Meteorology A ( fall 2015)

Question 1

What percentage of gas in the air is Nitrogen?

Answer 1

78%

Question 2

What percentage of gas in the air is Oxygen?

Answer 2

21%

Question 3

What percentage of gas in the air is Argon?

Answer 3

0.93%

Question 4

What percent of gas in the air is Carbon Dioxide?

Answer 4

0.03%

Question 5

Heat transrer between two substances that are in contact is called

Answer 5

conduction

Question 6

As you rise upwards in the atmosphere, air pressure

Answer 6

decreases

Question 7

Isobars are lines on a map joining places that have the same

Answer 7

air pressure

Question 8

The ozone layer protects living things on earth from

Answer 8

ultraviolet radiation

Question 9

The layers of the atmosphere are classified according to changes in

Answer 9

temperature

Question 10

Most air pollution comes from

Answer 10

burning fossil fuels

Question 11

The layer of our atmosphere in which weather occurs is the ____

Answer 11

troposphere

Question 12

What is the greenhouse effect?

Answer 12

a gradual increase in the temperature of the atmosphere

Question 13

What keeps us from being crushed by the weight of the air ?

Answer 13

We are pressurized inside to match the outside air pressure

Question 14

What is the lowest, shallowest layer of the atmosphere?

Answer 14

troposphere

Question 15

What are scientists that study weather called?

Answer 15

Meteorologists

Question 16

Instruments used to measure air pressure are called…

Answer 16

barometers

Question 17

What are the two main parts of a psychrometer called?

Answer 17

a wet-bulb thermometer and a dry-bulb thermometer

Question 18

What are the main layers in our atmosphere, from Earth to space

Answer 18

Troposphere
stratosphere
mesosphere
thermosphere

Question 19

True or false: The higher you go the higher the air pressure?

Answer 19

False

Question 20

How does the heat from the sun reach you?

Answer 20

radiation

Question 21

Convection takes place because…

Answer 21

cold air is more dense than warm air.

Question 22

Most of Earth’s incoming ultraviolet radiation is absorbed by?

Answer 22

the ozone

Question 23

Places shown on a weather map that have the same temperature are connected by…

Answer 23

isotherms

Question 24

What is the relative humidity when air reaches the dew point?

Answer 24

100%

Question 25

The less mass in a given volume of air, the

Answer 25

less dense the air

Question 26

What is the formula for determining density?

Answer 26

density=mass/volume

Question 27

What layer of the atmosphere is the ozone layer found?

Answer 27

stratosphere

Question 28

What gas do you from the air for metabolism of food into energy?

Answer 28

Oxygen

Question 29

What is relative humidity measured by?

Answer 29

psychrometer

Question 30

Which layer of the atmosphere protects the Earth’s surface from being hit by most meteoroids?

Answer 30

mesosphere

Question 31

What is the waste gas you give off form the metabolism if food into energy?

Answer 31

Carbon Dioxide

Question 32

True or False: The higher you go the less air you have above you?

Answer 32

True

Question 33

What is the freezing point of water on the Celsius scale?

Answer 33

0 degrees

Question 34

Changes in air pressure would make a helium balloon______ as it goes up

Answer 34

expand until it pops

Question 35

Where does the air that pressure that is on the roof of your house come from?

Answer 35

all of the air above your roof