Weather and Climate Test Review

What does this symbol show?

• High pressure

• Low pressure

• Low humidity

• Longing for someone (strong feelings)

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

What does this image show? 

• Hotness
• High altitude
• High pressure
• Hi five bro!

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

When two air masses meet, what happens?

• The weather changes and precipitation usually occurs.
• wind
• water
• volcano

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Without question, EL Nino events:

• Are preventable

• Eliminate sources of rain

• Are really scary

• Impact everyone on the planet somehow

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Meteorology is the study of

• wheat

• worms

• smiles

• weather

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

In order for a hurricane to form, the water must be ________.

• Cool
• Warm
• Cold
• Hot

An instrument that determines the direction from which the wind is blowing is called a(n) ______________.

• anemometer
• wind sock
• wind vane
• barometer

What measures the amount of rain that has fallen over a specific time period?

• rain gauge
• barometer
• anemometer
• thermometer

A(n) ________________ measures air pressure.

• anemometer
• thermometer
• barometer
• hygrometer