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5th grade - weather review

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 14mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The basic cause of all weather is the MOON

a)

True

b)

False

2.

Scientists who study the weather are called METEOROLOGISTS

a)

True

b)

False

3.

The imaginary line running through the earth from North Pole to South Pole is the EQUATOR

a)

True

b)

False

4.

The air that we live in receives most of its warmth from the SUN

a)

True

b)

False

5.

Different seasons are caused by the TILT of the earth's axis

a)

True

b)

False

6.

Winds are produced by TEMPERATURE differences on earth

a)

True

b)

False

7.

Warm air is HEAVIER than cool air

a)

True

b)

False

8.

The earth's surface spins at over 1,000,000 miles per hour

a)

True

b)

False

9.

The amount of water vapor that the air can hold at a given temperature is the (a)   of the air

10.

The lowest possible temperature at which air is able to hold all of its water vapor is its

(a)  

11.

The process in which water vapor leaves the air and changes into liquid water is called

(a)  

12.

Air is saturated when the humidity of the air is (a)   %

13.

Water vapor that condenses to form liquid water on the ground is called _?

(a)  

14.

Water vapor that condenses and forms frozen water on the ground is called _?

(a)  

15.

Puffy, bulgy clouds belong to the __ family

a)

cirrus

b)

cumulus

c)

stratus

d)

nimbus

16.

Layers of flat clouds belong to the __ family

a)

stratus

b)

cirrus

c)

cumulus

d)

nimbus

17.

Wispy, curly clouds very high in the atmosphere belong to the __ family

a)

cumulus

b)

cirrus

c)

stratus

d)

nimbus

18.

Sheets of clouds that often produce rain are __ clouds

a)

cumulus

b)

stratus

c)

cirrus

d)

nimbus

19.

Clouds made of very small ice crystales are __ clouds

a)

cumulus

b)

stratus

c)

cirrus

d)

nimbus

20.

THUNDERHEAD is another name for a __ cloud

a)

nimbostratus

b)

cumulonimbus

c)

cirrocumulus

d)

altocumulus

21.

A term used to describe a cloud from which rain is falling is

a)

nimbus

b)

cumulus

c)

cirrus

d)

stratus