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Midterm Quiz
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Questão 1

Questão
The Corilois force is the force that causes the wind to blow.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 2

Questão
Hot air with a low relative humidity may actually contain more water vapor than cool air with a high relative humidity.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 3

Questão
On a cloudless day, the tropopause is easily visible with the naked eye.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 4

Questão
The ground is a better emitter of infrared radiation and cools more quickly than air.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 5

Questão
The temperature in a rising parcel of air will always be the same as that of the surrounding air.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 6

Questão
Visibility generally improves after a rain storm.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 7

Questão
The air pressure at the summit of Mount Everest is higher than the air pressure at sea level.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 8

Questão
Clouds, fogs, and precipitation are more likely to form where prevailing winds are upslope than where the winds are downslope.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 9

Questão
Dense fog is more prevalent in mountainous areas (especially those regions where rising cold air cools and condenses) than coastal margins.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 10

Questão
Frost occurs when dew freezes.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 11

Questão
On a windy day, you would expect to record warmer daytime and warmer nighttime temperatures than on a day with calm winds.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 12

Questão
The formation of ice releases heat and warms the surroundings.
Responda
  • True
  • False

Questão 13

Questão
A cloud with an anvil-shaped top is most often associated with
Responda
  • cumulonimbus
  • altocumulus
  • cumulus congestus
  • cumulus humilis

Questão 14

Questão
Which process results in a decrease in relative humidity?
Responda
  • increasing the actual water vapor pressure
  • cooling the air
  • warming the air
  • decreasing the saturation water vapor pressure

Questão 15

Questão
The moist adiabatic rate is ___ than the dry adiabatic heat because latent heat is ___ the rising air.
Responda
  • less; removed from
  • less; added to
  • greater; removed from
  • greater; added to

Questão 16

Questão
During atmospheric convection, rising air bubbles are called ___.
Responda
  • clouds
  • vapors
  • thermals
  • wind

Questão 17

Questão
The ___ force is an apparent force created by Earth's rotation.
Responda
  • pressure gradient
  • gravitational
  • centripetal
  • Corilois

Questão 18

Questão
Which cloud type would most lickely form in absolutely stable air?
Responda
  • stratus
  • altocumulus
  • cumulus congestus
  • cumulonimbus

Questão 19

Questão
On an upper-air chart, normally we find warm air associated with ___ pressure, and cold air associated with ___ pressure.
Responda
  • low; low
  • low; high
  • high; high
  • high; low

Questão 20

Questão
In clear weather, the air next to the ground is usually ___ than the air above it at night, and ___ than the air above it during the day.
Responda
  • warmer; warmer
  • cooler; warmer
  • colder; colder
  • warmer; colder

Questão 21

Questão
The letter H and L on a surface weather map refer to regions of high and low ___.
Responda
  • latitude
  • winds
  • pressure
  • temperature

Questão 22

Questão
Beneath a lenticular cloud downwind of a mountain, a large swirling eddy forms what type of cloud?
Responda
  • nimbus
  • rotor
  • lee wave
  • mountain wave

Questão 23

Questão
If you observe large raindrops hitting the ground, you could conclude that the cloud overhead was ___ and had ___ updrafts.
Responda
  • thick; strong
  • thin; strong
  • thin; weak
  • thick; weak

Questão 24

Questão
Clouds often form in ___.
Responda
  • sinking air in the center of a high pressure area
  • rising air in the center of a low pressure area
  • sinking air in the center of a low pressure area
  • rising air in the center of a high pressure area

Questão 25

Questão
The energy of motion is known as ___.
Responda
  • specific heat
  • radiant energy
  • potential energy
  • kinetic energy

Questão 26

Questão
What is responsible for the cold feeling that you experience after leaving a swimming pool on a hot, dry summer day?
Responda
  • heat transport by convection
  • heat transport by radiation
  • heat transport by conduction
  • heat transport by latent heat

Questão 27

Questão
As the air temperature increases, the air's capacity for water vapor ___.
Responda
  • decreases
  • can either increase or decrease because it is unrelated to air temperature
  • remains constant
  • increases

Questão 28

Questão
On an upper-air chart, the wind aloft tends to blow ___.
Responda
  • at right angles to the isobars or contour lines
  • at an angle between 10 degrees and 30 degrees to the contours and towards lower pressure
  • at constant speed
  • parallel to the isobar or contours

Questão 29

Questão
A ridge on an upper-air isobaric chart indicates ___.
Responda
  • a region with calm winds
  • average heights
  • lower-than-average heights
  • higher-than-average heights

Questão 30

Questão
Cyclonic flow means ___ in either the Northern or Southern Hemisphere.
Responda
  • clockwise wind flow
  • circulation around a high pressure center
  • circulation around a low pressure center
  • counterclockwise flow

Questão 31

Questão
If upper-level divergence exceeds surface convergence, the air pressure at the center of the low will ___, and the isobars will become ___ tightly packed.
Responda
  • decrease; less
  • increase; less
  • increase; more
  • decrease; more

Questão 32

Questão
An inversion represents an extremely stable atmosphere because ___.
Responda
  • surface air becomes warmer than air aloft
  • inversions allow air pollutants to escape freely from surface air
  • air becomes cooler with height
  • inversions act as a lid on vertical air motion

Questão 33

Questão
Particles that serve as surfaces on which water vapor may condense are called ___.
Responda
  • nacreous nuclei
  • hydrophobic nuclei
  • scud
  • condensation nuclei

Questão 34

Questão
A good example of ___ fog is observed along the Pacific Coast during summer, when warm, moist air from the ocean is carried over colder coastal waters.
Responda
  • advection
  • radiation
  • evaporation
  • high

Questão 35

Questão
In the lower atmosphere, any air that rises will ___ and cool.
Responda
  • vaporize
  • expand
  • compress
  • evaporate

Questão 36

Questão
As the air temperature increases, with no addition of water vapor to the air, the dew point will ___.
Responda
  • increase
  • remain the same
  • decrease
  • become equal to the air temperature

Questão 37

Questão
If an air parcel is given a small push upward and it continues to move upward on its own accord, the atmosphere is said to be ___.
Responda
  • dynamic
  • stable
  • buoyant
  • unstable

Questão 38

Questão
The movement of smoke in the atmosphere from one area to another by wind is an example of ___.
Responda
  • advection
  • conduction
  • reflection
  • radiation

Questão 39

Questão
Which environmental lapse rate represents the most unstable condition in a layer of unsaturated air?
Responda
  • 3 degrees Celsius per 1000 m
  • 6 degrees Celsius per 1000 m
  • 11 degrees Celsius per 1000 m
  • 9 degrees Celsius per 1000 m

Questão 40

Questão
In a temperature inversion, air temperature ___.
Responda
  • increases with decreasing height
  • decreases with increasing height
  • increases with increasing height
  • remains constant with increasing height

Questão 41

Questão
Condensation is more likely to occur when air ___.
Responda
  • warms and the speed of the water vapor molecules decreases
  • cools and the speed of the water vapor molecules decreases
  • cools and the speed of the water vapor molecules increases
  • warms and the speed of the water vapor molecules increases

Questão 42

Questão
Which chemical process is an example of condensation?
Responda
  • ice formation
  • cloud droplet formation
  • photosynthesis
  • water vapor formation

Questão 43

Questão
Nightime radiation inversions occur on most ___ nights.
Responda
  • rainy, calm
  • rainy, windy
  • clear, windy
  • clear, calm

Questão 44

Questão
Which type of cloud shows the greatest vertical growth?
Responda
  • cirrocumulus
  • cumulus humilis
  • cumulonimbus
  • cumulus congestus

Questão 45

Questão
Which cloud type would be most likely to form ina an unstable atmophere?
Responda
  • cumulus humilis
  • nimbostratus
  • cumulonimbus
  • cirrostratus

Questão 46

Questão
What set of conditions, working together, will make the atmophere the most unstable?
Responda
  • cooling the surface and cooling the air aloft
  • warming the surface and cooling the air aloft
  • cooling the surface and warming the air aloft
  • warming the surface and warming the air aloft

Questão 47

Questão
Which set of conditions, working together, will make the atmosphere the most stable?
Responda
  • cooling the surface and warming the air aloft
  • warming the surface and cooling the air aloft
  • warming the surface and warming the air aloft
  • cooling the surface and cooling the air aloft

Questão 48

Questão
Areas of high atmospheric pressure are also known as ___.
Responda
  • hurricanes
  • anticyclones
  • tornadoes
  • troughs

Questão 49

Questão
Dew is most likely to form on ___.
Responda
  • clear, calm nights
  • cloudy, calm nights
  • clear, windy nights
  • cloudy, windy nights

Questão 50

Questão
In the middle latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, surface winds tend to blow ___ and ___ around an area of surface low pressure.
Responda
  • counterclockwise; inward
  • clockwise; inward
  • clockwise; outward
  • counterclockwise; outward

Questão 51

Questão
On a cold, winter morning, the most likely place for radiation fog to form is ___.
Responda
  • over a body of water
  • at the top of a hill or mountain
  • along the side of a hill
  • in a valley

Questão 52

Questão
The surface air around a strengthening low pressure area normally ___, while, above the system the air normally ___.
Responda
  • converges; converges
  • converges; diverges
  • diverges; converges
  • diverges; diverges

Questão 53

Questão
Frost forms when ___.
Responda
  • conditions are cold, cloudy, and windy
  • the dew point is 32 degrees fahernheight or below
  • the dew point is above 32 degrees fahernheight
  • dew freezes

Questão 54

Questão
Radiation fog forms when ___.
Responda
  • water vapor is added ro air next to the ground
  • air pressure ar the ground drops suddenly
  • air next to the ground is cooled
  • there is a increase in condensation nuclei in air at the ground

Questão 55

Questão
Cold and cloudy nights are warmer than cold and clear nights (other factors being equal) because ___.
Responda
  • of thermal belts
  • clouds reflect sunlight
  • of strong radiation inversions
  • clouds absorb outgoing infrared energy and radiate it back to the surface

Questão 56

Questão
The wind around a surface low pressure in the Southern Hemisphere blows ___ the center.
Responda
  • clockwise and inward toward
  • counterlockwise and inward toward
  • clockwise and outward from
  • counterclockwise and outward from

Questão 57

Questão
All of the weather we are familiar with on Earth occurs in the ___.
Responda
  • troposphere
  • stratosphere
  • mesosphere
  • exosphere

Questão 58

Questão
As the difference between the air temperature and the dew point increases, the relative humidity ___.
Responda
  • increases
  • decreases
  • remains constant and equal to 100%
  • remains constant at a value less than 100%

Questão 59

Questão
The force that causes the wind to blow is the ___ force.
Responda
  • centripetal
  • pressure gradient
  • Coriolis
  • frictional

Questão 60

Questão
The wind around a surface high pressure center in the Northern Hemisphere blows ___ the center.
Responda
  • clockwise and outward from
  • counterclockwise and inward from
  • counterclockwise and outward from
  • clockwise and inward from

Questão 61

Questão
A ___ pressure usually indicates clearing weather or fair weather.
Responda
  • constant
  • steadily falling
  • steadily rising
  • fluctuating

Questão 62

Questão
Light or moderate continuous precipitation is most often associated with ___ clouds.
Responda
  • cirrocumulus
  • cirrostratus
  • nimbostratus
  • cumulonimbus

Questão 63

Questão
What pattern is most likely associated with clear skies and fair weather?
Responda
  • high pressure regions
  • low pressure regions
  • warm regions
  • a cold front

Questão 64

Questão
A baseball will travel slightly farther on a ___ day.
Responda
  • hot, dry
  • cool, cloudy
  • hot, humid
  • cool, clear

Questão 65

Questão
Which combination produces the strongest Coriolis force?
Responda
  • slow winds and low latitude
  • fast winds and low latitude
  • fast winds and high altitude
  • slow winds and high altitude

Questão 66

Questão
The name given to a towering cloud that produces precipitation that is showery with frequent changes in intensity is ___.
Responda
  • altocumulus
  • cumulus congestus
  • cumulus humilis
  • cumulonimbus

Questão 67

Questão
The pressure gradient force is directed from higher pressure toward lower pressure ___.
Responda
  • only at the equator
  • at all places on Earth except for the equator
  • at all places on Earth
  • only at the poles

Questão 68

Questão
Which condition would contribute to higher surface air temperatures?
Responda
  • moist loamy soil
  • dry loamy soil with high vegitation
  • dry sandy soil with little vegetation
  • moist loamy soil with high vegitation

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