Chapter 5: 4-6 Test

Wind or water carrying away weathered pieces of sediment.

• deposition

• weathering

• erosion

• cementation

The amount of moisture in the air is called:

• Barometric pressure

• Wind

• Temperature

• Humidity

Tropical, temperate, and polar are terms that describe climate zones due to

• Rainfall amount

• Latitude

• Temperature

• Snowfall amount

How are weather and climate different?

• One focuses on rainfall and the other on temperature.
• Weather is the overall conditions whereas climate is the current conditions.
• Climate is the average temperature and rainfall of an area over time whereas weather is what's happening now.
• The is no difference really.

The height above sea level is?

• Elevation

• Distance from the equator
• Depth of the ocean floor
• Horizontal distance between two points on the Earth's surface

Clouds that are thin, wispy, and white are ________.

• cirrus clouds
• stratus clouds
• cumulus clouds
• nimbostratus clouds

Clouds that are vertical and can cause thunderstorms

• Nimbostratus clouds
• Stratus clouds
• Cirrus clouds
• Cumulonimbus clouds

A cloud at ground level is _______

• rain
• fog
• snow
• hail

Three factors that affect climate are?

• wind direction
• latitude, altitude, distance from bodies of water

• population density
• longitude

Which major zone is the United States in?

• southern hemisphere

• polar

• tropical

• temperate