Climate change/weather instruments quiz

Represents a change in long term weather conditions. It can be illustrated with a change in temperature or a change in precipitation amounts.

• weather
• climate
• climate change
• air pressure

The further away you move from the equator, the _________the temperatures.

• colder
• warmer
• wetter
• windy

The ________________ is the rise in temperatures that the earth experiences because certain gases in the atmosphere trap energy from the sun.

• climate change
• global warming
• green house effect
• all of the above

Green house gasses include

• water vapor
• carbon dioxide
• methane
• ozone
• nitrous oxide

The cutting down of large numbers of trees

• acid precipitation
• deforestation
• air pollution
• soil erosion

Rain, snow, or fog that is polluted by acid in the atmosphere and damages the environment.

• acid precipitation
• deforestation
• air pollution
• soil erosion

Is the wearing away of the land by water, ice, or wind.

• acid precipitation
• deforestation
• air pollution
• soil erosion

A large body of air that takes on the characteristics of the area over which it forms.

• weather
• wind
• air mass
• temperature

What type of front is this?

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

What type of front is this?

• cold front
• occuluded front
• stationary front
• warm front