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Earth Science Unit 1 - Atmosphere Review
Earth Science Unit 1 - Atmosphere Review
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Layers, Weather, Severe Weather, Heat Transfer, Impact from Humans,
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1
The blue color of the sky is a result of:
Conduction
Absorption
Scattering
Reflection
2
Which of the following is an example of radiation?
Pancake batter cooks after hitting the hot griddle
a metal spoon becomes warm in hot coffee
Warm air rises because it is less dense than cold air
Our atmosphere is heated by the sun
3
The strongest winds in a hurricane are located in the:
Eye Wall
Eye
Rain Bands
4
Because of the Coriolis Effect, hurricanes in the Northern Hemisphere spin in a _____
Counterclockwise direction
Clockwise direction
5
Which of the following is not a factor that controls temperature?
Earth's Shape
Ocean currents
Cloud cover
Altitude
6
A hurricane's energy comes from:
The action of waves in warm ocean waters
Lightning striking as the storm forms
Large amounts of condensing tropical water vapor
The movement of continental tropical air masses
7
Which of the following is an environmental hazard created by humans?
Droughts
Floods
Hurricanes
Air Pollution
8
The average kinetic energy of matter is known as its:
Convection
Conduction
Heat
Temperature
9
What forms a boundary between two different air masses with differing properties?
A temperature inversion
A front
A hurricane eyewall
A storm surge
10
What do you call a violent windstorm that forms a rotating column of air called a vortex?
Thunderstorm
Nor'easter
Tornado
Hurricane
11
Cloud cover during the day will cause our temperatures to:
Stay the same
Decrease
Increase
Fluctuate all day
12
Which layer of the atmosphere is the BAD ozone found?
Stratosphere
Mesosphere
Thermosphere
Troposphere
13
Which of the following is
NOT
a characteristic of the eye of a hurricane?
It is warm because of the descending air
It has the storm's strongest winds
It is at the storm's center
It has no precipitation
14
An act passed in 1963 to protect human and environmental health by improving air quality
The Clean Air Act
Montreal Protocol
National Ambient Air Pollution Standards
15
The movement of water in a pot of boiling water is an example of:
Convection
Conduction
Radiation
Temperature
16
The symbol shown for Front C represents a(n):
Stationary front
Occluded front
Cold front
Warm front
17
The conditions for a continental polar air mass are:
Moist and cold
Dry and warm
Dry and cold
Moist and warm
18
A storm that produces lightning and thunder is a:
Nor'easter
tornado
thunderstorm
hurricane
19
Cloud cover at night causes the temperature to:
Get colder
Stay warm
Fluctuate all night
Stay the same
20
Tornadoes are measured using the:
Torque scale
Fujita scale
Saffir Simpson scale
21
A warm front forms when:
Warm air glides up over colder air
The temperature in a warm air mass increases
Cold air moves up over warmer air
Warm air meets another air mass of the same temperature
22
What is
NOT
true of cold fronts?
Clear weather usually follows them
The temperature drops as they pass
They move more slowly than warm fronts
Violent weather occurs
23
Which two air masses influence most of the weather in North America east of the Rocky Mtns?
Maritime polar and continental polar
Continental polar and continental tropical
Maritime tropical and continental polar
Maritime polar and maritime tropical
24
Water heats _____ than land
More slowly and to higher temperatures
More rapidly and to lower temperatures
More rapidly and to higher temperatures
More slowly and to lower temperatures
25
What is a hurricane?
A tropical anticyclone
A middle-latitude anticyclone
A middle-latitude cyclone
A tropical cyclone
26
What scale is used to measure hurricanes?
Saffir-Simpson Scale
Torque scale
Fujita scale
27
An international treaty signed in 1987 that has cut the production of CFCs by 95% since 1980
The Montreal Protocol
The National Ambient Air Quality Standard
The Clean Air Act
28
A hurricane in the Pacific Ocean is called:
A Nor'easter
A tropical cyclone
An anticyclone
A typhoon
29
What forms when a cold front overtakes a warm front?
A warm front
A stationary front
A cold front
An occluded front
30
Hurricanes produce sustained winds of at least:
219 km per hour
50 km per hour
200 km per hour
119 km per hour
