Environmental Science Questions

To create a sea breeze: the warm air over the land rises, creating low pressure. Cool air over water sinks, creating high pressure. This creates an onshore breeze. the warm air over the land sinks, creating high pressure. Warm air over water rises, creating low pressure. This creates an onshore breeze. the cool air over the land sinks, creating low pressure. Warm air over water rises, creating high pressure. This creates an onshore breeze. the cool air over the land rises, creating low pressure. Warm air over water sinks, creating high pressure. This creates an onshore breeze.

Cyclones are centers of high atmospheric pressure characterized by diverging winds that spiral downward and outward. True False

Monsoon more than anything refers to a type of rainfall. True False

The Coriolis Effect in the atmosphere is due to the atmosphere rotating faster at the equator than at the poles. True False

The specific humidity of air changes when there is a change in: the pressure of a parcel of air. the temperature of a parcel of air. the amount of water vapor in a parcel of air. the amount of wind velocity in a parcel of air.

The formation of sleet involves: snow passing through a layer of freezing air forming a glaze of ice when reaching the surface snow passing through a layer of above-freezing air, melting, and then refreezing, forming a pellet that bounces when reaching the surface. air temperatures increasing uniformly with height, producing the cold conditions necessary for freezing rain formation. air temperatures decreasing uniformly with height, producing the cold conditions necessary for freezing rain formation.

Wind speed is measured using an instrument called a(n) _______________. speedometer wind vane barometer anemometer

Two of the three major classes of clouds on the basis of form include: ___________ and ____________. cumiliform, luceriform nimboform, stratiform nimboform, cirriform stratiform, cumuliform

Convection loops in which air rises over the equator, flows poleward, and descends at about 30 degrees north and south latitude. Equatorial Trough Subtropical High Pressure Belt Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) Hadley Cell

The Coriolis effect is caused by: pressure gradients the earth's revolution the gravitational attraction of the moon and sun in the Northern Hemisphere the earth's rotation

The loss of surface elevation due to the removal of subsurface support, often in conjunction with over-depletion of ground water is ________________. subsistence waterlogging subsidence drainage

Which of the following circulation patterns is characteristic of an anticyclone or high pressure in the Southern Hemisphere? air flowing outward, clockwise air flowing inward, clockwise air flowing inward, counterclockwise air flowing outward, counterclockwise

Net radiation normally shows a deficit during the night. True False

A low-latitude locus of humid air and stormy weather that shifts with the seasons and is influential in the development of the monsoon. Hadley Cell Southeast Trade Winds Subtropical Jet Stream Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ)

This describes a large body of permeable, saturated material that allows an abundance of freely flowing groundwater to sufficiently make its way through. aquifer aquaculture water table artesian well

The name of the instrument used to measure relative humidity. thermometer weather vane mercury barometer sling psychrometer

This wind belt is linked with the midlatitudes (roughly between 30-60 degrees, and across much of the U.S. and Europe, for example). The winds in this belt tends to be complex and variable. Southeast Trade Winds Polar Easterlies Northeast Trade Winds Prevailing Westerlies

Which one of the following is not a key factor in determining temperature patterns at a given locale: longitude latitude elevation coastal or interior location

A local wind system that flows from land to ocean during the night is called a: valley breeze land breeze sea breeze mountain breeze

Low-level convergence that causes air to rise can occur in all the following settings EXCEPT: air encountering topographic barriers such as mountains. where upper air flow speeds up and there is upper air divergence. collision of two wind systems such as occurs along the equator. air moving from a large body of land to a large body of water.