QUIZ 01

1) Almost 99% of the atmosphere lies within

of the earth's surface.

30 km
2) In a volume of air near the earth's surface,

occupies 78% and

nearly 21%.

nitrogen, oxygen
3) Water vapor
is invisible
4) Which of the following is considered a variable gas in the earth's atmosphere?
water vapor
5) The gas that shows the most variation in concentration from place to place and from time to
time in the lower atmosphere.
water vapor (H2O)
6) Typically, water vapor occupies about what percentage of the air's volume near the earth's
surface?
less than 4%
7) The concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere is relatively low compared to
some of the other constituents. CO2 is important none the less because
it is a greenhouse gas
8) The greenhouse gas that has been increasing in concentration, at least partly due to
deforestation.
carbon dioxide (CO2)
9) Which below is not considered a greenhouse gas?
oxygen (O2)
10) Which of the following ingredients are needed for ozone formation in the stratosphere?
oxygen molecules (O2) and oxygen atoms (O)
11) About 97% of the
ultraviolet radiation.

in the atmosphere is found in the stratosphere where it absorbs harmful

ozone
12) The so-called "ozone hole" is observed above
the continent of Antarctica
13) The most abundant gas emitted from volcanoes is

water vapor
14) The amount of force exerted over an area of surface is called
pressure
15) Much of Tibet lies at altitudes over 18,000 feet where the pressure is about 500 mb. At such
altitudes, the Tibetans live above roughly
50% of the air molecules in the atmosphere
16) Inches of mercury (Hg) are commonly used units of
atmospheric pressure
17) Which of the following weather elements always decreases as we climb upward in the
atmosphere?
pressure
18) The number of air molecules in a given space or volume is called
density
19) In the stratosphere, the air temperature normally
increases with increasing height
20) The flat top of a thunderstorm about 30,000 or 10 km high would mark the top of the
troposphere
21) The earth's atmosphere is divided into layers based on changes in the vertical profile of
air temperature
22) The most abundant gas in the stratosphere is
nitrogen (N2)
23) Which of the following would remain constant if you traveled up through the troposphere?
percentage oxygen concentration
24) Warming in the stratosphere is mainly caused by
absorption of ultraviolet radiation by ozone
25) In a temperature inversion
air temperature increases with increasing height
26) The rate at which temperature decreases with increasing altitude is known as the
lapse rate
27) The atmospheric layer in which we live is called the

troposphere
28) The instrument that measures temperature, pressure, and humidity in the vertical is the
radiosonde
29) Which of the following best determines the weather?
all of the above
30) A south wind
blows from the south

QUIZ 02
1) Which of the following provides a measure of the average speed of air molecules?
temperature
2) If the temperature of the air is said to be at absolute zero, one might conclude that
the molecules contain a minimum amount of energy
3) Energy of motion is also known as
kinetic energy
4) The transfer of heat by molecule-to-molecule contact is
conduction
5) A change of one degree on the Celsius scale is
scale

a change of one degree on the Fahrenheit

larger than
6) Heat is energy in the process of being transferred from
hot objects to cold objects
7) The horizontal transport of any atmospheric property by the wind is called
advection
8) Which of the following is not a heat-transport process in the atmosphere?
convergence
9) A heat transfer process in the atmosphere that depends upon the movement of air is
convection
10) Which of the following is the poorest conductor of heat?
still air
11) This is released as sensible heat during the formation of clouds.

latent heat
12) This process causes rising air to cool.
expansion
13) The cold feeling that you experience after leaving a swimming pool on a hot, dry, summer day
is
heat transport by latent heat
14) The temperature of a rising air parcel
always cools due to expansion
15) Energy transferred by electromagnetic waves is called
radiation
16) The proper order from shortest to longest wavelength is
ultraviolet, visible, infrared
17) Which of the following has a wavelength shorter than that of violet light?
ultraviolet radiation
18) Electromagnetic radiation with wavelengths between 0.4 and 0.7 micrometers is called
visible light
19) Solar radiation reaches the earth's surface as
ultraviolet, visible, and infrared radiation
20) The earth emits radiation with greatest intensity at
infrared wavelengths
21) The combined albedo of the earth and the atmosphere is approximately
30 percent
22) Which of the following is an incorrect identification?
black body - selective absorber
23) The major process that warms the lower atmosphere is
absorption of infrared radiation
24) If the amount of energy lost by the earth to space each year were not approximately equal to
that received
the atmosphere's average temperature would change
25) The main reason for warm summers in middle latitudes is that
the sun is higher in the sky and we receive more direct solar radiation

26) Which of the following is one of the main causes of the seasons?
the length of the daylight hours
27) The north-facing side of a hill in a mountainous region tends to
all of the above
28) The heat energy released when water vapor changes to a liquid is called
latent heat of condensation
29) The earth's radiation is often referred to as
referred to as
radiation

radiation, while the sun's radiation is often

longwave, shortwave
30) If the amount of energy lost by the earth to space each year were not approximately equal to
that received
the atmosphere's average temperature would change.