1. The document is a quiz about climatology and meteorology concepts. It contains multiple choice and true/false questions about topics like air density, desert locations, temperature changes with elevation, monsoons, ocean circulation, macroclimates, and the Coriolis effect.
2. There are also short answer identification questions about the tilt of the Earth's axis, trade winds, ocean currents, and wind path curvature due to Earth's rotation.
3. The essay questions ask about why summer monsoons cause heavy rain over land and which direction a human cannonball shot at the equator facing south would land and why.
1. Quiz # ____
Name: ________________________ Score: ________
Course&Year: _________________ Date: _________
Modified TRUE or FALSE: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and if
FALSE, change the underlined word.
_________1.Hot air tends to rise relative to cooler air because the motion
molecules in the air increases as temperature increases, make it
less dense.
_________2.Most deserts are found in about latitudes.
_________3.The air temperature falls about for every 1000-m increase in
elevation.
_________4.Monsoons are large scale sea breeze.
_________5.The solar energy indirectly affects oceanic circulation.
_________6.During warmer months, summer monsoons cause so much rain over
land.
_________7.Highly localized sets of climatic conditions are called macroclimates.
_________8.The earth rotates westward.
_________9.The movement of oceanic current is the same as air current.
________10.Coriolis Effect is described by the 19th
–century French engineer-
mathematician Gustave-Jasper Coriolis in 1835
IDENTIFICATION
_________1. The approximate degree of tilting of the axis of the earth.
__________2. Winds on both sides of the equator that blow out of the east and
toward the west.
__________3.Giant closed curved of the surface waters on North Atlantic Ocean.
__________4.The curvature of the paths of the winds due to Earth’s rotation.
__________5.Latitudes that experiences the greatest precipitation on earth.
2. ESSAY
1. Why is it that summer monsoons can cause so much rain over land? (5pts.)
2.If you are a human cannonball and you were shot at the equator facing south, in
what direction would you land and why? (5pts.)