Influences on Weather

Have you read pages 78 - 94 in your online Science textbook?

• Yes - I skimmed it.

• Yes - I took notes on it.

• No - I forgot...I'll do it now THEN complete this Quizizz.

• Not yet - I am going to read it as I go through this Quizizz so that I learn the material.

Weather is

• a description of the short-term conditions of the atmosphere at a particular time and place.

• something no one ever talks about.

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A measurement of how hot or cold something is.

• Humidity

• Temperature

• Weather

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When particles are moving fast they have more energy and the temperature is greater.

• True

• False

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The amount of water vapor in the air is called

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The force of air pushing on an object is called

• humidity

• wind

• air pressure

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Air flows from high to low pressure.

• True

• False

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When air moves from high to low pressure we call that

• Wind

• Wind

• Wind

• Wind

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When listening to the weather report we often hear that it will be "cooler by the lake" or "warmer inland". This is because the sun warms the Earth unevenly. Which area warms faster?

• Water

• Land

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On a weather map what does a capital letter H stand for?

• An area of high air pressure

• An area of low pressure

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