Weather Review

As altitude increases (you climb a mountain) what happens to temperature?

• temperature gets hotter

• temperature gets colder

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

_____________ air is more dense and tends to sink

• cold
• warm
• moist
• dry

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

When a cold front is approaching, what happens?

• warm air is pushing under cold air causing humid weather and lower temperatures
• warm air is pushing under cold air causing humid weather and higher temperatures
• warm air rises, cools, and causes rain and thunderstorms
• cold air is pushed over warm air causing rain and thunderstorms

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Which front leads to steady rain for several days?

• warm front
• cold front
• stationary front
• occluded front

If the temperature is 30°F, in which form will precipitation most likely be?

• fog
• hail
• rain
• snow

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Blizzards, ice storms, lake effect storms, and nor'easters are all _______________________.

• summer storm

• winter storms

• snow storms

• spring storms

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Theses storms happen when cool air moves over warmer air of the Great Lakes causing great rain or snow to fall to land near the lakes shores.

• Lake effect storms

• Lake Blizzards

• Lake precipitation storms

• Great Lakes effect

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

A solid or nearly solid line or band of active thunderstorms.

• Straight-line winds

• Training thunderstorms

• Severe thunderstorm

• Squall line

The Coriolis Effect is caused by what?

• The wind blowing

• Earth's gravity pulling things down

• The rotation of the Earth

• The pull of the Moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6