Earth and Environment MCQ

1. Wind speed may be roughly indicated by ________.

Answer

Correct Answer: Spacing of isobars on a weather map

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2. When neither air mass displaces the adjacent one, their boundary is called a(n) ________ front.

Answer

Correct Answer: Stationary

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3. When air is heated enough so that it is warmer than the surrounding air, it is ________.

Answer

Correct Answer: Unstable

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4. We are likely to have our highest relative humidity ________.

Answer

Correct Answer: About sunrise

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5. Water that stays in liquid form at temperatures below freezing is termed ________.

Answer

Correct Answer: Supercooled

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6. Waste disposal, food source, medicines, medicinal therapies, and aquaculture are all ways _______.

Answer

Correct Answer: All of the above

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7. Variations in air pressure from place to place are the principal cause of _____.

Answer

Correct Answer: Wind

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8. Thunderstorms are violent ________ storms accompanied by thunder and lightning.

Answer

Correct Answer: Block

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9. The western coasts of continents in the subtropical zones are in ________ precipitation zones.

Answer

Correct Answer: Arid

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10. The production of dew is mainly the result of ____.

Answer

Correct Answer: Radiational cooling

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11. The goes satellites monitoring the weather of the united states are ________.

Answer

Correct Answer: Geostationary.

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12. The contact zone of warm tropical and cold polar air is known as the ________.

Answer

Correct Answer: Polar front

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13. Most of the wettest areas around the world are located in the ________.

Answer

Correct Answer: Tropics

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14. In the united states, fog occurs least often in the ________ states.

Answer

Correct Answer: Southwestern

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15. Easterly waves travel from ________ in the ________ belt.

Answer

Correct Answer: East to west; trade wind.

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16. Drylines typically occur in the ____ united states.

Answer

Correct Answer: Southern Great Plains of the

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17. Dry adiabatic rate only refers to ________.

Answer

Correct Answer: Unsaturated air.

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18. Central asia and western north america experience dryness because of ________.

Answer

Correct Answer: Lack of moist air masses.

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