SC.5.E.7.3 Weather & Climate Part 2

What is the difference between sleet and hail?

• Sleet is usually part of a thunderstorm, and hail comes from thin layers of rain clouds.

• Sleet is smaller than hail and usually falls in the winter, while hail usually falls in the summer.

• Sleet and hail are the same except that sleet falls in the summer and hail usually falls in the winter.

• Sleet is snow that forms as it falls through cold air, and hail is rain that freezes when is hits the ground.

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What are forms of precipitation?

• rain, snow, sleet, condensation

• rain, snow, sleet, hail

• sleet, runoff, rain, precipitation

• hail, snow, rain, high pressure

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Which answer choice correctly lists environments from most dry to least dry?

• desert, tundra, grassland, rainforest

• grassland, rainforest, desert, tundra

• tundra, rainforest, grassland, desert

• rainforest, grassland, tundra, desert

Which answer choice lists the weather conditions that would most likely result in a warm, sunny day?

• 62 degrees, light winds, low humidity

• low humidity, 20 degrees, light clouds

• 82 degrees, high pressure, 5mph winds

• 85 degrees, heavy clouds, high humidity

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Which of the following best describes what clouds are made of?

• fog that has risen from the ground

• large amounts of water that has evaporated

• water vapor that has condensed into droplets

• rain or snow that has been pushed by wind

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Which answer best explains why clouds usually form high in the sky?

• It is cold enough there for the water vapor to begin condensing.

• It is warm enough there for evaporated water to expand into clouds.

• It is dry enough there for precipitation to form from condensed water vapor.

• It is windy enough there for water droplets to get pushed together into clouds.

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In the rainforest, it rains almost daily, but it does not in the desert. What is one factor that makes this possible?

• The desert has higher temperatures than the rainforests.

• In the rainforests there low air pressure, while in the desert there is high air pressure.

• In the rainforests, there is high humidity while in the desert there is low humidity.

• The desert has higher winds which causes sand storms to form blocking the rain.

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This is a weather map showing high and low pressure systems. The lines show air pressure masses. Which additional information would help complete a description of current weather conditions?

• Monthly high temperatures and average wind speeds

• Monthly amounts of precipitation

• Yearly averages of wind speeds and how many days of rain

• Current temperature and the wind speeds

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Which conditions are most likely to produce hail?

• Hot temperatures, few clouds and light winds

• warm temperatures, cloudy, no wind

• cold temperatures, lots of clouds, light wind

• cooling temperatures, high clouds, strong winds

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One evening Linda looks out her window and watches falling precipitation. The temperature is 83°F, and the wind speed is 3 miles per hour to the east. What type of precipitation does Linda most likely see?

• rain

• snow

• sleet

• hail

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