Select the alternative
(a, b, c, d, or e) that best answers each of the questions below. Bring your answers
to class on
In case inclement
weather does not allow for class, study the materials in chapters 5, 6, 7, 8
and 10 for test 2 on Thursday, 10th April 2003. The test will not be
postponed so plan accordingly.
Questions from Chapter
5 of the Textbook
1. Collision-coalescence
and the Bergeron process both act to
a. increase the
relative humidity of the air
b. increase the
specific humidity of the air
c. increase the size
of water droplets and ice crystals
d. none of the above
2. Clouds that have
vertical development and produce precipitation are called
a. stratocumulus
b. cumulonimbus
c. nimbostratus
d. cumulus
3. Which of the
following are correctly matched?
a. flat or layered
clouds = cumulus
b. puffy or globular
clouds = cirroform
c. puffy or globular
clouds = cumuliform
d. wispy clouds =
water droplets
4. Which of the
following is a middle-level cloud type?
a. cirrostratus
b. stratocumulus
c. cumulonimbus
d. altostratus
5. Which of the
following is true regarding cirrostratus clouds?
a. They look like patches of cotton balls, or
cotton balls arranged in lines.
b. The sun's outline is just visible through
these clouds.
c. They form a veil of ice crystals that creates
a halo around the Moon.
d. They are sharply outlined, and billowy.
6.
a. the
b. mT
air masses surround the peninsula
c. frequent, strong
cold fronts occur in the
d. all of the above
e. a and b only
7. A fog that
develops when warm, moist air blows over a cold current (such as the
a. radiation
b. convection
c. advection
d. evaporation
8. The scientific study
of the atmosphere is
a. weather
b. climate
c. meteorology
d. geography
9. Which of the
following is false regarding air masses?
a. An air mass initially reflects the
characteristics of its source region.
b. They are homogenous in terms of temperature
and humidity.
c. They may dominate half the depth of the
troposphere.
d. Air masses tend to maintain their original
characteristics as they migrate from their source regions.
10. A well-developed,
newly formed cP air mass would have which of the
following characteristics?
a. cold temperatures
b. clear skies
c. high pressure
d. all of the above
e. none of the above
11. The Intertropical Convergence Zone is characterized by
a. cold, dry rising
air
b. cold, dry sinking
air
c. warm, dry rising
air
d. warm, wet rising
air
12. Orographic refers to
a. convection
stimulated principally by local heating
b. lifting along the
edges of conflicting air masses
c. air mass
modification and the formation of secondary air masses
d. forced uplift due
to the presence of a physical barrier
13. The wetter,
intercepting slope of a mountain is termed the _______________ slope, whereas
the drier, downwind slope is termed the ____________ slope.
a. left side; right
side
b. west side; east
side
c. windward; leeward
d. leeward; windward
14. Which of the
following statements is true?
a. When air is cooled, its ability to hold
moisture decreases.
b. One would expect more precipitation near the
equator than near the poles.
c. One would expect winters in
d. One would expect precipitation to occur when
moist air rises over a mountain.
e.
15. The area along a
warm front is best described by which of the following?
a. wind shifting and
strong, warm air abruptly lifted by colder air
b. warm air being
lifted gently and steadily over cooler air
c. an area of clear
skies and north winds
d. mT
air mass, warm, wet, and humid from the
16. Storm tracks
across the
a. shift to the south
in winter, and toward the north in summer
b. move east to west
c. move south to north
d. exist in spring and
fall only
17. Summer
thunderstorms in the southern
a. nimbostratus; convection
b. nimbostratus; frontal uplift
c. cumulonimbus; frontal uplift
d. cumulonimbus; convergence
e. cumulonimbus;
convection
18. Which of the
following cloud types is associated with tornado development?
a. cumulus
b. nimbostratus
c. altocumulus
d. cumulonimbus
19. Hurricanes die
when they move over land because
a. the Coriolis force is not sufficient to sustain them over land
b. the land temperature
is not warm enough to sustain the low pressure system
c. evaporation and
subsequent condensation are no longer sufficient to sustain them
d. all of the above
e. none of the above
Questions from Chapter
6
20. An area defined by
characteristic, long-term weather patterns is called
a. a biome
b. an average weather
place
c. an ecosystem
d. a climatic region
21. Based on
principles discussed earlier in the course, you know that the annual temperature
range of places located in the interior of a continent is _________ those
located along the coast at the same latitude.
a. greater than
b. less than
c. the same as
22. In which of the
following areas would the least amount of precipitation occur?
a. in areas affected
by maritime air masses
b. along windward
coasts
c. in low-pressure
regions
d. on the leeward side
of a mountain range in the interior of a continent
23. Based on
principles discussed earlier in the course, you know that areas dominated by
maritime air masses will be relatively __________, and that those dominated by cT air masses will be relatively __________.
a. wet; wet
b. wet; dry
c. dry; wet
d. dry; dry
24. "Hot and
wet" temperature and precipitation patterns are characteristic of
a. rain forests in the
equatorial tropics
b. humid continental
climates that have mild summers
c. highland climates
d. cold steppe
climates
25. A genetic
classification system can be based on, among other factors, __________.
a. the interaction of
air masses
b. statistics or other
data used to determine general categories
c. mean annual
temperature
d. mean annual
precipitation
26. Which of the
following lists the correct, generalized sequence of K›ppen climates from the equator to the
poles?
a. H-->D-->C-->B-->A
b. H-->B-->C-->D-->E
c. A-->B-->C-->D-->E
d. E-->D-->C-->B-->A
e. B-->A-->D-->E-->C
27. Mesothermal climates are identified by the letter
a. H
b. B
c. C
d. P
e. E
28. The second letter
in the K›ppen
classification system (f, s, w) refers to
a. the season with the
highest temperature
b. the season with
lowest temperature
c. the frost-free
season
d. the seasonal
distribution of rainfall
e. the seasonal
variation in wind intensity
29. A climate that is mesothermal, and that has a long, hot, dry summer would be
designated by which of the following?
a. Af
b. BS
c. Csa
d. Cwa
e. Dwa
30. The bulk of the
a. Am
b. Aw
c. Af
d. EF
31. The wet season
monsoon of
a. low; subtropical
high
b. low; ITCZ
c. high; subtropical
high
d. high; ITCZ
32. Which of the
following is false regarding the Csa
classification?
a. summers are hot
b. 70% of the
precipitation occurs in the winter months
c. it is also called
the Mediterranean dry-summer climate
d. the bulk of
precipitation occurs in the summer months
33. Potential
evapotranspiration exceeds precipitation in all parts of which climate
type?
a. tropical savanna
b. Mediterranean summer-dry
c. all B climates
d. polar climates
34. Which type of
plants grow in desert climates?
a. taiga
b. boreal forests
c. xerophytic
d. chaparral
35. Greenhouse gases
act to __________ temperatures by __________ thermal infrared radiation.
a. increase; trapping
b. increase;
reflecting
c. decrease; blocking
d. decrease; trapping
36. The climate of an
area can be classified in different ways depending upon the criteria used to
define it.
a. True
b. False
37. A climograph is a mechanical instrument used for measuring
climates.
a. True
b. False
38. The ITCZ migrates
with the high Sun and influences the Am climates.
a. True
b. False
Questions from Chapter
7
39. Uniformitarianism assumes that
a. Earth is quite young and is shaped by dramatic
events
b. catastrophic
episodes have regularly occurred
c. the same physical
processes we see today are a key to understanding the processes that have been
operating throughout geologic time
d. mountains, plains,
and canyons formed by catastrophic events
40. Which of the
following gives the correct sequence of layers in the mantle, from bottom to
top?
a. lower mantle; upper
mantle, aesthenosphere
b. aesthenosphere,
mantle, upper mantle
c. upper mantle, aesthenosphere, mantle
d. mantle, aesthenosphere, upper mantle
41. Which of the
following is matched correctly?
a. granite -
metamorphic
b. basalt -
sedimentary
c. magma - lava
d. sandstone - igneous
42. A rock transformed
from any other rock through profound physical and/or chemical processes is referred
to as
a. sedimentary
b. metamorphic
c. igneous
d. ancient
43. The history of
life on Earth is chronicled in which type of rock?
a. igneous
b. metamorphic
c. sedimentary
44. If you were
driving down the highway and saw mountains composed of layered strata, you
could be confident that you were looking at
a. sedimentary rocks
b. extrusive igneous
rock
c. a shield volcano
d. batholiths or
laccoliths
45. Limestone is an
example of which type of rock-forming process?
a. sedimentary
b. metamorphic
c. igneous
46. Coal is a fossil
fuel formed from
a. dead marine
organisms
b. plants
c. metamorphosed mafic minerals
d. blue-green algae
47. Which of the
following are located along the midocean ridges?
a. volcanoes
b. outcrops of granite
c. old oceanic
sediments
d. evaporite
deposits
48. Several large,
linear lakes are forming in
a. rifting
b. subduction
c. compression
d. isostatic
uplift
49. Which of the
following is true of divergent plate boundaries?
a. rifting occurs
there
b. tensional forces
exist there
c. new ocean crust can
be created there
d. all of the above
e. none of the above
50.
community when it was proposed.
a. True
b. False
51. Earthquake and
volcanic occurrences do not correlate well with crustal
plate boundaries.
a. True
b. F