don’t have the technol-
10◦ C Density 5, 2 kg/m3 Humidity 100, 0% ogy to predict that far in advance
C. Preassure 1013 MPa Temperature + C. weather systems rarely veer off
10◦ C Density 1, 2 kg/m3 Humidity 0, 0% course, so they are actually very reliable.
D. Preassure 1013 hPa Temperature +
15◦ C Density 1, 2 kg/m3 Humidity 0, 0% D. none of above

1.1 METEOROLOGY 258
2370. the study of the atmosphere, weather B. water cycle

and climate C. shell
A. geology D. land
B. oceanography 2375. What decreases as you go up in the at-
C. meteorology mosphere?
D. biology A. Altitude
B. Atmosphere
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2371. Cold dry air moves
C. Meteors
A. From the equator to the poles
D. Air Pressure
B. From pole to pole
2376. What DECREASES as you travel up in the
C. around the equatorial zone
atmosphere?
D. from the poles toward the equator
2372. What do this symbol mean?
A. Icing
B. Moderate turbulence
C. Heavy turbulence
D. none of above A. Altitude
B. Atmosphere
2373. Most of the energy needed for all the
processes on earth comes directly or indi- C. Meteors
rectly from the sun. There is no medium or D. Air Pressure
material connecting the sun to the earth.
Therefore, the only type of heat transfer 2377. Sample Station ModelLabel 3
possible to transfer energy from the sun
to the earth is
A. condensation
B. convection
C. conduction
D. radiation
A. temperature
2374. The Earth’s is the layer of gases that
surround the planet and make it possible B. precipitation
for living things to survive on Earth. C. dew point
A. atmosphere D. air pressure in millibars

1.1 METEOROLOGY 259
2378. What type of front is shown? 2382. What information best helps a meteorol-
ogist predict the possibility of tornadoes
developing in a certain area?

A. current wind conditions
B. types of clouds in the sky
C. percent humidity in the air
D. amount of rainfall
A. Warm Front
2383. This is a group of numbers and symbols
B. Cold Front to show the forecast.
C. Occluded Front A. barometer
D. Stationary Front B. anemometer
C. station model
2379. Warm air moving upwards from the
Gulf of Mexico is: D. weather map
A. continental tropical 2384. What does F represent?
D. maritime polar
2380. Louisa put a bowl of water and a bowl

of sand in the sun. She put a thermometer
in each bowl. Then she recorded the tem-
perature at the start and after 30 minutes.
After 30 minutes, the sand had heated A. Isotherms
more than the water. Louisa’s experiment B. Barometric Pressure
proved that C. Isobars
A. sunlight heats liquids more than solids. D. Stationary front
B. different materials heat up at different
rates. 2385. Cold air is than warm air
C. sunlight does pass through water A. denser

B. less dense
D. different materials absorb the same
amount of heat. C. lighter
D. none of above
2381. What winds steer high and low pressure
centers? 2386. The horizontal movement of air is
A. Convection cells A. Gust
B. Land breezes B. Wind
C. Sea breezes C. Air
D. Jet streams D. none of above

1.1 METEOROLOGY 260
2387. In which direction do prevailing wester- 2391. Sample Station ModelLabel 9

lies flow?
A. FROM the east
B. FROM the west
C. FROM the south
D. FROM the north
2388. Which of the following air masses may
NARAYAN CHANGDER
come from the desert/ SW Arizona, Utah,
New Mexico?
A. ct A. high clouds
B. cp B. middle clouds
C. mt C. low clouds
D. mp
D. cloud cover
2389. What is the amount of precipitation for
the following station model? 2392. what clouds come with rainy, cloudy
weather
A. cumulus
B. stratus
C. cirrus
D. none of above
A. .15 in
2393. Which layer of Earth’s atmosphere con-
B. 1/4 in tains the ozone layer that is important in
C. 6 in protecting Earth’s living organisms from ul-
D. 46 in traviolet radiation from the sun?
2390. This type of cloud is thin, wispy, and A. mesosphere

made of ice crystals
B. stratosphere
C. thermosphere
D. exosphere
2394. ITCZ
A. intertropical convergence zone
A. cumulus cloud
B. intertropical condensation zone
B. stratus cloud
C. cirrus cloud C. intercontinental zone
D. cumulonimbus cloud D. none of above

1.1 METEOROLOGY 261
2395. Based on the weather map, which city 2399. The winds that cover most of Florida are
will most likely experience increasing tem- called
peratures during the next 24 hours?

A. Polar Easterlies
C. Trade Winds
D. Jet Streams
2400. Choose the best forecast for Dallas on

Saturday.
A. Denver, because it is raining there
B. Minneapolis, because a cold front is
approaching
C. Atlanta, because a warm front is ap-
proaching
D. Houston, because it is in a high pres-
sure area
A. thunderstorms
2396. the rate of change of temperature with
B. snow
altitude is called.
C. warmer temperatures
A. Temperature lapse rate
D. clear skies
B. Temperature time lapse
C. Temperature time rate 2401. TCU
D. none of above A. Tower cumulus
2397. Which cloud is this? B. Tropical cumulus
C. Temporary change
D. none of above
2402. Frigid air that travels southward from

Canada would be what type of air mass?
A. cumulus B. continental tropical
B. cumulonimbus C. maritime polar
C. cirrus D. arctic
D. stratus 2403. Which of these lists contains all inner
2398. Isobars that are close together indicate planets?
A. High temperature gradient A. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Moon
B. High pressure gradient B. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
C. Steep slope C. Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars
D. Gentle slope D. none of above

1.1 METEOROLOGY 262
2404. The hottest layer is the C. stays the same

A. themosphere D. gets very hot
B. stratosphere
2410. If nearby countries have high air pres-
C. mesosphere
sure and the air is cooler than Thailand.
D. troposphere How will it affect the weather in Thailand?
2405. In what layer of the atmosphere do we A. constant temperature
NARAYAN CHANGDER
live in?
B. temperature rise
A. Exosphere
C. temperature drops
B. Mesosphere
D. A depression occurred.
C. Troposphere
D. Stratosphere 2411. Large clouds that often produce thunder-
storms are called
2406. A scientist who studies the weather,
storms, and might also forecast the A. stratus clouds
weather is called a:
B. cumulonimbus clouds
A. teacher
C. cirrus clouds
B. reporter
D. nimbostratus clouds
C. meteorologist
D. zoologist 2412. Clouds are formed by the process of
2407. An air mass has formed over the source
region of Wyoming & Idaho. What type of
air mass is it?
A. tropical continental
B. tropical maritime
C. polar continental
D. polar maritime A. precipitation
2408. An air mass that formed over the ocean B. evaporation

near the equator would probably be- C. condensation
A. maritime polar D. collection
B. maritime tropical
C. continental polar 2413. As air cools, it tends to forming an
area of pressure.
D. continental tropical
A. sink; low
2409. As you go higher in the troposphere, the
temperature B. rise; high
A. decreases C. rise; low

B. increases D. sink; high

1.1 METEOROLOGY 263
2414. Which best describes why winds at the

beach change direction between day and
night? **

A. because the temperatures over land
and over water change
B. because warm air over land sinks and
stays in place over land A. Washington
C. because cool air rises and is replaced B. Florida
by warm air from the ocean
C. Georgia
D. because cool air sinks and stays in
D. Alabama
place over land
2418. What is storm that contains storm
2415. Which order is correct from the earth to
surges and has wind speeds of 74 mph-
space?
200 mph?
A. thermosphere troposphere exosphere
A. thunderstorms
mesosphere stratosphere ionosphere
B. severe thunderstorms
B. thermosphere troposphere strato-
sphere exosphere mesosphere iono- C. tornadoes
sphere D. hurricanes
C. exosphere ionosphere thermosphere
mesosphere stratosphere troposphere 2419. A thermometer measures
D. troposphere thermosphere tropo- A. wind speed
sphere stratosphere exosphere meso- B. temperature
sphere
C. rainfall
2416. Which correctly identifies the spot D. none of above
marked X?
2420. Suppose the parcel of the air rises adia-
batically. What happens with its TEMPER-
ATURE?
A. Remains constant
B. Decreases
C. Increases
D. none of above
A. High pressure 2421. Bonus Whats 30000+7000000
B. Low pressure A. 7030000
C. 1020 mb
B. 7300000
D. 1034 mb
C. 7000300
2417. Which state is experiencing heavy rain? D. none of above

1.1 METEOROLOGY 264
2422. What are tropical air masses close to B. caused by Earth’s revolution
that causes them to be hot? C. caused by Earth’s tilt
A. Sun D. caused by Earth’s winds
B. Moon
2427. These can be produced by thunder-
C. Equater storms
D. Ocean A. stationary fronts
B. tornadoes
NARAYAN CHANGDER
2423. The process of water vapor turning back
into liquid water, with the best example C. volcanoes
being those big, fluffy clouds floating over D. tsunamis
your head. What is the name of this?
2428. Which type of electromagnetic radiation
A. Condensation
has theshortest wavelength?(1) ultravio-
B. Dew Point let (3) radio waves(2) gamma rays (4) vis-
C. Relative Humidity ible light
D. Breeze A. ultraviolet
B. gamma rays
2424. is used to measure the speed of rain-
drops toward or away from a specific lo- C. radio waves
cation. D. visible light
A. radiosonde 2429. Tornadoes happened within minutes to
B. ceilometer hours. Which scale of atmospheric motion
it lies?
C. ASOS
A. Planetary scale
D. Doppler Radar
B. Synoptic scale
2425. Which instrument measure air pres- C. Mesoscale
sure?
D. Microscale
A. barometer
B. psychrometer 2430. The curving of air to the right in the
Northern hemisphere is caused by and
C. anemometer is called the effect.
D. wind vane
2426. Coriolis effect
A. Earth’s rotation Coriolis

B. Earth’s revolution Coriolis
C. Earth’s rotation Doppler
A. caused by Earth’s rotation D. Earth’s revolution Doppler

1.1 METEOROLOGY 265
2431. What is the tool called that measures air C. Keeps the fog away for airplanes
pressure?
D. Keeps the sun’s radiation from frying

A. A thermometer us
B. A barometer
2436. pressure systems are characterized
C. A hygrometer by cloudy, rainy weather.
D. A Cheeseometer
A. High
2432. What is the temperature at B. Low
12000AMSL according to ISA (on a stan-
dard day)? 2437. Isobar connects points of equal
A. -9◦ C A. Pressure
B. +9◦ C B. Temperature
C. -19◦ C
C. Moist
D. +19◦ C
D. Wind Speed
2433. Layer of gasses surrounding the Earth,
held in place by the Earth’s gravity. What 2438. What is the measure of water vapor or
is this call? dampness called?
A. Atmosphere A. evaporation
B. Troposphere B. vapor
C. Stratosphere C. humidity
D. Mesosphere D. wind
2434. The following is a diagram of a
2439. When you roast marshmallows and
touch the metal why does it burn your fin-
ger?
A. Heat moves from cold to warm.
B. Heat moves from warm to cold.
C. Marshmallows are good insulators.
A. sea breeze D. Convention occurred through the

metal.
B. land breeze
C. rain shadow 2440. Which type of front is associated with
purple humps and triangles facing the
D. density current
same direction?
2435. What statement best describes the A. Cold
ozone layer of Earth?
B. Warm
A. Doesn’t let storms into our atmo-
sphere C. Stationary
B. Protects us from aliens D. Occluded

1.1 METEOROLOGY 266
2441. Climate is the study of the atmosphere 2447. Which layer of the atmosphere is the
in a region and it can change day by day. largest?
TRUE OR FALSE? A. Troposphere
A. TRUE B. Stratosphere
B. FALSE C. Mesosphere
2442. Earth’s surface is divided into three tem- D. Thermosphere
perate zones based on latitude. Which is E. Exosphere
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not a zone.
A. tropical 2448. TS
B. polar A. Tower cumulus
C. temperate B. Thunderstorm
D. equator C. Temporary
D. none of above
2443. What gases does it contain that are nec-
essary for life? 2449. As the fetch increases, the chance of a
A. Krypton, Chlorine, Hydrogen single-band of lake effect snow will
B. Helium, Hydrogen, Fluorine A. increase
C. Nitrogen, Oxygen, Carbon dioxide B. decrease
D. Neon, Argon, bromine C. remain the same
D. none of above
2444. Weather forecasts analyze the most
data from what? 2450. A warm front moving into an area can
A. weather map bring this type of weather
B. rain gauge A. Warmer Temperatures, Clear Skies
C. thermometer B. Colder Temperatures, Clear Skies
D. Barometer C. Warmer Temperatures, Clouds, and
steady precipitation
2445. As altitude increases, pressure D. Colder Temperatures, Clouds, and Pre-
A. increases cipitation
B. decreases 2451. Which process involves mass movement
C. stays the same within a substance?
D. rises A. conduction
2446. How do we characterize an air mass B. convection

that forms near the poles? C. radiation
A. Dry D. reflection
B. Wet 2452. The rapid expansion of heated air
C. Warm causes
D. Cold A. lightning

1.1 METEOROLOGY 267
B. thunder A. high pressure

C. thundercats B. low pressure

D. storms C. hurricane
2453. Do what extent is the sun’s UV radia- D. weather system

tion filtered? 2458. Surface ocean currents rotate in the
A. 70% N and in the S.
B. 98% A. Clockwise in both
C. 65% B. Clockwise. counterclockwise
D. none of above C. Counterclockwise. clockwise
D. Counterclockwise in both
2454. What are the WARM front properties?
A. Cloud types:cumuliform 2459. The two most important heat absorbing
gases in the lower atmosphere are
B. Cloud types:stratiform
A. oxygen and nitrogen
2455. is the type of heat transfer that oc-
B. ozone and chlorofluorocarbon
curs in fluids, such as warm air rising and
cold air sinking; creating wind. C. argon and hydrogen
A. Convection D. water vapor and carbon dioxide
B. Conduction 2460. All are layers of the atmosphere ex-
C. Radiation cept?
D. insulation. A. Trophosphere
B. Stratosphere
2456. Which of the following is a true state-
ment about hurricanes? C. Exosphere
A. They only affect the tropical areas D. Hydrosphere
B. They cannot be measured on any sci- E. Mesosphere
entific scale
2461. In what direction do hurricanes rotate in
C. Their winds are always above 74 miles the Northern Hemisphere?
per hour
D. They cause more deaths every year
than tornadoes and earthquakes
2457. Which system results in rainy or stormy

weather?
A. Clockwise
B. Counterclockwise
C. Up
D. Down

1.1 METEOROLOGY 268
2462. BR 2467. If the environmental lapse rate is 5oC

A. Mist per 1000 m and the temperature at the
earth’s surface is 25oC, then the air tem-
B. Broken perature at 2000 m above the ground is?
C. Fog A. 30oC
D. none of above
B. 20oC
2463. clear skies C. 15oC
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. high pressure D. none of these
B. low pressure
2468. Which cloud is this?
2464. What happens to the density (thick-
ness)/air pressure of the air as you in-
crease in altitude?
A. density increases
B. density decreases
C. density stays the same
D. density disappears
A. cumulus
2465. On a weather map, what are the lines B. cumulonimbus
that connect points of equal temperature
called? C. cirrus
A. isobars D. stratus
B. contour lines 2469. As water vapor rises into the atmo-
C. isotemps sphere how does this impact the atmo-
D. isotherms spheric conditions?
A. Relative humidity will increase as
2466. This weather instrument is a clouds form
B. Relative humidity will decrease as
clouds dissipate
C. Relative humidity will increase as
clouds dissipate
D. Relative humidity will decrease as
clouds form
2470. Which of the following is the layer of

the atmosphere where weather occurs?
A. anemometer A. mantle
B. barometer B. troposphere
C. wind vane C. stratosphere
D. thermometer D. thermosphere

1.1 METEOROLOGY 269
2471. What is the cloud cover at this station 2476. What type of energy transfer comes
model? from the sun?

A. Conduction
B. Convection
C. Radiation
D. Friction
2477. Which most likely produces clear, cool
A. 100%
weather?
B. 75%
A. zero air pressure
C. 50%
B. stable air pressure
D. 0%
C. a low pressure system
2472. Yesterday there were cirrus clouds and D. a high pressure system
today there are stratus clouds, overcast
skies and gentle precipitation. The fore- 2478. air pressure is the that air has on a
cast tomorrow is clear skies and warmer surface or object
temps. What front has arrived? A. height
A. cold front B. distance
B. warm front C. force
C. occluded front D. protuberance
D. stationary front
2479. In order for a hurricane to form, the wa-
2473. Tornadoes usually occur during ter must be
A. cloudless days A. Cool
B. earthquakes B. Warm
C. Room 61’s PE game “Pirates of the C. Cold
Carribean” D. Hot
D. thunderstorms
2480. What city is most likely going to see
2474. Where you will find the ozone layer. temperatures rise?
A. stratosphere
B. thermosphere
C. exosphere
D. mesosphere
2475. what type of air masses forms hurri-
canes?
A. mT A. San Jose
B. cT B. Step
C. pT C. Jacksonville
D. cP D. Chicago

1.1 METEOROLOGY 270
2481. Satellites and other weather tools can

measure weather conditions from differ-
ent
A. depths
B. altitutudes
C. ocean environments
A. from the north
D. classrooms
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B. toward the north
2482. What is the difference between C. from the west
weather and climate? D. toward the west
A. Weather includes long term tempera-
ture
B. Weather includes short term tempera-
ture
C. There is no discernable difference A. warm front
D. none of above B. cold front
C. occluded front
2483. The most common gas in the atmo-
sphere. D. stationary front
A. Nitrogen 2488. If we were going outside to measure the
wind speed, what weather tool would we
B. Oxygen
need?
C. Carbon Dioxide
A. barometer
D. Trace gases B. anemometer
2484. When two air masses meet, what hap- C. thermometer
pens? D. wind sock
A. The weather changes and precipitation 2489. What conditions cause a tornado TO
usually occurs. FORM?
B. wind A. Circular winds from the coriolis effect
C. water B. Low pressure during a thunderstorm
D. volcano draws air up
C. 300 mile per hour winds or higher
2485. Relative Humidity can be measure by
D. A warm front moves through
A. anemometer
2490. Why do winds spin around high pres-
B. barometer sure and low pressure systems?
C. thermometer A. The Coriolis effect
D. psychrometer B. the layer of the atmosphere
2486. Which way is the wind blowing in this C. the pressure gradient
scenario? D. the temperature

1.1 METEOROLOGY 271
2491. The daily state of the atmosphere at 2497. What gas makes up the largest compo-
any given time, can change within hours nent of the atmosphere?
is weather? TRUE OR FALSE?

A. Oxygen
A. TRUE B. Carbon Dioxide
B. FALSE C. Ozone
D. Nitrogen
2492. What direction does the wind blow dur-
ing low air pressure in the northern hemi- 2498. What is a factor that creates an aurora?
sphere?
A. wavelengths that are both visible and
A. Clockwise invisible depending on the rotation of the
B. Counter-clockwise moon
B. the radiation from the sun’s gravita-
2493. What happens to the amount of oxygen tional pull that creates gaseous lights
molecules as altitude increases?
C. the radiation the comes in contact with
A. fewer molecules Earth’s atmosphere to create light
B. more molecules D. none of above
C. same amount of molecules 2499. Why does land and water absorb and
D. nothing happens to the molecules lose heat at different rates?
A. Water heats up and cools down more
2494. Which layer in the atmosphere protects quickly than land.
us form harmful UV radiation?
B. Land heats up and cools down more
A. Ozone slowly than water.
B. Troposphere C. Land heats up and cools down more
quickly than water.
C. Ionosphere
D. Water heats up and cools down more
D. Exosphere slowly than land.
2495. We average 200 inches of snow each 2500. What is the science of studying and pre-
winter. dicting the weather?
A. Weather A. astronomy
B. Climate B. meteorology
C. astrology
2496. Which would be most useful outside
based on the following weather condi- D. weatherology
tions:Temp 72 degrees, Dew Point 72 de-
2501. is the measure of water vapor (mois-
grees.
ture) in the air, regardless of temperature.
A. Sunglasses A. water vapour content
B. Warm coat B. Humidity
C. An umbrella C. Relative Humidity
D. Ski gloves D. Absolute Humidity

1.1 METEOROLOGY 272
2502. the lines on a weather map connect B. Stratosphere

equal areas of air pressure C. Mesosphere
A. contour lines D. Thermosphere
B. isotherms E. Exosphere
C. isobars 2504. What causes changes in the weather?
D. latitude A. air masses move and come together
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2503. Which layer of the atmosphere is the B. water evaporates
lowest layer? C. the air gets more humid
A. Troposphere D. clouds form

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