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Weather and Atmosphere

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 36mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which image is weather?

a)
b)
c)
2.

How are weather and climate alike?

a)

Climate is when it is raining over a long period of time in a area and weather is just raining in a certain area for a short period of time.

b)

Is the same because the same is the same.

c)

Climate is just weather over a long period of time.

d)

Both have to do with rocks

3.

What gases does the atmosphere contain?

a)

Water,H20,Rocks

b)

Air,Air,Air

c)

Nitrogen,Oxygen,Carbon Dioxide,Argon

d)

Air,Water,Dioxide

4.

What do meteorologist study?

a)

People who study meteors.

b)

People who predict the weather.

c)

People who study Air.

d)

People who study Metals.

5.

Name 3 of the atmospheres?

a)

Ethosphere

b)

Troposphere

c)

Mesosphere

d)

Minosphere

e)

Stratosphere

6.

What do hydrologist study?

a)

The study of Air

b)

The study of Rocks.

c)

The study of the properties and the effects of water as a liquid,solid or gas on earth's surface.

d)

To study the effects of gases on rocks.

7.

What causes precipitation?

a)

Air

b)

Condensation

c)

Water

d)

Evaporation

8.

What are currents?

a)

Water waves from the ocean

b)

Lake water

c)

Large streams of water that flow through the ocean.

d)

The waves in streams

9.

Which image is water vapor?

a)
b)
c)
10.

What causes evaporation?

a)

The moon.

b)

Air.

c)

When the suns energy beams on water causing it to turn into a gas.

11.

What makes clouds?

a)

When the suns energy rays turns cotton candy into clouds

b)

When the sun is at a certain angle and is able to make clouds.

c)

When the water evaporates and the water particles go into the air and form into a cloud.

d)

When the water gets to hot and makes a cloud.

12.

What is humidity?

a)

The amount of hydrogen in the air.

b)

The amount of moisture in the air.

c)

The amount of water in the air.

d)

The amount of oxygen in the air.

13.

Which images can be turned from a solid to liquid?

a)
b)
c)
d)
14.

How would you change water to a solid?

a)

Just temperature

b)

Very hot temperatures

c)

Freezing cold temperatures

d)

Room temperatures

15.

What causes condensation?

a)

When warm air collides with cold surfaces

b)

When hot and cold air collide

c)

When it gets really hot and then turns cold

d)

When rain turns to water vapor

16.

What does ground water fill?

a)

Groundwater that comes from wells

b)

It fills the pipes that are leaking with groundwater

c)

The groundwater fills the cement with water damaging the cement and making potholes

d)

Groundwater fills the cracks and spaces in the underground soil and rock layers

17.

What causes the air movement?

a)

In which direction the sun is and how close the moon is

b)

Is caused by different air pressure

c)

Is caused by the amount of planes in the air

d)

Is caused by how many trees are around in the area

18.

Prevailing winds means global winds that blow in different directions. True or False

a)

True

b)

False

19.

The green house affect is what brings warmth to earth. True or False

a)

True

b)

False

20.

What is the wind vane used to measure?

a)

How much it rained

b)

Speed

c)

Wind Direction

21.

What does the anemometer measure?

a)

Direction

b)

How much it rained

c)

Speed

22.

What is the weather forecast?

a)

Just the weather

b)

A description of the weather

c)

How the weather will be the next day

d)

The weather at a certain place and time

23.

What do cold fronts do to do air?

a)

Pushes warm air down

b)

It pushes warm air up

c)

Makes a tornado

24.

What do warm fronts do to cold air?

a)

Pushes the cold air up

b)

A mass of warm air slowly getting rid of the cold air

c)

Moving cold air down

25.

What does a climatologist study?

a)

Air movement

b)

Climates

c)

Currents

d)

Rocks

26.

The troposphere is the lowest layer of the atmosphere. True or False

a)

True

b)

False