Concept Quiz 1

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This quiz covers key concepts 1 and 2 from Chapter 1. Answer the questions by darkening in the circle next to the correct answer. When completed with the quiz, click on "submit answers for grading" at the bottom of the page.

This activity contains 8 questions.

Meteorology is the scientific study of:

the Earth.the atmosphere.the biosphere.weather.

Weather refers to:

the movement of the geosphere.the state of the biosphere.all climatic activity.the state of the atmosphere at a given time and place.

"Climate" is best described as:

a collection of atmospheric activities.weather over one year's time.an aggregate of weather conditions, the sum of all statistical information that helps describe a place or region.all layers of the atmosphere.

Which is NOT included in the most important basic elements of weather?

humidityprecipitation typesair temperaturetornadoes and hurricanes

	The nature of both weather and climate is expressed in terms of the same basic elements.

	True False

_____________ is the scientific study of the atmosphere.

MeteorologyClimatology

	All science is based on the assumption that the natural world behaves in a consistent and predictable manner.

	True False

The process by which scientists gather facts through observation and careful measurement and formulate scientific hypotheses is called:

an experimentthe scientific method

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