HOS 5/6 Weather Chapter 4 test

An instrument used to measure relative humidity

• barometer

• psychrometer

• thermometer

The process by which water vapor becomes a liquid

• precipitation

• transpiration

• condensation

The process by which liquid water becomes water vapor

• precipitation

• evaporation

• condensation

The measurement of the amount of water vapor in the air

• temperature

• wind speed

• humidity

Wispy, feathery clouds that form at high altitudes

• cumulus

• stratus

• cirrus

Clouds that form in flat layers close to the ground

• cumulus

• stratus

• cirrus

Clouds that look like cotton balls and form less than 2 km above the ground

• cumulus

• stratus

• cirrus

A large body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure is called

• a pressure system

• a front

• an air mass

Look at the weather map. Texas is having what kind of weather?

• hot and wet

• cool and dry

• cool and wet

Look at the weather map. What kind of front is over the middle of the US from Mississippi to Wisconsin?

• warm front

• stationary front

• cold front