WorksheetsFOSS Weather on Earth Investigation 1: What is Weather?
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 3600secs
What is your name? First and last names, please
What is weather?
The change that occurs in clouds from day to day
The amount of rain or snowfall in a day
Earthquakes, tornadoes, and other disasters
The condition of the atmosphere at a given time and place.
Which layer of the atmosphere is where most weather happens?
Troposphere
Stratosphere
Mesosphere
Exosphere
Look at the names of gases below. Put a check next to the TWO gases that are most plentiful in Earth's atmosphere.
Hydrogen
Nitrogen
Oxygen
Helium
Carbon dioxide (CO2)
What weather factor does a thermometer measure?
humidity
air pressure
temperature
wind direction
What weather factor does a barometer measure?
humidity
air pressure
temperature
wind direction
What weather factor does a wind vane measure?
humidity
air pressure
temperature
wind direction
Mark each sentence that is true about air.
Air can be compressed (pushed into a smaller space).
Air has no mass.
Air is made of particles too small to see.
Air takes up space.
Air is in many places, but not in closed containers such as jars.
If you have a diagram of some air in a syringe showing 8 dots (to represent the air particles) in the uncompressed syringe, how many dots should you draw in the compressed syringe?
8 dots
16 dots
a random number of dots
4 dots
A student had a flat playground ball. She wondered how its mass would change after she pumped it up. What would she find out?
The ball weighs the same, flat and pumped up.
The ball weighs more pumped up than flat.
The ball weighs less pumped up than flat.
A student traveled from here to a high mountain. When he got to the top, he discovered that his bag of Doritos was all puffed up. Why did this happen? Select the one best answer.
The air pressure was less at the top of the mountain so the bag expanded to equalize the pressure inside and out.
The air pressure was less at the top of the mountain.
The air pressure was more at the top of the mountain so the bag expanded to equalize the pressure inside and out.
The air pressure was higher at the top of the mountain.
Where would you expect to find wind?
Blowing from Nebraska to Illinois
Blowing from Illinois to Nebraska
Blowing from Washington State to California
Blowing from Texas to Maine
