PHSC 210 Quiz 8 with Answers | LATEST GUIDE

• Question 1 2 out of 2 points You plan a day trip into the mountains and want to estimate the temperature at the mountain peak. You measure an air temperature of 25°C and the peak is 2.5 km above your starting location. What is the temperature at the peak if the air is dry (no clouds)? • Question 2 0 out of 2 points Which of the following is true about rising air parcels as they experience lower pressures? • Question 3 2 out of 2 points Which of the following conditions is necessary for winds to be geostrophic? • Question 4 2 out of 2 points Which of the following happens at the lifting condensation level (LCL)? • Question 5 2 out of 2 points What is the definition of aggregation? • Question 6 2 out of 2 points Which mechanism of forced instability is defined as "air moving into a low pressure system causes air to rise?" • Question 7 2 out of 2 points If the water vapor above a surface of liquid water is under saturated, which of the following is occurring? • Question 8 2 out of 2 points Which kind of fog forms as warm moist air moves across a cold surface? • Question 9 2 out of 2 points Which of the following is correct about the Coriolis effect? • Question 10 2 out of 2 points Which cloud consists only of ice crystals and forms a thin veil across the sky? • Question 11 2 out of 2 points In a thermal circulation what is happening at the surface of the warm column of air? • Question 12 2 out of 2 points Which of the following conditions is compatible with seeing a rainbow? • Question 13 0 out of 2 points Which of the following is the cause of sea breezes? • Question 14 2 out of 2 points The environmental lapse rate is measured at 7 °C. What is the stability of this air? • Question 15 2 out of 2 points Why is the moist lapse rate less than the dry lapse rate? • Question 16 0 out of 2 points Which of the following statements is true when comparing humidity levels in the Sahara desert to humidity levels in Antarctica? • Question 17 0 out of 2 points Your clothes become damp on a hot summer day because of which of the following? • Question 18 2 out of 2 points Which is the correct description of a dry haze? • Question 19 2 out of 2 points The abbreviation for cumulonimbus is Cn. • Question 20 2 out of 2 points Halos are the result of light refracting through ice crystals. • Question 21 2 out of 2 points Fog cannot form when the air is below freezing. • Question 22 2 out of 2 points Drizzle consists of small water droplets falling from nimbostratus clouds. • Question 23 2 out of 2 points Relative humidity can never exceed 100% in the atmosphere. • Question 24 2 out of 2 points Water condenses on the side of a glass of ice water because the glass's temperature is below the dew point temperature. • Question 25 2 out of 2 points Air forced downward becomes warmer and more stable.