Precipitation MCQ Questions and Answers for Practice

1. A measure of the amount of water vapor in the air is called?

1. Evaporation
2. Precipitation
3. Condensation
4. Humidity

2. Cooled (condensed) droplets of water will come together to form

1. Snow
2. Cloud
3. Hail
4. Sleet

3. Frontal Rain is caused by

1. Convection currents
2. Winds from sea
3. Cyclonic activity
4. Condensation of water evaporated from mountains

4. Had there been equator in place of the Tropic of cancer in India, the change caused in climate would be

1. High temperature and low rainfall
2. Low temperature and high rainfall
3. High temperature and high rainfall
4. Low temperature and low rainfall

5. Hails are the falling of

1. water
2. lumps
3. vapors
4. rain

6. If a small raindrop falls through air

1. Its velocity goes on increasing
2. Its velocity goes on decreasing
3. Its velocity goes on increasing for some time and then becomes constant
4. It falls with constant speed for some time and then its velocity increases

7. In mid-latitudes, convective precipitation is associated with

1. Cold fronts
2. Squall lines
3. Warm fronts in very moist air
4. All the above

8. In which region does rainfall occur throughout the year?

1. Equatorial region
2. Polar region
3. Sub-polar region
4. Middle-Latitude region

9. Rainshadow effect is associated with

1. Cyclonic rainfall
2. Orographic rainfall
3. Convectional rainfall
4. Frontal rainfall

10. The constant movement of water between Earth and the atmosphere is called the

1. Water Cycle
2. Precipitation
3. Humidity
4. Sleet

11. The seasonality of precipitation is affected by the seasonal movement of global and regional

1. Wind systems
2. Pressure systems
3. Cyclonic systems
4. None of these

12. Water falling on earth surface in any form is called

1. atmosphere
2. precipitation
3. climate
4. weather

13. What is the most common form of precipitation?

1. Rain
2. Snow
3. Hail
4. Humidity

14. When a form water falls from the clouds back down to Earth, it is called

1. Evaporation
2. Condensation
3. Snow
4. Precipitation

15. Which of the following is not a form of precipitation?

1. Snow
2. Haze
3. Rain
4. Dew