Factors Affecting Weather Quiz

What are the characteristics of rising air?

• high temperature, low pressure, and high density

• high temperature, low pressure, and low density

• low temperature, high pressure, and high density

• low temperature, high pressure, and low density

What term is used for the horizontal movement of air from a high-pressure area?

• Storm

• Cyclone

• Wind

• Current

What happens when warm air rises?

• A high-pressure region is created.

• A low-pressure region is created.

• Both high and low-pressure region is created.

• A.      None of the above.

What instrument is used in measuring changes in the air temperature?

• Aneroid Barometer

• Barometer

• Hygrometer

• Thermometer

Generally, as altitude increases, temperature and pressure ______.

• decreases

• fluctuate

• increases

• stay constant

The instrument used to measure the change in air pressure.

• Anemometer

• Barometer

• Hygrometer

• Thermometer

How does clouds form?

• When water vapor rises, gets cooled, and condenses into water droplets or ice crystals

• When water vapor goes down, gets cooled, and condenses into water droplets or ice crystals

• When water vapor rises, gets cooled, and condenses into water droplets or ice crystals.

• When water vapor goes down, gets cooled, and condenses into water droplets or ice crystals.

Which of the following is NOT a general type of clouds.

• Cirrus

• Cumulus

• Cumulonimbus

• Stratus

Which of the following instruments meaasure the wind speed?

• Anemometer

• Barometer

• Wind Sock

• Wind Vane

A general type of cloud that refers to a “layer”.

• Cirrus

• Cumulus

• Nimbus

• Stratus