Unit 6: Weather (Earth & Space Science)

When a rapidly moving cold air mass overtakes a slow-moving warm air mass, the result is a(n) _____.

• cold front

• occluded front

• warm front

• stationary front

When a warm air mass and a cold air mass meet and neither can move the other, the result is a(n) _____.

• occluded front

• warm front

• stationary front

• cold front

A funnel-shaped cloud that touches Earth's surface is called a _____.

• hurricane

• cyclone

• tornado

• thunderstorm

Hurricanes typically form over _____.

• cold ocean water

• tropical rain forests

• warm ocean water

• very dry land masses

A storm is a(n) ______.

• "dome" of water that sweeps across the coast where a hurricane lands

• huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure at any given height

• boundary where unlike air masses meet and do not easily mix

• violent disturbance in the atmosphere

Scientists who study weather and try to predict it are called _____.

• astronomers

• climatologists

• meteorologists

• weatherologists

Which of the following sources of weather data would enable a meteorologist to follow the path of an approaching thunderstorm?

• a chart of data from previous storm surges

• Doppler radar

• a network of aneroid barometers

• weather balloons

The average, year-after-year conditions of temperature, precipitation, winds, and cloud in an area are known as its _____.

• climate

• weather

• global warming

• seasons

The three temperature zones on Earth's surface are divided based on _____.

• latitude

• longitude

• equator

• altitude

Seasons are caused by _____.

• Earth's varying distance from the sun

• Earth's changing rate of rotation

• the tilt of Earth's axis as Earth revolves around the sun

• shifting climates on Earth's surface