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The Bergeron process:
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______________ forms as individual water vapor molecules are deposited upon existing ice crystals
a) Hail
c) Rain
d) Snow
Question 3
___________ occurs when the ground is frozen and the lowest air layer is also below freezing, after after
having gone through warm air just above.
a) Snow
b) Hail
c) Freezing rain
d) Rain
ES 1C03 - Lecture 10 - Precipitation - Snow and Ice
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What controls the length of snow cover in Canada?
a) Spring temperature
b) Moisture sources
c) Winter temperature
d) Relative Humidity
ES 1C03 Lecture 10 Precipitation - Acidification
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As a result of measures to control acid-deposition in North America, over the last 20 years, emissions of
sulfur dioxide have been
a) steady
c) increasing
d) reduced
ES 1C03 - Lecture 11 - Water Balance Hydrologic Cycle
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Water resides the shortest in:
a) Seas
b) Atmosphere
c) Glaciers
a) 0.001
b) 1
c) 50
d) 10
ES 1C03 - Lecture 11 - Water Balance Rivers
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Which of the following is a direction towards the headwaters of a river?
a) Downstream
b) Mouth
c) Upstream
d) Confluence
ES 1C03 - Lecture 11 - Water Balance - Water Balance Equation
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Which other process may account for ST in the water balance equation, in addition to soil moisture?
a) Ocean water
b) Water in clouds
c) Precipitation
d) Lake storage
Question 10
At which of these locations would you expect to measure the highest PE?
a) Ottawa, Ontario
b) Phoenix, Arizona
c) Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
d) Berkeley, California
ES 1C03 - Lecture 12 Winds - The Coriolis Effect and Winds aloft
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The Coriolis force increases as you move towards the:
a) increases
b) surface
c) equator
d) poles
Question 12
Which of the following is not an effect of friction?
a) slows airflow
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A land breeze results from:
b) radiation cooling over land creates a reversal of the thermally-driven winds, developing a land breeze.
d) high pressure.
ES 1C03 - Lecture 12 Winds - Winds at the Surface
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Sea breezes:
a) result from the fact that water both warms and cools more slowly than land.
d) occur when the temperature at the seashore is higher than that inland.
ES 1C03 - Lecture 12 Winds - Winds and Pressure: Charts
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What does the spacing of the height contours indicate on an isobaric weather chart?
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This is NOT a part of the Hadley cell:
a) subtropical highs.
b) trade winds.
c) mid-latitude westerlies
d) ITCZ.
ES 1C03 - Lecture 13 - Atmospheric Circulation - General Circulation
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a) gives a good approximation of what actually happens over the entire globe.
b) is better at explaining the ITCZ than at explaining the frequency of easterlies in subpolar latitudes.
Surface winds spiraling out of the south polar high and towards the Equator come under the influence of the
Coriolis force and form the ________________.
b) polar front
c) polar cell
d) polar easterlies
ES 1C03 - Lecture 13 - Atmospheric Circulation - Winds aloft
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The large pressure gradient aloft leads to stronger ______________ compared to the surface.
a) Coriolis force
b) centripetal force
c) frictional force
d) winds
ES 1C03 Lecture 13 Atmospheric Circulation - Long-Range Transport
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The Inuit people are at greatest risk of exposure to persistent organic pollutants because in their ecosystems
the Inuit people are functioning as
a) primary producers.
b)
secondary consumers.
d) primary consumers.
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a) dew forms.
b) frost forms.
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The shape of a raindrop:
c) are, by definition, periods of rain that last for at least one hour.
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Which of the following is a form of ground ice that is structure-forming?
a) Hydrolaccolith
b) Reticulated ice
c) Pingo
d) Articulated ice
ES 1C03 Lecture 10 Precipitation Acidification
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Acid precipitation is likely to have the greatest economic impact on humans in North America through
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Which type of water eventually becomes groundwater?
a) Deep groundwater
b) Hygroscopic water
c) Capillary water
d) Gravitational water
Question 7
The ____________ is known as pathways of active movement of water between the ocean, atmosphere,
and land surface.
a) evaporation cycle
b) hydrologic cycle
c) condensation cycle
d) deposition cycle
ES 1C03 Lecture 11 Water Balance Rivers
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Which of the following is a direction towards a river discharges into the ocean?
a) Confluence
b) Downstream
c) Upstream
d) Mouth
ES 1C03 Lecture 11 Water Balance Water Balance Equation
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At which of these locations would you expect to measure the lowest PE?
a) Miami, Florida
Question 10
Which of these locations has on average the highest annual potential evapotranspiration, in North America?
a) Florida
b) Wyoming
c) North Dakota
d) Alberta
ES 1C03 Lecture 12 Winds The Coriolis Effect and Winds aloft
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In the Northern hemisphere, winds aloft blow __________ around an anticyclone.
a) fast
b) clockwise
c) slow
d) counterclockwise
Question 12
a) supersonic jet.
c) alien spaceship the size of New York City that is flying above a north-bound freeway at the speed of tra
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A breeze that brings cool air off the water is also called a:
a) land breeze
b) mountain breeze
c) sea breeze
d) valley breeze
ES 1C03 Lecture 12 Winds Winds at the Surface
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Wind systems are generated by:
d) the interaction of the atmosphere with the charged particles of the solar wind.
ES 1C03 Lecture 12 Winds Winds and Pressure: Charts
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Which of the following describes the relation on an upper-level chart, between air temperature and
pressure?
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As air descends in the poleward branch of the Hadley cell, it produces a __________________.
a) polar front
b) trade winds
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The ITCZ shifts ___________ in the northern hemispheres winter.
a) Tropic of Capricorn
b) north
c) south
d) far east
ES 1C03 Lecture 13 Atmospheric Circulation Midlatitude Circulation
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The _________ is boundary between cold polar air masses and warm tropical air masses.
a) trade wind
c) polar front
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The two major jet streams that impact weather in the northern hemisphere are the:
d) None of the above. Jet streams are not significant to northern hemisphere weather.
ES 1C03 Lecture 13 Atmospheric Circulation Long-Range Transport
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The intended pathway of pesticides in the environment is shown across the top of the picture, while the
actual pathways are shown across the bottom. What does this picture represent?
a) biological magnification
d) bioaccumulation
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a) they become large enough that gravity can pull them out of the sky.
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Ice crystal growth rates are enhanced by which of the following?
b) riming
c) aggregation
a) drizzle.
b) graupel.
c) rain.
d) snow.
e) hail.
ES 1C03 - Lecture 10 - Precipitation - Snow and Ice
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Which of these processes has the strongest influence on snowfall, in Western North America?
a) Lower elevation
d) Orographic uplift
ES 1C03 Lecture 10 Precipitation - Acidification
Unlike naturally occurring sources of acid precipitation, anthropogenic sources of acid precipitation
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The residence time of water in the atmosphere is about:
a) 100 days
b) 12 hours
c) 10 days
d) 1 day
Question 7
What is interflow?
a) Water that moves along the land surface and reaches a lake
b) Water that moves along the land surface and reaches a river
d) Water that seeps just below the land surface and reaches a river
ES 1C03 - Lecture 11 - Water Balance Rivers
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Which of the following is the point on the map where a river discharges into the ocean?
a) Mouth
b) Confluence
c) Upstream
d) Downstream
ES 1C03 - Lecture 11 - Water Balance - Water Balance Equation
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In which type of climate does the soil-water balance equation often work poorly?
a) Tropical, dry
b) Polar, sub-freezing
c) Tropical, wet
d) Mid-latitude, moderate
Question 10
Which system is able to incorporate soil moisture in its measurement of PE, at a given location?
a) Evaporimeter
b) Evaporation pan
c) Lysimeter
d) Agrometer
ES 1C03 - Lecture 12 Winds - The Coriolis Effect and Winds aloft
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The effect of friction on air:
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A land breeze often occurs:
a) always
b) at sunrise
c) at day
d) at night
ES 1C03 - Lecture 12 Winds - Winds at the Surface
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A valley breeze:
c) occurs at night.
d) has more in common with a sea breeze than with a land breeze.
ES 1C03 - Lecture 12 Winds - Winds and Pressure: Charts
Which of the following statements does NOT describe the pressure gradient force?
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The ITCZ:
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The Ferrel Cell is associated with the:
a) tropics
b) poles
c) mid-latitudes
d) high-latitudes
ES 1C03 - Lecture 13 - Atmospheric Circulation - Midlatitude Circulation
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Semi-permanent pressure cells:
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The ____________ occurs only in the summer season and is limited to a northern hemisphere location over
Southeast Asia, India, and Africa, when the ITCZ is shifted north of the Equator.
c) geostrophic winds
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The long range transport of air pollutants is the transport of atmospheric pollutants within a moving air mass
for a distance:
a) over 1 kilometre
c) over 10 kilometres
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