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Climate and Weather Quiz

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How well do you know about climate change? Do you fully understand the impacts of volcanoes on the planet? Discover the answers and much more in this climate and weather quiz that will test your knowledge to the full.
Antonia Blankenberg
Quiz by Antonia Blankenberg, updated more than 1 year ago
Antonia Blankenberg
Created by Antonia Blankenberg over 7 years ago
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Question 1

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Which of the following is a greenhouse gas?
Answer
  • Methane
  • Oxygen
  • Nitrogen
  • Carbon monoxide

Question 2

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[blank_start]Weather[blank_end] is short-term, [blank_start]climate[blank_end] is long-term.
Answer
  • climate
  • Weather

Question 3

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The poles receive more concentrated radiation than the equator.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 4

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The ITCZ is only found in the Northern hemisphere.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 5

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Jet streams form at high altitudes.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 6

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How much of the Earth's total heat energy do oceans transport?
Answer
  • 20%
  • 50%
  • 10%
  • 30%

Question 7

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The strongest currents are on the [blank_start]Western[blank_end] side of continents.
Answer
  • Western
  • Eastern
  • Northern
  • Southern

Question 8

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What type of climate does the UK have?
Answer
  • Temperate oceanic
  • Warm oceanic
  • Temperate continental
  • Wet oceanic

Question 9

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What direction is the prevailing wind of the UK?
Answer
  • Southwest
  • Southeast
  • Northwest
  • Northeast

Question 10

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The UK climate is affected by [blank_start]five[blank_end] air masses.
Answer
  • five
  • four
  • six
  • three
  • seven

Question 11

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The UK does not experience droughts.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 12

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Ice cores store oxygen isotopes.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 13

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How many years does the eccentricity cycle take to complete?
Answer
  • 41,000
  • 26,000
  • 100,000
  • 97,000

Question 14

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Volcanoes have a [blank_start]cooling[blank_end] effect on the climate.
Answer
  • cooling
  • warming

Question 15

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Humans are the only cause of climate change.
Answer
  • True
  • False

Question 16

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How long is the growing season in arid climates?
Answer
  • 0 days
  • 50 days
  • 75 days
  • 90 days
  • 25 days

Question 17

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How warm must an area of tropical ocean be for a typhoon to form?
Answer
  • 16 degrees
  • 23 degrees
  • 27 degrees
  • 32 degrees

Question 18

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Hurricanes are measured on the [blank_start]Saffir-Simpson[blank_end] scale.
Answer
  • Saffir-Simpson
  • Milankovitch
  • Mercalli
  • Wegener

Question 19

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Label the Milankovitch cycles.
Image:
Milankovitch Cycles No Labels (image/png)
Answer
  • Eccentricity
  • Precession
  • Axial Tilt

Question 20

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Label the features shown on the diagram.
Image:
Convection Cells No Labels (image/png)
Answer
  • Polar Cell
  • Hadley Cell
  • Ferrel Cell
  • Subtropical Jet
  • Polar Jet
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