WX 201 ACTUAL TEST QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE ANSWER GUIDE

WX 201 ACTUAL TEST QUESTIONS WITH
COMPLETE ANSWER GUIDE

●● Longwaves in the middle and upper troposphere usually have lengths
on the order of
Answer: thousands of kilometers


●● in the Northern Hemisphere, air found to the north of the polar front
is______, while air further south is____
Answer: cold; warm


●● the air mass with the highest actual water vapor content is
Answer: mT


●● because of friction, the surface winds move ______ winds aloft with
the same pressure gradiant
Answer: more slowly than


●● What type of air mass would be responsible for hot, muggy summer
weather in the eaastern half of the United States
Answer: mT

, ●● If the flow of air into a surface low pressure area is greater than the
divergence of air aloft, the surface pressure in the center of the low will
Answer: increase


●● The entrance region of a jetstreak is found______ and the exit is
found______`
Answer: upwind; downwind


●● When a sea breeze moving east meets a sea breeze moving west,
they form a
Answer: sea breeze convergence zone


●● Which statement describes the subtropical jetstream
Answer: it generally blows west to east


●● The contour lines on a 500mb chart are lines of
Answer: pressure


●● the amount of pressure change that occurs over a given horizontal
distance is called the
Answer: pressure gradient


●● The worlds deserts are found at the 30 degree latitude because