8th grade - Weather and Climate

An upward warm air flow in the atmosphere is called what?

• Thermal

• Jet stream

• air mass

An air mass is a large body of air with consistent temperature and what else?

• Temperature

• Pressure

• Wind

Weather is the condition of the atmosphere affected by what?

• Temperature

• Atmospheric Pressure

• Wind and Water

• All of the above

What is the Coriolis effect?

• The bending of air and water currents

• When sharp boundaries exist between cold and warm temperatures

• When warm air rises in an updraft

What causes the pressure and temperature difference between 2 air masses?

• Weather

• Wind

• Climate

• Jet stream

The dew point is when cooling increases humidity to 100 percent and further cooling results in what?

• Atmospheric pressure

• Condensation

• Precipitation

Climate is the long-term record of temperature, wind and what other thing for a region?

• Pressure

• Precipitation

• Air mass

When warm, moist air forms over an ocean with winds of at least 74 mph, what system forms?

• Hurricane

• Tornado

• Thunderstorm

Warm air rising in an updraft and cold air/rain falling in a downdraft causes what?

• Tornado

• Thunderstorm

• Hurricane

What has a greater wind speed than hurricanes?

• Tornados

• Tsunami

• Tropical storm