Elements of Weather Quiz

What is weather?

• The measure of transparency of the atmosphere.
• The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a certain time and place.
• Cumulus clouds
• Stratus clouds

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What is air pressure? 

• How hot or cold something is.
• Any form of water that falls to the ground from the clouds.
• The force of air molecules pushing on an area.
• Air that moves horizontally, or perpendicular to the ground.

Low pressure will usually bring what kind of weather?

• Sunny
• Calm
• Stormy

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Which kind of weather change will occur with an increase in air pressure?

• cooler and dryer
• colder and rainier
• hotter and stormier
• warmer and moister

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Michael observes the air pressure daily. Over the last couple of days the air pressure has been dropping. What weather will Michael most likely observe as a result?

• increasingly clear skies and more wind
• increasingly clear skies and dry weather
• increasingly cloudy skies and possible storms

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A front is

• where warm air is cooling at earth's surface
• a line where hot and cold air are separating
• a line where two different air masses meet
• where cold air is rising and forming rain clouds

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_____________ is air that flows from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure.

• Convection Cells

• Wind

• Atmospheric Pressure

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Which winds blow east towards the poles, and start in the west?

• Trade Winds

• Prevailing Westerlies

• Polar Easterlies

• The Doldrums

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What is caused by differences in air pressure?

• Time

• Precipitation

• Clouds

• Wind

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Which best describes a characteristic of the jet stream?

• It forms a boundary between a cold air mass and a warm air mass.

• It creates the high winds around the eye of a hurricane.

• It forces the hot air along the equator to rise to areas in North

  America.

• It causes high pressure air masses to rotate clockwise.

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