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1. Is the change of the physical state of matter from the gas phase into the liquid phase?
A. Evaporation B. Condensation
C. Deposition D. Sublimation
2. Is a type of vaporization that occurs on the surface of a liquid as it changes into the gas phase?
A. Evaporation B. Condensation
C. Deposition D. Sublimation
3. Any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapour that falls under gravity?
A. Condensation B. Deposition
C. Precipitation D. Sublimation
4. It is a continuous liquid precipitation consisting of numerous tiny droplets which seen to float in the
air, following light air current?
A) Drizzle B) Fog
C) Hail D) Sleet
5. What is composed of tiny water droplets or ice crystals that are suspended in the air?
A) Clouds B) Fog
C) Haze D) Flows
6. What is the change of substance from its liquid water changed to water vapor?
A) Advection B) convection
C) Evaporation D) Radiation
7. A cloud meaning “riglet” or curling “lock of hair” the highest about 16,500 ft. above sea level?
A) Altostratus B) Cirrus
C) Cumulus D) Stratus
8. This is the fog resulting primarily from cooling of air near the surface of the ground as the earth
losses heat?
A) Advection fog B) Frontal fog
C) Radiation fog D) Smoke fog
9. What do you call the extreme horizontal distance a certain prominent object can be seen and
identified by an unaided eye?
A) Extreme distance B) Sighted distance
C) Range of an object D) Visibility
10. What fog produced when air that is warmer and more moist than the ground surface moves over
the ground surface.
A) Advection fog B) Frontal fog
C) Radiation fog D) Smoke fog.
11. What fog is formed when air flows upwards over rising terrain and is adiabatically cooled to its
saturation temperature.
A. Upslope fog B. Valley fog
C. Steam fog D. Evaporation fog
12. Is a visible aerosol consisting of tiny water droplets or ice crystals suspended in the air at or near
the Earth's surface.
A. Fog B. Hail
C. Smog D. Haze
13. What fog settles into the hollows and basins between hills and mountains, is a type of radiation
fog.
A. Upslope fog B. Valley fog
C. Steam fog D. Evaporation fog
14. What is traditionally an atmospheric phenomenon in which dust, smoke, and other dry particulates
obscure the clarity of the sky.
A. Haze B. Smog
C. Mist D. Fog
15. A thin layer of ice on a solid surface, which forms from water vapor in an above freezing
atmosphere coming in contact with a solid surface whose temperature is below freezing, and resulting
in a phase change from water vapor to ice as the water vapor reaches the freezing point.
A. Frost B. Smog
C. Mist D. Fog
figure A
figure B
18. If the dry bulb temperature is 4C and the wet bulb temperature is -2C. What is the Relative
Humidity? (fig. A)
A. 70 B. 14
C. 72 D. 22
19. If the dry bulb temperature is 4C and the wet bulb temperature is 2C. What is the Relative
Humidity? (fig. A)
A. 70 B. 14
C. 67 D. 6
20. If the dry bulb temperature is 4C and the wet bulb temperature is -2C. What is the Dew Point
temperature? (fig. B)
A. -1 B. -19
C. 1 D. 13
21. If the dry bulb temperature is 4C and the wet bulb temperature is 2C. What is the Dew Point
temperature? (fig. B)
A. -1 B. -4
C. 1 D. -7
22. If the dry bulb temperature is 4C and the wet bulb temperature is -2C. What is the height from
ground to base of clouds? (fig. B)
A. 9,200 ft. B. 9,600 ft
C. 9,400 ft D. 9,800 ft.
23. If the dry bulb temperature is 4C and the wet bulb temperature is 2C. What is the height from
ground to base of clouds? (fig. B)
A. 1,400 ft. B. 1,800 ft.
C. 1,600 ft. D. 2,000 ft.
24. What is a volume of air defined by its temperature and water vapor content?
A. Air Mass B. Air Tropical
C. Air continental D. Air Equatorial
25. An air mass develops only in winter over large areas of snow and ice?
A. Continental Arctic B. Continental Polar
C. Continental Tropical D. Continental Equatorial.
28. A front at which the warm air is ascending and is normally the initial state of a cold front?
A. Ana front B. Kata front
C. Warm front D. Cold front
29. A weak frontal condition in which warm-sector air sinks relative to colder air?
A. Ana front B. Kata front
C. Warm front D. Cold front
30. What are fast flowing, narrow, meandering air currents in the atmospheres of some planets,
including Earth?
A. Arctic jet B. Polar jet
C. Subtropical jet D. Jet stream
31. What is the boundary between the polar cell and the Ferrel cell around the 60° latitude in each
hemisphere?
A. Polar front B. Hadley cell
C. Horse latitude D. Intertropical convergence zone
32. What is the boundary between the Hadley cell and the Ferrel cell?
A. Polar front B. Polar easterlies
C. Horse latitude D. Intertropical convergence zone
33. What is the semi-permanent, semi-continuous weather front between the cold arctic air mass and
the warmer air of the polar cell?
A. Arctic front B. Polar front
C. Antarctic front D. Polar continental
34. A convergence line in the seas that circle Antarctica between latitudes 50°S and 60°S ?
A. Arctic front B. Polar front
C. Antarctic polar front D. Polar continental
35. The boundary between two air masses is often distorted by warmer air bulging into the colder air,
with the bulge moving along like a wave?
A. Frontal depression B. Frontolysis
C. Frontogenesis D. Warm depression
36. What is a weather phenomenon defined by the United States National Weather Service's glossary
as "a large-scale circulation of winds around a central region of high atmospheric pressure, clockwise
in the Northern Hemisphere, counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere"?
A. Anti cyclone B. Anti depression
C. Low pressure D. High pressure
37. It is an area of high pressure ,they are made when air sinks downward, air presses down on earth
that moves clockwise around them?
A. Anti cyclone B. Anti depression
C. Low pressure D. High pressure
38. In meteorology, the point of intersection of a trough and a ridge in the pressure pattern of a
weather map?
A. Col B. Ridge
C. High D. Low
39. The elongated area of high pressure extending outwards from an anti cyclone area is called?
A. Col B. Ridge
C. High D. Low
40. A cold air mass that forms North of 50 and South of 50 and have a high pressure?
A. Arctic front B. Polar air mass
C. Continental Arctic D. Continental Polar
41. What map displaying the likely weather forecast for a future time?
A) Navigational chart B) Prognostic chart
C) Synoptic chart D) Weather chart
A. B.
C. D.
A. B.
C. D.
44. In weather charts symbols. Identify Dry line in figure below:
A. B.
C. D.
A. B.
C. D.
A. B.
C. D.
A. B.
C. D.
A. B.
C. D.
A. B.
C. D.
50. What do you call the extreme horizontal distance a certain prominent object can
be seen and identified by an unaided eye?
MetO 211
1. Low pressure disturbances, which travel along the intertropical convergence zone, are called
___________.
A. rises, often quite rapidly, with clearing skies B. remains the same
C. fluctuates D. remains the same, with clouds forming
rapidly
10. Clouds appearing in the following order: cirrus, cirrostratus, altostratus, stratus, and
nimbostratus usually indicate the approach of a(n).
A. change from smooth curves within the air mass to sharp bends at the front
B. change from sharp bends within the air mass to smooth curves at the front
C. becomes closer together at the front and passes through in straight lines
D. passes smoothly across the front with no change
13. Good weather is usually associated with a region of ____________.
A. east B. south
C. north D. west
21. The prevailing winds in the band of latitude from approximately 15°N to 30°N are called the
____________.
A. northeast B. west-southwest
C. south-southeast D. northwest
27. If an observer in the Northern Hemisphere faces the surface wind, the center of low pressure
is to his _________.
28. Generally speaking, you should expect to find low atmospheric pressure prevailing in the
earth’s _________.
A. front B. continent
C. lapse rate D. isobar
36. In the U.S., in which direction does air masses usually move?
A. Southerly B. Easterly
C. Southwesterly D. Notherly
37. In the poleward side of the horse latitude, the winds will be predominantly __________.
A. westerly B. easterly
C. light and variable D. easterly in summer and westerly in winter
38. When a warm air mass overtakes a cold air mass, the contact surface is called a(n)
_________.
43. When a warm air mass is trapped between two cooler air masses, it is called a/an ______.
A. Warm front B. Cold front
C. Occluded front C. Stationary front
44. The boundary between cold and warm air masses is called a/an ____.
A. Flood B. Front
C. Climate D. Storm
45. When a cold air mass moves into a warm air mass, it will get colder and we will have severe
weather.
What type of front is this?
A. Warm front B. Cold Front
C. Occluded front D. Stationary Front
46. When warm air masses gently slides on top of a cold air mass, and you have drizzly rain and
then
beautiful sunny weather, what front is it?
A. Warm front B. Cold Front
C. Occluded front D. Stationary Front
47. A/an ___________ is a large body of air that has the same properties as the Earth’s surface
over
which it developes and has the same density and moisture content.
A. Front B. Air mass
C. Cloud D. Tornado
48. What type of weather would a continental tropical air mass bring?
A. Dry and cold weather B. Wet and cold weather
C. Dry and warm weather D. Wet and warm weather
49. An air mass that formed over the ocean near the equator would probably be a/an_____.
A. Maritime polar B. Maritime tropical
C. Continental polar D. Continental tropical
50. A wet, cold air mass would be a ______.
A. Maritime polar B. Maritime tropical
C. Continental polar D. Continental tropical
ANSWER KEY
1. B 36. B
2. C 37. A
3. A 38. C
4. B 39. C
5. D 40. B
6. C 41. B
7. D 42. C
8. C 43. C
9. A 44. B
10. A 45. B
11. D 46. A
12. A 47. B
13. C 48. C
14. C 49. B
15. B 50. A
16. C
17. A
18. A
19. B
20. D
21. C
22. C
23. D
24. A
25. A
26. C
27. C
28. A
29. C
30. C
31. D
32. C
33. B
34. A
35. A
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SIME-FINAL ASSESSMENT
1. The water eventually is released to the atmosphere as vapor via the plant's stomata — tiny, closeable, pore-
like structures on the surfaces of leaves. Overall, this uptake of water at the roots, transport of water through
plant tissues, and release of vapor by leaves is known as ____________.
A. Evaporation B. Fusion
C. Sublimation D. Transpiration
Answer: D
2. This is the process that change from liquid to vapor.
A. Condensation B. Evaporation
C. Fusion D. Solidification
Answer: B
3. Mechanical lifting of air by the upslope slant of the terrain is called:
A. Orographic lifting B. Convective lifting
C. Advective lifting D. Vertical lifting
Answer: A
4. It is a dense sheet of gray or bluish color, at times it is very dark and thick. Its altitude ranges between 6,500
to 20,000 feet.
A. Cumulunimbus B. Altocumulus
C. Cirrostratus D. Altostratus
Answer: D
5. Which list of clouds is in sequence, from highest to lowest in the sky?
A. Cirrostratus, altostratus, stratus B. Altostratus, cirrostratus, stratus
C. Stratus, cirrostratus, altostratus D. Altostratus, stratus, cirrostratus
Answer: A
6. A transparent whitish cloud veil of fibrous appearance or smooth appearance totally or partly covering the
sky, and generally producing halo phenomena in the sun.
A. Altostratus B. Cirrostratus
C. Nimbostratus D. Stratocumulus
Answer: B
7. A long, well-defined wisps of cirrus clouds, thicker at one end than the other.
A. Mare's tails B. Mackerel sky
C. Stratus D. Cumulus
Answer: A
8. A sky with considerable cirrocumulus clouds is popularly called a/an:
A. Overcast sky B. Mare's tails
C. Atoll cloud D. Mackerel sky
Answer: D
9. In Meteorology, it is a departure from the usual decrease or increase with height of an atmospheric property
like temperature.
A. Conversion B. Lapse rate
C. Adiabatic changes D. Inversion
Answer: D
10. What weather conditions are likely to result from the movement of warm air mass over a relatively colder
sea surface?
A. Rain B. Fog
C. Trough D. Squalls
Answer: B
11. When compared to air temperature, which factor is most useful in predicting fog?
A. Dew point B. Vapor pressure
C. Barometric pressure D. Absolute humidity
Answer: A
12. The fog produced by warm moist air passing over a cold surface is called ____.
A. Radiation fog B. Frontal fog
C. Advection fog D. Conduction fog
Answer: C
13. What level of visibility does "poor" indicate in a weather forecast?
A. Between 2-5 nautical miles
B. Between 1000-2000m
C. Less than 1000m
D. Between 5-8 nautical miles
Answer: B
14. When visibility is reduced by the suspension of liquid or solid particles in the atmosphere. If
the visibility is reduced to more than 1 km as a result of water droplets, the condition is termed of what______?
A. Fog B. Mist
C. Hail D. Visibility
Answer: B
15. Radiation fog ______.
A. Always forms over water B. Is formed by a temperature inversion
C. Dissipates during the evening D. Is thinnest at the surface
Answer: B
16. Frost smoke will occurred, when______?
A. When extremely cold air from shore passes over warmer water
B. When warm dry air from shore passes over cooler water
C. When cold ocean water evaporates into warm air
D. When cool rain passes through a warm air masses
Answer: A
17. While on watch, you notice that the air temperature is dropping and is approaching the dew point. Which
type of weather should be forecasted?
A. Heavy rain B. Sleet
C. Fog D. Hail
Answer: C
18. A rare type of fog formed in the same manner as a steam fog, but a colder temperatures so that it is
composed of ice particles instead of water droplets.
A. Ice Fog B. Sea Fog
C. Frost smoke D. Frontal Fog
Answer: C
19. The air overlying the oceanic and continental surface of the Earth acquires common characteristics to a
particular area but contrasting to those of other areas. Each distinctive part of the atmosphere within common
characteristics prevail over a reasonable large area is called a/an .
A. Frontal surface B. Air mass
C. Air bound D. Lapse Air
Answer: B
31.Which type of front forms when a cold front overtakes and force a warm front upwards?
A. An occluded front B. A cold front
C. A warm front D. A stationary front
Answer: A
32. On a working copy of a weather map, a cold front is represents by what color lines?
A. Red B. Alternate red and blue
C. Purple D. Blue
Answer: D
33. When a warm air mass is adjacent to a cold air mass, the separation line between the two boundaries of air
mass is called a:
A. Isobar B. Frontal Depression
C. Warm front line D. Front
Answer: D
34. When two air masses of differing characteristics meet they do not mix freely but remain separated by a
boundary called __.
A. Frontal zone B. Frontal air
C. Frontal depression D. Frontal cyclone
Answer: A
35. The dissipation of a front or frontal zone is called a/an:
A. Frontogenesis B. Front deformation
C. Frontal zone D. Frontolysis
Answer: D
36. A frontal thunderstorm is caused by:
A. Wind being pushed up a mountain
B. Pronounced local heating
C. A warm air mass rising over a cold air mass
D. An increased lapse rate caused by advection of warm surface air
Answer: C
37. Which is TRUE concerning the speed of fronts?
A. Cold fronts move faster than warm fronts.
B. Cold fronts move slower than warm fronts.
C. Cold fronts and warm fronts move with equal speed.
D. Cold fronts move slower at the northern end and faster at the southern end
Answer: A
38. What is true about a front?
A. There are abrupt temperature differences on opposite sides of a front.
B. The pressure tendencies are different on opposite sides of a front.
C. A front is a boundary between two air masses.
D. All of the above
Answer: D
39. On a working copy of a weather map, a stationary front is represents by what color lines?
A. Red B. Alternate red and blue
C. Purple D. Blue
Answer: B
40. A front at which the warm air is ascending up the frontal surface up to high altitudes.
A. Anabatic B. Cold front
C. Anafront D. Occluded front
Answer: C
41. A warm front is represents on a working copy of a weather map, by what color lines?
A. Red B. Alternate red and blue
C. Purple D. Blue
Answer: A
42. Your facsimile prognostic chart indicates that you will cross the cold front of a low pressure system in about
24 hours. You should ____.
A. Expect to see cirrus clouds followed by altostratus and nimbostratus clouds
B. Alter course to remain in the navigable semicircle
C. Prepare for gusty winds, thunderstorms, and a sudden wind shift
D. Expect clear weather, with steady winds and pressure, until the front passes
Answer: C
43. A front at which the warm air descends the frontal surface is a:
A. Katabatic B. Warm front
C. Frontal thunderstorm D. Katafront
Answer: D
44. The initial formation of a front or frontal zone is called a/an:
A. Frontolysis B. Cyclogenesis
C. Frontogenesis D. Frontal cycle
Answer: C
45. You are in the Northern Hemisphere and a tropical wave is located 200 miles due east of your position.
Where will the wave be located 12 hours later?
A. Nearby to the east
B. In the same position
C. Farther away to the east
D. Farther away to the west
Answer: A
46. The highest frequency of tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic Ocean occurs during .
A. April, May and June
B. August, September and October
C. July, November and December
D. January, February and March
Answer: B
47. The first indications a mariner will have of the approach of a warm front will be___.
A. Large cumulonimbus (thunderclouds) building up
B. High cirrus clouds gradually changing to cirrostratus and then to altostratus
C. Fog cause by the warm air passing over the cooler water
D. Low dark clouds accompanied by intermittent rain
Answer: B
48. What is the name given to an elongated area of low pressure extending outwards from a depression?
A. A wedge
B. A trough
C. A col
D. A ridge
Answer: B
49. An atmospheric pressure distribution located between two highs and two lows arranged alternately.
Associated with light variable winds; inclined to be thundery in summer and dull or foggy in winter.
A. Ridges
B. Trough
C. Convergence
D. Cols
Answer: D
50. While up bound through Memphis, the weather report on the TV news indicates that a cold front will cross
western Kentucky and Tennessee the next morning. What weather should accompany this front?
A. Gusting winds shifting to the northwest with thunderstorms
B. Overcast with steady, light rain or drizzle
C. Light, southerly winds; high humidity and possibly fog
D. Scattered clouds with light to moderate southeasterly winds and possibly fog
Answer: A