Weather Review

Which best describes weather?

• permanent
  
• temporary
  
• lasting
  
• controlled
  

Water vapor in the air is called

• heat
  
• temperature
  
• humidity
  
• condensation
  

What is climate?

• very short term and unpredictable
  
• the average of hourly temperatures over one day
  
• lasting average weather changes in an area
  
• the average temperature over the entire Earth
  

Which of the following would most likely cause RISING air?

• warm air and low pressure
  
• cold air and low pressure
  
• warm air and high pressure
  
• cold air and high pressure
  

What happens when two air masses with large differences in pressure meet?

• wind speed decreases
  
• wind speed increases
  
• wind speed is unpredictable
  
• wind speed is not affected
  

What type of cloud always forms precipitation?

• nimbus
  
• cumulus
  
• stratus
  
• cirrus
  

What are the highest clouds in the sky?

• stratus
  
• cirrus
  
• cumulus
  
• nimbus
  

A wind that starts in the south and blows toward the north is a(n)

• north wind
  
• south wind
  
• east wind
  
• west wind
  

This breeze blows at night at the beach when a low pressure forms over the ocean due to uneven heating.

• land breeze
  
• sea breeze
  
• global wind
  
• front
  

A storm forms over the central part of the US.  What winds move it towards the east?

• land breeze
  
• sea breeze
  
• prevailing westerlies
  
• polar easterlies