CY Test 2, Madrid (Ministerio de Transportes) 2019

Ministerio de Transportes (Madrid) · Convocatoria de junio · 40 questions

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• Regarding the constellation Cassiopeia, identify the TRUE statement:
• With respect to Universal Time (UT), identify the FALSE statement:
• Standard definition of the declination of a celestial body:
• What is meant by the rising (“orto”) of a celestial body?
• In nautical astronomy, the ecliptic is defined as:
• If the altitude of a celestial body is 33º (select the correct answer):
• Regarding the altitude of a celestial body, select the INCORRECT statement:
• Concerning Sidereal Hour Angle, select the CORRECT answer:
• In a traditional marine sextant, how is the “horizon glass” (“visor de horizonte”) defined?
• Calculate the great-circle distance between Position A (19° 42.0' N, 112° 09.0' W) and Position B (20° 18.0' N, 154° 15.0' W).
• On 23 June 2015 the Sun's sextant altitude is 43° 21.7', height of eye is 14.2 m above the water, and the zero of the micrometer drum lies 0.2' above the zero of the vernier. Calculate the Sun's true altitude.
• In position 35° 00.3' N, 019° 02.0' E, given that the Sun's corrected Greenwich hour angle (hGc) is 300° 13.2' and its corrected declination is +23° 25.5', find the Sun's computed altitude.
• The percentage of oxygen in the composition of the atmosphere is:
• When a cold air mass meets a warm one, an instability line appears, with warm updraughts and towering cumulonimbus. What weather will the sinking cold air bring?
• The faint glow in the sky during astronomical twilight, in the plane of the ecliptic, is known as:
• The Saffir-Simpson scale classifies tropical cyclones into:
• Icebergs:
• "Leeward" significa:
• "Backing (of wind)" significa:
• Elija la traducción adecuada. "The penalties specified under the law of a Party pursuant to the present article shall be adequate in severity discourage violations of the present Convention and shall be equally severe irrespective of where the violations occur."
• Elija la traducción adecuada: "When two power-driven vessels are meeting on reciprocal or nearly reciprocal courses so as to involver risk of collision each shall alter her course to starboard so that each shall pass on the port side of the other."
• Elija la traducción adecuada para "Capsize, Derelict, Disabled":
• Elija la traducción adecuada: "A vessel proceeding along the course of a narrow channel of fairway shall keep as near to the outer limit of the channel or fairway which lie son her starboard side as is safe and practicable."
• Elija la traducción adecuada:"Course": Note: the user of this phrase should be fully aware of the implications of words such as "track", "heading" and "course made good".
• "Veer out (to)(of anchors)" significa: