Weather Review

Which term best describes how the earth's atmosphere is heated?

• Spirally
• Unevenly
• Circularly
• Kinetically

When Earth's rotation causes the wind to curve 

• cloudy 
• Coriolis effect
• high pressure
• low pressure 

When heat rises cools then sinks 

• high pressure 
• convection current 
• low pressure 
• stratospheric pressure  

Low pressure will usually bring what kind of weather?

• Sunny
• Calm
• Stormy

High pressure will usually bring what kind of weather?

• Good
• Bad
• Both Good and Bad

What is the instrument called that measures air pressure?

• thermometer
• ruler
• yard stick
• barometer

Moving air is called _______. 

• mud
• wind
• rain
• sunshine

The _______________________________ is responsible for the weather, rain, or snow

• Exosphere
• Thermosphere
• Magnetosphere
• Troposphere

Movement of air from High to Low pressure?

• Wind
• front
• air pressure
• thunderstorms

Where does the initial source of energy come from that creates winds?

• the moon
• the sun
• the Earth's surface
• the rotation of the Earth