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Physical Geography: The Global Environment, Second Edition - Unit 13

Instructions: For each question, click on the radio button beside your answer. When you have completed the entire quiz, click the Submit my answers button at the bottom of the page to receive your results.

Question 1:


a) stationary front
b) open-wave
c) occluded front
d) closed wave
e) easterly wave

Question 2:


a) warm front
b) occluded front
c) cold front
d) stationary front
e) hot front

Question 3:


a) a cold front
b) high pressure
c) a warm front
d) low pressure
e) a stationary front

Question 4:


a) air mass
b) weather system
c) weather mass
d) pressure unit
e) storm

Question 5:


a) cold and cool air
b) warm and cold air
c) hot and cold air
d) dry and moist air
e) cold and cold air

Question 6:


a) Disspitation
b) Occlusion
c) Closed wave
d) Open wave
e) Early

Question 7:


a) Swedish
b) Canadian
c) American
d) Norweigan
e) Russian

Question 8:


a) Temperature
b) Wind velocity
c) Pressure
d) Wind direction
e) Orthography

Question 9:


a) jet level flow
b) high level flow
c) frontal flow
d) rising air flow
e) falling air flow

Question 10:


a) Rossby waves
b) Subtropical waves
c) Arctic waves
d) Tropical waves
e) Antarctic waves

Question 11:


a) tropical depression
b) Polar Front
c) Continental Front
d) tropical wave
e) tropical storm

Question 12:


a) low and high
b) tall and short
c) trough and ridge
d) trough and bridge
e) depression and swelling

Question 13:


a) Tropopause
b) Mesopause
c) Troposphere
d) Mesosphere
e) Stratosphere

Question 14:


a) windy
b) monsoon
c) snowy
d) rainy
e) melting

Question 15:


a) Potential energy and condensation
b) Kinetic energy and clouds
c) Winds and precipitation
d) Warm air and water vapour moisture
e) Latent heat and cloud droplet growth

Question 16:


a) True
b) False

Question 17:


a) True
b) False

Question 18:


a) True
b) False

Question 19:


a) True
b) False

Question 20:


a) True
b) False

Question 21:


a) True
b) False