2024 SQ Science Quiz Study Guide - Practice Quiz #2

Winds in the atmosphere are _______________.

• faster in the summer than in the winter in both the northern and southern hemispheres
• westerly only in the southern hemispheres
• westerly only in the northern hemispheres
• westerly in both the northern and southern hemispheres
• move from areas of low pressure to areas of high pressure

What do isobars show?

• temperature
• air pressure
• evaluation
• rain
• wind direction

When a warm weather front and a cold weather front meet, the warm air will:

• rise up over the cold air
• go below the cold air
• mix with the cold air
• go through the cold air
• evaporate

What percentage of Earth's water supply is fresh water?

• 2%
• 0.5%
• 1%
• 95%
• 3%

What causes the sky to turn orange, red, or yellow during a sunset or sunrise?

• The sun's light path must travel through more particles in the atmosphere before reaching your eyes
• The blue and other shorter light waves were reflected earlier in the day, leaving only the longer waves
• The temperature of the air particles begin to cool and are more dense
• The temperature changes the stratosphere at this point of the day create bends in the light waves
• The magnetic field in the Earth's atmosphere is weaker at this point of the day and bends the light waves

The lowest temperature anything can reach is known as _______

• 0 Kelvin
• absolute zero
• absolute temperature
• -456.67 Kelvin
• Both A & B

Which type of weather front could be known as the bulldozer front?

• stationary front
• occluded front
• cold front
• warm front
• dry front

The westerly winds are driven by the giant _______ Cell

• Hadley
• Ferrel
• Polar
• Walker
• doldrums

Which surface has the highest albedo?

• deserts
• polar regions
• wheat fields
• tar roads
• oceans

Approximately how long ago was the most severe ice age?

• 1,000 years ago
• 7 billion years ago
• 700 million years ago
• 300 million years ago
• 1.5 million years ago