1. What is the temperature at
station A?
A. 32° F
B. 31° F
C. 32° C
D. 31° C
E. 13° C
2. Which station has the lowest pressure?
A. Station A
B. Station B
C. Station C
D. Station D
E. Station E
3. If you were reading a summary of the weather at these stations, which would have
reported a broken sky?
A. Station A
B. Station B
C. Station C
D. Station D
E. Station E
6. You are looking through the archives of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration, and you want to find the GOES-8 satellite images from 4 P.M. on January
26, 1998. However, NOAA tells you that you need to give them Universal Time. What would
you tell them?
A. 0400 UT
B. 1600 UT
C. 1100 UT
D. 2200 UT
E. 2100 UT
7. I have two situations with pitchers of water at room temperature, In situation A,
the air temperature is 60° F and the dewpoint is 38° F. In situation B the air temperature is 75°
F and the dewpoint is 72° F. If I cool the air at these two
places at the same rate, at which location will water first begin to condense on the
outside of the water pitcher?
A. Situation A
B. Situation B
8. True or false: One way to describe air pressure is the weight of the air above a
location.
A. True
B. False
9. When we measure the air pressure at a station, we don’t report that pressure.
Instead, we perform calculations and report the adjusted air pressure as if the station
was at sea level. Why?
A. Airplanes need the sea level pressure to fly safely.
B. The uncertainty of the actual air pressure is too great.
C. The pressure variations between stations because of elevation are too great.
D. Different Weather Service stations use different types of instruments to measure the
air pressure.
E. Most instruments do not have numbers on their displays as low as the actual pressure.
11. Which of the drawings to the right
shows the typical wind flow around
a surface high pressure system?
A. A B. B
Use the drawing on page 4 to answer questions 12 through 13.
(drawing not shown on web page)
12. What is the probable wind direction at station A?
A. North
B. South
C. Northeast
D. Southwest
E. West
13. At which station would expect the best chance of cloudy weather?
A. A
B. B
C. C
D. D
E. E
14. I am going to cook a casserole in the oven in my air-tight casserole dish. However,
I forget to put any food in the dish. The oven is at 400 degrees F. What happens to the
density of the air in the dish as it warms up?
A. Increases
B. Decreases
C. Stays about the same
15. Evaporation of water is more closely related to:
A. Latent heat
B. Sensible heat
16. In the movie Indiana Jones, many people are searching for the headpiece to the
staff of Ra. An evil Nazi agent tries to grab it out of the ashes of a fire and burns
himself, leaving an impression of the headpiece in the skin of his hand. This an example
of:
A. Conduction
B. Convection
C. Radiation
Essay question: On Sunday morning while I was writing this test, my wife was coloring
Easter eggs. She was trying to draw designs on the eggs with a wax crayon, but the wax
would not stick to the eggs because the eggs had condensation on them. What probably
caused the condensation to occur? Please explain your answer.
A. The crayon was very warm.
B. The crayon was very cool.
C. The eggs had just come out of the refrigerator and were cold.
D. The eggs had just been hard-boiled and they were hot.
Essay question: Why is it warmer in the summer in Minnesota than in the
winter?
Essay question: Why is the sky blue?