Warm-up/Review: Weather Factors, Instruments, and Forecasting

Humidity

• Amount of moisture in the air

• Weather that is dangerous

• Study of Earth's weather

• Form of water that falls from the clouds

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Wind is the movement of air from ___ pressure to ____ pressure

• high to low

• low to high

• zero to high

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Psychrometer/ Hygrometer

• measures rain fall

• measures wind speed & direction

• measures humidity

• measures temperature

Which one of the following is an accurate relative humidity reading?

• 32 degrees

• 24 mL

• 45%

• 15 NW

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

This type of cloud is thin and flat, and the edges are not clearly defined

• cirrus cloud
• cumulus cloud
• stratus cloud
• cumulonimbus cloud

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NGSS.K-ESS2-1

Why doesn't cloud formation take place until the dew-point temperature is reached?

• because dew-point is the temperature at which water vapor condenses into water droplets
• cloud formation can take place at any temperature, and does not depend on the dew-point temerature
• because water sublimates at the dew-point temperature
• the dew-point temperature only applies on Earth's surface, not in the atmosphere

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

Nimbostratus and cumulonimbus clouds can signal what type of upcoming weather?

• fair skies
• hot, sunny weather
• windy weather
• rainy weather

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Which type of pressure system is pictured?

• high
• low
• medium
• none

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Wind speed may be measured with ---

• thermometer
• anemometer
• barometer
• windsock

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Warm air rises and the cool air sinks demonstrates this type of heat transfer. 

• conduction
• convection
• radiation
• Insolation 

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6