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ESS301 - Atmosphere Revision Quiz
ESS301 - Atmosphere Revision Quiz
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NCEA level 3 revision questions for the ESS Atmosphere topic
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What happens to the temperature as you travel up in the thermosphere?
Increases
Longs to be hotter, but will always be 20°C. How sad.
Decreases
Stays the same
2
Which of these things lies within the stratosphere?
Birds
Old people who have tied balloons to their houses
The ozone layer
Mt Everest
3
Which layer of the atmosphere do we live in?
Troposphere
Mesosphere
Stratosphere
We don't live in the atmosphere
4
Which of these occur in the thermosphere?
Elves
Rainbow
Aurora Borealis
Bikram yoga
5
Which layer of the atmosphere contains the ionosphere?
Thermosphere
Mesosphere
Exosphere
Stratosphere
6
Where did the oxygen in Earth's atmosphere come from?
Perspiration
Photosynthesis
Respiration
Solar wind
7
The greenhouse effect is caused by
Visible light being trapped by greenhouse gases
UV light being trapped by the ozone layer
Infrared light being trapped by greenhouse gases
Infrared being trapped by the ozone layer
8
What causes levels of water vapour, carbon dioxide and ammonia to increase on Earth?
Cosmic rainclouds
Volcanoes
Early man
Respiration
9
How much of the Earth's atmosphere is oxygen?
79%
21%
32%
50%
10
The main greenhouse gases are...
carbon dioxide and methane
carbon dioxide and nitrogen
water vapour and methane
water vapour and carbon dioxide
11
How many convection cells are there between the north and south poles?
6
8
4
2
12
Which layer of the atmosphere has the highest density?
Troposphere
Exosphere
Mesosphere
Stratosphere
13
Carbon dioxide is stored for a long time in...
The oceans
The atmosphere
Plants
Animals
14
How does the temperature change as you go up in the troposphere?
Increases
Decreases
Stays the same
Increases until you reach Mt Everest then decreases
15
Why do the tropics have a lot of rainfall?
Air rises from the poles, moves to the equator, changes to liquid and falls
Warm, moist air rises from the equator, condenses, and falls on the tropics
it is all caused by evapotranspiration of plants in the jungles
air rises at the tropics, condenses, and falls back down.
16
Most common gas in the atmosphere is...
Water vapour
Nitrogen
Carbon Dioxide
Oxygen
17
Which process below shows a biological pump taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere?
Plants doing respiration
Plants doing photosynthesis
Animals doing respiration
Oceans taking in carbon dioxide
18
Which wind belt is part of the Hadley Cell?
Westerlies
Easterlies
Trade Winds
Orographic Effect
19
How do mountain ranges affect local weather?
Cause air to pick up moisture from snow on the mountaintops
Cause cool dry air to warm up and hold more moisture
Cause the air to hold more moisture
Force moist air upwards, causing them to cool, condense, and precipitate
20
High air pressure zones are caused by...
strong winds
air sinking
air rising
higher air temperatures
21
What happens to the temperature as you move upwards in the stratosphere?
Decreases until you reach the ozone layer then constant.
Increases
Stays the same
Decreases
22
Which layer of the atmosphere contains the most clouds?
Mesosphere
Stratosphere
Troposphere
Exosphere
23
What naturally causes a decrease in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere?
Photosynthesis
Absorbed into the oceans
Split into carbon and oxygen
Used by volcanoes
24
Which way will winds be deflected thanks to the coriolis effect?
Clockwise at both poles
To the left in the northern hemisphere
To the right in the northern hemisphere
To the right in the southern hemisphere
25
What do we call the boundary between the stratosphere and the mesosphere?
Mesopause
Destiny zone
Tropopause
Stratopause
26
In which layer do meteors burn?
Thermosphere
Stratosphere
Troposphere
Mesosphere
27
Which gas would you expect to see more of in soil compared to air?
Nitrogen
Carbon dioxide
Oxygen
The breath of owls
28
What do we call the Earth's magnetic field where the auroras form due to the solar wind?
Ionosphere
Magnetosphere
ProfessorXsphere
Wolverinesphere
29
Monsoon Climates are caused by....
the Himalayas' orographic effect
heavy amounts of precipitation throughout the year
the Coriolis effect
huge changes in the main wind direction based on the season
30
Volcanic eruptions can cause...
Less long-term precipitation due to more heat in the atmosphere.
Low temperatures due to sunlight being blocked in the stratosphere
Higher long-term temperatures due to more carbon dioxide
More precipitatation in the troposphere due to more aerosols
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Layer of the atmosphere with weather
Stratosphere
Mesosphere
Troposphere
Thermosphere
32
A warm front moving in means...
Very sunny weather is coming next
Warm air is moving over cold air
Warm air is rising directly upwards
Rainfall is coming soon
33
How does the ozone layer protect us?
Stops some of the light so it's not too bright
Prevents infrared radiation from passing through
Stops harmful UV radiation
Forms when three oxygen atoms bond together
34
What is the main gas in the atmosphere?
Carbon Dioxide
Oxygen
Neon
Nitrogen
35
As altitude increases, air pressure...
increases
stays the same
fluctuates
decreases
36
What do we call the boundary between the troposphere and the stratosphere?
The big change
Tropopause
Stratopause
Intermediate zone
37
Winds always blow from...
areas of low pressure to areas of high pressure
areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure
the ocean onto the land
the land onto the ocean
38
What drives the convection cells?
Aerosols and cloud formation
Plate tectonics
Heat from Earth's Core
Heat from the Sun
39
Where will there be the most water vapour in the atmosphere?
Over an ocean
Over a desert
Over a man who looks like Tom Cruise, but is not Tom Cruise.
Over a field of daffodils
40
As altitude increases, air density...
stays the same
fluctuates
decreases
increases
41
Which convection cell is the closest to the equator?
Hadley
Equatorial
Ferrel
Polar
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The doldrums exist because...
The equator is boring
air does not move at all at the equator
Air sinks at the equator
the Sun heats the equator more than other places
