Meteorology

What happens to the air pressure as you travel farther in the atmosphere?

• air pressure decreases
• air pressure increases
• air pressure stays the same
• there is no air pressure

What type of clouds are layered and covers most of the sky?

• Cumulous
• Cirrus clouds
• Stratus Clouds
• nimbus clouds

What do isobars represent on a weather map?

• humidity
• location
• temperature
• air pressure

What does the ozone layer protect us from?

• precipitation and temperature
• Stationary front
• harmful ultraviolet rays from the sun
• warm front

What types of clouds would you see during a thunderstorm?

• Ozone
• Stratus clouds
• Cirrus clouds
• Cumulonimbus clouds

What cools off faster during a land breeze?

• the ocean
• the land
• cold front
• warm front

The heating of the troposphere occurs by the means of what heat transfer?

• Conduction
• Convection
• Radiation
• Stationary front

What are the two main factors that determine climate the most?

• Warm and dry air
• Stationary and Occluded front
• Air Pressure and Heat
• Precipitation and temperature

What is atmosphere?

• the layer of gases that surrounds Earth
• melting snow and spring rains
• Underground and Shallow Ground Water
• Aquifer and Artesian wells

Why is Earth's atmosphere important to living things?

• It is a weather pattern that forms over tropical Pacific Ocean
• They are calm to weak winds located near the equator and it is a global wind
• It provides underground water
• It provides all the gases needed to surive and allows water to exist as a liquid