Transcript Weather Conditions

Weather Conditions
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What do you call the air that surrounds our planet?
A. mesophere
B. stratosphere
C. atmosphere
D. troposphere
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What is air particles pressing down of the earth’s
surface called?
A. gravity
B. air pressure
C. force
D. air mass
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What do you call the instrument used to
measure humidity in the air?
A. barometer
B. thermometer
C. hygrometer
D. anemometer
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What do you call the instrument that
Is used to measure wind speed?
A. anemometer
B. thermometer
C. barometer
D. wind vane
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What do you call the border that is formed
where a cold air mass and a warm
air mass meet?
A. air mass
B. atmosphere
C. air pressure
D. front
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What are the four layers that make up
the earth’s atmosphere?
A. thermosphere
stratosphere
weather layer
troposphere
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C. thermosphere
stratosphere
mesosphere
troposphere
B. thermosphere
stratosphere
mesosphere
Ozone layer
D. thermosphere
barosphere
mesosphere
troposphere
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What are two properties that can be used
to describe air masses?
A. temperature and
wind speed
B. temperature and
C. air pressure and
wind speed
D. temperature and
moisture
cloud cover
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In which layer of the atmosphere does
most weather occur?
A. stratosphere
B. troposphere
C. mesosphere
D. thermosphere
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Which of the following characteristics
describe warm air?
A. it sinks and has
high pressure
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C. it is forced
upward by
cooler air and
exerts high
pressure
B. it sinks and has low
pressure
D. it is forced upward
by cooler air and
exerts low pressure
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What is the cloud type called that
usually brings heavy rain?
A. cirrus
B. cumulo-nimbus
C. cumulus
D. stratus
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What happens to the to the space between
air particles as you get higher in the
atmosphere?
A. increases
B. decreases
C. doesn’t change
D. masses
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What would the air mass that
forms over tropical waters be like?
A. warm and moist
B. cold and moist
C. cold and dry
D. cold and moist
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What kind of front forms when two
air masses meet and do not move?
A. stationary
B. warm
C. cold
D. pressure
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Which kind of air has more moisture?
A. cold
B. moving
C. warm
D. dense
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Energy from the _________ is
trapped by gases in the air, causing
the greenhouse effect?
A. Earth
B. sun
C. barometer
D. stratosphere
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What are the white, fluffy clouds that occur in
fair weather, but can become dark,
towering storm clouds?
A. stratus
B. cirrus
C. cumulus
D. cumulo-nimbus
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These low, gray clouds form a layer
and might bring light rain.
A. cirrus
B. stratus
C. nimbus
D. cumulus
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What do you call the wispy clouds that
are made pf ice crystals high in the
atmosphere?
A. cirrus
B. stratus
C. cumulus
D. columbus
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What do we call the warming
that occurs when air traps
some of the sun’s energy?
A. summer
B. air pressure
C. atmosphere
D. greenhouse effect
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Which of these is not an instrument used
to measure a weather condition?
A. hygrometer
B. windometer
C. barometer
D. wind sock
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