Take a Quiz

The primary function of these quizzes (and others to come) is to allow students to explore their understanding of various ideas interactively.

As the results are not logged anywhere, just try your hand at it. Take a quiz on:

Penn State University, prepared by John Kalbach as a test of the cgi script.

The College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, prepared by Alistair B. Fraser just to learn how to do it.

English: distinguishing between similar words, prepared by Alistair B. Fraser for Meteo 471W.

Elements of meteorology, prepared by Alistair B. Fraser for Meteo 471W.

Weather Trivia, prepared by Paul Knight for Weather World, the TV weather program of Penn State University's Meteorology Department.

Take a quize from elsewhere. (Only those which are interactive and which do not require identification are listed).

Canadian Weather, prepared by the Climate Information Branch, of Canada's Department of the Environment, and was the source of inspiration for the other quizzes offered on this page.

SERCC Weather Quiz, prepared by Sandi St. Claire and Dave Barthel for Southeast Regional Climate Center, at Columbia, South Carolina

Molecular Biology. You are presented with 10 questions chosen randomly from among a growing database of questions from the fields of molecular biology, biochemistry and genetics. It is possible to win a Swiss chocolate bar on this one. Read the discussion on the page, Swiss-Quiz. The quiz is offered by the Geneva University Hospital and the University of Geneva.

Canadian Geography presents a single randomly chosen question each time you enter. It is offered by the National Atlas Information Service of Geomatics Canada.

The Question of the Day presents one new question each day. The question is introduced on a cover page. It is offered by Andy Wysocki.