What Causes Weather

A process of heat transfer that requires contact with a heat source

•  conduction
• solar energy
• convection
• radiation

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What heat transfer happens when you burn your hand by touching a fire?

• radiation
• convection
• conduction
• density

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Warm air rises and the cool air sinks demonstrates what type of heat transfer?

• convection
• radiation
• conduction
• insulation

What imaginary line divides our world into the northern and southern hemispheres?

• equator
• international date line

As your distance from the equator increases, what happens to temperature?

• temperature increases
• temperature decreases

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What are the imaginary lines that determine weather patterns and run parallel to the equator?

• latitude
• longitude

When air pressure is high, what type of weather do we experience?

• sunny and clear
• rainy and cloudy

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When air pressure is low, what type of weather do we experience?

• sunny and clear
• rainy and cloudy

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This is the symbol for a... 

• Cold Front
• Warm Front
• Stationary Front
• Occluded Front 

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This is the symbol for a... 

• Occluded Front
• Stationary Front
• Warm Front
• Cold Front 

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