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Total questions: 27
Worksheet time: 19mins
What is a Station model?
A boundary between two air masses of different density, moisture, or temperature.
Occurs when colder air advances toward warmer air.
A model that shows the weather conditions at a specific location on Earth’s surface.
The amount of water vapor present in the air.
What is a Front?
A boundary between two air masses of different density, moisture, or temperature.
A line that connects points of equal temperature.
The study of weather.
A large body of air that has properties similar to the part of Earth’s surface over which it develops.
What is a Cold Front?
a model that shows the weather conditions at a specific location on Earth’s surface.
Occurs when colder air advances toward warmer air.
when air is cooled near its dewpoint near the ground.
What is a Occluded front?
a large body of air that has properties similar to the part of Earth’s surface over which it develops.
the amount of water vapor present in the air.
involves three air masses of different temperatures-cold air, cool air and warm air.
the temperature at which air is saturated and condensation forms.
What is a stationary front?
occurs when a boundary between air masses stops advancing.
a line drawn to connect points of equal atmosphere.
a line that connects points of equal temperature.
Meteorology is...
the amount of water vapor present in the air.
a boundary between two air masses of different density, moisture, or temperature.
the study of weather.
An air mass is a...
occurs when lighter, warmer air advances over heavier, colder air.
High thin, white, feathery clouds made of ice crystals.
the study of weather.
a large body of air that has properties similar to the part of Earth’s surface over which it develops.
What is Dew Point?
the temperature at which air is saturated and condensation forms.
a large body of air that has properties similar to the part of Earth’s surface over which it develops.
involves three air masses of different temperatures-cold air, cool air and warm air.
Humidity is?
a model that shows the weather conditions at a specific location on Earth’s surface.
the study of weather.
the amount of water vapor present in the air.
masses of puffy, white clouds, often with flat bases. They sometimes tower to great heights and can be associated with fair weather or thunderstorms.
In what layer of the atmosphere do we live in?
Exosphere
Mesosphere
Troposphere
Stratosphere
Using the picture above, in what layer of the atmosphere is the ozone layer?
Troposphere
Stratosphere
Mesosphere
Exosphere
As altitude increases, what happens to the atmosphere pressure?
It decreases.
It increases.
It becomes cold.
It becomes hot.
What causes your ears to pop as you travel up into higher elevations?
The high air pressure in the mountains
(air pressure increases as altitude decreases).
The low air pressure in the mountains
(air pressure decreases as altitude increases).
What causes the temperature to increase as you move through the stratosphere?
You get farther from space.
You get closer to space.
The ozone layer absorbs radiation from the Sun, helping to decrease the temperature in the stratosphere.
The ozone layer absorbs radiation from the Sun, helping to increase the temperature in the stratosphere.
What is the makeup of Earth's atmosphere?
78% nitrogen, 20% oxygen, and 2% other gases.
72% nitrogen, 20% oxygen, and 8% other gases.
2% nitrogen, 20% oxygen, and 78% other gases.
14% nitrogen, 80% oxygen, and 6% other gases.
The transfer of heat through a liquid or gas is called what?
Radiation
Conduction
Convection
Energy from the sun is transferred to the earth by which type of heat transfer?
Conduction
Convection
Radiation
Why does land and water absorb and lose heat at different rates?
Water heats up and cools down more quickly than land.
Land heats up and cools down more slowly than water.
Land heats up and cools down more quickly than water.
Water heats up and cools down more slowly than land.
What causes differences in air pressure?
Wind
Oceans
Plants
Clouds
Warm air rising at the equator and cold air sinking at the poles is an example of ___________.
radiation
conduction
convection
The process of roasting a marshmallow in a campfire would be an example of which type of heat transfer?
Radiation
Conduction
Confection
What is the main factor that determines global wind patterns?
Warm air rising over land allows cooler air from the ocean to blow inland.
The uneven heating of Earth’s surface by the Sun.
The land near the ocean heats up faster than the ocean water.
Which global wind system influences the weather in the United States?
Prevailing Westerlies
Polar Easterlies
Which global wind system blows from the East to the West and begins near the North and South Poles?
Prevailing Westerlies
Polar Easterlies
What explains the reason for the sea breeze you feel coming from the ocean when you are at the beach?
Land heats up and cools down more quickly than water.
Prevailing Westerlies
Polar Easterlies
Warm air rising over land allows cooler air from the ocean to blow inland.
Describe the temperature differences of land and water surfaces near the ocean.
The uneven heating of Earth’s surface by the Sun.
Warm air rising over land allows cooler air from the ocean to blow inland.
Land heats up and cools down more quickly than water.
The unequal heating of land and water surfaces causes breezes to blow in different directions during the day and night.
Describe the effect that unequal heating of land and water surfaces near the ocean.
The unequal heating of land and water surfaces causes breezes to blow in different directions during the day and night. The wind blows toward the land by day and toward the ocean at night.
Warm air rising over land allows cooler air from the ocean to blow inland.
Prevailing Westerlies
Polar Easterlies
