Which of the following terms refers to the amount of heat energy required to bring about a small change in temperature?

As you walk across a sandy beach on a summer day, the bottoms of your feet become extremely hot. This is an example of which type of heat transfer?

Suppose it is snowing outside and the air is saturated. The air temperature and dew point are both -9◦ C, and the actual vapour pressure is 3 hPa. If this air is brought indoors and warmed to 24◦ C, what would be the relative humidity of this air, assuming that its moisture content does not change? (The saturation vapour pressure at 24◦ C is 30 hPa.)

Which of the following is a constant gas in the atmosphere?

The most variable gas in the atmosphere is:

In which of the following conditions does radiation fog typically form?

Which of the following statements applies to satellite images taken of clouds at night?

Which of the following would happen to the atmospheric pressure at the Earth’s surface if the Earth’s gravitational force were to increase?

Which of the following terms refers to wind that horizontally blows warmer or colder air into a location?

Which of the following describes the relationship between the annual variation of Earth-sun distance and seasonal weather changes?

In the Northern Hemisphere, which of the following days has the fewest hours of daylight?

Which of the following statements describes what tends to happen on the north-facing side of a hill in a mountainous region in Canada?

Assume that the night will remain clear, calm, and unsaturated, and the predicted minimum temperature is 0°C. Suddenly the wind speed increases and remains gusty throughout the night. What would be the most likely minimum temperature?

When calculating a water budget for a Canadian location, in which of the following seasons does the actual evapotranspiration typically NOT keep pace with the potential evapotranspiration?

Which of the following describes the mixing ratio?

Which of the following occurs when frost forms?

Which of the following types of fog most likely form above a relatively warm lake on a cold, calm, autumn morning?

Which of the following cloud types is most often associated with an anvil-shaped top?

Which of the following gives the name for the rate at which the temperature changes inside a rising (or descending) parcel of saturated air?

Which of the following describes what happens to the dew point temperature in a rising unsaturated thermal?

Which of the following factors makes it possible for condensation on hygroscopic nuclei to occur at relative humidities less than 100 percent?

Which of the following cloud types produces precipitation by the collision-coalescence process only?

Which of the following types of precipitation most likely forms when the surface air temperature is slightly below freezing and the air temperature increases with an increasing distance above the ground?

Which of the following statements describes why wind speed generally increases with height above the Earth’s surface?

Which of the following is the name for an abrupt change in wind speed or wind direction?

Where does clear air turbulence occur most often?

Which of the following defines chinook winds?

Which of the following instruments indicates wind direction?

Consider the single-cell model of the general circulation of the atmosphere. Which of the following statements describes an assumption of this model?

Which of the following characterizes the intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ)?

In which of the following directions does the jet stream flow?

Which of the following conditions defines the Ekman spiral?

Which of the following is considered a good source region for a continental air mass?

Which of the following explains why thunderstorms along cold fronts are more severe than thunderstorms along warm fronts?

On a weather map, which of the following types of fronts is drawn in blue and represents a region where colder air is replacing warmer air?

Which of the following defines lee-side lows?

For a mid-latitude cyclone system to intensify, the upper-level low would be located in which direction relative to the surface low?

Which of the following defines the term vorticity?

Which of the following is the name for the initial stage of an ordinary thunderstorm?

Which of the following terms refers to the leading edge of a thunderstorm’s cold down-draft?

Which of the following describes the cause of thunder?

Which of the following gives the name for a weak trough of low pressure along which hurricanes occasionally form in the tropics?

Which of the following describes the vertical structure of a hurricane?

Which of the following surface conditions produces a cumulus cloud with the lowest base?