WorksheetsWeather Investigation 1 and 2
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 14mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is weather?
a)
a prediction about what kind of weather to expect
b)
the layer of atmosphere where weather occurs
c)
the day-to-day condition of the atmosphere
d)
the gas that makes up the atmosphere
2.
What is meteorology?
a)
a prediction about what kind of weather to expect
b)
the layer of atmosphere where weather occurs
c)
the study of the atmosphere
d)
the gas that makes up the atmosphere
3.
What is weather?
a)
a prediction about what kind of weather to expect
b)
the layer of atmosphere where weather occurs
c)
the study of the atmosphere
d)
the layer of gasses that surrounds Earth
4.
What is troposphere?
a)
a prediction about what kind of weather to expect
b)
the layer of atmosphere where weather occurs
c)
the study of the atmosphere
d)
the gas that makes up the atmosphere
5.
What is nitrogen?
a)
a prediction about what kind of weather to expect
b)
the layer of atmosphere where weather occurs
c)
the study of the atmosphere
d)
the gas that makes up the atmosphere
6.
What is compressed?
a)
a prediction about what kind of weather to expect
b)
forced into a smaller space
c)
the study of the atmosphere
d)
the gas that makes up the atmosphere
7.
What is forecast?
a)
a prediction about what kind of weather to expect
b)
forced into a smaller space
c)
the study of the atmosphere
d)
the gas that makes up the atmosphere
8.
What is the term for the mixture of gases surrounding Earth and forming its atmosphere?
a)
Volume
b)
Expand
c)
Air
d)
Particle
9.
What is the term for the force of the air pushing in all directions?
a)
Volume
b)
Expand
c)
Pressure
d)
Particle
10.
What is the term for air spreading out and take up more space?
a)
Volume
b)
Expand
c)
Air
d)
Particle
11.
What is the term for the amount of space something takes up?
a)
Volume
b)
Expand
c)
Air
d)
Particle
12.
What is the term for an extremely small piece of matter such as an atom or molecule?
a)
Volume
b)
Expand
c)
Air
d)
Particle
13.
What is the term for the stuff that makes up the universe. It takes up space and has mass?
a)
Matter
b)
Expand
c)
Air
d)
Particle
14.
The zone where we live in that gets four different seasons a year.
a)
Tropical Zone
b)
Temperate Zone
c)
Polar Zone
d)
Danger Zone
15.
The zone that includes the equator, where it is summer year-round.
a)
Tropical Zone
b)
Temperate Zone
c)
Polar Zone
d)
Danger Zone
16.
The zone that includes the north and south poles, where it is winter year-round.
a)
Tropical Zone
b)
Temperate Zone
c)
Polar Zone
d)
Danger Zone
17.
What is the number one factor that causes different climates on Earth?
a)
Different places on Earth get uneven amounts of heat from the Sun
b)
Volcanoes erupt and heat the Earth
c)
It snows more on different parts on the Earth
d)
Cold and warm fronts change the climate
18.
A student traps air in a syringe by clamping it. When he pushed down on the plunger, what happens to the air particles?
a)
The particles get smaller
b)
the particles move more slowly
c)
the particles get closer together
d)
there are fewer particles
19.
When I crimp a piece of rubber tube at the end of a syringe and then push in the plunger, the number of air particles in the barrel _____.
a)
stays the same
b)
decreases
c)
increases
20.
When I crimp a piece of rubber tube at the end of a syringe and then push in the plunger, what happens to the volume in the barrel _____.
a)
stays the same
b)
decreases
c)
increases
21.
When I crimp a piece of rubber tube at the end of a syringe and then push in the plunger, what happens to the air pressure in the barrel _____.
a)
stays the same
b)
decreases
c)
increases
22.
When we placed the piece of bubble wrap in the syringe and then pulled and pushed the plunger, the bubble expanded and contracted. What caused this to happen?
a)
a change in volume
b)
a change in temperature
c)
a change in particles
d)
a change in air pressure
23.
An object's mass stays the same no matter what, but its weight changes based on the amount of gravity.
a)
True
b)
False
24.
What is the best evidence that air has mass?
a)
It can be weighed
b)
It can be compressed
c)
It can be expanded
d)
It can be in a syringe
25.
Which gases make up the majority of our atmosphere?
a)
oxygen and carbon dioxide
b)
hydrogen and oxygen
c)
carbon dioxide and helium
d)
nitrogen and oxygen
26.
What is a greenhouse gas?
a)
these change when different activities take place in the enviornment
b)
the amounts of these gasses stay the same, no matter what is happening in the enviornment
c)
these gasses trap heat inside the atmosphere
27.
What is a permanent gas?
a)
these change when different activities take place in the enviornment
b)
the amounts of these gasses stay the same, no matter what is happening in the enviornment
c)
these gasses trap heat inside the atmosphere
28.
What is a variable gas?
a)
these change when different activities take place in the enviornment
b)
the amounts of these gasses stay the same, no matter what is happening in the enviornment
c)
these gasses trap heat inside the atmosphere
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