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Palanan Extension Unit 9. What is the boiling point of water on the Fahrenheit scale?
A) 0°F
Agrometeorology B) 32°F
Midterm Examination C) 100°F
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES AND D) 212°F
TECHNOLOGY
10. What is the significance of the Reaumur scale?
Name: __________________________________ A) It is internationally accepted for temperature measurement
Year:____________________________________ B) It indicates temperatures in the upper atmosphere
Date:___________________________________ C) It is based on absolute zero
Score:___________________________________ D) It is used for historical records of temperatures in English-
GOLDEN RULE speaking countries
“THOU SHALL NOT CHEAT”
“ERASURES MEANS WRONG” 11. What is the diurnal range?
“TAMPERING MEANS WRONG” A) The difference between daytime and nighttime temperatures
“WRONG SPELLING WRONG” B) The average temperature observed over a 24-hour period
C) The range of temperatures observed during a single day
Direction: Write your answer before the item number. D) The difference between the warmest and coldest months

1. What does temperature measure? 12. What is the daily mean temperature?
A) Intensity of heat energy A) The temperature at the warmest part of the day
B) Degree of hotness or coldness B) The temperature at the coolest part of the day
C) Average kinetic energy of molecules C) The average of temperatures observed at 24 equidistant times
D) Sensible heat energy of a system in a 24-hour period
D) The temperature observed at a specific time each day
2. What is the boiling point of water on the Celsius scale?
A) 0°C 13. How is the monthly mean temperature calculated?
B) 32°C A) By adding the daily mean temperatures and dividing by 24
C) 100°C B) By adding the daily mean temperatures and dividing by the
D) 212°C number of days in the month
C) By adding the monthly temperatures and dividing by 30
3. What is the significance of the Fahrenheit scale historically? D) By averaging the temperatures observed at different times of
A) It is based on two points: the freezing and boiling points of the day
water
B) It is internationally accepted for temperature measurement 14. What is the annual range of temperature?
C) It indicates temperatures in the upper atmosphere A) The difference between daytime and nighttime temperatures
D) It is named after a Swedish astronomer B) The difference between the warmest and coldest months
C) The average temperature observed over the course of a year
4. How is the Kelvin scale related to the Celsius scale? D) The difference between the highest and lowest temperatures
A) Each degree on the Kelvin scale equals that of a Celsius recorded in a year
degree
B) It is based on absolute zero 15. What is the lapse rate?
C) Absolute zero is at -273.16°C A) The decrease in temperature with height
D) It involves the conversion of temperature values to Reaumur B) The increase in temperature with height
C) The average temperature observed over a period of time
5. What is the freezing point of water on the Reaumur scale? D) The difference between the warmest and coldest months
A) 0oR
B) 32oR 16. What is the adiabatic lapse rate?
C) 80oR A) The decrease in temperature with height in a rising air parcel
D) 100oR B) The increase in temperature with height in a rising air parcel
C) The decrease in temperature with height in a falling air parcel
6. How is temperature converted from Celsius to Fahrenheit? D) The increase in temperature with height in a falling air parcel
A) °F = °C × (9/5) + 32
B) °F = °C - 32 17. What is temperature inversion?
C) °F = 5/9 × (°C + 32) A) Increase in temperature with height
D) °F = 9/5 × (°C + 32) B) Decrease in temperature with height
C) No change in temperature with height
D) A sudden change in temperature in a specific layer of the
atmosphere

7. What is the conversion formula from Celsius to Kelvin? 18. What is an isotherm?
A) K = C + 273 A) A line joining places with equal temperatures
B) K = C - 273 B) A line joining places with varying temperatures
C) C = K - 273 C) A line indicating the highest temperature recorded
D) C = K + 273 D) A line indicating the lowest temperature recorded

8. How is temperature converted from Celsius to Reaumur?

A) (C×4)/5 = Reaumur 19. What is temperature lag?
B) Reaumur = C × 5/4 A) The delay between incoming energy maxima and temperature
maxima
B) The instantaneous response of temperature to incoming
C) Reaumur = C + 32 radiation
 C) The time difference between sunrise and sunset
D) The time taken for a place to reach its maximum temperature
20. What is continentality?
A) The impact of continental location on weather and climate
characteristics
B) The influence of ocean currents on temperature
C) The proximity of a place to a large body of water
D) The variation in temperature due to latitude differences
21. What is specific heat?
A) The amount of heat required to raise the temperature of one
gram of a substance through one-degree Celsius
B) The energy absorbed by a substance
C) The rate of energy transfer in a substance
D) The average temperature of a substance
22. What is the significance of drawing isotherms on weather
maps?
A) To indicate areas with similar weather patterns
B) To track the movement of ocean currents
C) To measure the energy absorbed by land and water surfaces
D) To illustrate the density of air at different altitudes
23. How do ocean currents affect nearby temperatures?
A) Warm ocean currents increase nearby temperatures, while
cold ocean currents decrease them
B) Warm ocean currents decrease nearby temperatures, while
cold ocean currents increase them
C) Ocean currents have no effect on nearby temperatures
D) Ocean currents only affect temperatures at the equator
24. What is the effect of onshore winds on temperature?
A) Onshore winds tend to decrease temperatures
B) Onshore winds tend to increase temperatures
C) Onshore winds have no effect on temperatures
D) Onshore winds stabilize temperatures
25. What is the highest recorded air temperature?
A) 58°C at Azizia, Libya on September 13, 1922
B) 88.3°C at Vostok Soviet station on August 24, 1960
C) 0°C at the equator
D) 100°C in the Sahara Desert
26. What is the normal lapse rate in the troposphere?
A) 6.5°C/km
B) 3.5°C/km
C) 10.0°C/km
D) 5.0°C/km
27. When does the decrease in temperature with height cease?
A) Near the equator
B) Near the poles
C) Near the outer limit of the troposphere (tropopause)
D) Near the ground surface
28. What is an isothermal lapse rate?
A) A lapse rate indicating no change in temperature with altitude
B) A lapse rate indicating a constant increase in temperature with
altitude
C) A lapse rate indicating a constant decrease in temperature
with altitude
D) A lapse rate indicating a sudden change in temperature with
altitude
29. What is temperature inversion?
A) An increase in temperature with height
B) A decrease in temperature with height
C) No change in temperature with height
D) A sudden change in temperature within the troposphere
30. What is the primary cause of temperature inversion?
A) Ground inversion
B) Aloft inversion
C) Atmospheric pressure
D) Ocean currents
31. When does temperature inversion occur?
A) On a calm and clear night in winter due to radiation cooling
B) When cold air from hilltops slopes downward in valley
bottoms
C) When warm air comes over a cold surface
D) When a warm air mass meets with a cold air mass
32. What is a frontal inversion?
A) When warm air comes over a cold surface
B) When cold air subsides and spreads over lower air
C) When warm air mass meets with cold air mass
D) When cold air from hilltops slopes downward in valley
bottoms
33. What factors affect temperature distribution?
A) Latitude
B) Altitude
C) Distribution of land and water
D) Distance from the sea
34. How does the distance from the sea affect temperature
distribution?
A) Diurnal temperature range is higher in places far from the sea
B) Coastal places experience higher temperatures
C) Diurnal temperature range is lower in coastal places
D) Coastal places have moderate temperatures
35. What role does slope of the land play in temperature
distribution?
A) South-facing slopes are warmer in the northern hemisphere
B) North-facing slopes are warmer in the southern hemisphere
C) Slope of the land controls radiation intensity
D) Slope of the land affects vegetation distribution
36. How does the nature of soil affect temperature?
A) Rocky and sandy soils warm more quickly and cool more
rapidly
B) Heavy soils warm more quickly and cool more rapidly
C) Eastern Haryana is warmer in summer due to heavy soils
D) Western Haryana is cooler in winter due to rocky and sandy
soils
37. What effect does vegetation have on temperature?
A) Places with more vegetation are cooler
B) Vegetation converts energy into latent heat of
evapotranspiration
C) Places without vegetation are cooler
D) Vegetation increases the temperature of the atmosphere
38. How do clouds affect temperature?
A) Cloudy nights are warmer than clear nights in winter
B) Clouds increase the temperature of the atmosphere
C) Clouds absorb terrestrial radiation
D) Cloudy nights are cooler than clear nights in winter
39. What is the condition of the atmosphere on a dusty day?
A) Warmer than a clear atmosphere
B) Colder than a clear atmosphere
C) Dust particles absorb solar radiation
D) Dusty atmosphere radiates energy into space
40. What is the primary cause of temperature inversion on a calm
and clear night in winter?
A) Radiation cooling
B) Cold air from hilltops descending into valley bottoms
C) Warm air coming over a cold surface
D) Warm air mass meeting with cold air mass
41. Which instrument is commonly used for measuring
temperature?
A) Mercury-in-glass thermometer
B) Alcohol-in-glass thermometer
C) Thermocouple
D) Thermistor

42. What is the purpose of a minimum thermometer?

A) To measure maximum temperature
B) To measure minimum temperature
C) To measure average temperature
D) To measure temperature differentials

43. What is the distinguishing feature of a maximum thermometer?

A) It contains mercury in the bore
B) It has a dark dumbbell-shaped index
C) It has a constriction in the bore near the bulb
D) It consists of a pair of junctions of two unlike metals

44. How does a thermocouple work?

A) By measuring the resistance of a semi-conducting ceramic
element
B) By measuring the temperature using a potentiometer
calibrated in degrees
C) By developing an electromotive force in the circuit when
exposed to different temperatures
D) By giving a continuous record of temperature with time on a
graph

45. What is a thermistor made of?

A) Semi-conducting ceramic element
B) Pair of junctions of two unlike metals
C) Bimetallic element with different coefficients of expansion
D) Invar and bronze metals

46. What does a thermograph consist of?

A) Pair of junctions of two unlike metals
B) Dark dumbbell-shaped index
C) Bimetallic element with different coefficients of expansion
D) Mercury-in-glass thermometer

47. Which instrument offers less resistance to the flow of current as

its temperature increases?
A) Mercury-in-glass thermometer
B) Alcohol-in-glass thermometer
C) Thermocouple
D) Thermistor

48. How is temperature measured with a thermistor?

A) By measuring the resistance of a semi-conducting ceramic
element
B) By developing an electromotive force in the circuit
C) By using a potentiometer calibrated in degrees
D) By giving a continuous record of temperature with time on a
graph

49. What is the purpose of a thermograph?

A) To measure maximum temperature
B) To measure minimum temperature
C) To give a continuous record of temperature with time on a
graph
D) To measure average temperature

50. Which instrument uses a potentiometer calibrated in degrees to

measure temperature?
A) Thermocouple
B) Thermistor
C) Mercury-in-glass thermometer
D) Thermograph