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Which instrument is used to measure air temperature?

• thermometer

• barometer

• anemometer

• hygrometer

Which instrument is used to measure air pressure?

• thermometer

• barometer

• anemometer

• hygrometer

A measure of how fast or slow the of molecules in the air are moving is _____.

• air pressure

• humidity

• air temperature

• precipitation

Which water cycle processes are directly related to cloud formation?

• Melting and freezing

• Precipitation and evaporation

• Evaporation and condensation

• Evaporation and freezing

The temperature at which water vapor condenses is the 

• relative humidity
• humidity
• freezing point
• dew point

What happens to the Temperature as Air Rises in the Atmosphere

• Increase

• Decrease

• Stays the Same

As the Density of the Air Decreases, How Does It Move?

• Rises

• Sinks

• Stays the Same

Layer of the Atmosphere where weather and clouds occur

• Troposphere

• Stratosphere

• Mesosphere

• Thermosphere

How are air masses form into clouds? Clouds are form when

• cold moist air rises and then cools

• warm moist rises, expands and then cools

• cold air reaches the lifted condensation level

Which of these best explains why cities on opposite sides of a mountain receives different amounts of rain? 

• cloud seeding
• the water cycle
• altitudinal zonation 
• the orographic effect