IERW - Aviation Weather Exam Questions With Correct Answers 2025

IERW - Aviation Weather Exam Questions With Correct Answers
2025
1. What is the lowest level of the
atmos- phere Troposphere

2. What is Natural Air comprised of Dry air plus various amounts of water
vapor
and condensation nuclei

3. What atmosphere is the closest to
the earth Troposphere

4. What is the height of the Troposphere
at the equator 60,000 feet - hot air is less dense and
risesn
5. What is the height of the Troposphere
at the poles

25,000 - cold air is more dense and
descends

6. Name the two major conditions affecting Uneven heating and rotation of the
earth
atmospheric circulation
7. Transfer of heat by
electromagnetic waves Radiation

8. Two types of radiation Insolation and Terrestrial

9. radiation incoming from the sun
(short wave) to the earth Insolation

10. Radiation outgoing from the earth
(long wave) to space Terrestrail

11. Transfer of heat by physical contact Conduction

12. Transfer of heat by way of a gas,
some- times called thermal Convection
convection



, IERW - Aviation Weather Exam Questions With Correct Answers
2025
13. Advection