JET Multiple Choice Q/A

JET Multiple choice Q/A
1. The long wave radiation is:

a. emitted from the surface of earth.
b. incoming solar radiation
c. emitted all the time between 0000 to 2400 hours
d. emitted between 0700 to 1800 hours
2. Describe tropopause:
a. Boundary between tropopause and stratosphere
b. Layer -- between tropopause and stratosphere
c. point where the temperature increases with height
d. all of the above.
3. Sublimation is change of state from:
a. solid to vapour
b. vapour to liquid
c. liquid to vapour
d. liquid to solid
4. Lowest temperature at ISA is:
a. -56.5 degree C
b. -55.6 degree C
c. -70.0 degree C
d. -100.0 degree C
5. Coldest time of the day is:
a. at dawn,
b. one hour after dawn,
c. 30 minutes before dawn
d. 30 minutes after dawn
Ans.
c
6. An ELR in real atmosphere is:

a. 2*C/1000 ft.
b. Varies with time
b
c. 0.65*C/100 meters
d. 1*C/100 meters
.
7. When temp. and dew point temperature difference is maximum the air is
a. moist air
b. Dry air
b
c. Warm air
d. Cool air
8. Saturated air while ascending cools by the lapse rate:

a. DALR
b. SALR
c. ELR
d. None of the above
9. In winter the Westerly jet streams is observed as far south as:
a. 20th parallel,
b. 15th parallel,
c. 10th parallel,
d. 30th parallel
10. When the visibility is reduced to less than 1000 meters due to presence of
water particles:a. Mist
b. Haze
c. Fog
c
11. Drizzle occurs with:a. As
b. St
c. Ns
d. Cu
12. The temperature to which a given sample of air be cooled at constant

pressure and constant water vapour contents in order to become saturated in :a. Dry bulb temperature
b. Wet bulb temperature
c. Dew point.
c
13. Gust is reported by ATC when:
a. winds exceeding 25 knots,
b. winds to over 34 knots,
c. wind exceeds by 10 knots from the mean winds,
d. winds over 15 knots.
14. The Buys Ballot Law states if an observer stands with his back to the wind in
the N-hemisphere:a. Low to his left
b. Low to his right
c. High to his left
d. High to his right.
a&d
15. The cloud base above ground level is reported in:a. Meters
b. Feet
c. Kilometres
16. The anemograph is used to obtain a continuous record ofa. surface wind speed and direction
b. relative humidity
c. air temperature
17. Contour lines on the weather chart indicate:
a. difference between pressure levels,
b. height of pressure levels,
c. thickness between pressure levels,
d. height from the ground level.
18. Along the isotherm temperature isa. decreases
b. remains constant
c. increases
19. What do the lenticular clouds indicate?
a. Instability
b. Wind shear,
c. Mountain waves
d. CB cloud development.
20. Flying towards a depression at low levels say 2000 ft. a.g.l.in the N
Hemisphere wind is coming from:
a. Left,
b. Right,
c. Left and behind,
c
d. Right and on the nose.
21. The Geostrophic wind is effected by:
a. Rotation of the earth,
b. Latitude,
c. Coriolis force,
d. Pressure gradient.
22. Valley winds along the valley are called:
a. Bora,
b. Fohn,
c. Mistral,
d. Chinook.
23. The definition of QNH is:
a. QFE reduced to MSL using ISA
b. QFE reduced to MSL using temperature at the station
c. pressure at MSL
d. pressure at the airfield
24. A small low established within the circulation of another low is called:
a. A trough
b. A col
c. An anticyclone
d. A secondary depression
d
25. At a station equipped with IRVR, reports are given:
a. Every one hour
b. When there is mist
c. When there is haze
d. When the normal visibility is 1500m or less
26. Change of RVR are reported for increments of:
a. 50m between 300m & 800m
b. 25m up to 250m
c. 25m up to 200m
d. 50m between 500 & 800m
27. Main global fronts are:
a. The polar front, Arctic front & Mediterranean front
b. ITCZ
c. Mediterranean front only
d. (a) & (b) are correct
28. Trans miso-meters measures :
a. RVR
b. Visibility
c. Wind
d. None of the above is correct
29. What type of low is usually associated with cold frontal activity:
a. polar front low
b. warm low
c. cold low
c
d. .Mountain lee low
30. In the northern hemisphere a man observes a low pressure system passing
him to the south. What wind will he experience:
a. back the veer
b. constantly backing
c. Veer and then back
d. back and then steady.
d
31. What is the movement of air in the trough?

a. Ascending and diverging
b. Descending and diverging
c. Ascending and converging
d. Descending and converging
32. Most of the vapour in the atmosphere is contained in the :

a. Tropopause
b. Stratosphere
c. Troposphere
c
d. Stratopause
33. At sea level the ISA density is stated to be:
a. 1225 grams per cubic metre
b. 1252 grams per cubic metere
c. 10113.2 mb (hpA)
d. 29.6 inches of mercury
34. The aircraft altimeter will read zero at the aerodrome level with which
pressure setting set on the altimeter scale:
a. QFF
b. QNH
c. QNE
d. QFE
d
35. Generally as altitude increases:
a. Temperature decreases and density increases
b. Temperature, pressure and density decreases
b
c. Temperature and pressure increase and density decreases
d. Temperature decrease and pressure density increases
36. Subsidence in an anticyclone produce:
a. saturated air and an inversion
b. dry air and an inversion
c. isothermal dry and stable air
d. increased pressure at the surface
d
37. When flying towards a depression at a constant indicated altitude, the
true altitude will be:
a. Lower than indicated
a
b. Higher than indicated
c. The same as indicated
d. Lower than indicated at first then the same as indicated later
38. An airfield in Holland is 20m below sea level, QFF is 1020hPa, the
temperature at the surface is +30*C, What is the value of the QNH?
a. Impossible to determine
b. Less than 1020 hPa
b
c. Same as QFF
d. More than 1020hPa
39. If the temperature remains constant with an increase in altitude there is
a. an inversion
b. an inversion aloft
c. uniform lapse rate
d. an isothermal layer
d
40. The method by which energy is transferred from one body to another by
contact is called:
a. Radiation
b. Conduction
b
c. Convection
d. Latent heat
41. At temperatures of between 0*C and -10*C clouds will consist of
a. Entirely water droplets
b. Entirely ice crystals
c. Mostly water vapour
d. Mostly supercooled water droplets and a few ice crystals
d
42. Carburettor icing is unlikely:
a. In cloud
b. At temperatures between -10*C and -30*C
c. In clear air
d. When the RH is 40%
43. Jet streams

a. only occur in the troposphere
b. have a speed in excess of 80 kts
c. are located above the tropopause
d. are caused by a large difference in mean temperature in the horizontal
d
44. Tropical revolving storms are ;
a. a summer weather feature
a
b. easily predictable
c. can be very active well in inland
d. can travel at a speed of 100 kts
45. The average temperature around the equatorial regions;
a. Is always above +40*C
b. Is higher over the sea area
c. Varies on average from winter to summer by only some 5*C
d. Has a very high range of temperature through the year
46. Trade winds are ;
a. blow towards the sub-tropical anticyclones
b. are cause by lifting over the heat equator and the subsequent air
movements from the sub-tropical anticyclones
c. only blow in the winter months
d. blow from the equatorial low pressure systems through the year
47. The upper winds tend to be westerly outside the tropics because;
a. The rotation of earth is west to east
b. The thermal winds are westerly on average
c. Surface winds are nearly always westerly
d. Jet streams are usually westerly
48. Hazards of the mature stage of TS cell include lightning, turbulence and;
a. Microburst, wind shear and anvil
b. Icing microburst and wind shear
b
c. Icing, drizzle and microburst
d. Wind shear, hail and fog
49. How long approximately does a CB cell take to complete the full cycle
from the CU to dissipating stage;
a. 2-3 hours
a
b. 1-2 hours
c. 4-5 hours
d. About one hour
50. Hail grows by;
a. Freezing as it leaves the cloud
b. By up and down progress in CU cloud
c. By collision with the super cooled water droplets
d. By collisions with the ice crystals
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1. The long wave radiation is:

6. An ELR in real atmosphere is:

8. Saturated air while ascending cools by the lapse rate:

12. The temperature to which a given sample of air be cooled at constant

31. What is the movement of air in the trough?

32. Most of the vapour in the atmosphere is contained in the :

43. Jet streams

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