Weather Vocabulary - Quiz #1

The amount of water vapor in the air is called _________.

• air pressure

• humidity

• water cycle

• air mass

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The pressure that a column of air exerts on the area below it

• air pressure

• air mass

• temperature

• humidity

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The natural process in which water is constantly moving among oceans, land and the atmosphere is called ____________.

• an air mass

• a front

• a low pressure system

• the water cycle

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A type of weather front where a cold air mass and a warm air mass meet, but neither pushes the other out of the way.

• Stationary Front
• Warm Front
• Cold Front
• Weather Front
• Convection Cell

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A large body of air with roughly the same temperature and humidity.

• Air Mass
• Occluded Front
• Stationary Front
• Warm Front
• Cold Front

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A boundary between two air masses

• air mass

• front

• tornado

• humidity

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At the center of a(n) __________, air rises and forms clouds and precipitation.

• low pressure system

• high pressure system

• stationary front

• isobar

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The humidity in the air compared to the amount air can hold is the __________.

• temperature

• relative humidity

• barometric pressure

• dew point

A continental polar __________ brings cold temperatures during winter.

• isobar

• hurricane

• air mass

• temperature

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Atmospheric conditions at a certain place and time

• Climate

• Weather

• Variable

• Precipitation

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