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Total questions: 29
Worksheet time: 15mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What percent of Earth's surface is covered with water?
a)
99
b)
97
c)
75
d)
25
2.
What happens when heat energy is added to water causing it to change from a liquid to a gas?
a)
evaporation
b)
condensation
c)
precipitation
d)
transporation
3.
What happens when heat energy is realeased causing water vapor to change into a liquid and can form clouds?
a)
precipitation
b)
condensation
c)
transpiration
d)
evaporation
4.
What two steps of the water cycle explain how water gets from the oceans to the clouds?
a)
evaporation and condensation
b)
condensation and precipitation
c)
transpiration and evaporation
d)
evaporation and precipitation
5.
What two steps of the water cycle explain how water vapor gets back to the earth?
a)
evaporation and precipitation
b)
condensation and precipitation
c)
transpiration and precipitation
d)
evaporation and condensation
6.
How do temperature and density change as you go deeper into the ocean?
a)
temperature increases and pressure decreases
b)
both increase
c)
both decrease
d)
temperature decreases and pressure increases
7.
What causes tides?
a)
wind
b)
differences in salinity and density
c)
gravitation pull of the moon
d)
Coriolis effect
8.
What causes waves?
a)
differences in temperature and density
b)
wind
c)
gravitational pull of the moon
d)
Coriolis effect
9.
What causes surface currents to curve?
a)
Coriolis effect
b)
gravitational pull of the moon
c)
differences in density
d)
thunderstorms
10.
What causes deep ocean currents?
a)
differences in temperature and density
b)
wind
c)
Coriolis effect
d)
gravitational pull of the moon
11.
Why is it important to conserve water?
a)
the Earth is losing water
b)
the Earth has a limited amount of fresh water
c)
the Earth has less water now than it ever has
d)
global warming
12.
Which is NOT a way to conserve water?
a)
water plants early in the morning
b)
wash full loads of laundry
c)
fix leaky faucets
d)
take longer showers
13.
What causes land and sea breezes?
a)
land heats and cools faster than water
b)
water heats and cools faster than land
c)
the atmosphere
d)
Coriolis effect
14.
Wind moves from areas of high to low
a)
pressure
b)
humidity
c)
salinity
d)
precipitation
15.
What type of air mass would form over Mexico?
a)
continental Tropical
b)
continental Polar
c)
maritime Tropical
d)
maritime Polar
16.
What type of air mass would from over the Northern Pacific Ocean?
a)
continental Tropical
b)
continental Polar
c)
maritime Tropical
d)
maritime Polar
17.
A cold front brings
a)
thunderstorms followed by cooler weather
b)
thunderstorms followed by warmer weather
c)
clouds followed by warmer weather
d)
no changes
18.
What type of front is created when two air masses push equally on each other an no movement is occurring?
a)
cold front
b)
warm front
c)
stationary front
d)
occluded front
19.
What type of weather does low pressure bring?
a)
warm and sunny
b)
cold and sunny
c)
cloudy and rainy
d)
hot and dry
20.
What kind of weather does high pressure bring?
a)
sunny and dry
b)
cloudy and rainy
c)
tornadoes
d)
hot
21.
What forms as the result of warm air rising and condensing?
a)
clouds
b)
air masses
c)
fronts
d)
sleet
22.
What type of cloud is a layered cloud that covers the whole sky?
a)
stratus
b)
cumulus
c)
cumulonimbus
d)
cirrus
23.
What types of cloud would you expect to find on a nice day?
a)
cirrus and cumulus
b)
stratus and nimbostratus
c)
cumulonimbus and fog
d)
stratocumulus and nimbocirrus
24.
What is a funnel-shaped cloud that touches the ground and can form where opposite air masses collide?
a)
wind
b)
tornado
c)
hurricane
d)
cold front
25.
What forms when thunderstorms form over warm water and begin to rotate?
a)
tornado
b)
high pressure
c)
hurricane
d)
warm front
26.
What two factors determine climate?
a)
temperature and precipitation
b)
temperature and weather
c)
fronts and air masses
d)
humidity and precipitation
27.
What percent of Earth's atmosphere is oxygen?
a)
78
b)
21
c)
1
d)
99
28.
How does air pressure change as altitude increases?
a)
increases
b)
decreases
c)
varies
d)
stays the same
29.
What causes global winds?
a)
warmer air from the equator moving toward the poles
b)
warmer air from the poles moving toward the equator
c)
the Earth heating equally
d)
land and sea breezes
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