Test One

 

 

You will have an hour which people find lots of time; I will allow a few minutes more if people need a bit extra.

 

 

Bring to the test: Your note card – a 3 x 5 card of hand written notes or diagrams (both sides but no computer printouts or photocopies), pencil, and good eraser.

 

Questions

The following are the types of questions that will appear in the three tests.  There will be multiple choice questions, true/false, a diagram to draw and a short answer question.

 

The correct multiple choice answer appears in orange.

 

 

1) The solid geographic sphere composed of rocks & soil is known as the:                           

a.         terresterosphere          

b.         lithosphere    

c.         hydrosphere   

d.         atmosphere     

e.         biosphere

 

2) One result of the Earth's rotation is:

            a.         an equatorial bulge making the earth an oblate spheroid

            b.         polar bulge

            c.         equatorial flattening making the earth an inverse spherate

            d.         Death Valley

e.         Mt. Everest

 

3) Solar energy that reaches the earth is also known as:

                a.                    advection

                b.                   insolation

                c.                    conduction

d.                                      Convection

e.                                       longwave energy

 

4) Which would be most useful for looking for drug-running ships after dark:

a.         Landsat imagery

b.         GOES imagery

c.         Data from an altimeter

d.         Radar imagery

e.         An ordinary hand-held camera through an airplane window.

 

5) Each time zone is approximately:

            a.         2 hours

            b.         24 degrees longitude

            c.         12 degrees latitude

            d.         12 hours

            e.         15 degrees longitude

 

6) On the following map mark in 15°N, 74°W (then there would be some type of grid).

 

There will be some true/false questions, for example:

 

7) Longwave radiation is a commonly used term for light.  (Answer = False)

 

Short answer question:

 

8) Your friend says that they have heard that there is an OCC course on GIS and wants to know what this strange acronym means.

Explain GIS to your friend in about 5 sentences. (5 points … which means I am looking for you to say 4 things about it as one point is for knowing the acronym).

 

9) Diagram:

 

Draw a diagram to show the path of solar radiation entering earth’s atmosphere and reaching ground.  Label your diagram to show scattering, transmission, reflection and radiation in relation to clouds, and a dirt surface.