Unit 4 Weather and Water Cycle Review

What type of clouds signal a thunderstorm?

• stratus

• cirrus

• cumulonimbus

• cumulus

What instrument measures wind speed?

• rain gauge

• barometer

• weather vane

• anemometer

How is weather different from climate?

• Weather is at a certain time and place, climate is weather over a long period of time.

• Weather is over a long period of time, climate is a certain time and place.

• Weather describes clouds while climate describes precipitation.

• Weather describes precipitation and humidity over time, climate describes temperature over time.

What type of precipitation goes up and down within a thundercloud and forms layers of ice?

• rain

• snow

• hail

• sleet

What kind of weather is MOST LIKELY to happen where two air masses meet and the warm air mass rises over the cold air mass?

• lightning storm

• steady rain or snow

• thunderstorm

• wind storm

This is the symbol for a... 

• Cold Front
• Warm Front
• Stationary Front
• Occluded Front 

This is the symbol for a... 

• Occluded Front
• Stationary Front
• Warm Front
• Cold Front 

If a weather report says that an air mass formed over a tropical ocean, what type of weather is moving onto land?

• cold and dry

• warm and wet

• warm and dry

• cold and wet

What climate zone do we live in?

• Tropical

• Temperate

• Polar

Where on Earth does most evaporation happen?

• soil

• mountain ice

• lakes and rivers

• oceans