G9 MX6 reviewer 24-25

What is the main characteristic of weather?

• long period of time

• short period of time

• severe weather

• the five climates zones

What is climate?

• long-term pattern of weather in an area.

• short-term pattern of weather in an area.

• The five Climate Zones

• Medium-pattern of weather in an area.

Which of the following factors or elements DO NOT affect weather?

• Temperature

• Humidity

• Precipitation

• Wind Vane

What's this climate zone?

• Tropical

• Dry

• Polar

• Continental

Any form of water that falls from clouds is called

• dew

• evaporation

• condensation

• precipitation

A storm is a(an)

• “dome” of water that sweeps across the coast where a hurricane lands

• huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure at any given height

• boundary where unlike air masses meet and do not easily mix

• violent disturbance in the atmosphere

Scientists who study weather and try to predict it are called

• astronomers

• climatologists

• meteorologists

• weatherologists

The average, year-after-year conditions of temperature, precipitation, winds, and cloud in an area are known as its

• climate

• weather

• global warming

• seasons

The seasons are caused by

• Earth’s varying distance from the sun

• Earth’s changing rate of rotation

• the tilt of Earth’s axis as Earth revolves around the sun

• shifting climates on Earth’s surface

Climates are classified according to two major factors

• elevation and precipitation

• latitude and temperature

• elevation and latitude

• precipitation and temperature