Intro To Weather Practice Test for Mid Term

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Once a parcel of air rises above the lifting condensation level, the rate of cooling slows because

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Adiabatic Processes.....

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What will be the temperature of an unsaturated parcel of air at an altitude of 430 meters if it has a temperature of 10 degrees Celsius at the surface?

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If the Environmental Lapse Rate is 5 degrees Celsius per 1000 meters and the surface temperature is 22 degrees Celsius, which of the following describes the temperature an unsaturated air parcel would have, relative to its surroundings, if it was lifted from the surface to 3000 meters?

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The most common mechanism of cloud formation is

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Which of the following best describes the result when a parcel of air is lifted and the Environmental Lapse Rate is greater than the dry adiabatic lapse rate?

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This type of air will keep rising after an initial upward push.

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This type of air neither rises on its own following an initial lift nor sinks back to its original level.

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Conditionally unstable air

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This type of air neither rises on its own following an initial lift nor sinks back to its original level.

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The environmental lapse rate typically decreases at night because

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Ascending parcels of unstable air seldom extend above the tropopause because

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An inversion

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In which environment is an air parcel most likely to rise?

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Radiation fog

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Advection fog

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The high incidence of fog in the Pacific northwest is primarily due to (there is a picture)

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The ( Cumulonimbus, Nimbus, Stratus, Alto, High, Cirrus ) cloud type can form from air converging and rising vertically (clouds of vertical development), and is associated with heavy downpours of rain.

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The ___ cloud type can form from air converging and rising vertically (clouds of vertical development), and is associated with heavy downpours of rain.

The ❌ form of clouds produces the heaviest precipitation.

_ clouds would most commonly be associated with orographic lifting along mountain ranges.

A cloud that occupies a range of approximately 8,000 to 10,000 feet would have the prefix _______

Nimbus

Cumulonimbus

Alto

High

Stratus

Cirrus

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Label the clouds

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Drag the appropriate labels to their respective target on the cold front

Cirrus

Stratus

Cumulonimbus

Alto Stratus

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warm front

Stratus

Altostratus

Cirrus

Alto

Cumu

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Hail formation is associated with

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This is not a form of low cloud.

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Cirrostratus clouds

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Which of the following pairs of clouds are the primary precipitation-producing ones?

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Stratus clouds

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Cumulus congestus

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Which of the following are not in the High Cloud group?

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Stratocumulus clouds are considered

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High clouds

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Lenticular clouds

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have linear shapes.

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Label the Chart with drop downs

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Label the picture

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Place Labels:
- Water Table
- Zone of Soil Moisture
- Unsaturated Zone
- Saturated Zone
- Material of high porosity & permeability
- Material of low porosity & permeability

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The residence time of water in the atmosphere is about

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Liquid water at the ground does not always flow along the land surface, but instead penetrates into the ground in the process called

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Water is unique because

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Saturation

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Saturation vapor pressure is dependent upon this variable.

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Specific humidity

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Humidity

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When the relative humidity is 100 percent

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Relative humidity

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As the temperature increases, generally, the relative humidity

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The relative humidity can increase or decrease even though the water vapor content doesn't change because

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Water vapor amounts are generally lower during winter because

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Higher amounts of water vapor are found near the Gulf of Mexico because

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Which of the following does NOT describe a way in which air can become saturated?

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The effect of humidity and high temperature on human comfort is given by the

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Which of the following pairs of change-of-state processes bypass the liquid state of water?

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What would be the best time of day to water a lawn to minimize the evaporation of water from the surface of the grass, assuming the dew point temperature remained constant?

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What is the most effective index of water vapor content?

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The dew point

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Why is the sky blue?

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The difference between "Rayleigh" scattering and "Mie" scattering is

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Albedo

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The planetary albedo of the earth is

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The radiation emitted by Earth

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Water vapor is the primary carrier of

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Sweating cools people because

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Greenhouse gases

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The region with the greatest difference between summer and winter average temperatures would be

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Compared to land, water bodies

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The range of daily temperatures is during cloudy conditions because .

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Solar noon is typically not the warmest time of the day because

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The ________ attempts to tell us what it "feels like" in cold, windy conditions.

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Latent heat released during dew formation is ( More Than, Less Than, Same As ) the latent heat required for water to freeze from its liquid state.

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The latent heat released during rainfall is ( More than, Less than, Same As ) the latent heat released during snowfall.

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Latent heat ( More Than, Same as, Less Than ) during evaporation of lake water is same as the latent heat released during fog formation.

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Latent heat is ( Released, Absorbed ) during glacial melt.

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Latent heat is _( Absorbed, Released ) during frost formation.

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The atmosphere is a(n)

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This method of energy transfer does not involve the net movement of particles or waves in the direction of energy transfer:

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Convection

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Energy is traditionally defined as the ability to

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Ultraviolet, visible, and infrared are all types of radiation with different

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This is a form of kinetic energy:

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Which of the following statements describes the Stefan-Boltzmann Law?

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At the speed of light, energy from the sun takes how much time to reach the Earth?

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The single factor that determines how much energy a blackbody radiates is its

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The visible light spectrum is bounded by these two types of radiation:

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Why is summer generally a warmer season than winter?

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Most areas in the Northern Hemisphere receive the greatest intensity of solar energy during which time of year?

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The Earth is actually the farthest from the sun on

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The Tropic of Capricorn is directly under the Sun during the

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The earth's axis of rotation is tilted roughly this number of degrees away from a line perpendicular to the plane of the earth's orbit:

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At perihelion the earth is ________ closer to the sun than at Aphelion.

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Of the following, which latitude would experience the fewest hours of daylight on the June solstice?

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The peak of the Earth's emission is ________, while the sun's peak is 0.5 microns.

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Choose the correct listing of radiation from the longest wavelengths to the shortest wavelengths:

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The measurement used to specify wavelengths is called the

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According to the Stefan-Boltzmann Law, if the absolute temperature of an object quadruples, the maximum energy emitted goes up by a factor of how much?

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Which of the following temperature scales is the only one to begin at the zero point?

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Calculate the average decrease in temperature per km (lapse rate) from the surface to the top of the troposphere.

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Minus 273.16 degrees Celsius equals how many Kelvins?

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Minus 20 degrees Fahrenheit is equal to how many degrees Celsius?

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Which of the following has the longest wavelength?

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The atmosphere is a mixture of

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The most costly average annual weather event is

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The scientific method may be trusted because

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The scientific method, a framework for answering scientific questions, is essentially

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According to the scientific method, a hypothesis

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The scientific method can only disprove a hypothesis because

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According to the scientific method, an experiment

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Relatively speaking, the earth's atmosphere is

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Compared to the size of the earth, the atmosphere is very thin because

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The depth of the atmosphere is approximately what percentage of Earth's thickness from the center?

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Of the following atmospheric layers, which is the most effective at shielding the Earth's surface from harmful ultraviolet radiation?

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Identify the four atmospheric layers (from lowest to highest) that are distinguished by their temperature profiles.

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This is the most abundant gas in the atmosphere.

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Water vapor

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Carbon dioxide

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The mass of a given substance contained in a unit of volume is referred to as which of the following?

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The highest temperatures are typically found in the

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The "stratosphere" warms because of

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An inversion

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The difference between the atmosphere's "permanent" gasses and "variable" gasses is that

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Temperatures generally decrease with height in which layers of the atmosphere?

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This is NOT a variable gas.

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Which of the following gases are crucial to the existence of all forms of life?

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Which of the following will increase given an increase in pressure?

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Which of the following is the primary difference between weather and climate?

Quiz on Intro To Weather Practice Test for Mid Term, created by Christina Warner on 14/03/2017.

Intro To Weather Practice Test for Mid Term

Once a parcel of air rises above the lifting condensation level, the rate of cooling slows because

Adiabatic Processes.....

What will be the temperature of an unsaturated parcel of air at an altitude of 430 meters if it has a temperature of 10 degrees Celsius at the surface?

If the Environmental Lapse Rate is 5 degrees Celsius per 1000 meters and the surface temperature is 22 degrees Celsius, which of the following describes the temperature an unsaturated air parcel would have, relative to its surroundings, if it was lifted from the surface to 3000 meters?

The most common mechanism of cloud formation is

Which of the following best describes the result when a parcel of air is lifted and the Environmental Lapse Rate is greater than the dry adiabatic lapse rate?

This type of air will keep rising after an initial upward push.

This type of air neither rises on its own following an initial lift nor sinks back to its original level.

Conditionally unstable air

This type of air neither rises on its own following an initial lift nor sinks back to its original level.

The environmental lapse rate typically decreases at night because

Ascending parcels of unstable air seldom extend above the tropopause because

An inversion

In which environment is an air parcel most likely to rise?

Radiation fog

Advection fog

The high incidence of fog in the Pacific northwest is primarily due to (there is a picture)

The Cumulonimbus Nimbus Stratus Alto High Cirrus( Cumulonimbus, Nimbus, Stratus, Alto, High, Cirrus ) cloud type can form from air converging and rising vertically (clouds of vertical development), and is associated with heavy downpours of rain.

Label the clouds

The ( Cumulonimbus, Nimbus, Stratus, Alto, High, Cirrus ) cloud type can form from air converging and rising vertically (clouds of vertical development), and is associated with heavy downpours of rain.

Place Labels:
- Water Table
- Zone of Soil Moisture
- Unsaturated Zone
- Saturated Zone
- Material of high porosity & permeability
- Material of low porosity & permeability