MET Quiz

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CLOUD OBSERVERS QUIZ TESTING THE OLD GREY
MATTER
There are fifteen questions in total, groups of
five with the answers on the consecutive
slide. When ready, click to advance.
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01. Which of these revolving weather systems is
the smallest hurricane, typhoon,
tropical cyclone or tornado? 02. What
colour of a single rainbow is on the inside of
the rainbows arc, given the generally
defined seven- colour rainbow? 03.
Okta was a unit of measurement for what? 04.
What common term refers to the amount of water
vapour that is held in the air? 05.
Treasure Island author Robert Louis Stevens
father was responsible for what significant
weather-related invention?
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• TORNADO
• VIOLET
• CLOUD COVER
• HUMIDITY
• STEVENSON SCREEN

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06. What shipping forecast area lies immediately
South of Forties off the British
Isles? 07. What is the circulating Atlantic
Ocean current which warms Western
Europe? 08. What are the narrow bands of strong
winds called which move around the world
between about six and twelve miles high? 09.
Towards which direction (North, East, South or
West) is a rainbow normally seen in the
afternoon? 10. What cloud term means sheet
or sheetlike or layer?
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06. DOGGER 07. THE GULF STREAM 08. JET
STREAMS 09. EAST 10. STRATUS
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• In the Northern hemisphere an area of low
  pressure produces what
• wind direction?
• What number does storm equate to on the
  Beaufort Scale
• of wind force?
• What is minus 40 degrees Farenheit expressed as
  degrees
• Centigrade?
• 14. What are cirrus clouds made of?
• 15. What is a radiosonde?

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• ANTI-CLOCKWISE
• TEN
• MINUS 40, THE SAME
• PARTICLES OF ICE
• A LIGHTWEIGHT PACKAGE OF WEATHER
• INSTRUMENTS FITTED WITH A
• RADIO TRANSMITTER AND
• CARRIED UP INTO THE
• ATMOSPHERE BY
• A BALLOON

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Compiled by MIS on behalf of Cloud Observers 2010