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WorksheetsScience Review (Weather)
Total questions: 39
Worksheet time: 20mins
Describe stratus clouds
Gray,long,brings light mist or drizzle,resembles fog that doesn't reach the ground,flat
Thick,Puffy,Rounded tower on top,Flat bottom
Brings snow or rain,Whispy
Describe what Weather Occlude Fronts bring and what the air masses do
Brings thunderstorms.Warm air mass climbs up and over a cold air mass
Two cold fronts smash together and bring the warm air mass up bring
The warm air mass and cold air mass push together and the warm air mass gets pushed on top on the cold air mass
Describe what weather occurs during a cold front and what the air masses do.
Brings thunderstorms(cumulonimbus clouds)
air masses smash into each other and nothing happens
cold air mass pushes into a warm air mass and the warm air mass moves up.
Brings stratus clouds
Describe what weather occurs for warm fronts and what the air masses do.
Brings Heavy rain or even sometimes snow
Brings stratus clouds-steady light rain or snow
warm air mass catches up to a cold air mass and climbs over it
warm air mass smashes into a cold air mass and nothing happens
Which winds bring hurricanes off of the coast of Africa?
Prevailing westerlies
Easterlies
Trade winds
Local winds
How does Air pressure move?
Low to High
Low to Low
High to HIgh
High to Low
How is wind created?
Cold air rises and the warm air comes to take its place
Uneven heating of the Earths surface by the sun
High pressure area is what makes wind
When something moves by super quickly past you
What are local winds?
Blows over small areas
Change speed and direction quickly
Influenced by local conditions and temprature
feel on ground
How does weather move,and which winds move?
East to west ; Easterlies
West to East ; Westerlies
Africa to America ; Trade winds
Which MOVEMENT creates wind?
cold air rises and the warm air comes and takes its place
Warm air rises and Cold air takes its place
The flash running past you
Kid flash running past you
Describe what weather stationary fronts bring and what the air masses do
Warm air mass and cold air mass smash into each other and nothing happens
Windy and precipitation
Fog and Rain
Sunny hot weather
What is Transpiration?
When leftover water soaks up and get absorbed
Evaporation from trees
When clouds get to heavy and rain,snow,sleet,or hail falls from them
True?
What are cirrus clouds?
Curly,Whispy
Made up of tiny ice crystals
Predict Fair Weather
Change in the next 24 hours
What is condensation?
Water Vapor turning into liquid
Water vapor Falling to the ground
Liquid turning into water vapor.
Four words-What is the question?
What is the troposphere?
Lowest layer of the atmosphere
Highest layer of the atmosphere
Where most weather occurs.
The air
The stratosphere is the layer above the trposphere
True
False
What is the atmosphere?
The air we breathe
The air we breathe out
The air that no where
The air that surrounds the earth
What are higher level clouds made of?
Water vapor
Ice crystals
Cotton cause that is what they look like
Poofy floofy
What is Relative Humidity?
Lowest amount of water vapor that could be in the air
Greatest amount of water vapor that could be in the air
Humidity that is related to something....
Another name for the hygrometer
Humidity is the amount of water vapor in the air NOW
True
False
How many main types of clouds are there?1
2
3
4
5
What is Precipitation?
Rain
Snow
Sleet
Hail
What is Runoff
Water that gets collected in rivers,lakes,and the ocean
running up a mountain
Groundwater
What does Nimbus mean?
Drizzle
Rain
Thunderstorms
Hurricanes
What is the Water cycle?
Water is cycled into oxygen
Water is cycled through the atmosphere,ocean and land driven by the sun
Water is recycled into cans,cups and other things
Evaporation is when liquid turns int water vapor.
True
False
El niño is when.......
Trade winds reverse
Pacific oceans heats up
Biological life is disrupted
Pacific Islands have drought
Intense rainfall in U.S.A
La niña is the girl and that is when the pacific ocean
Heats up
Cools down
The gulf stream is a warm ocean current in the Atlantic.It keeps the weather in the eastern coast mild by__________the air and land there during the cooler months.
Warming
Cooling
Burning
Polluting
Air pressure is measured in
Milliliters
Millibare
Millibars
millibares
High pressure brings__________and ___________ weather.
Sunny
fair
Wet
Rainy
Low pressure brings wet,rainy weather.
True
False
The jet stream is an air current that moves east to west
True
False
A thermometer measures
Weather
Water vapor
Humidity
None of them
A wind vane measures
Wind speed
Wind strength
Wind direction
Wind anemometer
Anemometer measures
Wind direction
Humidity
Wind spit
Wind speed
A barometer measures air pressure
I have no clue
No
Maybe
Yes
A rain gauge measures humidity
True
False
A hygrometer is a tool used to measure what?
Water liquid
Water
Water vapor
H2O
