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This section includes 657 Mcqs, each offering curated multiple-choice questions to sharpen your Testing Subject knowledge and support exam preparation. Choose a topic below to get started.
| 1. |
Which of the following countries is affected by typhoons? |
| A. | Hodras and Guatemala |
| B. | Bangladesh |
| C. | Philippines and Japan |
| D. | Mississippi Valley |
| Answer» D. Mississippi Valley | |
| 2. |
In which of the following wind is the absence of cyclonic motion found? |
| A. | hurricane |
| B. | tornado |
| C. | papagies |
| D. | typhoon |
| Answer» D. typhoon | |
| 3. |
The tropical cyclonic storms that occur in the Philippines, Japan and the China Sea are called |
| A. | hurricane |
| B. | tornado |
| C. | Typhoon |
| D. | Willieville |
| Answer» D. Willieville | |
| 4. |
Who is the exponent of the vortex theory related to the origin of cyclones? |
| A. | berkneys |
| B. | Napier Shaw |
| C. | lampert |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» E. | |
| 5. |
By what name are tropical cyclones known in Australia? |
| A. | Typhoon |
| B. | hurricane |
| C. | tornado |
| D. | Willieville |
| Answer» E. | |
| 6. |
Hurricane walks - |
| A. | in Europe |
| B. | in the Sahara desert |
| C. | in china sea |
| D. | in the Mississippi Valley |
| Answer» E. | |
| 7. |
What causes frontal rain? |
| A. | convective current |
| B. | Sea breeze |
| C. | cyclonic activity |
| D. | condensation of evaporated water from mountains |
| Answer» D. condensation of evaporated water from mountains | |
| 8. |
What is the direction of cyclone? |
| A. | anti-clockwise in the northern hemisphere and anti-clockwise in the southern hemisphere |
| B. | clockwise in the northern hemisphere and anti-clockwise in the southern hemisphere |
| C. | Anti-clockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and Anti-Clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere |
| D. | clockwise in the northern hemisphere and southern hemisphere |
| Answer» B. clockwise in the northern hemisphere and anti-clockwise in the southern hemisphere | |
| 9. |
Which of the following is measured on T-meter? |
| A. | Seismic wave |
| B. | wind speed |
| C. | power of cyclones |
| D. | amount of rain |
| Answer» D. amount of rain | |
| 10. |
ye of the Cycloneis a feature of- |
| A. | of tropical cyclone |
| B. | of anticyclone |
| C. | of tropical cyclone |
| D. | of occluded front |
| Answer» B. of anticyclone | |
| 11. |
How does a cyclone originate? |
| A. | due to the union of two different air signs |
| B. | due to the union of two air masses with different temperatures |
| C. | extraordinary changes in atmospheric conditions |
| D. | suitable all |
| Answer» C. extraordinary changes in atmospheric conditions | |
| 12. |
Which of the following is the shape of a cyclone? |
| A. | elliptical |
| B. | round shape |
| C. | Triangular |
| D. | suitable all |
| Answer» B. round shape | |
| 13. |
What is the meaning of a name 'Sirocco'? |
| A. | for a local wind |
| B. | to a volcano |
| C. | to an island |
| D. | to an ocean |
| Answer» B. to a volcano | |
| 14. |
Westerly winds are those winds which blow |
| A. | over the polar regions |
| B. | From earth to sea at night and from sea to earth during day |
| C. | in different directions depending on the weather |
| D. | 30 of the equator. ' - 60˚ between the north - south latitude lines |
| Answer» E. | |
| 15. |
Atmospheric air is kept on earth by - |
| A. | by gravity |
| B. | by the ports |
| C. | by the clouds |
| D. | by the rotation of the earth |
| Answer» E. | |
| 16. |
What causes the phenomenon of trade winds? |
| A. | heat conduction |
| B. | heat conduction |
| C. | heat radiation |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» C. heat radiation | |
| 17. |
What is doldrum |
| A. | tropical wind strip |
| B. | tropical wind deflection strip |
| C. | subtropical wind belt |
| D. | tropical wind belt |
| Answer» B. tropical wind deflection strip | |
| 18. |
The sea breeze flows - |
| A. | time of day |
| B. | In the night |
| C. | both times |
| D. | seasonal |
| Answer» B. In the night | |
| 19. |
Which of the following local winds blow from the mountainous region of Central Europe towards the Adriatic coast of Yugoslavia? |
| A. | mistral |
| B. | fawn |
| C. | Sack |
| D. | Buran |
| Answer» D. Buran | |
| 20. |
Which of the following local winds provide relief to the people of the Guinea coast in Africa in the humid weather? |
| A. | mistral |
| B. | Harmattan |
| C. | Khamsin |
| D. | simoom |
| Answer» C. Khamsin | |
| 21. |
Which of the following local wind brings 'rain of blood' to Italy? |
| A. | simoom |
| B. | Samoon |
| C. | Siroko |
| D. | Include |
| Answer» D. Include | |
| 22. |
Chinook are a - |
| A. | local wind |
| B. | eternal air |
| C. | permanent wind |
| D. | sea current |
| Answer» B. eternal air | |
| 23. |
Which of the following is cold local air? |
| A. | mistral |
| B. | Sack |
| C. | pampero |
| D. | suitable all |
| Answer» E. | |
| 24. |
Which of the following hot local winds cause significant damage to fruit orchards in California? |
| A. | jonda |
| B. | Santana |
| C. | Nardar |
| D. | Chinook |
| Answer» C. Nardar | |
| 25. |
Which of the following local wind is also called 'Doctor Vayu'? |
| A. | fawn |
| B. | Chinook |
| C. | Harmutton |
| D. | Siroko |
| Answer» D. Siroko | |
| 26. |
What is the wind that descends on the eastern slopes of the Rocky Mountains called in the United States and Canada? |
| A. | Siroko |
| B. | Chinook |
| C. | Khamsin |
| D. | hurricane |
| Answer» C. Khamsin | |
| 27. |
Which of the following wind blows from Switzerland on the slope opposite to the Alps? |
| A. | fawn |
| B. | mistral |
| C. | Siroko |
| D. | Chinook |
| Answer» B. mistral | |
| 28. |
By what name is the cold and dry wind that blows at night from Jura Mountains towards Genela Lake in Europe? |
| A. | talwind |
| B. | solani |
| C. | mistral |
| D. | joran |
| Answer» E. | |
| 29. |
The hot dry and dusty local air that descends from the high mountain areas in New Zealand is known by which of the following names? |
| A. | brick fielder |
| B. | norwester |
| C. | Tremontane |
| D. | Santaana |
| Answer» C. Tremontane | |
| 30. |
What is the cold wind blowing from Uruguay in the Pampas region of Argentina called? |
| A. | tapiro |
| B. | pampyra |
| C. | Harmutton |
| D. | Karaburan |
| Answer» C. Harmutton | |
| 31. |
What is meant by the word monsoon? |
| A. | wind blowing always one way |
| B. | gust of wind |
| C. | very slow wind |
| D. | change of wind direction |
| Answer» E. | |
| 32. |
What effect do Chinook winds have on the Central Plains of the United States? |
| A. | winter temperatures rise |
| B. | summer temperature drops |
| C. | remains the same temperature |
| D. | no effect on temperature |
| Answer» C. remains the same temperature | |
| 33. |
Screaming sixty wind blows - |
| A. | near 60˚ east longitude |
| B. | near 60˚ west longitude |
| C. | near 60˚ north latitude |
| D. | near 60˚ south latitude |
| Answer» E. | |
| 34. |
What is the name of the warm-duty local winds blowing in the northern part of the Alps Mountains? |
| A. | Chinook |
| B. | fawn |
| C. | Khamsin |
| D. | Siroko |
| Answer» C. Khamsin | |
| 35. |
What is the name of the hot and dry air that starts from the west coast of the United States of America and crosses the Rocky Mountains and descends below it? |
| A. | fawn |
| B. | Northern |
| C. | Chinook |
| D. | Santaana |
| Answer» D. Santaana | |
| 36. |
Those regular winds which are known by the nicknames of 'Thundering Chalisa', 'Very Fifty' and 'Screaming Satha' are which of the following types of winds? |
| A. | polar |
| B. | tortoise |
| C. | cyclonic |
| D. | commercial |
| Answer» C. cyclonic | |
| 37. |
What is Roarta Chalisa? |
| A. | 40˚ south latitude current |
| B. | 40˚ north latitude current |
| C. | strong wind blowing near 40˚ latitude in the southern hemisphere |
| D. | none of these |
| Answer» D. none of these | |
| 38. |
What is the wind that blows in the same direction for a whole year called? |
| A. | local wind |
| B. | eternal wind |
| C. | social wind |
| D. | polar wind |
| Answer» C. social wind | |
| 39. |
Where do trade winds blow? |
| A. | from equatorial low pressure |
| B. | from polar high pressure |
| C. | from subtropical high pressure |
| D. | from subpolar low pressure |
| Answer» D. from subpolar low pressure | |
| 40. |
trade winds are |
| A. | regular and stable |
| B. | Irregular |
| C. | partially irregular |
| D. | none in suitable |
| Answer» B. Irregular | |
| 41. |
From which latitudes do the trade winds blow? |
| A. | from the equator to the tropics |
| B. | from the tropics to the polar regions |
| C. | from horse latitudes to the equator |
| D. | suitable all |
| Answer» D. suitable all | |
| 42. |
Winds moving from subtropical high pressure to equatorial low pressure are called |
| A. | trade winds |
| B. | westerly winds |
| C. | polar winds |
| D. | thundering chalisa |
| Answer» B. westerly winds | |
| 43. |
The winds blowing towards the Mediterranean Sea in the high pressure area are - |
| A. | westerly winds |
| B. | trade winds |
| C. | monsoon winds |
| D. | sea winds |
| Answer» C. monsoon winds | |
| 44. |
Where are jet streams usually found? |
| A. | in the ozone layer |
| B. | troposphere |
| C. | in the middle circle |
| D. | in the ionosphere |
| Answer» C. in the middle circle | |
| 45. |
The doldrum region is characterized by |
| A. | low pressure and concavity of air |
| B. | low pressure and slow east wind |
| C. | Normal pressure and subsidence of air |
| D. | low pressure and calm wind |
| Answer» E. | |
| 46. |
What is the number of pressure zones on the globe? |
| A. | 5 , |
| B. | 6 , |
| C. | 7 , |
| D. | 9 , |
| Answer» D. 9 , | |
| 47. |
Normal air pressure is found in - |
| A. | on the mountains |
| B. | in the desert |
| C. | at sea level |
| D. | 5 km from the ground. up |
| Answer» D. 5 km from the ground. up | |
| 48. |
At the height of the ozone layer above the earth is - |
| A. | 50 km. |
| B. | 300 km. |
| C. | 2000 kms. |
| D. | 20 km. |
| Answer» E. | |
| 49. |
In which of the following belts are all the hot deserts of the world located? |
| A. | equatorial low pressure belt |
| B. | sub-tropical high pressure belt |
| C. | subpolar low pressure belt |
| D. | polar high pressure belt |
| Answer» C. subpolar low pressure belt | |
| 50. |
Which of the following year is considered as one of the hottest three years? |
| A. | 2006 , |
| B. | 2008 , |
| C. | 2009 , |
| D. | 2010 , |
| Answer» E. | |