Unit 3 Weather and Climate

The wind appears to travel clockwise around high pressure systems in the Northern Hemisphere and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. What phenomenon does this describe?

• Coriolis Effect

• Sea Breeze

• Angle of Incidence

• Anticyclonic Tornado

When you wake up before sunrise to take your dog for a walk on the beach, which of the following conditions would you expect to be true?

• The air over the land is hotter than the air over the water.

• The air over the water is hotter than the air over the land.

• A morning shower that always occurs right by the ocean.

• There will be no wind.

Which of the following occurs because of unequal heating of the Earth's surface?

• gravity

• moon phases

• tides

• winds

According to the map, which statement is accurate?

• There is a cold front over Texas.
• There is a warm front over Texas.
• It is cloudy in Florida.
• Texas is warm and partly cloudy.

Which of the following describes climate?

• Yesterday was cold and windy in Quinlan, Texas
• The humidity today is high.
• Texas experienced a great heat wave in 1980 with more than 42 consecutive days of 100 degree days.
• Summers are usually mild in Austin, Texas.

The oceans absorb much of the sunlight reaching Earth.  When water in the oceans absorbs the sunlight's energy, even if it doesn't heat up, what process can happen to the water?

• accumulation
• condensation
• evaporation
• precipitation

The condition of the atmosphere, such as temperature, cloud cover, wind speed and rainfall

• climate
• weather
• trend
• season

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the amount of water vapor in the air

• warm front
• precipitation
• humidity
• air pressure

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Rain, snow sleet, or hail that falls from the clouds in the sky

• humidity
• liquid
• precipitation
• weather

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Average weather conditions of a region year after year

• weather
• season
• cold front
• climate

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