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Below are the questions for the exam with the choices of answers:
Question #1
A Distribution of land and water
B Altitude
C Plane of the equator
D General circulation of the ocean’s currents
E Latitude
Question #2
A Coriolis
B leeward
C struck
D windward
E north
Question #3
A solar radiation
B vegetation
C animal decomposition
D meteorites
E the burning of coal
Question #4
A ozone
B argon
C carbon monoxide
D sulfur dioxide
E carbon dioxide
Question #5
A Argon
B Lightning
C Ozone
D Particulates
E Neon
Question #6
A aerosols
B erosion
C smog
D precipitation
E wind
Question #7
A a form of oxygen
B a naturally occurring substance
C more healthy to breathe than oxygen
D a pollutant caused by the burning of fossil fuels
E a form of carbon dioxide
Question #8
A ionosphere
B heterosphere
C troposphere
D homosphere
Question #9
A helium
B oxygen
C argon
D nitrogen
E water vapor
Question #10
A infrared radiation
B argon
C helium
D ions
E water
Question #11
A Insulates the surface against temperature extremes
B Maintains an envelope of pure oxygen
C Maintains a water supply
D Supplies the oxygen for life
E Screens out much of the Sun’s ultraviolet radiation
Question #12
A initiate violent storms
B act as a lid preventing gases from escaping
C serve as a nucleus for cloud formation
D provide oxygen for the atmosphere
E reduce ultraviolet solar radiation
Question #13
A Clouds
B Oxygen
C Water vapor
D Nitrogen
E Carbon dioxide
Question #14
A parts per trillion
B parts per billion
C parts per hundred
D parts per million
E parts per thousand
Question #15
A Storms
B Elevation
C Distribution of land and water
D Longitude
E Latitude
Question #16
A differentiated because climate studies the stratosphere
B differentiated because weather is not covered in your textbook
C synonyms
D differentiated because climate studies the long-term
E both atmospheric studies based on many decades of data
Question #17
A Hollywood
B the United States
C the equator
D Africa
E Antarctica
Question #18
A Carbon monoxide
B Sulfur compounds
C Chlorofluorocarbons
D Photochemical smog
E Water vapor
Question #19
A Oceans cool more quickly than land.
B Land cools more quickly than water.
C Cities near oceans tend to have warmer summers than cities inland.
D Oceans and land cool at about the same rate.
E Oceans and land can store about the same amount of heat per volume.
Question #20
A troposphere
B stratosphere
C heterosphere
D mesosphere
E ionosphere
Question #21
A exosphere, stratosphere, troposphere, and mesosphere
B thermosphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and troposphere
C stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere, and troposphere
D troposphere, mesosphere, stratosphere, and thermosphere
E troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere
Question #22
A CFCs joining with ozone
B a chemical solution
C photosynthetic activity
D the absorption of ultraviolet energy
E the reflection of photons
Question #23
A evenly mixed in the upper layers
B evenly mixed throughout all levels
C unevenly mixed in the lower layers
D unevenly mixed throughout all levels
E evenly mixed in the lower layers
