Weather & Climate Quiz 1

What is climate?

• What's happening in space at a time and place

• What's happening in our atmospher at a time and place

• The average weather over many years

• The average temperature over many years.

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

What is weather?

• What's happening in space at a time and place

• The temporary state of an atmoshphere in a region

• The average weather over many years.

• The average temperature over many years.

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Which BEST describes why latitudes closest to the equator have warmer climates?

• They are at lower elevations

• They receive more solar energy

• They are nearer to ocean currents

• They get more winds that carry energy in the form of heat

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

What is the measure of distance in degrees north and south from the equator?

• Latitude

• Longitude

• Elevation

• Topography

What causes some areas of the Earth to receive less intense solar energy than others?

• the mass of earth

• they are further away from the equator

• the density of earth

• they are closer to the equator

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Which sentence best describes the relationship between elevation and air temperatures?

• LOWER elevation=COLDER temperatures

• HIGHER elevation=COLDER termperatures

• HIGHER elevations=WARMER temperatures.

Regions closest to _____________________ tend to have warmer year-round climates

• Forest Fires

• South Pole

• North Pole

• Equator

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The poles receive ________________ energy from the sun than the equator

• the same

• less

• more

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