Section 2: Environmental Science Quiz

What is precipitation?

• A natural fuel such as coal or gas

• An arc of colored light in the sky

• Any form of water that falls from clouds and reaches Earth's surface

• A huge swirling mass of very cold air

What is a polar vortex?

• A natural fuel such as coal or gas

• A huge swirling mass of very cold air that is isolated from the rest of the atmosphere

• An arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain

• A cloud at ground level with low visibility

What is smog?

• A cloud at ground level with low visibility

• Pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog

• A natural fuel such as coal or gas

• An optical illusion created by the Sun and cirrus clouds

What are fossil fuels?

• A cloud at ground level with low visibility

• Pollution by a mixture of smoke and fog

• A natural fuel such as coal or gas, formed in the geological past from the remains of living organisms

• An optical illusion created by the Sun and cirrus clouds

What is a heat island?

• An area where the air temperature is generally lower than the surrounding rural areas

• An area where the air temperature is generally higher than the surrounding rural areas

• A cloud at ground level with low visibility

• An optical illusion created by the Sun and cirrus clouds

What is a circumhorizontal arc?

• An arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain

• A natural fuel such as coal or gas

• An optical illusion created by the Sun and cirrus clouds

• A cloud at ground level with low visibility

Which of the following is an example of a Transient Luminous Event (TLE)?

• Smog

• Heat island

• Sprites

• Polar vortex

What is a rainbow?

• An optical illusion created by the Sun and cirrus clouds

• A natural fuel such as coal or gas

• An arc of colored light in the sky caused by refraction of the sun's rays by rain

• A cloud at ground level with low visibility

This diagram shows how a certain type of precipitation is formed. Water drops are caught in up-drafts and down-drafts, over and over, before they fall to Earth as...

• dew.
• hail.
• rain.
• snow.

What is the most common form of precipitation?

• sleet 
• freezing rain
• snow 
• rain