Carbon Test Geoscience

Which of the following is not a type of hazardous weather?

• Tornado

• Hurricane

• Haboob

• Rain

This is an event characterized by heavy rain, lightning and thunder.

• Thunderstorm

• Tornado

• Hurricane

• Icestorm

How does electric charge build up in clouds?

• The charge was already in the cloud

• Water droplets bump into each other becoming charged

• As planes fly through the clouds they charge them

• Wifi from cellular towers releases 5g signals which charge the cloud

This is a change in wind direction and an increase in wind speed with increasing height

• Hurricane

• Tornado

• Wind Shear

• Gust

At what stage of a hurricanes life does it get its name?

• Hurricane

• Tropical Depression

• Tropical Disturbance

• Tropical Storm

Why does it flood more often in the desert as compared to wetter environments?

• It doesn't flood more in the deserts compared to wetter environments

• The soil for wet environments is soft and use to the rain

• It rains more in the desert than other environments

• Rain shadows prevent rain from entering an area

The break down of rocks caused by physical processes is known as. (Only size changes, not the chemical composition)

• Erosion

• Chemical Weathering

• Physical Weathering

• Friction

The break down of rocks involves a chemical change in at least some of the minerals within a rock is known as.

• Erosion

• Chemical Weathering

• Physical Weathering

• Friction

As water freezes, it...

• expands in volume

• expands in mass

• decreases in volume

• decreases in mass

If we were to stand in acid rain, what would happen?

• We would grow an extra inch in height

• We would lose all of our hair

• Nothing, but our clothes might get bleached

• Our skin would begin to melt off