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Question 1

Common unit of measurement for atmospheric pressure

Answer 1

Inches

Question 2

Series of brief showers accompanied by strong, shifting winds may occur along some distance ahead of a

Answer 2

Cold front

Question 3

Fog produced by warm moist air over a cold surface

Answer 3

Advection fog

Question 4

Accurate barometer check, check

Answer 4

Against radio or National Weather Service reports of the immediate vicinity

Question 5

Cloud of marked vertical development (often anvil shaped)

Answer 5

Cumulonimbus

Question 6

Buoys which ONLY mark the left or right side of the channel will NOT exhibit which light characteristic?

Answer 6

composite group flashing

Question 7

Nav marks used for info or regulatory purposes are

Answer 7

White w orange geometric shapes

Question 8

Buoy fitted w racon will appear on PPI as

Answer 8

Starting with a dash and extending radially outward from target

Question 9

How are colored sectors of lights listed in the Light List

Answer 9

True bearings as observed from ship toward the light

Question 10

Publication to check for Pugent Sound weather conditions

Answer 10

Coast Pilot

Question 11

In some parts of the world there is a slight fall in tide during the middle of the high water period The effect is to create a longer period of stand at higher water This special feature is called a

Answer 11

Double high water

Question 12

Class of tide that prevails in the greatest # of important harbors on the Atlantic Coast is

Answer 12

Semidiurnal

Question 13

Vessel goes aground in soft mud. You’d have the best chance of refloating on next tide if grounded at

Answer 13

Low water spring

Question 14

Definition of height of tide

Answer 14

The vertical distance from the tidal datum to the level of the water at any time

Question 15

In a river subject to tidal currents, the best time to dock a ship without tugs is

Answer 15

At slack water

Question 16

Slack water occur when there is

Answer 16

Little or no horizontal motion of water

Question 17

Current encountered on direct passage from London, England to Cape Town, South Africa?

Answer 17

Benguela current

Question 18

Current similar to the Gulf Stream

Answer 18

Kuroshio

Question 19

Position which includes effects of wind and current

Answer 19

Estimated position

Question 20

Most useful factor in predicting weather

Answer 20

The rate an direction of change of barometric readings

Question 21

Scales on aneroid barometers are usually graduated in inches of mercury in the general range of

Answer 21

28 to 31 inches

Question 22

What corrections must be applied to an aneroid barometer ?

Answer 22

Instrument error and height error

Question 23

You should read the scale of aneroid barometer with eye

Answer 23

Directly in front of the pointer

Question 24

Barometric pressure reading 29.92 inches of mercury is equivalent to

Answer 24

1013.25 millibars

Question 25

Slow rise in barometric pressure forecasts

Answer 25

Improving weather conditions

Question 26

As a high pressure system approaches, the barometer reading

Answer 26

Rises

Question 27

Instrument most useful in forecasting fog

Answer 27

A sling psychrometer

Question 28

Ascending and descending air masses w diff temps is part of an important heat transmitting process in our atmosphere called

Answer 28

Convection

Question 29

Squall lines w almost unbroken line of threatening dark clouds and sharp changes in wind direction, generally precede

Answer 29

Fast-moving cold front

Question 30

“horse latitudes”

Answer 30

Light airs and calms

Question 31

Force resulting from earths rotation thy causes winds to deflect to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere

Answer 31

Coriolis effect

Question 32

In Northern Hemisphere which semicircle of hurricane is navigable?

Answer 32

Left

Question 33

Swells that have outrun the storm are produced in the

Answer 33

Right front quadrant

Question 34

Climate of the Northern Gulf Coast

Answer 34

Warm marine type of clmate

Question 35

If electronic chart is part of ECDIS, it will NOT display

Answer 35

Tidal currents

Ship hydrodynamic information

Question 36

ECDIS MUST be able to perform

Answer 36

Conversion of “graphical coordinates” to “display coordinates”
Transformation of local datum to WGS-‘84 datum
Calculation of true azimuth and distance between two geographical points

Question 37

Why option does an Electronic Plotting Aid (EPA) NOT have?

Answer 37

Trial Maneuver