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Unit 8 test

Fifteen questions across the unit's chapters. Answers and rationales are revealed on submission; 70% to pass.

Unit 8 test

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  1. 1.The passage of a cold front is typically marked by:

  2. 2.Advection fog forms when:

  3. 3.An aneroid barometer reading must be:

  4. 4.Tropical cyclones do not form within about 5° of the equator because:

  5. 5.In the northern hemisphere, a vessel observing a steadily veering wind with falling pressure is in the:

  6. 6.In the northern hemisphere, standing with your back to the surface wind, low pressure lies:

  7. 7.Climatological routing differs from dynamic routing in that it uses:

  8. 8.A northern-hemisphere vessel in the dangerous semicircle should:

  9. 9.Responsibility for accepting or rejecting a shore routing recommendation rests with:

  10. 10.Main synoptic observation hours are:

  11. 11.Wind measured by a shipboard anemometer while underway is:

  12. 12.A least-time route and a least-fuel route: