Weather Quiz Practice

1. When water droplets in a cloud combine, become too heavy, and fall to the ground as rain, snow, sleet, or hail, we are experiencing __________.

• evaporation

• precipitation

• condensation

• transpiration

2. ________ humidity is a measure of the amount of water vapor that air is holding compared to the amount needed for saturation at a specific temperature.

• total

• partial

• relative

• percent

3. Mid-level clouds that are smooth white or grey, flat sheets are ______ clouds.

• altostratus

• altocumulus

• cirrostratus

• cirrocumulus

4. The temperature at which air is saturated and condensation forms is ________.

• Dew point

• Rain point

• Wind point

• Relative humidity

5. High, thin, white, feathery clouds containing ice crystals are usually associated with fair weather, are called ______ clouds.

• cumulus

• cirrus

• stratus

• nimbus

6. The interaction of heat, air, and _____ causes weather.

• water

• land

• wind

• humidity

7. Deep, large piles of puffy clouds that produce thunderstorms and possible hail are called _______ clouds.

• stratus

• cumulonimbus

• cumulus

• numbuis

8. _____ forms when raindrops pass through a layer of cold air near the Earth's surface.

• fog

• sleet

• hail

• rain

9. Clouds form as warm air rises, expands, and cools, and becomes saturated, and then _______ condense(s) into tiny drops, which collect.

• snowflakes

• water vapor

• smog

• smoke

10. Temperature is a measurement of ____.

• heat

• degrees

• movement of molecules

• thermometer