Geography Quiz

What determines the layers of the Earth's atmosphere?

• Distance from the earth

• Latitude

• Temperature

The boundary layer that separates the stratosphere and Mesosphere is the ...

Where is radiation loss by scattering more?

• Tropic of Cancer

• Equator

Is convectional heating greater/weaker at the tropics than at the Equator?

• greater

• weaker

C represents a ... pressure cell labelled C

Air movement at the center of a high pressure cell ...

• descends (sinks)

• ascends (rises)

Choose the most correct statement:

Air circulation is in a ... direction in a ... pressure cell.

• clockwise, high

• anti-clockwise, low

• clockwise, low

All these are advantages of synoptic weather maps EXCEPT

• Visual Representation

• Understanding Climate Patterns

• Predictive Power

• Data Quality and Availability

Isobars are measured in ...

"Ozone hole" means that there is a hole in the ozone layer.

• True

• False