Weather Booklet Practice Test

When two air masses meet, there is a _____, or boundary.

• thunderstorm
• watch
• front
• cloud

A(n) _____ is a large body of air that has properties similar to the part of Earth's surface over which it depends.

• tornado
• pressure system
• front
• air mass

What is the definition of CONDUCTION?

• When heat is transferred from objects like rays of light or electromagnetically.
• a  hot liquid or air that  expands, becomes less dense, and rises or becomes more dense, and sinks.
• When heat transfers from objects that are touching.
• When heat transfers through the heater or AC in your house.

What is the definition of CONVECTION

• When heat transfers through waves.
• When heat transfers from objects that are touching.
• a  hot liquid or air that  expands, becomes less dense, and rises or becomes more dense, and sinks.
• Heat traveling from the sun

What kind of heat transfer happens when the sun is heating your body?

• Conduction
• Radiation
• Convection
• Density

Which absorbs heat faster?

• land
• water
• they heat up at the same rate

Which loses heat faster?

• land 
• water
• they lose heat at the same rate

Where weather occurs.

• stratosphere
• thermosphere
• troposphere
• mesosphere

Warm air _________ and cool air ___________.

• rises/sinks
• sinks/rises

What causes wind to blow?

• Differences in longitude 
• Shock waves from clouds 
• Differences in air temperature and pressure 
• The rotation of the earth