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Question 1

1. Grasslands bordering a desert are called

		Steppes
		Tundra
		Savannah
		Rainforests

4 points

Question 2

1. What type of air mass colliding with a cold front would be more likely to give rise to thunderstorms?

		Continental polar
		Maritime polar
		Continental tropical
		Maritime tropical

4 points

Question 3

1. "In a normal year, you can have ____ lunar and _____ solar eclipses"

		1
		2
		3
		4

4 points

Question 4

1. An occluded front can give rise to

		clearing skies
		snow
		a mid-latitude cyclone
		a tropical storm

4 points

Question 5

1. What two characteristic are used to classify climates?

		Cloud cover and snowfall
		Vegetation and humidity
		Temperature and rainfall
		latitude and longitude

4 points

Question 6

1. The southeastern US is an example of a __________________ climate

		Humid tropical
		West Coast
		East Coast
		Humid subtropical

4 points

Question 7

1. "In terms of both property loss, and loss of lives, the most destructive component of a hurricane is"

		Wind
		rainfall
		storm surge
		high waves

4 points

Question 8

1. A siderial day is ______________ than a solar day

		longer
		shorter
		the same as
		None of these

4 points

Question 9

1. Radar that uses the phase shift of microwaves bounced off of raindrops is called

		ranging
		weather
		Doppler
		storm

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Question 10

1. "Highland climates have, relative to lowland climates"

		Less rainfall
		More deserts
		Lower temperatures
		Higher humidity

4 points

Question 11

1. The plane that the planets orbit is is called the

		Celestial Sphere
		Ecliptic
		Retrograde
		Siderial

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Question 12

1. The idea that the Earth is at the center of the Universe is called

		Geocentric
		Heliocentric
		Galilean
		Retrograde

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Question 13

1. What causes middle-latitude deserts?

		Mountains
		La Nina
		Descending air
		Ascending air

4 points

Question 14

1. Who was the first to use Epicycles to explain retrograde motion

		Aristotle
		Newton
		Eratosthenes
		Ptolemy

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Question 15

1. A spinning low presssure air mass that has a sustained wind speed above 74 mph is called a

		tropical depression
		tropical storm
		hurricane
		tornado

4 points

Question 16

1. Who invented the telescope

		Aristotle
		Galileo
		Newton
		None of these

4 points

Question 17

1. "Aside from producing red sunrise and sunset, aerosols are essential for the formation of"

		Ozone
		Low humidity
		frost
		precipitation

4 points

Question 18

1. Which of the following is a strong greenhouse gas?

		Oxygen
		Nitrogen
		Argon
		Methane

4 points

Question 19

1. Mountains can produce

		Rainshadow deserts
		Tundra
		sand dunes
		Ozone

4 points

Question 20

1. We measure the intensity of tornadoes using the ________ scale

		Richter
		Fujita
		Saffir-Simpson
		Mercalli

4 points

Question 21

1. Newton was the first to recognize that the motions of the planets were caused by

		Inertia
		gravity
		inertia and gravity
		Epicycles

4 points

Question 22

1. When a tornado has actually been sighted or rotation is indicated on Doppler radar a ________ is issued

		watch
		tornado caution
		warning
		conditional warning

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Question 23

1. The technical name for the cloud we call a thunderstorm is

		cumulonimbus
		stratus
		cirrus
		nimbostratus

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Question 24

1. We classify climates using the ________________ system

		Wegener
		Standard
		Koppen
		Torricelli

4 points

Question 25

1. Warm air displacing cold air is called a ______ front

		cold
		warm
		occluded
		stationary

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