Transcript MET Quiz - cloudobservers

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.
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 rainbow’s 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 Steven’s
father was responsible for what significant
weather-related invention?
1. TORNADO
2. VIOLET
3. CLOUD COVER
4. HUMIDITY
5. STEVENSON SCREEN
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?
06. DOGGER
07. THE GULF STREAM
08. JET STREAMS
09. EAST
10. STRATUS
11. In the Northern hemisphere an area of low pressure produces what
wind direction?
12. What number does ‘storm’ equate to on the Beaufort Scale
of wind force?
13. What is minus 40 degrees Farenheit expressed as degrees
Centigrade?
14. What are cirrus clouds made of?
15. What is a radiosonde?
11.
ANTI-CLOCKWISE
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15.
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
Compiled by MIS on behalf of Cloud Observers 2010