GEOG Quizzes 1-7
The temperature at the top of the mesosphere is about __________ degrees Celsius.
-100 C
At a given location the sea level air temperature is 30 degrees Celsius. Based on the average environmental lapse rate, what is the most likely temperature at 5,000 meters in mountains near that same sea level location?
-2.5 degrees Celsius
At the North Pole, meridians are __________ kilometers (miles) apart.
0
If Earth's axial tilt were zero, the subsolar point would migrate across __________ degrees of latitude each six months.
0
On December 21, the latitude 80 degrees north receives __________ hours of daylight.
0
Prime Meridian
0 degrees longitude
Carb on dioxide (CO )
0.0408% by volume
Map distance = 4.65 inches and real distance is 4650 miles
1 inch =1000 miles
The dry adiabatic rate of temperature change for an unsaturated air parcel is __________.
10 degrees Celsius per 1,000 meters
On the equator, meridians are __________ kilometers apart.
111
In the exercise, we had 1 gram of ice at -100ºC and added heat to convert the ice to liquid and then to water vapor at 200ºC. You determined the total amount of heat needed in calories. Based on what you learned, how many total calories would you have to remove to cool 2 grams of water vapor at 200ºC to ice at -100ºC?
1740 calories
Longitudes run as high as __________ degrees.
180
Opposite of the Prime Meridian
180 degrees longitude
Bare Rock
20-40%
Tropic of Capricorn
23.5 degrees South
Clouds
25-80%
If 1 kilogram of air has 12 g of water vapor and the temperature is 40 degrees C, what is the relative humidity?
25.5%
Lines of latitude are ~spaced evenly (~111 km or 69 miles per degree). What is the distance between the Equator and the Tropic of Cancer?
2608.5 km (1621 miles)
Using Google Earth, you found the latitude and longitude of LSU's main campus in Baton Rouge. Since LSU is a large campus, please round the latitude and longitude to the closest minute. Select the answer below that is closest to your determination of the latitude and longitude of LSU. The degrees and minutes are spelled out to avoid confusion on different computer systems.
30 degrees and 25 minutes North, 91 degrees 10 minutes West
Overall, what percentage of solar radiation is reflected by Earth?
30-31 percent
Ninety-two degrees Fahrenheit is equal to __________ degrees Celsius.
33
It takes Earth __________ days to revolve around the Sun.
365.25
Asphalt
5-10%
Vegetation
5-25%
Water
5-80%
How many calories are required to raise the temperature of 1 gram of water from 100 degrees to 101 degrees Celsius?
541
What is the monthly mean temperature for December 2019? Pick the closest value to the one you calculated in the activity using the data in the Excel file (December 1 to December 31).
56.5 degrees F
Snow
60-90%
Antarctic Circle
66.5 degrees South
Overall, what percentage of solar radiation is absorbed by Earth?
69 percent
What percentage of the oxygen in the atmosphere originates from photosynthetic organisms in the oceans?
70 percent
How many degrees of latitude separate the equator from the North Pole?
90
Ozone layer
Absorbs UV radiation
Frontal Lifting
Air masses with different characteristics
Remote sensing
Aircraft, satellites, and towers taking measurements or observations of the Earth
Coldest surface temperatures of an ocean on Earth
Arctic
The __________ Ocean is mostly ice-covered.
Arctic
Several gases in the atmosphere are from biological sources, either respiration, photosynthesis, or decomposition. Some atmospheric gases are man-made from industrial processes. Select the gas below that is not the direct result of biological or man-made processes (i.e., naturally occurring).
Argon gas (Ar)
Which lettered location on the map shows the area of greatest change in seawater pH?
C
Which molecule does not occur naturally or biologically (i.e., is man-made)?
CFCs and HFCs
Photochemical smog
Car exhaust
Montreal Protocol
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
Mesopause
Coldest part of atmosphere
Google Earth is a tool used commonly by geographers. Google Earth has several features that are useful in interpretation of the spherical map of Earth. In this week's activity, you used several features of Google Earth. Which of the following is NOT a feature of Google Earth?
Conic projection
Close to the ocean or a large lake
Cooler summers, warmer winters
Hottest location on Earth
Death Valley
Many energy pathways occur in the Earth system. Which of the following does not change shortwave radiation to longwave radiation (i.e., energy remains shortwave).
Diffusion, reflection, and scattering
Smart phones and devices that collect geospatial data
Enabled the geospatial revolution
Specific Heat
Energy required to raise temperature of an object or material
Location of subsolar point during September Equinox
Equator
The figure shown below is the "water" or "hydrologic" cycle from the USGS website that you visited earlier in the weekly activities. Imagine that you are a drop of water in the ocean, what path would you take in the water cycle. Select the correct sequence.
Evaporation, advection of water vapor, encounter a mountain, increase in elevation, colder temperature, condensation, precipitation, surface water, runoff, flows into the ocean.
Oxygen
Exists as diatomic and triatomic molecules in atmosphere,
Who uses geography in their jobs or daily lives?
Explorers, Emergency Managers, Military,Real estate developers
Methane (CH )
From decomposition of organic matter
To write about earth
Geography
Spherical Representation of Earth
Google Earth or a Globe
To save on aviation fuel, airlines schedule flight routes along the shortest distance between two points. The shortest distance between two international cities is along a _____________.
Great circle
Orographic lifting
Green windward slope
Thermosphere
High temperatures (up to 1200ºC) but not hot
How does monthly mean temperature for December 2019 that you calculated in the activity compare to the 30-year climatological average? In other words, was December 2019 abnormal compared to the 30-year average?
Higher (warmer) than the climatological average.
Advection
Horizontal convection
Interior of continents, far from water
Hot summers, very cold winters
Convergent lifting
ITCZ
In part two of the this week's activity, you explored the Gas Laws and conducted experiments in the Animated Gas Lab http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/Animation/frglab2.html. The Animated Gas Lab has four variables - Mass, Volume, Pressure, and Temperature. To run an experiment, you can "freeze" or hold constant two variables then observed what happen to the other two variables. You conducted several experiments and recorded your results. Your observations follow the Gas Laws. Pick the result below that IS NOT one you observed (i.e., does not obey the Gas Laws). The animation below is one of the experiments and will help you with this question
If mass and temperature are constant, pressure increases as volume increases
Which statement is not true of the exosphere?
It is where meteors burn up as they enter the atmosphere from space.
How would the temperature at the surface of Earth likely respond if there were more stratus clouds?
It would cool.
What would happen to Earth's radiative equilibrium temperature if Earth's albedo were lowered?
It would increase
Stratosphere
Joseph Kittinger jumped from a balloon in this part of the atmosphere
What month has the lowest range of temperature? The highest range?
July and November
Temperature inversions
Keeps pollution trap near Earth's surface
In this week's activity, you looked about the characteristics of deep ocean currents. Where do these waters descend from the surface to the deepest ocean?
Labrador Sea and Greenland Sea
Clean Air Act
Limits pollution released into atmosphere
Greenhouse effect
Longwave radiation back towards the Earth's surface
Direct heat loss
Longwave radiation from Earth surface
North Pole on June 21st
Midnight Sun
There is an air parcel at the Earth's surface and the temperature is 25 degrees Celsius with a relative humidity of 100%. As the air parcel rises in the atmosphere, what is the lapse rate for this air parcel?
Moist Adiabatic Lapse Rate (MAR)
Nitrogen gas (N )
Most abundant gas in atmosphere,
Argon gas (Ar)
Most abundant noble gas
Subsolar point
No shadow at Noon
The sky is blue because of __________.
Rayleigh scattering
__________ expresses humidity as a percent.
Relative humidity
Which of the following parts of the hydrological cycle occur exclusively on land?
Runoff, groundwater, and transpiration
Mild winters and cool summers
San Francisco
Hot summers and very cold winters
Siberia, Russia
GIS Geographical information systems
Software to generated maps on a computer
Aerosols
Soot, dust, sea salt, and pollen
Ozone layer
Stratosphere
Convectional lifting
Summer thunderstorms in Florida
Which two variables influences the flow of deep ocean currents?
Temperature and Salinity
Clouds
Temperature can increase at night, decrease during the day
Increase in altitude and elevation
Temperature decreases
Decrease in latitude
Temperature increases
Equator
The hottest temperatures
Referring to the variation in ocean salinity map, which statement describes ocean water salinity at high latitudes?
The salinity of ocean water is low near the surface and increases with depth.
What happens aer an object absorbs a photon of energy?
The temperature of the object increases
Which is not true about seagrass meadows?
They are restricted to the tropics.
Which statement is not true of most warm-water, reef-building corals?
They are tolerant of low salinity levels.
Location of subsolar point for Northern Hemisphere Summer Solstice
Tropic of Cancer
The Great Pacific Garbage Patch forms because of ocean gyres.
True
Which city has the lowest air pressure on average?
Ulan Bator, Mongolia—1,350 meters (4,429 feet
Global Positioning Satellites
Used for navigation
Maps
Used to measure distance between locations
Water (H O)
Variable amount (0% to 4.0%) by volume
Coldest location on Earth
Vostok
Referring to the map, which statement describes the temperature profile of ocean water for the tropics?
Water temperature is higher near the surface than at depth
Troposphere
Where weather occurs
Which is not found in the troposphere?
a permanent temperature inversion
When there is __________ it gets warmer as altitude increases
a temperature inversion
"One centimeter equals 5 kilometers" is an example of what kind of map scale?
a verbal scale
A GIS is what?
a way to display spatial data
The flat plains on the ocean floor are called __________.
abyssal plains
Advection fog forms when __________.
air moves over a cold surface like an ocean
A conditionally unstable atmosphere mainly occurs when __________.
an air parcel is unsaturated near the ground and saturated higher up
Which location has the lowest average annual temperature?
at a high latitude and high elevation
Where does the length of day remain the same throughout the year?
at the equator
__________ is a ring of coral reefs with an interior lagoon.
atoll
Which scenario would be most likely to make snow?
below-freezing temperatures from cloud to ground
Which sequence presents the process of collision and coalescence in the right order?
condensation nuclei—cloud droplets—collision and coalescence—raindrops
Which does not cause the continental effect?
condensation of water
When the environmental lapse rate is between the dry and moist adiabatic lapse rates conditions are described as _____.
conditionally unstable.
The shallow, sloping areas of seafloor near the continents are called __________.
continental shelves
In the this week's activity, you examined how pressure and temperature change with altitude in the atmosphere in the virtual balloon experiment (https://scied.ucar.edu/virtual-ballooning). In the experiment, you recorded the pressure and temperature as the balloon ascended to higher altitudes. As you traveled up into the atmosphere (increasing altitude), the pressure ________________.
decreases to low pressure
Referring to the map, what causes particulate matter to be high in the Sahara in northern Africa?
dust storms
The __________ divides Earth into two equal halves.
equator
Which will occur least when the relative humidity is 100 percent?
evaporation
Anthropogenic coastal dead zones are caused by _________
excessive use of fertilizers on farms far from the coast
When an air parcel rises it __________.
expands and cools
Acid rain
from nitrogen dioxide from car exhaust reacting with water
Which is likely to occur when the dew-point temperature is below freezing?
frost
The __________ is a coordinate system used to identify locations on Earth's surface.
geographic grid
The __________ is the result of heating inequalities across latitudes.
global heat engine
A __________ is the shortest distance between two points on the globe.
great circle route
Without __________ Earth's atmosphere would not have a natural greenhouse effect.
greenhouse gases
A __________ is mostly enclosed by land like a bay, but it is much larger.
gulf
The large circular ocean currents in the ocean basins are called __________.
gyres
The heat-index temperature is caused by __________.
humidity
Water molecules attach to each other through __________.
hydrogen bonding
Atmospheric humidity is measured with a __________.
hygrometer
Where in the United States are dew-point temperatures typically highest?
in the southeast
The continental effect __________ the annual temperature range.
increases
The principle controls and influences of temperature patterns include
latitude, altitude, land-water heating differences, cloud cover, ocean currents, and surface conditions
In rising air parcels, clouds form at the __________.
lifting condensation level
Which is not one of the characteristics of estuaries?
low primary productivity
Submarine mountain ranges are called __________.
mid-ocean ridges
Which is not given in the metric system?
mile
At high latitudes, Earth radiates __________ energy than it absorbs.
more
Earth's oceans possess ____.
ninety-seven percent of Earth's waters
Which of the following is not true about upwelling?
occurs along eastern coast of continents
Most of the precipitation and evaporation on Earth takes place over the _____.
oceans.
Which is not a greenhouse gas?
oxygen
According to the figure, chlorine atoms change ozone molecules to what?
oxygen molecules and oxygen atoms
Which is a main characteristic of the stratosphere?
permanent temperature inversion
After the oceans, __________ is/are the most important source of water vapor to the atmosphere.
plants
Earth's North Pole points to __________.
polaris
The 0 degree meridian is also called the __________.
prime meridian
Which scenario would be most likely to make freezing rain?
rain falling through a shallow layer of below-freezing air near the ground
Which color has the longest photon wavelength?
red
Which condition is not among the human health problems caused by exposure to increased levels of ultraviolet radiation?
respiratory problem
Hotter objects emit __________ than relatively cooler objects.
shorter wavelength at a faster rate
If the Sun stopped shining, the global heat engine would __________.
shut down
The timing of the solar wind coincides with the timing of __________.
solar flare activity
Which process does not happen in the hydrologic cycle?
sublimation from plants
The __________ are found between 23.5 degrees and 35 degrees north and south.
subtropics
Hydrogen bonding results from the fact that ______.
the hydrogen end of a water molecule is positively charged and the oxygen end is negatively charged.
Clouds in the troposphere end at the tropopause because __________.
the stratosphere is too warm
Physical geography is mainly concerned with __________.
the study of Earth's living and nonliving physical systems
Finish this sentence: On the surface of this glass of water __________.
there is net condensation
Which describes insolation traveling through Earth's atmosphere?
transmission
Which wavelength causes sunburns?
ultraviolet
A way of describing humidity in millibars is termed ________.
vapor pressure
Which is a natural source of carbon dioxide?
volcanic activity
The collision and coalescence process occurs in __________ clouds.
warm
