Aviation Meteorology Test #1 Exam Questions And Answers
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AVIT METEOROLOGY
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AVIT METEOROLOGY
A. Center Weather Service Unit (CWSU) - ANS What National Weather Service office provides meteorological forecasts, and advice to ARTCCs and other FAA facilities regarding weather impact on their missions?
A. Center Weather Service Unit (CWSU)
B. Weather Forecast Office (WFO)
C. Meteor...
Aviation Meteorology Test #1 Exam
Questions And Answers
A. Center Weather Service Unit (CWSU) - ANS What National Weather Service office
provides meteorological forecasts, and advice to ARTCCs and other FAA facilities regarding
weather impact on their missions?
A. Center Weather Service Unit (CWSU)
B. Weather Forecast Office (WFO)
C. Meteorological Watch Office (MWO)
D. Aviation Weather Center (AWC)
C. Stratosphere - ANS Within which layer of the atmosphere does temperature increase
with altitude, making it a stable layer, generally devoid of significant weather?
A. Tropopause
B. Troposphere
C. Stratosphere
D. Mesosphere
A. A growth process - ANS Precipitation formation requires water vapor, lift, and ________.
A. A growth process
B. Frontal Pressure
C. A Stable Temperature
D. A Steep Pressure Gradient
A. A warm air mass moving over a cold surface - ANS What type of air mass produces
stable air that is associated with smooth air, poor visibility, and stratiform clouds?
A. A warm air mass moving over a cold surface
B. A cold air mass moving over a warm surface
C. Any warm air mass
D. Any cold air mass
D. Water Vapor - ANS Which gas constitutes only a small percentage of the earth's
atmosphere and varies widely in both time and space, ranging from trace amounts to 4 percent
by volume?
, A. Oxygen
B. Carbon Monoxide
C. Carbon Dioxide
D. Water Vapor
D. Troposphere And Stratosphere - ANS Virtually all aircraft fly in which two layers of the
atmosphere?
A. Mesosphere And Stratosphere
B. Troposphere And Mesosphere
C. Thermosphere And Stratosphere
D. Troposphere And Stratosphere
B. Temperature-Dew Point Spread - ANS When the __________ is greater than zero, the
air is unsaturated.
A. Condensation Point
B. Temperature-Dew Point Spread
C. Temperature
D. Dew Point
B. Warms Dissipate - ANS A sinking parcel of air compresses and __________ as it
encounters increasing pressure; this causes a cloud to quickly __________.
A. Warms, Form
B. Warms, Dissipate
C. Cools, Form
D. Cools, Dissipate
C. Cumuliform - ANS What type of clouds look like fluffy cotton balls or heaps, indicate
upward vertical motion or thermal uplift of air, and can produce severe turbulence, icing, and
other hazards?
A. Cirriform
B. Nimboform
C. Cumuliform
D. Stratiform
B. Clockwise, Sinks - ANS Air flow around a high diverges in a ____________ motion and
___________, causing the air to compress and warm, which tends to dissipate clouds.
A. Clockwise, Rises
B. Clockwise, Sinks
C. Counterclockwise, Rises
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