Chapter 13 Test Review

Which topic is NOT a weather variable?

• Doppler radar

• air temperature

• relative humidity

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Air moves outward from a ____.

• stationary front

• tropical air mass

• high-pressure system

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A ____ air mass has the greatest effect on weather in Florida.

• maritime polar

• maritime tropical

• continental tropical

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A cold front often brings _____ to an area.

• severe storms

• steady rain or snow

• cloudy skies and light rain

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Which type of precipitation does NOT reach Earth in a frozen form?

• hail

• rain

• snow

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Hurricanes form when _____.

• a cold front meets a warm front

• updrafts in a thunderstorm rotate

• warm, moist air rises over an ocean

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Air pressure is measured with a(n) ____.

• barometer

• anemometer

• thermometer

The amount of water vapor in the air relative to what the air could hold is the ____.

• dew point

• air pressure

• relative humidity

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the pressure that a column of air exerts on the air or surface below it

• dew point

• humidity

• air pressure

• weather

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temperature when air is fully saturated with water vapor

• dew point

• humidity

• pressure

• weather

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