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WorksheetsWeather and Climate
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 30mins
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Class
Date
1.
The cooling of warm, humid air will most likely bring what type of precipitation?
a)
hail
b)
rain
c)
sleet
d)
snow
2.
Which tool is used to measure air pressure?
a)
anemometer
b)
barometer
c)
psychrometer
d)
thermometer
3.
Which instrument is used to determine air pressure?
a)
barometer
b)
anemometer
c)
psychrometer
d)
thermometer
4.
Which type of weather most likely occurs in a high pressure area?
a)
clear
b)
foggy
c)
rainy
d)
snowy
5.
Which kind of weather change will occur with an increase in air pressure?
a)
cooler and drier
b)
colder and rainier
c)
hotter and stormier
d)
warmer and moister
6.
What weather change is most likely to happen if air pressure is falling?
a)
The weather will become warmer
b)
The weather will become stormy
c)
The weather will become cooler
d)
The weather will become fair
7.
Which weather condition will most likely occur when the atmospheric pressure in an area begins falling?
a)
dry
b)
cold
c)
rainy
d)
sunny
8.
Rain that occurs on a certain day of the week is describing
a)
seasons.
b)
climate.
c)
weather.
9.
This changes on a daily basis -
a)
weather
b)
climate
c)
seasons
10.
Climate covers
a)
smaller areas than weather.
b)
larger areas than weather.
11.
Two factors to determine climate are
a)
precipitation and temperature.
b)
hurricanes and tornadoes.
c)
humidity and pressure.
12.
How are weather an climate different?
a)
They both describe averages but climate is over years.
b)
Climate describes daily conditions and weather describes averages.
c)
Weather describes daily conditions and climate describes averages.
13.
Which best describes climate?
a)
Summers are usually hot and dry.
b)
It rained this week.
c)
Yesterday it was cold and windy.
14.
If it only rains one month out a year the climate would be described as
a)
mostly wet.
b)
mostly dry.
c)
neither wet or dry.
15.
Condition of the air such as temperature, cloud cover, wind and rain describe -
a)
climate
b)
gravity
c)
weather
16.
All weather is caused by
a)
wind speed
b)
rainfall
c)
the sun heating the Earth
17.
All the weather happens in what layer of the atmosphere
a)
troposphere
b)
thermosphere
c)
stratosphere
18.
The one main reason we have weather is because of the
a)
Moon
b)
Sun
c)
TIdes
19.
What heats up faster
a)
Land
b)
Water
20.
What makes the wind blow
a)
differences in cold and hot temperatures
b)
differences in air pressure from one location to another
21.
High pressure means what
a)
Sunny and nice weather
b)
cloudy and rainy weather
22.
Low pressure would indicate what kind of weather
a)
sunny and fair weather
b)
cloudy and rainy weather
23.
What are the conditions in a continental tropical air mass
a)
moist and warm
b)
dry and warm
c)
dry and cold
24.
what are the conditions in a maritime polar air mass?
a)
moist and warm
b)
moist and cold
c)
dry and cold
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