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Contents
1 WEATHER & CLIMATE DYNAMICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

1.1 WEATHER & CLIMATE DYNAMICS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1. WEATHER & CLIMATE
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DYNAMICS
1.1 WEATHER & CLIMATE DYNAMICS

1. what is barometer? C. The average weather conditions in an
area over a long period of time deter-
mined by temperature and precipitation
D. none of above
3. The water cycle has
A. a beginning and an end.
B. no beginning and no end.
C. only a beginning.
D. only an end.
A. an instrument used for measuring tem- 4. What weather front is symbolized here?
peratures
B. an instrument measuring atmospheric
pressure, used especially in forecasting
the weather and determining altitude.
C. instrument used for measuring volca-
noes
A. warm front
D. none
B. cold front
2. climate C. stationary front
A. A period of extremely cold tempera- D. occluded front
tures when part of the planet’s surface
was covered with massive ice sheets. 5. Which type of front is usually associated
with thunderstorms?
B. method for studying climate change by
drilling cores in ice caps and glaciers that A. Warm
have build up over thousands of years B. Cold
1. B 2. C 3. B 4. A 5. B
1.1 WEATHER & CLIMATE DYNAMICS 3
C. Occluded 10. The most dangerous part of a hurricane is

the
D. Stationary

A. outskirts.
6. Weather changes from day to day and sea-
B. eye.
son to season.
C. eye wall.
A. True
D. middle.
B. False
11. What are the 3 major climate zones in or-
7. Which of the following states make up der from equator to the poles?
Dixie Alley?
A. polar, temperate, tropical
A. Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri
B. tropical, temperate, polar
B. Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee, Alabama C. temperate, polar, tropical
C. New Mexico, California, Nevada, Ore- D. temperate, tropical, polar
gon
D. none of above 12. What is meant by the term peak rainfall?
A. Highest amount of rainfall
8. What is a tool that measures precipita-
B. Highest temperature
tion?
C. Lowest amount of rainfall
A. Rain Gauge
D. Lowest temperature
B. Thermometer
C. Barometer 13. What is temperature?
A. degree of hotness and coldness of the
D. Anemometer
air
9. This instrument is called a thermometer. It B. Degree of only hotness of the air
measures
C. Degree of only coldness of the air
D. none of above
14. What surface material has a low albedo?

A. white roof
B. glass
C. trees
D. Tarmac
15. Which of the following best represent a

A. the amount of pressure in the air. WARM FRONT on a weather map?
B. the amount of moisture in the air.
A.
C. how hot or cold the air is.
D. how much rain a specific area re- B.
ceives.
6. A 7. B 8. A 9. C 10. C 11. B 12. A 13. A 14. D 15. A 16. B

21. Consider the Venn diagram comparing cli-

C. mate and weather. Where would you in-
sert terms such as precipitation and aver-
age temperature?
D.
16. Descending air masses are

A. cold and low pressure.
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B. cold and high pressure.
C. warm and low pressure.
D. warm and high pressure.
A. A
17. The amount of water vapour or moisture
in the air is called as B. B
A. Humidity C. C
B. Evaporation D. D
18. Where in the diagram is condensation hap-
pening? 22. The People who study weather is called?
A. A A. botanist
B. B B. chemist
C. C C. meteorologists
D. D D. agronomist
19. Which of these is NOT a factor that deter-
mines the climate of a place? 23. In this climate, the temperature decreases
with altitude and many peaks are covered
with snow. This climate is usually windy
and wet.
A. Desert
B. Tropical
C. Temperate
A. ocean currents D. Mountain
B. latitude
E. Mediterranean
C. the speed of light
D. elevation/height 24. The is the source of all energy on earth
and powers the water cycle.
20. Precipitation is
A. water
A. only rain
B. rain, snow, hail, or sleet B. wind
C. the temperature outside C. rain

D. the amount of clouds outside D. sun
17. A 18. B 19. C 20. B 21. C 22. C 23. D 24. D

25. Wall on river to stop water 28. In a hurricane, the weather is

A. hot and dry

B. cold and snowy
C. windy and wet
D. none of above
29. The temperature is currently 3oC.

A. Levee A. Climate
B. Dike B. Weather
C. Landslide 30. is the heat zone that lies between the
D. Mountain Tropic of Cancer and the Arctic Circle in the
Northern Hemisphere.
26. The atmospheric condition at a given place
A. Torrid Zone
and time is called
B. Frigid Zone
A. Weather
C. Temperate Zone
B. Altitude
D. none of above
C. Climate
D. Winds 31. Cold and warm masses meet, but neither
can move the other is called a
27. What is the name of this tool?
A. warm front
B. cold front
C. stationary front
D. occluded front
32. What does Doppler radar, satellites, and

weather maps have in common?
A. They help to predict the weather.
B. They measure the weather.
C. both of these
D. none of above
33. Floods can take place

A. Barometer A. only near rivers, lakes, oceans, etc.
B. hygrometer B. anywhere!
C. Rain Gauge C. only during the Winter.
D. Thermometer D. only during the Spring.
25. A 26. A 27. D 28. C 29. B 30. C 31. C 32. C 33. B 34. E 35. A
34. What is the process called when water va- B. Stratosphere

por escapes from plants? C. Mesosphere
A. Condensation D. Thermosphere
B. Precipitation
40. What time is it?
C. Evaporation
A. Six thirty o’clock.
D. Run Off
B. Thirty six.
E. Transpiration
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C. Six o’clock.
35. Any form of water that falls to the earth D. none of above
from the air
41. What is climate?
A. precipitation
A. The condition of the atmosphere at a
B. front certain time and place
C. isobars B. The usual weather in an area (or re-
D. humidity gion) over a long period of time
36. Wetness in the atmosphere is C. The mixture of gases that surrounds a

planet, or air in a particular place
A. Cloud
D. The study of weather
B. Dew Point
42. The “ocean conveyor belt” is a worldwide
C. Dew
system where major ocean currents
D. Humidity
A. exchange water with each other
37. Find the DV:You experiment to find out if B. pass each other
you can blow bigger bubbles when it is hot
outside or when it is cold outside. 43. Which air masses shown are likely to bring
dry weather to the United States?
A. bubble blowing technique
B. Type of bubble juice
C. Size of bubbles
D. Temperature
38. Which causes the subtropical jet stream to

bring wet winter weather to the south-
eastern United States? A. E and D
A. The boy B. E and B
B. The girl C. B
C. Coriolis effect D. D
D. Santa Ana Winds
44. The greenhouse effect is the natural warm-
39. Layer of the Atmosphere where weather ing of Earth’s
and clouds occur A. upper atmosphere and surface.
A. Troposphere B. lower atmosphere and surface.
36. D 37. C 38. A 39. A 40. C 41. B 42. A 43. B 44. B

C. oceans and land areas. C. thunderstorms

D. surface and freshwater areas. D. clouds

45. The weather forecast tomorrow says 50. T or F:Climate refers to daily changes in
there will be a 15 mph northeast wind the air.
and a high temperature of 52 ◦ F. What
two instruments will a meteorologist use A. T
to make this prediction? B. F
A. anemometer and thermometer
51. In what year did the UK Met Office start
B. barometer and anemometer naming its storms?
C. thermometer and hydrometer
A. 1974
D. thermometer and barometer
B. 1994
46. The overall pattern or average of atmo- C. 2014
spheric conditions is
D. 2019
A. Weather
B. Climate 52. These clouds are the closest to the ground.
Their name means layer-or sheet like.
47. This type of boundary occurs when tectonic They bring light & continuous rain or snow
plate move together. and cover most of the sky.
A. Cirrus
B. Stratus
C. Cumulonimbus
D. Cumulus
53. What creates the air pressure difference

between the equator and the poles?
A. convergent
A. The length of the seasons
B. divergent
B. The shape of the earth
C. transform
C. the duration of the solar year
D. none of the above
D. The amount of direct sunlight each
48. rainfall occurs in the equatorial region area receives
A. frontal
54. Death Valley is one of the hottest places
B. orographic in North America, which weather word
C. cyclonic would most likely be used to describe a
D. convectional A. humid
49. What does low air pressure produce? B. cold
A. lightning C. arid
B. clear skies D. blazing hot
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55. What does this represent?
A. troposphere
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B. thermosphere
C. exosphere
A. sunny
D. mesosphere
B. cloudy
C. partly cloudy 60. The ozone layer is located between the
and
D. thunderstorms
A. stratosphere; troposphere
56. What instrument is used to measure hu- B. thermosphere; exosphere
midity?
C. stratosphere; ionosphere
A. thermometer D. troposphere; thermosphere
B. anemometer
61. This instrument is used to measure
C. hydrometer
A. temperature
D. rain gauge
B. air pressure
57. Where are hurricanes most likely to hap- C. relative humidity
pen? D. rain
A. California
62. Which layer of Earth’s atmosphere con-
B. Canada tains the ozone layer, an important layer
C. Florida that helps protect life on Earth from UV
radiation.
D. Kansas
58. The dew point is

A. the point at which water vapor evapo-
rates.
B. the point at which water vapor con-
denses.
C. the point at which hail starts.
D. the point that water vapor becomes
saturated.
59. The hottest layer of the atmosphere is the

A. exosphere

B. mesosphere 66. Zuri is a meteorologist. She is using a

C. stratosphere barometer. What feature of weather is
Zuri studying with a barometer?

D. troposphere
A. Humidity
63. Temperature will decrease dramatically B. wind speed
with this type of weather front. You could
experience unstable weather like thunder- C. temperature
storms D. air pressure
67. What part of the water cycle helps wet

clothes dry quickly?
A. Condensation
B. Evaporation
C. Run Off
D. Precipitation
A. occluded front
B. cold front 68. When a cold air mass moves a warm air
mass very quickly
C. warm front
A. Warm front
D. stationary front
B. Cold front
64. A tornado is not officially classified as a
C. Stationary front
tornado until:
D. Occluded front
A. It reaches over 80 mph
B. It travels at least 1 mile 69. The Earth’s is the layer of gases that
C. It picks up and spins around a cow surround the planet and make it possible
for living things to survive on Earth.
D. It connects the ground to the clouds
A. atmosphere
65. What stage of the water cycle does num- B. water cycle
ber 4 in the picture show?
C. shell
D. land
70. What effect do animals have on the vege-

tation in an ecosystem? choose 2.
A. animals use the vegetation for food
and shelter.
B. they eat the vegetation.
A. condensation
C. animals don’t have an effect on the
B. precipitation vegetation.
C. evaporation D. animals can help spread seeds and
D. storage pollen.

71. Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab 76. This is
Emirates are found in:
A. temperate regions
B. tropical regions
C. cold desert climates
D. hot desert climates
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72. In January 2021, which storm system A. snow
caused flooding in central and western Eng-
land? B. rain
A. Storm Bella C. wet

D. wind
B. Storm Christoph
C. Storm Darcy 77. Which one is example of Cold Climate?
D. none of above
73. This symbol means what?

A.
A. It’s going to snow
B. I don’t know
C. Rain may be possible
D. it is going to be sunny! B.
74. A scientist who studies weather is called
78. a maritime polar air mass that forms over
the North Pacific Ocean brings what kind
of weather to the Pacific Coast?
A. warm
B. dry
C. wet
A. a meteorologist D. extremely cold
B. an astronomer 79. What is the name of this equipment?
C. a biologist
D. a weatherologist
75. TRUE or FALSE:Weather describes the con-

ditions of the air outdoors such as temper-
ature and rainfall.
A. True
B. False

A. Thermometer 83. In diagram X, which cools more quickly,

B. Parheliometer or a Campbell stokes the land or water?

recorder
C. Rain Gauge
D. Wind vane
80. In what month does the Vernal Equinox oc-

cur.
A. land
A. March
B. water
B. September
C. both cool equally
C. December
D. none of above
D. none of above
84. Why is the air near the ground warmer
81. Which is ocean 3?
than the air higher up?
A. The air near the ground is closer to the
sun
B. The sun’s radiation heats the ground
C. The air near the ground has less wind
D. Ms. Nystrom said so
A. Pacific Ocean
85. Words like typically, usual, and annually
B. Arctic Ocean describe weather
C. Southern Ocean A. True
D. Atlantic Ocean B. False
82. What weather instrument is pictured? 86. What is a consequence of global warming?
A. Burning fossil fuels
B. Deforestation
C. Ice caps melting
D. none of above
87. What are the 5 climate regions of the

world?
A. Hot, Cold, Desert, Artic, Decidious
B. Tropical, Desert, Temperate, Subartic,
A. Anemometer
Polar
B. Thermometer
C. Decidious, Grasslands, Coniferous, Sa-
C. Barometer vannah, Oceans
D. hygrometer D. none of above

88. What is any form of water that falls to C. 2

Earth from the sky called? D. 33
A. Rain
92. Which tool measures temperature?
B. Snow
A. Barometer
C. Precipitation
B. Sling Psychrometer
D. Water
C. Anemometer
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89. These clouds are puffy and white and
D. Thermometer
sometimes appear to have a flat bottom.
A. cumulus 93. What is the measure of distance in degrees
north and south from the equator?
B. cumulonimbus
A. latitude
C. cirrus
B. longitude
D. stratus
C. elevation
90. Which type of air would you find at air
mass A? D. topography
94. The location where cold air mass is replac-

ing a warm air mass
A. cold, dry
B. warm, humid
C. warm, dry A. storm front
D. cold, humid
B. hot front
91. How many climates does Australia have? C. warm front
D. cold front
95. Which of the following best describes

weather?
A. day to day conditions of the atmo-
sphere at a place in regards to heat, dry-
ness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc.
B. long-term conditions (30 or more
years) of the atmosphere at a place in re-
A. 10 gards to heat, dryness, sunshine, wind,
B. 7 rain, etc.

96. The act of turning from a liquid into a gas 99. The meteorologist predicts that tomorrow,
it will be very windy outside. This is be-
cause they predict the

A. Weather
B. Climate
100. This tool is used to measure the amount
of rainfall. What is it called?
A. Transpiration
B. Condensation
C. Evaporation
D. Precipitation
97. In recording data, it is important to use the

proper unit. Which unit is used to measure
how warm or cool the air is?
A. snow gauge
B. rain gauge
C. ruler
D. thermometer
101. A/an is a large body of air that has
the same properties as the Earth’s surface
over which it develops and has the same
A. MPH density and moisture content.
B. Degrees Celsius (◦ C) A. Front
C. Grams (g) B. Air Mass
D. Millimeters (mm) C. Cloud
D. Tornado
98. Whywould ameteorologist use a wind
sock? 102. Select ALL the natural disasters that are
common in Florida.
A. sinkholes
B. wildfires
C. earthquakes
D. avalanches
E. hurricanes
A. To measure wind direction
103. As altitude increases, what happens to
B. To measure temperature temperature?
C. To measure wind speed A. temperature gets hotter
D. To measure rainfall B. temperature gets colder

104. precipitation comes in forms B. cold fronts

A. hot C. forecasts
B. usual D. all of the above
C. cool 109. In a sea breeze, the air is warmer above
D. many the
105. Plotted on the contour map below are the A. land
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locations of five schools. Match the eleva- B. ocean
tions with the letter for each school.(1.) C. sky
Point B on map
D. beach
110. While the northern hemisphere experi-

ences summer, which hemisphere experi-
ences winter?
A. Eastern
B. Western
C. Southern
A. 0 ft
D. We experiences seasons all at the
B. 20 ft same time.
C. 30 ft
111. What source of energy is responsible for
D. 10-20 ft all weather and ocean currents?
E. 0-10 ft A. Fossils
106. Two major factors used to identify cli- B. Sun

mate are? C. Water
A. longitude and latitude D. Wind
B. temperature and precipitation
112. Which ocean current directly affects the
C. latitude and temperature weather along the southernmost coast of
D. layers in the atmosphere the Eastern US?
107. water vapour in the air which changes to

water
A. dew
B. condensation
C. evaporation
D. radiation A. Gulf Stream
108. What do meteorologists make from B. Monsoon Current

weather data? C. North Atlantic Drift
A. tornadoes D. South Pacific Equatorial Current

113. What is a Parheliometer or a Campbell

stokes recorder used for?

A. Measure the temperature in degrees
Celcius
B. Measures the sunlight
C. Measures the wind direction-north,
south, east, west A. high pressure
D. Measures the wind speed in mph B. low pressure
E. Measures the precipitation in mm C. hurricane
114. What type of climate does the Torrid D. weather system
Zone experience?
118. What tool is used to measure humidity?
A. Hot and Humid
A. Thermometer
B. Extreme Cold
C. Not too hot nor too cold B. Rain gauge
D. none of above C. Barometer

D. Sling Psychrometer
115. The temperatures become milder in
A. Spring 119. In the emergency plan, she includes that
the oldest siblings will be in charge of
B. Summer
collecting the family’s medications. Why
C. High altitudes would this be important?
D. Winter A. It may be difficult to get these supplies
after the disaster
116. An instrument used to measure the direc-
tion the wind is blowing. B. It is less expensive to bring the sup-
plies than buy new ones
C. The supplies are easier for the oldest
child to carry
D. The supplies could be destroyed by the
disaster
120. Meteorologists are scientists who study

the weather patterns. Which of the fol-
A. weather vane lowing would a meteorologist analyze
B. hygrometer when predicting weather?
C. anemometer A. The habitat of an organism

D. barometer B. The movement of fronts
C. The Sun and the Moon
117. Which system results in rainy or stormy
weather? D. The growth of plants

121. Weather vane 126. When warm air over land meets cooler
air over water, we can expect
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A. We use it to measure temperature.
The unit is degrees Celsius. A. rain
B. We use it to measure precipitation. B. a breeze or wind
The unit is millimetres (mm)
C. snow
C. We use it to measure wind speed. The
unit is km/h. D. none of above
D. We use it to measure wind direction. 127. what does the #4 show in the diagram?
The unit is north / south / east / west.
E. We use it to measure humidity. The
unit is percent (%)
122. What is the second lowest main layer of

Earth’s atmosphere?
A. Thermosphere
B. Troposphere A. condensation
C. Stratosphere B. evaporation
D. Mesosphere C. precipitation
D. run off
123. Mountains can also affect how wet a cli-
mate is. Air cools and loses as it moves 128. The horizontal movement of air is called
up and over a mountain.
A. moisture A. wind
B. heat B. air
124. Lubbock is an arid, desert like environ- 129. Cooler air has
ment
A. low pressure
A. Weather
B. high pressure
B. Climate
C. low density
125. First day of spring D. small number of particles
A. Autumnal Equinox
130. The percentage of water vapor in the air
B. Summer Solstice compared to the maximum amount the air
C. Winter Solstice can hold is called
D. Vernal Equinox A. A snow storm

B. A front 135. For several days, the weather where

C. Forecast Cheyenne lives was cool. When the tem-
peratuer did warm, Cheyenne noticed that

D. Relative humidity it was also very windy. How could winds
131. The following picture is an example of a influence the temperature.
A. Winds transfer energy around the
Earth
B. Winds are caused by the energy of the
sun
C. Winds move because of differential
warming of the air
D. Winds transfer energy from the
A. Tornado ground
B. Hurricane
136. Anemometer
C. Flood
D. none of above
132. What term is used to describe the sea-
sonal atmospheric conditions in an area?
A. climate
B. weather
C. temperature
D. precipitation
133. areas on the map that are shaded pink
A. We use it to measure temperature.
The unit is degrees Celsius.
B. We use it to measure precipitation.
unit is km/h.
A. Tropical Zones
D. We use it to measure wind direction.
B. Temperate Zones
C. Subtropical Zones
D. Polar Zones unit is percent (%)
134. the layer of the atmosphere where most
137. The amount of water vapor in the air.
clouds form and where weather occurs
A. stratosphere A. precipitation
B. ozone layer B. humidity
C. troposphere C. weather
D. biosphere D. climate

138. What would this climate most likely be? 142. What is a polar zone?
A. Characterized by a seasonal climate,
wide range of temperatures, hot and cold
B. A climate zone near the equator char-
acterized by warm temperatures due to di-
rect sunlight year-round
C. Area near both poles that have cold cli-
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A. Polar mates and has little direct sunlight
B. Mountains D. none of above
C. Desert
D. Mediterranean
A. the conditions of the atmosphere at a
139. Winds curve as they blow due to certain place and time.
A. gravitational attraction B. the average weather in a place over a
long period of time.
B. the rotation of the earth
C. all the air around the Earth
C. lack of pressure difference between
regions D. none of above
D. being blocked by winds from the oppo-
144. In looking at precipitation in the desert
site direction
over time, we noticed the desert is very
140. When a river deposits sediment, which 2 dry.
spheres are interacting? (choose 2) A. Weather
B. Climate
145. What tool did students use to gather data

in the table?
A. Geosphere
A. Wind sock
B. Hydrosphere
B. Rain Gauge
C. Atmosphere
C. Anemometer
D. Biosphere
D. Thermometer
141. What type of front forms when two un-
like air masses form a boundary, but nei- 146. What type of weather will you see along
ther is moving? a cold front?
A. warm A. Thunderstorms
B. cold B. Sunny skies
C. stationary C. Gentle rain
D. occluded D. No weather

147. What causes changes in seasons? B. currents

A. The earth spinning C. convection

B. The earth tilting on its axis D. conduction
C. The earth revolving around the sun 152. Water in the form of gas is called
D. The earth’s elliptical orbit
148. Hurricanes form over equatorial areas.

This is because
A. Solar heating is greatest near the
Equator
B. The Moon’s plane of orbit is close to
the Equator A. weather
C. Earth’s volcanic activity is clustered B. atmosphere
around the Equator
C. ozone
D. The rate of rotation of Earth’s surface
D. water vapor
is less at the Equator
153. Average weather conditions of a region
149. Stratus clouds look like
year after year
A. thin, wispy featherlike
A. weather
B. puffy and white
B. cold fron
C. layers of blankets low to the Earth
C. season
D. none of above
D. climate
150. Which human activity contributes the
154. Which is the warmest climate zone?
MOST carbon dioxide to the atmosphere?
A. Arctic Zone
A. Fishing
B. Temperate Zone
B. Breathing
C. Tropical Zone
C. Burning Fossil Fuels (electricity and
heat production) D. Intermediate Zone
D. Farming 155. WHAT IS IT?
151. A drawing shows a pan on top of a lit

stove burner. What is this picture model-
ing?
A. Tropical rainforest
B. Sahara desert
C. Antarctica
A. density D. none of above

156. How do mountains affect the amount of 161. The amount of water vapor in the air
precipitation that falls over an area? A. high pressure system
A. The leeward side of the mountains re-
B. low pressure system
ceives more precipitation.
C. barometer
B. The windward side of the mountains
receives more precipitation. D. humidity
C. The leeward side is colder. 162. What is the LAST layer of the atmo-
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D. The windward side is warmer. sphere?
A. Thermosphere
157. What kind of weather is a hurricane?
B. Exosphere
A. severe weather
B. not severe weather C. Stratosphere
D. Troposphere
158. the scientists who study climate are
called 163. Winter Solstice is the day of the year.
A. meteorologists A. shortest
B. climatologists B. longest
C. psychologists
164. What does an ANEMOMETER measure?
D. none of above
159. covers large areas and long periods

of time.
A. Weather
B. Climate
160. Which region would experience an in-

crease in temperature when the front
passes over it?
A. precipitation
B. wind speed
C. air pressure
D. temperature
165. What are periods of time that are in be-

tween ice ages called?
A. Region 1 A. Glacial Periods
B. Region 2 B. Interglacial Periods
C. Region 3 C. Ice Age
D. Region 4 D. Glacier

166. The calm area in the center of a hurricane C. Land absorbs and loses heat faster
is called the than sea water.

A. draft D. Land absorbs heat faster than sea wa-
B. funnel ter, and sea water loses heat faster than
land.
C. eye
D. squall 171. When a warm air mass and a cold air
mass meet, but they push at each other
167. What types of air masses form over and neither one can move, it is called
oceans? a/an-
A. Maritime A. warm front
B. Continental B. cold front
C. Polar C. occluded front
D. Tropical D. stationary front
168. Where does the initial source of energy 172. The evenings are generally mild.
come from that creates winds?
A. Weather
A. the moon
B. Climate
B. the sun
173. Which of the following is a greenhouse
C. the Earth’s surface
gas that contributes to global warming?
D. the rotation of the Earth
A. Oxygen
169. Which is continent D? B. Nitrogen
C. Carbon dioxide
D. Argon
174. Fluffy and white, usually with flat bot-

toms, that look like rounded piles of cot-
ton
A. Australasia A. Cirrus Clouds
B. Asia B. Cumulus Clouds
C. Africa C. Stratus Clouds
D. North America D. Fog
E. Europe E. Storm Surge
170. Which of the following is accurate about 175. The sea and land breeze help in the
heat absorption and loss? climate of a place.
A. Sea water absorbs and loses heat A. stabilize
faster than land.
B. fixing
B. Sea water absorbs heat faster than
land, and land loses heat faster than sea C. moderating
water. D. changing

176. What is the name for this process:Where 183. Water heats more slowly than land caus-
water is moved from the sea to the sky ing different temperatures to heat or cool
and back again? the air around it is which FACTOR of CLI-
A. The carbon cycle MATE?
B. The water cycle A. altitude/ elevation

C. The atmosphere B. latitude
D. none of above C. large bodies of water
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177. True or false:Clouds form when water va- D. ocean currents
por condenses
A. True 184. Earth’s ozone layer is
B. False A. has been thickening over the past sev-
eral years
178. True or false:In a severe weather warn-
ing, severe weather has been spotted. B. filters harmful ultraviolet radiation
A. True from the sun
B. Fales C. exists only over Antarctica
179. What are air pressure, humidity, clouds, D. traps carbon dioxide in the strato-
and temperature called? sphere
A. elevation pressure
185. What is the name this front?
B. elementary aspects
C. elements of weather
D. elements of climate
180. A big blizzard in Connecticut caused

power outages across the state. A. warm front
A. Weather B. cold front
B. Climate
C. stationary front
181. A huge body of air that has similar tem- D. occluded front
perature, pressure, and humidity through-
out.
186. air pressure
A. Continental
A. the envelope of gases that surrounds
B. Air mass Earth
C. Convection
B. the pressure caused by the weight of
D. Atmosphere a column of air pushing down on an area
182. Rain in Guyana Has stopped play in the C. the process by which molecules of wa-
second test match today ter vapor in the air become liquid water
A. climate D. a gradual increase in the average tem-
B. weather perature of Earth’s atmosphere

187. always form over warm ocean wa- 191. Places situated at higher altitudes expe-
ter. rience a climate.

A. cold
B. moderate
C. hot
D. none of above
192. What does an anemometer measure?

A. Water level
A. Hurricanes B. Wind speed
B. Tornadoes C. Precipitation
C. Blizzards D. Clouds
D. Thunderstorms 193. Are climate and weather the same thing?

A. Yes-they both have to do with precipi-
188. When a warm air mass and a cold air tation and temperature.
mass meet and no movement occurs, the
result is a B. No-climate is weather over a long pe-
riod of time, and weather is the tempera-
A. Occluded front ture and precipitation at just one time
B. Stationary front C. No-weather is the temperature and
precipitation over a long period of time,
C. Cold front
and climate is the temperature and precip-
D. Warm front itation at just one time
D. none of above
189. How do you determine the climate of a
new place? 194. Which pressure system can produce
A. Record weather conditions over years storms?
to look for patterns A. low pressure system
B. Walk outside to see what the climate B. high pressure system
is like
195. The following are albedo values for three
C. Record weather conditions for a week objects:Object 1 = 0.83Object 2 = 0.24Ob-
to look for patterns ject 3 = 0.05All three objects are placed
under a heat lamp for the same amount
D. Make a random prediction about the
of time. Which object would radiate more
climate.
thermal energy once the heat lamp is
turned off?
190. What do weather maps display?
A. Object 1
A. mathematical equations
B. Object 2
B. atmospheric conditions
C. Object 3
C. environmental events
D. None of these objects absorb incoming
D. weather stations radiation

196. Weather and climate data are different. C. elevation

Which of the following is a description of D. precipitation
weather data?
A. The Sahara desert gets very little rain- 201. what are the types of precipitation?
fall. A. Rain, sleet, snow, and hail
B. The average daytime high in the Ama- B. rain
zon is 25◦ C. C. cats and dogs
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C. Temperatures in the Arctic are usually D. snow
below freezing.
D. It rained two inches in Miami, Florida 202. what is a cloud made of?
on May 5th. A. water droplets
197. Rain usually results when: B. gases
A. cold, moist air rises. C. rain or snow (precipitation)
B. warm, dry air sinks. D. warm air
C. warm, moist air rises. 203. What is the jet stream?

D. cold, dry air sinks.
198. This type of massive weather system

forms when moist humid air over warm
tropical ocean water rises and starts to
swirl and reaches sustained winds of at
least 74 miles per hour.
A. Sand storm A. Precipitation in North Carolina
B. Tornado B. Weather over a long period of time
C. Hurricane C. Strong winds above the Earth’s sur-
face
D. Water spout
D. Football flying over the Earth
199. When Earth receives energy from the Sun,
the energy is spread evenly over Earth. 204. A meteorologist is using barometers to
help predict weather. Which feature of
A. True weather is the meteorologist measuring to
B. False help predict the weather?
Explanation:Because the Earth is spheri- A. humidity
cal, solar energy is spread out unevenly.
The equator. receives lots of energy in a B. wind speed
smaller area. The energy at the poles is C. air pressure
more spread out. D. temperature
200. What is the weather conditions in an area 205. the side of the mountains which faces
over a long period of time? moisture-bearing winds and thus receives
A. climate heavy rainfall
B. temperature A. the rainshadow area

B. the leeward side

C. the windward side

D. none of above
206. What is this an image of?

A. They never occur in northern states.
B. They are most common from April to
June.
C. They are most like to occur in an area
known as tornado alley.
D. They can occur in some southern
states from January to March.
211. Which statement describes how Earth’s
geologic past compares with the present?
A. Anemometer A. There were no volcanoes or earth-
B. Radar quakes in the past.
B. There were volcanoes but no earth-
C. Rain Gauge
quakes in the past.
D. Sling Psychrometer C. There were earthquakes but no volca-
207. What is the amount of water vapor in the noes in the past.
air? D. The changes that occur today also oc-
curred in the past.
A. Isobar
B. Condensation 212. Which is the opposite of condensation?
C. Humidity
D. Fronts
208. Air masses, weather and wind develop

because the Earth is heated unevenly.
A. True
B. False A. runoff
B. evaporation
209. The rotation of currents in the Northern C. precipitation
Hemisphere affects the
D. transpiration
A. Strength of hurricanes
213. Scientist who study weather and try to
B. Climates of landmasses
predict it are called
C. Number of storms that develop A. weatherologists
D. Amount of wind in the lower latitudes B. astronomers
210. Which of the following is NOT true of su- C. climateologists
percells? D. meteorologists

214. From June to September, India experi- 219. How does solar energy convert into elec-
ences tricity.
A. The hot, dry season A. Panels use photons produced by sun-
B. The rainy season light to generate direct current
C. The cold season B. Panel absorbs the photons semicon-

ducting the material
D. none of above
C. and then its electricity.
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215. As Earth completes one orbit around the
D. All of the above
sun, it has completed one
A. rotation. 220. Convectional rainfall is experienced ev-
B. year. eryday in
C. revolution. A. Tropical regions
D. both year and revolution. B. Equatorial regions

C. Temperate regions
216. wind those blow in a particular season
D. none of above
A. Periodic wind
B. Planetary wind 221. Temperature increases with height from
C. prevailing wind sea level.
D. none of above A. True

B. False
217. The boundary where air masses meet and
do not mix. 222. The amount of water in the atmosphere
given as a percentage
A. Pressure
B. Relative humidity
C. Absolute humidity
A. front D. Precipitation
B. atmosphere 223. What can we do to help combat global
C. thunderstorm warming?
D. sea breeze A. Use less electricity by turning off lights
and appliances when you aren’t using
218. energy from the sun is one of the them.
main drivers of weather and climate.
B. Walk or cycle to school, or use public
A. Cool transport.
B. Electrical C. Reduce, reuse and recycle.
C. Heat
D. Plant some trees. Trees absorb car-
D. Potential bon dioxide.

224. what are isobars? 229. What is climate?

A. lines connecting places of equal tem- A. what the weather is like over a long pe-

perature riod of time in a specific area
B. lines drawn connecting places of equal B. the minute-by-minute changes in the
pressure atmosphere
C. lines drawn to places of different tem- C. short term conditions of the atmo-
peratures sphere
D. lines drawn to places of different pres- D. none of above
sures
230. Four locations (I, II, III, IV) are labeled
225. It is and throughout the year in on the diagram. At which of the four loca-
equatorial climate. tions is the hurricane predicted to be LEAST
A. Cold and freezing intense?
B. Moderate and cool

C. Hot and humid
D. None of the above
226. A strong wind is

A. Gale
B. breeze
C. strom
D. none of above A. I
227. What does a anemometer do? B. II
A. An instrument that measures atmo- C. III

spheric pressure D. IV
B. A device the collects and measures the
amount of rain that falls 231. Which of the following factors affect a
region’s temperature?
C. A device measuring wind speed
A. latitude and altitude
D. An instrument that measures and indi-
cates temperature B. distance from large bodies of water
C. ocean currents
228. What is a prediction about the state of
the atmosphere at a given place and time? D. all of the above
A. weather map 232. It usually rains in Los Angeles during
B. weather forecast November.
C. pressure map A. Weather
D. climate prediction B. Climate

233. Choose the correct option 237. To make this prediction, meteorologist
could use data because air flows from
pressure areas.
A. air pressure, high to low
B. relative humidity, high to low
C. rainfall, low to high
D. temperature, low to high
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238. A large number of floating drop of water
is
A. frost
B. dew
A. Low Clouds C. cloud
B. Low Temperatures D. fog
C. Light Wind 239. Weather can change
D. Low Air Pressure A. after 20 years
234. Cumulonimbus is an example of B. any second, minute or day
A. Layer cloud C. never changes
B. Dry cloud D. none of above
C. Rain bearing cloud 240. Earth’s rotation on its axis is what causes
D. none of above
235. Latitude affects the climate of an area.
A. True
B. False A. seasons
B. moon phases
236. A huge body of air that has similar tem-
perature, humidity, and air pressure at C. weather
any given height D. none of above
A. air mass
241. Clouds form when Earth’s
B. front A. geosphere interact with the biosphere
C. tornado B. climate or weather changes very
D. hurricane quickly

C. hydrosphere interacts with the atmo- 246. [Select all that apply] Ocean currents are
sphere driven by

D. precipita!on does not go into the ocean A. wind
242. We need the natural greenhouse effect B. tides
for Earth to be habitable. C. changes in water density
D. rotation of earth
247. Weather every day.

A. changes
B. is the same
248. Upwelling is the process where warm,

A. True nutrient rich water from deep in the ocean
B. False rises to the surface.
243. what is humidity A. False
A. Humidity is the concentration of water B. True
vapour present in the air.
249. The barometric pressure increases when
B. humidity will play with us
colder air sinks toward the Earth and de-
C. humidity is a place creases when warmer air rises away from
D. humidity is present in blood Earth. Which statement BEST explains the
cause of rain?
244. What happens if there is too much Carbon
Dioxide in the air? A. The rising air cools down, forming wa-
ter droplets
A. Temperature increases
B. The rising air makes space below it for
B. Temperature decreases rain clouds
245. We measure the temperature with the C. The rising air warms up, creating rain
clouds
D. The rising air displaces the water
droplets above it
250. Hot air rises because its molecules are

moving faster and it is lower density.
When it gets further from the heat radiat-
ing from the Earth’s surface, it cools down
and falls back towards the surface, creat-
ing
A. television A. Air currents

B. washing machine B. Atmosphere
C. anemometer C. Latitude
D. thermometer D. Nebula

251. Which of these BEST explains the reason

that thunderstorms are likely to form on a
hot day?
A. Warm, humid air rises quickly and then
cools.
B. As air slowly rises it loses humidity
and cause rain.
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C. The air is usually calm and allows the A. cP
clouds to form. B. mP
D. The air rises quickly and form low-level C. cT
cloud layers. D. mT
252. Today’s atmosphere is mostly made up of 257. water cycle
which gas?
A. circles of water on the floor made by
A. Oxygen the rain
B. Carbon Dioxide B. the continual movement of water
C. Argon among Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, and
land surface through evaporation, conden-
D. Nitrogen sation, and precipitation
253. The high temperature today will be near C. hot lava coming out of the volcanos
75 C. D. the rock cycle is very important
A. weather
258. Which observation describes a change in
B. climate climate rather than a change in weather?
A. The thunderstorm dropped about
254. What layer comes next:Troposphere-
three centimeters of rain today.
stratosphere-?
B. The snowfall in this area was more this
A. mesosphere
week than it was last week.
B. exosphere C. The average summer temperatures
C. thermosphere have increased over the last ten years.
D. ionosphere D. The average wind speed in April was
less than it was in March.
255. The condition of the atmosphere at any
moment is called 259. What is the precipitation in August in
Vancouver?
A. altitude
B. humidity
C. air pressure
D. weather
256. Which abbreviation of an air mass can be

identified as dry and cold? A. 30

B. 10 264. Which of the following is a stevenson

C. -10 screen

D. -15
260. Which front does this show?

A.
A. cold front B.
B. warm front
C. stationary front
D. occluded front
C.
261. What are the three main types of green-
house gases?
A. Water vapor, methane, carbon dioxide
B. oxygen, methane, carbon dioxide
262. Season are caused by 265. An instrument for measuring the humid-
ity of the air or a gas.
A. Cloud
B. Thermometer
C. hygrometer
D. Cumulus
A. tropical storms
266. what is foehn?
B. the tilt of the Earth’s axis with respect
to the sun A. a strong, dusty, gusty, hot and dry sum-
C. wind patterns mer wind
D. none of above B. a warm dry wind which blows down

the east side of the Rocky Mountains at
263. As you ascend in altitude, what happens the end of winter.
to the temperature?
C. a hot southerly wind on the northern
A. It disappears slopes of the Alps.
B. It gets harder to measure
D. none of above
C. It drops
D. It raises 267. The weather is

C. a long period of unusually dry weather

D. colder air, heavy rain, thunderstorms,
snow
271. the crust farthest from sea floor spread-

ing is the:
A. oldest
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B. youngest
A. The typical state of the atmosphere in C. most dense
a long period of time.
D. least dense
B. The state of the atmosphere at a par-
ticular time. 272. What do we call periods of time with a
similar weather pattern?
268. What is the ‘mean’?
A. The average of the data A. equinox
B. The difference between the biggest B. solstice

and smallest number C. season
C. The middle number of a set of data D. none of above
D. All of the data added together
273. What are the 3 major climate zones in or-
269. What is step 2 on the picture of the wa- der from the equator?
ter cycle?
B. temperate, polar, tropical
C. tropical, temperate, polar
D. temperate, tropical, polar
274. A hurricane is MOST LIKLEY to occur in an

area
A. Runoff and Collection

B. Condensation
C. Evaporation
D. Precipitation
270. polar
A. seasonably variable climate zone be- A. near warm water.
tween 40 and 60 degrees latitude, north B. near cool water.
or south of the equator
C. with strong wind.
B. dry, cold climate zone above 60 degree
latitude D. with little moisture.

275. It helps us measure the C. composition

D. temperature

280. What causes wind on top of hills and
mountains?
A. cool air rising while hot air sinks
B. cool air and hot air hitting each other
C. hot air rising while cool air sinks
D. cool air and rain clouds
281. What layer of the atmosphere protects

us by burning up most meteors?
A. Precipitation. A. ionosphere
B. Temperature. B. thermosphere
C. Wind direction. C. mesosphere
D. Wind speed. D. troposphere
276. Climate is 282. Scientists make about an area’s cli-
A. what the air is like outside mate based on the location and the regular
weather patterns.
B. the temperature of a day
A. Predictions
C. pattern of weather in a place over
many years. B. Questions
D. none of above C. Patterns
277. Everyone agreed that it was a perfect D. Precipitation

day for a picnic-warm and sunny! 283. Which of these types of weather data is
A. Climate measured using a barometer?
B. Weather
278. Place the following atmospheric layers in

sequence, from lowest to highest:A) Exo-
sphere; B) Stratosphere; C) Troposphere
A. A, C, B
B. B, A, C
C. C, B, A
D. C, A, B
A. air pressure
279. The layers of the atmosphere are classi-
fied according to changes in B. precipitation
A. altitude C. relative humidity
B. density D. wind speed

284. What does the F stand for on a thermome- A. provide a diverse habitat for many or-
ter? ganisms
A. Celsius B. store and transport the Sun’s heat en-
B. Fahrenheit ergy.
C. Degrees C. experience changes in amounts of dis-
solved salt.
D. none of above
D. reach depths that can be as much as
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285. What is NOT a form of precipitation? 12, 000 meters.
289. Water flows that occur when soil is so

wet that it cannot absorb any more water
is known as
A. Evaporation
B. Condensation
C. Precipitation
A. Rain D. Surface run-off
B. Sun
290. A thermometer is used to measure what?
C. Sleet
D. Snow A. Wind speed
B. Visibility
286. Decide if this describes climate or
weather:The arctic is sunny and 60 de- C. Temperature
grees.
D. A stick
A. climate
B. weather 291. Tornadoes and hurricanes both contain
winds that spiral very rapidly.
287. What is this severe weather? A. true
B. false
292. Severe weather or another natural event

that can cause damage.
A. natural hazard
A. hurricane B. climate
B. tornado C. weather
C. storm D. precipitation
D. Rainy
293. Using the Layers of the Atmosphere vs
288. One of the major ways oceans contribute Temperature graph given, which of the fol-
to weather systems is that the oceans- lowing is a TRUE statement?

296. CHANGE IIN WEATHER CONDITION

CAUSE SEASONS

A. TRUE
B. FALSE
297. What influences the climate of a zone?

A. the latitude
B. the altitude
A. Temperature remains relatively the
C. the longitude
same through all layers of the atmosphere
B. The lower mesosphere is colder than D. distance from the sea
the upper mesosphere
298. Temperate climates are found
C. The coldest temperatures are found in
the troposphere A. Half way between the poles and equa-
tor
D. the upper stratosphere is much
warmer than the lower stratosphere B. at the north and south pole
294. How does distance from a large body of C. directly next to the equator
water affect the climate? D. none of above
299. When two different air masses meet

what re the edges of them that touch
called?
A. Hurricanes
B. Air pressure
C. Fronts
A. Cities near the ocean have less precip-
itation. D. none of above
B. Cities near the ocean have more pre-
300. A small, funnel-shaped cloud that comes
cipitation.
down from a storm cloud is called a hurri-
C. Cities near the ocean have a smaller cane.
temperature range.
A. False
D. Cities near the ocean have a large tem-
perature range. B. True
295. Getting a sunburn on while spending the 301. What does a hygrometer measure?
day on the beach
A. Wind speed
A. Conduction
B. Convection B. Humidity
C. Radiation C. Water vapor in the air

D. none of above D. Wind direction

302. Coastal regions have climate because 307. Which is the climograph most likely to
there is a lot of moisture in the air all year represent a desert?
long.
A. Dry
B. Snowy
C. Humid
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D. Dry and Humid
E. Hot and Dry
303. These clouds are thin and located high in A. A

the sky, and they often means that bad
weather is coming. B. B
C. C
A. Cirrus
D. D
B. Cumulus
C. Stratus 308. A is a boundary between air masses.
D. none of above A. pressure boundary

B. boundary effect
304. causes deep ocean currents C. front
A. The Coriolis Effect D. none of above
B. gravity
309. A(n) is a line that follows along
C. wind points of equal air pressure.
D. density differences A. intermediate bar
B. isobar
305. Climate is the average weather condi-
tions recorded over a span of C. pressure bar
A. days D. weather map
B. weeks 310. Something that might happen because of

global warming is:
C. years
A. More reflected sunlight off of ice packs
D. none of above
B. Lower sea level
306. What type of cloud is associated with C. A sale on bathing suits
thunderstorms, lightning, heavy rain, hail,
D. Melting ice caps
andtornadoes?
A. Cumulus 311. If I talk about how it was raining yester-
day where I live but it was sunny there
B. Cumulonimbus today, I am talking about
C. Cirrus A. weather
D. Stratus B. climate

312. Climate is 315. The top of Mount Haleakala in Maui,

A. How hot or cold something is Hawaii is 10, 023 feet above sea level.
Would it be colder or hotter at the top than

B. Short term weather pattterns at the base?
C. Long term weather patterns A. colder
D. Air Pressure in the clouds B. hotter
313. The table shows how much snow falls 316. The average weather of a place over a
in Central Park each year. Which two period of time is called
months have more than 150 millimeters of
snow? A. Climate
B. atmosphere
C. wind
D. gale
317. The climate near the Equator is

A. cool and dry
B. hot and wet
C. hot and dry
D. none of above
A. September and October
B. November and December 318. The distance east or west of the prime
meridian.
C. January and February
A. latitude
D. March and April
B. longitude
314. Which one of the processes shown in the C. elevation
model is powered by heat energy from the
sun? D. none of above
319. When somewhere has several types of

climates it’s considered
A. Polar
B. Tropical
C. Temperate
D. Weather
320. Temperatures in hot, mild and cold cli-

A. A mates are not always the same at differ-
B. B ent times of the year.
C. C A. True
D. D B. False

321. Sometimes when traveling in an airplane 326. What type of weather conditions are
your ears may pop, why? needed for a hurricane to form?
A. cold ocean currents, high air pressure
B. warm ocean currents, low air pressure
327. affects means to

A. have influence
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B. to make something
A. your eardrum busted C. to rain
B. as the airplane goes up it gets colder. D. none of above
C. the humidity decreased 328. True or False:Humidity is how much wa-
D. the change in altitude effected air pres- ter is in the atmosphere.
sure
A. True
322. What do we call a person who reports B. False
the weather?
329. When air is heated, it will MOST likely
A. forecaster
B. reporter A. expand and fall
C. anchor person B. expand and rise
D. weather writer C. condense and fall

D. condense and rise
323. Our warmest month is August.
A. Weather 330. What changes every two or three
months?
B. Climate
A. weather
324. Where do Hurricanes form?
B. seasons
A. Over warm ocean water
331. This is a form of winter precipitation. It
B. Over cold ocean water
is frozen precipitation falling as ice pellets.
C. Over dry land Snowflakes melt into raindrops as they
D. Over wet land pass through a thin layer of warmer air.
The raindrops then refreeze into particles
325. Looking at the weather station model, of ice when they fall into a layer of sub-
what would the pressure reading be in mil- freezing air near the surface of the earth.
libars? This precipitation is called
A. 9023 A. hail
B. 902.3 B. rain
C. 100.23 C. sleet
D. 1002.3 D. snow

332. *We can only survive in the which layer 337. Places near large bodies of water often
of the atmosphere? receive precipitation than they would
if the body of water were not present.

A. exosphere
B. mesosphere A. more
C. stratosphere B. less
D. troposphere
338. The side of a mountain that faces oncom-
333. g. The inland Mediterranean climate has ing wind.
got higher / lower temperatures than the
mountain climate.
A. higher temperatures than
B. lower temperatures than
334. A severe storm which involves a funnel
cloud forming from a cumulonimbus cloud:
A. hurricane
A. leeward
B. tornado
C. thunderstorm B. windward
D. blizzard C. clouds
335. What are the 3 major climate zones in or- D. climate

der from equator to the poles?
339. d. Madrid has an inland / coastal
A. frigid, temperate, torrid Mediterranean climate.
B. torrid, temperate, frigid
A. inland climate
C. temperate, frigid, torrid
B. coastal Mediterranean climate
D. none of above
336. What is the CLIMATE? 340. Being close to an ocean will give an area
a climate that has
A. Lots of rain
B. Extreme temperatures
C. Mild temperatures
D. More sunny days
A. It’s the weather in a particular place 341. What are the daily conditions of the at-
over a LONG PERIOD of time. mosphere called?
B. It’s the weather in a particular place A. climate
over a SHORT PERIOD of time.
B. global warming
C. It’s the weather in a particular planet
over a LONG PERIOD of time. C. temperature
D. none of above D. weather

342. During a winter storm, Annabelle ob-

serves hail falling in her yard. After the
hailstorm, rain falls. Which statement cor-
rectly describes hail and rain?
A. Hail and rain are both solids
B. Hail and rain are both liquids
C. Hail is a liquid, and rain is a solid A. freezing and condensation
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D. Hail is a solid, and rain is a liquis B. evaporation and precipitation
C. evaporation and condensation
343. How does elevation affect the climate of
an area? D. condensation and precipitation
346. This weather instrument is an
A. As elevation increases, air tempera-

ture increases.
B. As elevation increases, air tempera-
ture decreases.
C. As elevation increases, precipitation
increases.
D. As elevation increases, precipitation A. wind vane
decreases. B. anemometer
C. barometer
344. An area’s latitude helps determine its
D. thermometer
A. climate zones.
347. What is the weather like in Summer?
B. elevation.
C. precipitation.
D. time zone.
345. Some hurricanes originate in the tropical

regions of the Atlantic Ocean or Caribbean
Sea, and they often travel along the coast
of Florida. The figure shows a hurricane
cloud that formed over the Atlantic Ocean.
Which two processes would be responsible A. HotHigh Humidity Levels
for cloud formation in a hurricane? B. ColdExpected heavy rainfall

348. The ozone layer is located in the 353. What causes differences in air pressure?
A. lower troposphere. A. even heating of the Earth

B. lower thermosphere. B. Even cooling of the earth
C. upper ionosphere. C. uneven heating of the earth
D. upper stratosphere.
D. global warming
349. A hot dry wind blow in Western Ganga
plain 354. There is a puddle at lunch time, but later
in the day the puddle is gone. What cause
A. Loo
the puddle to disappear?
B. Drift
C. Current
D. none of above
350. If there is no rain, the ground is
A. precipitation
B. magic
C. evaporation
A. wet
D. condensation
B. dry
C. hot 355. Very hot summers and very cold winters
are called climate.
D. warm
A. Hot
351. has the same temperature and mois-
ture content throughout. B. Cold
A. convection current C. Extreme

B. front D. Moderate
C. air mass
356. The jet stream has a great impact on
D. none of above changing weather conditions in an area be-
cause it:
352. A truck driver is driving from Memphis
to Denver. What type of weather will he A. does not change with the seasons.
most likely experience on the drive? B. keeps the atmosphere supplied with
A. He will drive through a cold front. moisture.
B. He will drive through a warm front. C. is a determinant of major air move-
C. The sky will be clear the whole trip. ments.
D. There will be many storms during the D. speeds up evaporation following pre-
trip. cipitation.

357. Molecules in the atmosphere exert a 361. Choose the correct definition of Spain’s
force that pushes on a surface. What is mountain climate.
the name of this force?
A. It occurs near the Atlantic Ocean. Win-
A. temperature ters are cool and summers are mild, and
it rains frequently.
B. air pressure
B. It’s found in areas of high elevation. It
C. precipitation
is very cold in winter and mild in summer.
D. relative humidity Rain is frequent and it often snows in the
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higher areas.
358. Which month has the highest average
C. It’s found in southern and eastern
temperature?
coasts of Spain. It is hot in summer and
winters are ocol. It does not rain very of-
ten.
D. It’s the largest climate in Spain. Sum-
mers are very hot, but winters can be very
cold. It does not rain very often.
E. It’s found in the Islas Canarias. It is
mild all year round and it does not rain fre-
A. August
quently.
B. July
362. rain, sleet, snow, or hail that falls from
C. June
clouds to the ground
D. May
A. precipitation
359. The horizontal movement of air from an B. rain
area of high pressure to an area of lower
C. density
pressure
D. air pressure
A. Thunder
B. Wind 363. What factor best explains the formation
of the wind?
C. Lightning
A. elevation
D. Hurricane
B. air pressure
E. Tornado
C. ocean currents
360. What does a barometer do? D. wind
A. An instrument that measures atmo-
spheric pressure 364. The boundary where 2 unlike air masses
meet is called a
amount of rain that falls A. Dew
C. A device measuring wind speed B. Storm

C. Front
cates temperature D. Rejoinder

365. What does the earth’s tilt cause?

A. The seasons

B. Day and Night
C. Tsunamis
D. Earthquakes
A. Troposphere
366. Earth is unevenly heated due to its? B. Stratosphere
C. Mesosphere
D. Thermosphere
E. Exosphere
370. Which is not an climatic element?
A. Wind
B. Temperature
C. Humidity
A. oceans and moon D. Altitude
B. tilt and shape
371. Hurricanes and tornadoes are examples
C. gravity and clouds of
D. climate and weather A. High pressure storms
B. Low pressure storms
367. What instrument measures tempera-
ture? 372. What gas makes up about 78 percent of
dry air?
A. anemometer
A. oxygen
B. barometer B. nitrogen
C. thermometer C. hydrogen
D. wind vane. D. carbon dioxide
373. This photo represents a climate
368. Air pressure is
A. A type of weather
B. The sort of climate you get at high alti-
tudes
C. How hard air particles push on us and
everything around us
D. Caused by heat energy A. Tropical
B. Polar
369. The layers of the atmosphere. The
layer where meteorological phenomena C. Temperate
take place is the D. none of above

374. Wind has two components:wind direction 379. The first step in the Scientific Method is
andwind to Identify a question or problem.
A. True
B. False
380. This weather tool is used to meaure
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A. Smell
B. Colour
C. Speed
D. none of above
375. Temperature is
A. How hot or cold something is
B. The amount of water vapor in the air
C. Describes the current condition of the
air outdoors, such as temperature, cloud
cover, wind speed, and rainfall
D. Rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls from A. your temperature when you are sick.
clouds in the sky B. the wind direction.The temperature
376. Which location on Earth receives the most outside.
direct sunlight? C. the temperature outside.
A. The deserts D. time to go to recess.
B. The south pole
381. What is the climate of Cairo?
C. The equator
D. The Western Hemisphere
377. Which of the following is an element of
weather and climate?
A. Temperature
B. Humidity
C. Atmospheric Pressure A. Arid
D. All of these B. Semi-Arid
C. Mild
378. Winds that occur along the equator;
these carry cold air from NE to SW D. Tropical dry
A. polar easterlies 382. What organization collects and organizes
B. westerlies weather data in the United States?
C. overfishing A. The Public Broadcasting Association.
D. tradewinds B. The Weather Channel.

C. The National Weather Service. 387. Which is continent G?

D. The National Oceanic Administration.

383. Choose the correct option
A. Antarctica
B. South America
C. Europe
A. Cold front D. Asia
B. Warm front E. Australasia
C. Stationary front 388. In this diagram of the water cycle, what
D. Occluded front process is represented by letter A?
384. What is a thunderstorm?

A. A thunderstorm is a storm with light-
ning and thunder.
B. a violent rotating column of air
C. the most violent storm known on Earth
D. none of above
A. run off
385. What may help prevent flood water dam-
age? B. evaporation
C. condensation
A. Shingles
D. precipitation
B. Underground shelters
C. Boarded up windows 389. At the beach, the water and sand are not
absorbing and losing heat equally. Which
D. Sandbags is MOST LIKELY to occur?
386. A is usually brief but can consist of A. rain

strong winds, heavy rains and electric dis- B. snow
charges between clouds or clouds and the C. wind
ground.
D. humidity
A. winter storm
390. How deforestation can contribute to
B. drought
global warming?
C. thunderstorm
A. it increases CO2 level in the air that de-
D. hurricane creases the global temperature

B. it decreases CO2 level in the air that B. runoff

increases the global temperature C. precipitation
C. it increases CO2 level in the air that in- D. condensation (sounds like clouds)
creases the global temperature
394. When a liquid turns into a gas is which
D. none of above
part of the water cycle?
391. Which of the tools below measures tem- A. Condensation
perature?
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B. Evaporation
C. Precipitation
A. D. Transpiration
395. information that supports an answer to

a question, proof
A. meteorologist
B. B. evidence
C. measure
D. climate
396. Students observed conditions outside ev-

C. eryday for 5 days. They recorded that
most days were sunny and warm, and one
day was rainy and cool. Their observa-
tions are examples of?
A. weather forecast
D. B. weather
C. climate
D. temperature
392. Which statements are descriptions of
weather conditions? Select the two best 397. The atmospheric conditions at a given
answers. place and given time?
A. The sun sets at 7:29 pm today. A. Climate
B. It is mostly cloudy with thunder- B. Humidity
storms. C. Weather
C. The wind is blowing 10mph to the D. latitude
SouthWest.
398. What are some things that influence cli-
D. It is hurricane season. mate? Tick all that apply
E. It is August and is usually very warm A. Terrain
393. in what part of the water cycle do clouds B. Rain
form? C. Oceans and seas
A. evaporation D. Latitude (how far from equator)

399. The condition of the atmosphere over a A. Spring MarchSummerWinter

short period at a given place and time is B. SpringSummerDecemberJanuary
known as

C. AprilMayAutumnWinter
A. Climate
D. SpringSummerAutumnWinter
B. Atmosphere
C. Weather 404. Instrument that tells us the wind’s direc-
tion is a
D. Humidity
400. isotherms
A. Lines joining places that have the same
temperature
B. intense tropical storm with winds ex-
A. Thermometer
ceeding 119 km/h
B. Rain gauge
C. Latitudes between the tropics and the
Arctic Circle in the north and the Antarc- C. Barometer
tic Circle in the south; regions with milder D. Weather vane
climates than the tropics or polar regions.
405. The closer you live to an ocean the more
likely your climate will be?
D. none of above
A. maritime
401. South Carolina summer (June, July, Au-
gust, September) is B. continental
A. Cold C. tropical
B. ALWAYS raining D. polar

C. Hot and humid 406. What kind of cloud is this?
D. ALWAYS dry
402. The cool air that blows from the water
towards land is called a
A. Hurricane
B. Land Breeze
C. Gale A. cumulus
D. Sea Breeze B. cumulonimbus
403. Name the four seasons. C. stratus
D. stratonimbus
407. All the weather happens in what layer of
the atmosphere
A. troposphere
B. thermosphere
C. stratosphere
D. none of above

408. Which term describes a circulation of air 413. Climate is different according to the loca-
or water that is caused by uneven heat- tion of a place on Earth.
ing? A. True
A. convection current B. False
B. conduction current
414. What is the comparison of how heavy
C. radiation current something is to the space that it occupies
D. emission current called?
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A. Density
409. Which statement is the most accurate
about cold air? B. Evaporation
A. Warm air rises because it is denser. C. Condensation
B. Warm air sinks because it is denser. D. Precipitation
C. Cold air rises because it is denser. 415. Which type of precipitation is likely at lo-
D. Cold air sinks because it is denser. cation 4?
410. Which box below shows a more dense ob-

ject?
A. warm drizzle
B. no precipitation
A. Left
C. moving snowstorm
B. Right
D. continuous cool rain
411. What kind of weather would an anticy- E. continuous snowstorm
clone likely bring?
A. Stormy 416. What kind of weather would you expect
in a low pressure system?
B. Cool and wet
A. Warm temperatures
C. Dry and clear
B. Cool temperatures
D. Changeable
C. Clear conditions
412. The movement in the air caused by differ- D. Cloudy/rainy conditions
ences in air pressure?
417. What helps us figure out the climate of
A. Rain
an area?
B. Wind
A. nformation about the tallest mountain
C. Air
B. Information about local plants and an-
D. none of above imals

C. Information about the rivers in the B. cool;warm

area C. more dense;less dense
D. Information about the weather for

D. none of above
many years
422. A statement about what you think will
418. How many climate zones have we dis- happen based on what you know.
cussed in class?
A. prediction
A. 1
B. precipitation
B. 7
C. possibility
C. 3
D. none of above
D. 4
423. Which of the following are narrow belts
419. Which cloud is this? of strong winds found in the upper tropo-
sphere?
A. Doldrums
B. Westerlies
C. Trade winds
D. Jet streams
424. A thermometer measures
A. cumulus
B. cumulonimbus
C. cirrus
D. stratus
420. masses of puffy white clouds, often with

flat bases
A. air pressure
B. wind speed
C. humidity
D. temperature
A. stratus 425. All of the following are effects of Global
B. cumulus Warming EXCEPT
C. cirrus
D. none of above
421. In a convection current, air rises and

air sinks.
A. warm;cool

A. increase in hurricanes 429. If susan decided to go outside to play,

B. lower sea levels which of the following outfits would keep
her the coolest?
C. increase in disease
A. Black shorts with a Red top.
D. melting polar ice caps
B. Blue jean shorts with a Orange top.
426. A cold front is approaching Minneapolis. C. White shorts with a light blue top.
What will happen to the air temperature? D. Black shorts with a light pink top.
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430. Choose the correct word to match the pic-
ture.
A. stay the same

B. increase
C. decrease A. Sunny
D. none of above B. Rainy
427. Why do you see precipitation near the L? C. Stormy
D. Partly Cloudy
431. the is also called as the “snow eater”

A. the loo
B. the chinook
C. the harmattan
D. the foehn
A. because that is low pressure and that
is where air rises, forming clouds 432. Prediction
B. because that is where air is falling and
it brings rain with it
C. because the mid-west is always rainy
this time of year
D. because cold more dense air is sinking
forming clouds
428. Wind blows from cooler areas to warmer

A. The four natural divisions of the year
areas.
based on changes in temperature
A. True B. The difference between the largest
B. False and smallest values in a set of values

C. A statement about what you think will A. cold, dry air rising rapidly within a stra-
happen, based on what you know tus cloud

D. A portion of Earth’s surface with bor- B. cooler air blowing toward high pres-
ders sure areas
433. heavy rain, severe weather is a result of C. warm, humid air rising within a cumu-
a lonimbus could, then cooling causing pre-
cipitation
A. Cold front
D. warm, humid air rising within a cirrus
B. Warm front cloud, then cooling causing precipitation
C. Stationary Front
437. What is the name of this instrument?
D. Occluded front
434. This climate type is known for its ex-

treme lack of moisture
A. Tundra
B. Arid
C. Mediterranean
D. Semi-arid
435. What is the difference between a

weather watch and a weather warning A. wind vane
A. A warning means that conditions are B. anemometer
right for severe weather, a watch means C. rain gauge
the storm has begun and people have
seen the type of weather D. barometer
B. A watch means that conditions are 438. Which term refers to the condition of the
right for nice weather, a warning means weather in a particular location?
the storm has begun and people should
keep watching for it A. Isobar
C. A watch means that conditions are B. Climate

right for severe weather, a warning C. Temperature
means the storm has begun and people
have seen the type of weather D. Atmosphere
D. A watch means that conditions are 439. Why might extreme weather be getting
right for tornados, a warning means the worse for the UK?
storm has begun and people have seen
A. We have a tropical climate
hurricanes
B. Climate change is bringing higher sea
436. The factors necessary to create unequal temperatures
heating of land and water surfaces to form
C. We are an island
weather events such as tornadoes and
thunderstorms are: D. none of above

440. As we go higher in the atmosphere, the 444. Which term is used to describe a seasonal
air pressure wind and weather pattern that brings
A. decreases heavy rainfall to a region?
B. increases A. Hurricane
C. does not change B. Monsoon
D. gets heavier C. Tornado

D. Blizzard
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441. The map shows the locations of
Gainesville and Miami, two cities in 445. Snow, Rain, Sleet, and Hail represent
Florida. At any one time, the range of tem-
peratures in Gainesville differs from the A. pressure
range of temperatures in Miami. Based
on evidence in the map, what most likely B. temperature
causes the range of temperatures to differ C. precipitation
in Gainesville and Miami? D. humidity
A. Miami is located closer to the ocean
than Gainesville is, and this causes its 446. Summer solstice (northern hemisphere) is
temperatures to vary less widely. on
B. Gainesville is located much farther A. March 21st

north than Miami is, so its temperatures B. May 22nd
vary more widely. C. July 22nd
C. Miami is located closer to the ocean D. June 21st
than Gainesville is, and winds from the
ocean cause its temperatures to vary 447. describes the condition of the air out-
more widely. doors such as temperature, cloud cover,
windspeed and rainfall.
D. Gainesville is farther inland than Mi-
ami is, so its climate is more moderate. A. Season
B. Weather
442. What is found in the exact center of all
hurricanes? C. Climate
A. The Eye D. Condensation
B. The High Power Winds 448. Dee measured the the temperature and
C. Lots of Clouds humidity every afternoon for four days.
She recorded the results in the table be-
D. Water
low. Which day could Dee conclude was
443. humidity the most hot and humid?
A. warm, moist climate zone near the
equator
B. large body of air with the same temper-
ature and humidity
C. measures air pressure A. Monday
D. moisture in the air B. Wednesday

C. Tuesday A. wind speed

D. Thursday B. temperature

449. Which natural process removes carbon C. visibility
dioxide from the atmosphere? D. none of above
A. forest fires 453. Which current affects the east coast?
B. volcanic eruptions A. California Current
C. cellular respiration B. Gulf Stream Current
D. photosynthesis C. Caribbean Sea Current
450. Which of the following statements de- D. none of above
scribe climate?
454. Which of the following area receive direct
A. the type of weather conditions on a sunlight
certain day
A. Tropic of Cancer
B. a description of an ecosystem
B. Arctic circle
C. condensation in the atmosphere C. Equator
D. the usual weather in a place over time D. none of above
451. State the direction of the wind showing 455. Warm air rises with this system and it
by the instrument. can often bring cloudy or stormy weather.
A. North East
B. South West
C. South East
A. low pressure system
D. none of above
B. high pressure system
452. The distance at which large objects can be C. cold front
seen clearly
D. occluded front
456. This weather instrument measures wind

speed
A. Anemometer
B. Thermometer

C. Barometer A. Climate
D. Weather Balloon B. Weather
457. Winds are caused by 463. Typically rainfall in June will be less than
one inch.
A. equal heating
A. Weather
B. unequal heating
B. Climate
458. Downpour is a heavy rain?
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464. What causes global convection currents
A. True
A. Forests
B. False
B. greenhouse gases
459. If the sky is dark and stormy, what type C. more land forms
of clouds are outside?
D. uneven heating of the Earth’s surface
A. Cirrus
465. The sun’s energy causes heat to be redis-
B. Stratus
tributed around the globe through a pro-
C. Cumulus cess called
D. Cumulonimbus A. Convection
460. What causes one side of a mountain to B. Conduction
be cloudy with more precipitation and the C. Radiation
other side to be dry and sunny? D. Election
A. prevailing winds
466. Warm air rising at the equator and cold
B. rain shadow effect air sinking at the poles is one reason for
C. surface currents which event?
D. greenhouse effect A. hurricanes
B. Coriolis force
461. What kind of front describes where a
warm air mass and two cold air masses C. earth’s rotation
are caught between each other? D. convection currents
A. Warm 467. “I went swimming in hot air today”
B. Occluded A. weather
C. Stationary B. climate
D. Cold C. both
462. What do we experience over a long time? D. nether
468. Air moves from a region of pressure
to a region of pressure.
A. low, medium
B. low, high
C. high, low
D. none of above

469. The path followed by an object moving 473. What climates are found mainly in the
around another object is called Northern Hemisphere?

A. rotate A. Marine West Coast and Humid Conti-
nental
B. orbit
B. Subarctic and Tundra
C. cycle
C. Highland and Desert
D. none of above
D. none of above
470. The temperature of Gainesville, Florida
474. What weather event is this?
(inland), vary more than the temperatures
in Miami, Florida (coastal), do. How can
the locations of the two cities explain the
differences in their temperature ranges?
A. Gainesville is farther north than Mi-
ami, so latitude will make its tempera-
tures vary more widely
B. Miami is closer to the ocean, and A. Tree
winds from the ocean cause its tempera- B. Tornado
ture to vary greatly
C. Hurricane
C. Miami is closer to the ocean, which af-
D. Mild Wind
fects its climate by keeping its tempera-
tures more consistent 475. Involves trends/cycles over time.
D. Gainesville is farther inland, which af- A. Climate
fects its climate by keeping it warmer at B. Weather
night and colder in the day
476. Cold air masses have
471. What kind of weather would you expect
A. low density and low pressure
when you have decreased air pressure?
B. high density and high pressure
Explanation:
C. Clear conditions
D. Cloudy conditions
Cold air sinks, causing and area of high
472. The science that focuses on the Earth’s
pressure
atmosphere, which includes air pressure,
wind speed and direction, temperature, hu- 477. I describe the weather of a place over a
midity, weather patterns, and other infor- long period of time. Who am I?
mation
A. Meteorology
B. Cirrus
C. Mesosphere
D. Altitude

A. Weather C. Cryosphere
B. Climate D. Hydrosphere
478. In the upper Midwest and extending to 481. City A and city B are located at the same
the east, there are five large bodies of latitude and elevation. However, city A is
fresh water called the Great Lakes. They a coastal city, and city B is located far in-
are hundreds of miles wide and some of land. A warm surface current flows by the
the deepest bodies of water in the United coastline where city A is located. Given
this information, which of the following
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States. Because they are so large, they
have a great deal of surface. This af- statements is most likely true?
fects weather patterns in areas close to A. During the winter, city A experiences
the lakes. How would you expect weather warmer weather than city B experiences.
patterns to be different in an area next
B. During the summer, city A experiences
to the shoreline of one of the Great Lakes
cooler weather than city B experiences.
compared to an area farther inland?
C. During the fall, city B experiences
A. The shoreline area would have warmer
more hurricanes than city A experiences.
winters and colder summers.
D. During the spring, city B experiences
B. The shoreline area would get more more thunderstorms than city A experi-
rain during the summer. ences.
C. There would be no significant differ-
ences in weather patterns between these 482. What is the temperature shown on the
two areas. third thermometer?
D. The inland area would have warmer

winters and colder summers.
479. What force pulls the atmosphere towards

the earth?
A. Mass A. 60 degrees Fahrenheit
B. Weight B. 30 degrees Fahrenheit
C. Air Pressure C. 100 degrees Fahrenheit
D. Gravity D. 10 degrees Fahrenheit
480. This is part of the E. 70 degrees Fahrenheit
483. What type of conditions are associated
with low pressure systems?
A. cloudy, rainy, or stormy conditions

A. Geosphere B. fair skies with no chance of precipita-
B. Atmosphere tion

484. is the state of atmosphere at a par- C. front

ticular place and time. D. air mass

A. Weather
489. What is a Sling Psychrometer?
B. Climate
A. A tool that measures humidity
C. Atmosphere
B. A tool that measures temperature
D. Wind
C. A tool that measures water vapor
485. Winds are named based on the direction D. A tool that measures wind speed
they are
490. Which climate is hot all year round and is
A. coming from
very wet and rainy?
B. moving towards
A. Desert
C. getting away
B. Tropical
D. none of above
C. Temperate
486. The symbols H and L on a weather map D. Mild
mean what
491. This layer contains the ozone layer
A. Temperature
A. Thermosphere
B. Air Pressure
B. mesosphere
C. Wind Speed
C. stratosphere
D. none of above
D. troposphere
487. The part of the water cycle where water
gathers on the ground in oceans, rivers, 492. How is a Low Pressure system repre-
lakes, streams, puddles, or groundwater sented on a weather map?
is called A. Big Red L
A. Condensation B. Big Red W
B. Precipitation C. Big Blue L
C. Runoff and Collection D. Big Red H
D. Evaporation 493. A narrow band of fast moving winds high
in the atmosphere that move from west to
488. A(n) is a large body of air that has
east
properties similar to the part of Earth’s
surface over which it depends.
A. tornado A. Jet Stream

B. pressure system B. doldrums

C. equator
D. polar easterlies
494. Climate is the weather in a place during

a LONG PERIOD OF TIME
A. True
B. Falso A. dark sky
B. thunderstorm
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495. A rapidly whirling funnel shaped cloud
C. high wind
that reaches down from a storm to touch
Earth’s surface, usually leaving a destruc- D. rain
tive path behind it.
499. Which tool is used to measure air pres-
sure?
A. anemometer
B. barometer
C. psychrometer
D. thermometer
A. thunderstorm
500. Which of Spain’s five climates is Madrid
B. hurricane located in?
C. tornado A. Oceanic climate
D. leeward B. Subtropical climate
496. Measures how fast or how slow C. Continental-Mediterranean climate

molecules are moving D. Mediterranean climate
A. Thermometer E. Mountain climate
B. Temperature 501. Why is a low pressure area, like the one
C. Heat in the map, created along a cold front?
D. All of them
497. Where would you find a tropical maritime

air mass?
A. Over the ocean near the equator.
A. The cold air drops the temperature,
B. Over the ocean near the poles (brrrrrr-
creating a low pressure area.
cold!).
B. The cold air pushes away the warm air,
C. Over a continent (land) near the equa-
tor.
C. The dense, cold air brings rain with it,
D. Over a continent (land) near the poles.
498. What is the first step in the birth of a D. The dense, cold air pushes the warm
tornado? air up, creating a low pressure area.

502. What is weather? 508. Earth has many types of climate zones.
A. is the average of weather conditions in The map shows the tundra climate zones of
the northern hemisphere. Which of the fol-

an area over a long period
lowing best describes this type of climate
B. is the daily state of the atmosphere, or zone?
air, in any given place
503. air mass

A. where two different air masses meet
B. a long period of unusually dry weather
C. large body of air with the same tem-
perature and humidity A. It is very hot because it is on the coast-
D. the envelope of gases that surrounds line.
Earth B. It is very wet because it is below sea
level.
504. Which of these definitions best describes
condensation? C. It receives very little snowfall because
it is close to the ocean.
A. When water vapour cools and turns
into clouds D. It has very cold temperatures because
it is far from the equator.
B. Rain, hail, sleet and snow that falls
from the clouds 509. Warming up near a campfire is an exam-
ple of
C. When the sun heats up sea water and
it goes into the air
D. When river water flows into the sea
505. When there is high air pressure this pro-

duces
A. cloudy sky
B. clear sky A. conduction
B. convection
506. Factors affecting the climate are?
C. radiation
A. the height of the place
D. connection
B. distance from the sea
C. the distance of place from the equator 510. Elevation is
D. All of these A. the height of land above sea level.
B. the temperature of a place.
507. what kind of weather will nimbostratus
clouds likely bring? C. the climate of a place.
A. sunny D. the daily conditions.
B. warm 511. India is located in
C. rainy A. south torrid zone
D. thunderstorms B. south frigid zone

C. South temperate zone 515. Cities that are closer to large bodies of
D. North Temperate zone water tend to have temperatures
512. Which season is represented by A?
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A. winter A. more extreme temperature changes
B. spring B. less extreme temperature changes
C. summer C. 4 distinct seasons
D. autumn D. more sunshine
513. The arrows in the diagram below show 516. Climate change may take place in
how the Sun’s rays hit Earth. Which ac- A. 30 years
curately describes the strength of the sun-
B. 2 years
light?
C. 1 month
D. none of above
517. What is humidity?

A. The amount of heat rising that rises
from the ground.
B. The amount of rain the ground soaks
A. The light is strongest at Z and weakest up.
at Y C. The amount of water vapor in the air.
B. The lights is strongest at Z and weak- D. How quickly the wind is blowing.
est at X
C. The light is strongest at X and weakest 518. a moving warm air mass collides with a
at Z slowly moving cold air mass is called a
D. The light is strongest at X and weakest A. cold front
at Y B. warm front
514. Which types of extreme weather can hap- C. stationary front

pen in the UK? D. none of above
A. Blizzards 519. Where would the air pressure be the high-
B. Flooding est?
C. Wildfires A. On the ground
D. Tornados B. In a plane

C. On the moon 524. What type of front forms where a cold

D. On a mountain air mass moves under a warm air mass?

A. stationary
520. WHAT IS IT?
B. occluded
C. warm
D. cold
525. Which statement best describes an area’s
climate?
A. The predicted low temperature for the
day.
A. Sahara desert
B. The lowest temperature on record for
B. Tropical rainforest the day.
C. Antarctica C. The average low temperature for the
D. none of above day.
521. Which image represents a stationary D. The current low temperature in a
front? nearby city.
A. 526. Which is NOT a type of precipitation?

A. Rain
B. B. Snow
C. Sleet
C.
D. Hail
E. All of these are types of precipitation.
D.
527. Which 3 elements affect air pressure?
522. The weather forecast tomorrow says
there will be a 15 mph northeast wind and A. wind, Earth’s distance from the Moon,
a high temperature of 52 degrees. What and clouds
three instruments will a meteorologist use B. amount of plants, wind, and level of
to make this prediction? water in the ocean
A. anemometer, wind vane, thermometer C. height above sea level, temperature,
and amount of water vapor
B. barometer, hygrometer, wind vane
D. temperature, wind, and how much
C. thermometer, satellite image, hygrom-
plant or animal life is around
eter
D. wind vane, satellite image, barometer 528. What unit is used to measure air pres-
sure?
523. Condensation occurs when a
A. Millibars or Inches
A. gas changes to a liquid. B. Degrees Fahrenheit or Degrees Cel-
B. solid changes to a liquid. sius
C. liquid changes to a gas. C. Miles per Hour or Kilometers per Hour
D. none of above D. Cardinal Directions

529. The change of state from a gas to a liquid. 535. All the gases and air that are around the
A. sublimation earth
B. deposition A. cold front
C. condensation B. cirrus
D. evaporation C. atmosphere
D. warm front
530. a boundary between two different air
masses 536. How has weather prediction changed
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A. back over time?
B. line A. mathematical calculations are now
C. side done by hand.
D. front B. Computer models make predictions

more accurate.
531. What are the two main gases in the at- C. Mathematical models make predic-
mosphere? tions less accurate.
A. nitrogen and oxygen
D. Computer models make predicting
B. hydrogen and oxygen weather take longer.
C. carbon dioxide and oxygen
537. What happens to the temperature at
D. carbon dioxide and nitrogen higher elevations?
532. 90o South A. it gets colder
A. North Pole B. it gets warmer
B. South Pole C. it stays the same
533. When cool air rushes in to replace warm D. there is no temperature
air that has risen 538. The climate of a desert is usually
A. latitude
A. Wet and Cold
B. longitude
B. Dry and Hot
C. tide
539. Which type of cloud is this?
D. wind
534. The line graph represents?
A. Temperature A. cirrus
B. Precipitation B. stratus
C. Wind Direction C. cumulus
D. none of above D. none of above

540. “It is a beautiful sunny day” is an exam- 546. A tool used to measure temperature is
ple of called

A. Weather
B. Climate
541. What weather tool is used to find tem-

perature?
A. Rain Gauge
B. Anemometer
C. Thermometer
D. Wind Sock
542. The two main factors that determine the

climate of a region are and
A. altitude and pressure
B. pressure and temperature
C. temperature and precipitation
D. altitude and pressure
543. The actual amount of water vapour

present in the air is called
A. relative humidity
B. absolute humidity
C. both
D. none of above
544. There is a severe thunderstorm warning

A. Anemometer
for this area today.
B. Weather Vane
A. Weather
C. Thermometer
B. Climate
D. Rain Gauge
545. warm front 547. Which instrument tells the direction
A. the highest temperature in the Mid- where the wind is coming from?
west
B. warmer air; light and steady precipita-
tion; move southwest to northeast
C. when the clouds are gray is because
its going to rain
D. little water drops falling into the ocean

A. Wind vane 552. The following picture is an example of a

B. hygrometer
C. Wind vane
D. Rain gauge
548. Higher temperature means faster moving

molecules
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A. True
B. False A. Tornado
B. Hurricane
549. Air at the poles is colder and denser so it
C. Flood
A. rises D. none of above
B. circulates 553. A small, funnel-shaped cloud that comes

C. stagnates down from a storm cloud is called a hurri-
cane.
D. sinks
A. True
550. Which of the following are the 2 main fac- B. False
tors that determine climate?
554. In what order are the four stages of the
A. Preciptiation and humidity water cycle?
B. Temperature and Air Pressure
C. Wind conditions and Humidity
D. Temperature and Precipitation
551. This weather instrument tells us wind di-

rection.
A. evaporation, condensation, runoff,

precipitation
B. evaporation, condensation, precipita-
tion, runoff
C. condensation, runoff, evaporation,
precipitation
D. runoff, evaporation, precipitation, con-
A. anemometer densation
B. rain gauge
555. As you increase in altitude, the tempera-
C. weather vane ture and the pressure
D. barometer A. increases, increases

B. increases, decreases 561. How long does it take the earth to re-
volve once around the sun?
C. decreases, increases

A. 12 hours
D. decreases, decreases
B. 24 hours
556. What role of tiny, suspended particles in C. 30 days
the atmosphere in cloud formation?
D. 365.25 days
A. Suspended particles help air to rise.
562. Places located far away from the sea
B. Suspended particles help cool the air
have climate.
to dew point
A. extreme hot
C. Suspended particles provide a surface
on which water droplets can form. B. extreme cold
C. extreme climate
D. Suspended particles allow rate of con-
densation to equal the rate of saturation. D. none of above
557. Who gets more precipitation? 563. Streams, rivers, and the water that
flows over land due to gravity.
A. Areas closer to the equator
A. runoff
B. Areas farther from the equator
B. infiltration
558. What layer does weather occur in? C. ice flow
A. mesosphere D. ocean circulation
B. troposphere 564. How does a hurricane form?
C. thermosphere A. It begins as a high-pressure area over
D. stratosphere cold ocean water.
B. It begins as a low-pressure system
559. Overcast is an adjective, a verb, or a area over warm ocean water.
noun?
C. It beings as a high-pressure area over
A. adjective? warm ocean water.
B. Verb? D. It begins as a low-pressure area over
cold ocean water.
C. Noun?
D. none of above 565. Which describes the air mass approaching
City B?
560. A rapidly whirling, funnel-shaped cloud
that reaches down to touch Earth’s surface
leaving a large path of destruction. To stay
safe if outside, lie in a ditch!
A. Tornado
B. Hurricane
C. Thunderstorm
A. Warm Front and temperatures will in-
D. none of above crease

B. Warm Front and temperatures will de- 570. A student is presenting information to his
crease class on the daily changes in temperature
C. Cold Front and temperatures will in- and precipitation in a specific area. The
crease topic of the student’s presentation is-
A. Fossils
D. Cold Front and temperatures will de-
crease B. Weather
C. Climate
566. where do we keep a thermometer?
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D. Habitats
A. wooden box
571. climatic zones are also called
B. Stevenson’s screen
A. heat zones
C. grass
B. torrid zones
C. frigid zone
567. regions on the map that are dark blue are D. none of above
the
572. A barometer measures what?
A. wind speed
B. temperature
C. rain
D. air pressure
573. ‘Every winter there was so much more
A. tropical zones snow than there is now, ‘ said the old man.
B. polar zones ‘It was piles up to our waists when I was
a young boy.’
C. temperate zones
A. Weather
D. subtropical zones
B. Climate
568. Which climate zone has very low tem-
peratures all year round and snow is com- 574. What kind of observation are you making
mon? if you are observing the colors refracting
off of a prism?
A. cold climates
A. dependent variable
B. temperate climates B. independent variable
C. hot climates C. qualitative variable
D. none of above D. quantitative variable
569. To measure the temperature, you would 575. What does a weather vane measure?
use a A. The wind speed
A. wind vane B. The air pressure
B. rain guage C. The wind direction
C. wind sock D. The temperature
D. thermometer E. The amount of precipitation

576. What are surface currents? A. Walk home quickly.

A. currents that are deep inside the B. Stand under a tree.
ocean

C. Seek shelter.
B. currents that move along the edges of
D. Huddle around home plate.
continents
581. This front occurs when a warm air mass
577. The wispy clouds that form at high levels
catches up to a cold air mass and over
A. cirrus takes it.
B. stratus A. cold front
C. spring B. occluded front
D. none of above C. warm front
578. What instrument is used to measure the D. stationary front
speed of wind?
582. high pressure system
A. A rapidly whirling, funnel-shaped cloud
that reaches down to touch Earth’s sur-
face.
B. a large body of circulating air with high
pressure at its center and lower pressure
outside of the system
C. a specialized type of radar that can de-
A. An anemometer tect precipitation as well as the movement
of small particles, which can be used to ap-
B. A weather vane proximate wind speed
C. A pluviometer D. none of above
D. A barometer
583. Why is it so much hotter near the equator
E. A thermometer
than at the poles
579. There are 5 types of climates in Spain. A. It is the hottest at the prime meridian
B. At the equator, the sun’s rays hit the
earth straight on. At the poles, the sun’s
rays hit the earth at a slant, meaning
that the energy from the sun will be more
spread out.
C. The sun does not directly hit the earth
at the equator so it is hotter there
A. True. D. It is not hot at the equator, it is cold
B. False.
584. The formation of hurricanes, storms, and
580. A baseball team is practicing on the field other weather events require energy. The
when a thunderstorm approaches. Which original energy source for all of these
is the best safety precaution to take? events is which type of energy?

A. wind energy A. Weather

B. solar energy B. Climate
C. geothermal energy
589. the condition of the atmosphere at a place
D. ocean waves for a short period of time
585. Choose the best forecast for Minneapolis A. weather
on Saturday. B. climate
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C. typical
D. atmosphere
590. In an all living things, such as the

plants and animals, interact with each
other.
A. snow A. ecosystem
B. cloudy skies B. vegetation
C. hail
591. Sun
D. sunny skies
A. Sunny
586. rain is collected and measured by a B. Sol
A. rain stick
592. What gas is the primary constituent of
B. rain bucket our atmosphere?
C. rain quadrant A. carbon dioxide
D. rain gauge
B. oxygen
587. Given below are some adaptive features C. hydrogen
of animals.(i) Layer of fat under the skin(ii)
D. nitrogen
Long, curved and sharp claws(iii) Slippery
body(iv) Thick white furWhich of them are E. helium tagsSC.912.E.7.1
the adaptive features of a polar bear?
593. High pressure has-
A. (i) only
B. (i) and (ii) only
C. (i), (ii) and (iii) only
D. (i), (ii) and (iv)
588. There was a huge thunderstorm last
night!
A. cool, wet air

B. hot, dry air
C. lots of dark clouds
D. none of above

594. Heat energy reflected back by the Earth’s 598. When an animal or human breathes air,
surface in the form of long wave radiation the interaction is between the and the
is known as

A. Terrestrial radiation
B. Insolation
595. Which effect does an ocean have on the

climate?
A. Rushing water from tides cools the
land.
B. There is no influence on climate from
an ocean.
C. Cool ocean air causes a cool climate. A. atmosphere and hydrosphere
D. Warm ocean air causes a dry climate. B. biosphere and geosphere
596. This tool is used with a wind vane to de- C. hydrosphere and biosphere
termine the direction of the wind.
D. atmosphere and biosphere
A. wrench
599. days and days of rain, snow, or clouds
B. screwdriver
are a result of a
C. compass
A. Cold front
D. telescope
B. Warm front
597. This weather chart could belong to a C. Stationary Front
D. Occluded front
600. At the start of a hurricane, strong winds

blew over the ocean causing more water
to evaporate. How did this effect the hur-
ricane?
A. The hurricane lost heat
B. The hurricane lost pressure
C. The hurricane became weaker
D. The hurricane became stronger
A. Oceanic climate. 601. what did the 2 children want to do

B. Continental climate. A. play badminton
C. Mountain climate. B. play football
D. Subtropical climate. C. go on a tour
E. Mediterranean climate. D. go to the mall

602. Which of the following is NOT a reason B. Warm and cool currents influencing cli-
why the atmosphere is important? mate
A. It is made of many layers. C. Connections between the World’s
oceans
B. It provides gases living things need.
D. none of above
C. It provides warm temperatures.
D. It protects us from UV rays and mete- 606. Weather is best described as which of the
ors. following?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. How fast the wind is blowing
603. Hot air rises because it
B. The amount of water in the air
C. How much air is pressing down on a
particular area
D. The condition of the atmosphere at one
particular time and place
607. is determined by the study of data
collected over a period of time about 30-
35 years.
A. Weather
B. Climate
608. Decide if the statement relates relates to
A. is denser than cooler air. weather OR climate:It can be very humid
B. is less dense than cooler air. in Florida during the summer.
A. weather
C. has less gravitational pull than other
cooler gases. B. climate
D. becomes helium when heated. 609. There are three forms of precipita-
tion:rain, snow and sleet.
604. What is a person that forecasts the
weather called? A. True
B. False
A. Climatologist
B. Psychologist 610. What instrument is used to measure the
direction of wind?
C. Meteorologist
D. Physicist
605. The following photo represents
A. An anemometer
A. Hurricane and Tropical storm paths B. A weather vane

C. A pluviometer D. Mountains
D. A barometer E. Tropical

E. A thermometer 616. Cacao trees grow along or close to the
equator because
611. Which of these are different ex-
treme/severe weather conditions?
A. Hot, Windy, Sunny, Cloudy
B. Flood, Drought, Blizzard
C. Summer, Spring, Winter, Autumn
D. none of above
612. The temperate zones of the Earth are be-

tween the tropics. Is that true or false?
A. the climate is both hot and wet.

B. the climate is cold.
C. the climate is windy
D. none of above
617. Which word corresponds to the following
definition?:to rain gently and steadily
A. Overcast?
B. To drizzle
A. True C. To thaw
B. False D. Damp
613. Which changes faster? 618. What type of precipitation does this sym-
A. weather bol represent in a weather station model?
B. climate A. Rain
B. Snow
614. Analogies:water droplets: ::frozen
C. Thunderstorm
dew:frost
D. Drizzle
A. dew
B. frost 619. Which instrument do you need to mea-
sure air pressure?
C. fog
D. smoke
615. This climate has very cold temperatures

all year and very little precipitation.
A. Mediterranean
B. Temperate
C. Polar

A. Anemometer A. thunderstorm
B. Barometer B. watch
C. Thermometer C. front
D. none of above D. cloud
620. the condition of Earth’s atmosphere at a 624. What is the difference between weather
particular time and place. It tells you what and climate?
to wear and changes all the time.
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. Climate is determined by temperature
A. weather
B. Weather is determined by tempera-
B. elements of weather ture
C. climate C. Climate is at a set time weather is over
D. wind long period of time
D. Weather is at a set time climate is over
621. The climate zone that is hot almost all the long period of time
time is
A. tropical 625. What occurs when water flows or col-
lects over land that is usually dry.
B. polar
C. temperate
D. none of above
622. Identify the type of front that is shown

in the image.
A. dam
B. flood
C. floodway
D. levee
A. Occluded Front
626. What does this graph show?
B. Cold Front
C. Stationary Front
D. Warm Front
623. When two air masses meet, there is a

, or boundary.

A. The names of the days of the week 631. The study of weather is called
B. The temperatures of each day A. Astrology

C. The temperature at 6:00 a.m. B. Biology
D. How many people voted for each day
C. Earthology
627. Which example of weather produces D. Meteorology
heavy winds, humidity, and lots of rain?
A. a hurricane 632. What climate zone is the green area in
the picture?
B. a snowstorm
C. a hail storm
D. Ah tsunami
628. Two factors to determine climate are

A. humidity and pressure.
B. hurricanes and tornadoes.
A. Polar zone
C. precipitation and temperature.
D. none of above B. Temperate zone
C. Tropical zone
629. Which of the following describes the ef-
fects a tornado may have on a community. D. none of above
Choose TWO
633. Days are short and colder in
A. protect buildings
B. cause lots of damage A. Spring
C. keep communities safe B. Summer

D. cause harm to people or animals C. Autumn
E. tie trees down D. Winter
630. Which city has the lowest temperature on 634. Describes wind, temperatures, and hu-
the map? midity conditions above the Earth’s sur-
face
A. Surface report
B. upper-air report
635. Heat transfer by touch

A. convection
A. Minneapolis
B. Seattle B. conduction
C. New York C. radiation

D. Denver D. none of above

636. What can be concluded about the climate 640. What determines the major climate
of Binghamton from 1951 to 1956? zones?
A. altitude
B. latitude
C. ocean currents
D. none of above
641. What kind of weather would you predict
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A. Both temperature and precipitation in- Utah will have tomorrow? (Hint-Utah is
creased in Binghamton. next to Colorado)
B. Both temperature and precipitation de- A. fair weather
creased in Binghamton. B. chance of rain
C. The temperature in Binghamton de- C. chance of snow
creased, and the precipitation increased.
D. chance of thunderstorm
D. The temperature in Binghamton in-
creased, and the precipitation decreased. 642. Locations in the Northern Hemisphere are
warmest in summer because sunlight in
637. The instrument used to measure temper- summer is
ature is called a(n) A. least intense and of shortest duration
A. anemometer B. least intense and of longest duration
B. barometer C. most intense and of shortest duration
C. hygrometer D. most intense and of longest duration
D. thermometer
643. Why does the amount of salinity affect
638. Winds blow from pressure to ocean currents?
pressure. A. Salty water is able to conduct electric-
A. low, high ity
B. high, low B. Salty water is only found at certain lat-
itudes.
639. Which stage does the #2 show in the di- C. Salinity affects the density of water.
agram?
D. Salinity makes water evaporate
quicker.
644. What are the primary gases and the at-
mosphere and their percentages?
A. Oxygen 78%, Carbon 21%, Argon 0.9%
B. Oxygen 78% Nitrogen 21%, Argon
0.9%
A. condensation
C. Nitrogen 78%, Oxygen 21 %, Argon
B. evaporation 0.9%
C. precipitation D. Hydrogen 78%, Oxygen 21%, Argon
D. run off 0.9%

645. Determine the contour interval:

A. a gas to a liquid
B. a liquid to a gas
A. 5 m
C. solid to a liquid
B. 10 m
D. a liquid to a solid
C. 15 m
650. Scientists studying climate collect data
D. 20 m that is slightly different from the data
collected by those interested in weather.
646. Which type of cloud is a funnel-shaped What is different about the data collected
cloud that touches Earth’s surface? about climate? Climate data-
A. microburst A. requires more specialized equipment
B. down draft than weather data
B. focuses on conditions only in the upper
C. hurricane
atmosphere
D. tornado C. refers to longer times and wider areas
than weather data
647. Warm air masses that form near the
equator are called D. does not include information about air
temperature
A. tropical air masses
651. How does weather change as you go up
B. polar air masses in the atmosphere?
C. maritime air masses A. The air pressure increase.
D. continental air masses B. The temperature decreases.
C. The wind changes directions.
648. The imaginary line around the center of
the Earth is called the: D. The humidity will decrease.
A. Longitude 652. What is the biosphere?

B. Axis
C. Equator
D. Latitude
649. The sun will cause water in the puddle to

change from

A. all the air and gases on the planet 656. A heat wave in New York City lasting
four days.
B. made up of living things
A. Weather
C. the non-living soil, rocks, and minerals
of the Earth B. Climate
D. the rivers, lakes, and oceans of the
Earth 657. The layers of the atmosphere. In this
layer the temperatures are very low
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653. Water vapor that condenses very close
to Earth’s surface is called
A. a Cumulus Cloud
B. Visibility
C. Fog
D. A cirrus cloud
A. Troposphere
654. What does this line represent on a B. Stratosphere
weather map?
C. Mesosphere
D. Thermosphere
E. Exosphere
658. What is weather?
A. cold front
B. warm front
C. stationary front
D. none of above
655. Students gathered weather data during

the day and recorded it in a table. What
tool did the students use to gather the
data? A. What’s happening in space at a time
and place.
B. What’s happening in our atmosphere
at a time and place.
A. Thermometer C. The average weather over many years
B. Rain gauge D. The average temperature over many
years.
C. Wind vane
D. Spring scale 659. This is a

B. cool and humid

C. warm and humid

D. cool and dry
664. Humans are contributing towards climate
change by
A. burning fossil fuels which decreases
the amount of greenhouse gases in our at-
mosphere.
A. Anemometer. B. volcanic eruptions.
B. Rain gauge. C. burning fossil fuels which increases
C. Thermometer. the amount of greenhouse gases in our at-
mosphere.
D. Weather vane.
D. changing the orbit of the earth so we
660. Predicting the weather is also known as get more sunlight.
665. Wind blowing from land towards the sea.
A. Forcasting
A. Land Breeze
B. Patterning
B. Precipitation
661. What tool do you use to measure precip- C. Sea Breeze
itation?
D. none of above
A. Thermometer
666. What type of front may be rainy or foggy
B. Weather Vane
for several days?
C. Rain Gauge
A. Cold
D. Map
B. Stationary
662. How do large bodies of water influence C. Occluded
climate? D. Warm
A. Downwind areas have cooler winters
than inland areas have. 667. Which type of pressure system is pic-
tured?
B. Downwind areas have warmer sum-
mers than inland areas have.
C. Downwind areas have cooler summers
than inland areas have.
D. Downwind areas have harsher winters
than inland areas have.
663. An air mass forms over the Gulf of Mex- A. high

ico and moves Northeast across Georgia.
What weather conditions are likely to pre- B. low
vail in Georgia? C. medium
A. warm and dry D. none

668. Large body of air with the same temper- 674. What is temperature?
ature, pressure, and moisture characteris-
tics is called? A. The measure of how hot or cold some-
thing is
A. warm front
B. cold front B. The amount of water vapor in the air
compared to the amount of water vapor
C. air mass needed to reach saturation.
D. jet stream
C. Air that moves horizontally, or parallel
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669. Domestic cattle production and rice agri- to the ground.
culture release relatively large amounts of
which gas into the atmosphere? D. Evaporation
A. ear (aa)
675. What does this picture show?
B. Water vapor (H2O)
C. Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
D. Carbon dioxide (CO2)
E. Methane (CH4) tagsSC.912.E.7.7
670. Which layer of the atmosphere is
weather found?
A. thermosphere
A. weather
B. troposphere
C. stratosphere B. climate
D. mesosphere
676. The nighttime low is expected to be-5oC
671. When do rain droplets form?
A. Weather
A. condensation
B. Climate
B. transpiration
C. evaporation
677. The amount of energy coming into the
D. run off Earth system roughly equals the amount
going out.
672. Which of the following is NOT a factor of
climate? A. false
A. Latitude
B. true
B. Distance to Ocean
C. Altitude 678. What weather instrument measures how
D. Population hot or cold it is outside?
673. What is climate? A. Barometer

A. is the average of weather conditions in B. Anemometer
an area over a long period
C. Rain Gauge
B. is the daily state of the atmosphere, or
air, in any given place. D. Thermometer

679. In what part of our atmosphere do we 685. Winds blow in curved lines because of
live?
A. the greenhouse effect.

A. stratosphere
B. ionosphere B. the Coriolis effect.
C. mesosphere C. convection.
D. the location of landforms.
D. troposphere
E. exosphere tagsSC.912.E.7.3 686. This picture is a container of water and
a solid rock that have the same mass and
680. The direction in which a place faces is temperature.What will MOST LIKELY hap-
known as its ? pen when the rock and water receive the
same energy?
A. Altitude/height
B. Ocean current
C. Aspect
D. Mountain barrier
A. the water will transfer heat to the the
681. water rock
A. renewable B. the rock will transfer heat to the water
B. non-renewable C. the temperature of the rock will rise
faster
682. the mixture of gases that surrounds a D. the temperature of the water will rise
planet, or the air in a particular place faster
A. precipitation 687. Which region usually has temperatures
B. meteorologist cooler than temperatures near the equa-
tor?
C. atmosphere
A. tropic zone
D. climate
B. polar zone
683. Conventional Rainfall is also known as C. temperate zone
A. 3 o’clock rainfall D. both polar zone and temperate zone
B. 5 O’ clock rainfall 688. the average weather patterns and condi-
C. 4 O’clock rainfall tions over a long period of time; tells you
what you would have for a wardrobe
D. none of above
A. climate
684. Which of the following contributes the B. weather
least to your carbon footprint? C. winds
A. Riding a bike to school D. precipitation
B. Riding in a car to the mall 689. Short term state of the atmosphere.
C. Riding in a plane to Europe A. Climate
D. none of above B. Weather

690. Weather symbols help us describe A. When a high-and a low-pressure air

A. gravity’s pull on the Earth. mass are far apart, air moves quickly from
low to high pressure.
B. the four seasons.
B. When a high-and a low-pressure air
C. conditions of temperature and air. mass are far apart, air moves slowly from
D. none of above high to low pressure.
C. When a high-and a low-pressure air
691. What cloud is shown? mass are close together, air moves slowly
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from high to low pressure.
D. When a high-and a low-pressure air
mass are far apart, air moves quickly from
high to low pressure.
694. Most water pollution is the result of

A. natural processes
A. Cirrus B. animal waste
B. Stratus C. human activities
C. Cumulus D. acid rain
D. Cumulonimbus 695. is the percentage of water vapor in

air relative to the amount needed to satu-
692. Coos Bay, Oregon and Boise, Idaho are rate the air at the same temperature.
approximately at the same latitude. In
A. humidity
January, the average temperature in Coos
Bay is 11.7◦ C (53◦ F). The average tem- B. temperature
perature in Boise is 2.7◦ C (37◦ F). What is C. relative humidity
the most likely reason for the difference in
D. relative pressure
the average January temperatures of the
two cities? 696. The amount of water vapor in the air is
known as
A. Coos Bay is near the Pacific Ocean

B. Coos Bay gets more precipitation.
C. Boise is closer to the equator.
D. Boise is at a lower elevation. A. warm front
B. precipitation
693. Which statement best describes the rela-
tionship between changes in air pressure C. humidity
and wind speeds? D. air pressure

697. What role does air pressure play in B. Nitrogen (78%), oxygen (21%) and
weather conditions? other gases

A. It’s force determines the strength of C. Oxygen (78%), hydrogen (21%) and
wind. other gases
B. It determines how high or low the tide D. Carbon dioxide (78%), oxygen (21%)
is. and other gases
698. what is weather 701. Which of the following is not a factor that
affects climate?
A. average weather condition over a long
period of time
B. The state of atmosphere at a specific
time, at any one particular place.
C. none
D. none of above
A. latitude
699. Which of the following is not something a
B. longitude
person may see or hear before a tornado?
C. oceans
D. mountains
702. This climate zone has long hot summers

and warm winters. These zones are found
near the equator.
A. Polar Climate
B. Temperate Climate
A. Debris falls from the sky.
C. Tropical Climate
B. There is a continuous thunder and
lightning. D. Could you turn on the A/C please?
C. Falling hail. 703. Which will most likely result from a low-
pressure weather system?
D. The sky turns greenish or greenish
black. A. Warm temperatures
B. cloudy conditions
700. The main components of the atmosphere
are C. clear conditions
D. cool temperatures
704. During the day

A. cool, high pressured air rises over
ocean.
B. warm, low pressured air rises over
ocean.
A. Hydrogen (78%), oxygen (21%) and C. cool, high pressured air rises over
other gases land.

D. warm, low pressured air rises over A. Blizzard

land. B. Hurricane
705. Which species is threatened by the in- C. Tornado
creased winter flow in streams due to
D. Drought
global warming?
A. striped bass 711. With this type of pressure system, you
would expect clear, dry, sunny skies.
B. atlantic mackerel
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C. crawfish
D. salmon
706. What happens to the temperature of the

air when latitude increases?
A. It remains the same
B. Increases
C. Decreases
D. Varies
707. If you were a meteorologist, what kind

of weather would you predict Seattle,
Washington will have tomorrow? A. high pressure system
A. fair weather
B. warm front
B. rainy weather
C. low pressure system
C. snowy weather
D. cold front
D. a thunderstorm
712. What type of weather would you expect
708. The conditions of the atmosphere over a with the pressure system pictured?
short period of time
A. Weather
B. Climate
709. measures the air pressure caused by the

weight of all the air in the atmosphere
pressing down on Earth
A. stationary front
A. clear
B. barometer
B. cloudy
C. humidity
C. severe storms
D. high pressure system
D. hot
710. Which type of severe event is most likely
to occur when a cold front moves in behind 713. Compared with lower altitudes, at higher
warm, moist air? altitudes the air molecules are:

A. less densely packed. D. Thermometer

B. more densely packed. E. Anemometer

C. the same density of packing. 718. A class of students research the an-
D. packed with variable density. nual temperatures of four major biomes.
The students share the information they
714. Which is a man-made resource of green- gather on the tundra, tropical rain for-
house gases? est, desert, and grasslands biomes in the
A. Smoke stacks from factories releasing charts below. Which of the following ex-
exhaust into the air plains a similar climate to that of the trop-
ical rain forest?
B. Trees taking in carbon dioxide
A. The grasslands have a cooler climate
C. Humans breathing out carbon dioxide
during the summer months than the tun-
D. none of above dra.
715. If it only rains one month out a year the B. The tropical rain forest and deserts
climate would be described as have similar yearly temperatures.
A. mostly wet. C. The tropical rain forest and desert

have consistent types of temperatures
B. mostly dry. during the day and night.
C. neither wet or dry. D. The tundra biome and the tropical rain-
D. none of above forest biome receive direct sunlight.
716. Water that falls to Earth as rain, snow, 719. This is a type of cloud that gets bigger
sleet, and hail. and bigger, sometimes getting very dark
on the bottom. This is a sign to us on earth
A. seasons
that will fall soon.
B. lemonade
C. pattern
D. precipitation
717. What weather instrument is shown?
A. dew
B. fog
C. rain
D. temperatures
720. Climate is affected by many factors in-

cluding:
A. Rain Gauge A. latitude, elevation, and proximity to
B. Barometer bodies of water
C. Weather Vane B. tides and currents

C. wind 725. Energy that travels across distances in

D. snow and sleet the form of electromagnetic waves.
A. Convection
721. What is an example of an adaptation due
to CLIMATE? B. Radiation
A. a dog that has brown spots C. Conduction
B. a human that has blue eyes D. Induction
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C. a rose that is red 726. A device that is used to measure atmo-
D. an olive tree that is drought resistant spheric pressure is a
A. barometer
722. Which heats quicker, land or water?
B. thermometer
A. land
C. kilometer
B. water
D. micrometer
C. they heat the same
D. none of above 727. the typical weather conditions at a par-
ticular location as observed over time
723. Which is a measure of the force with A. weather
which molecules in the atmosphere push on
a surface? B. climate
C. solstice
D. equinox
728. Places near the poles are because

they receive less intense radiation due to
the tilt of earth’s axis.
A. air pressure
B. temperature
C. precipitation A. Warm
D. relative humidity B. Cold
724. What weather instrument measures the 729. What month would you expect to see
amount of humidity in the atmosphere? leaves falling?
A. Anemometer A. January
B. hygrometer B. October
C. Psychrometer C. June
D. Thermometer D. May

730. What is it called when a mountain has a 734. Choose the best forecast for Los Angeles
wet side and a dry side? on Saturday.

A. Topography
B. Climate
C. Rain Side
D. Rain Shadow
731. In August of 1992, Hurricane Andrew a

powerful Category 5 hurricane made land-
A. cooler temperatures
fall in Homestead, Florida. The Miller fam-
ily lost their power in the storm. The day B. warmer temperatures
after the storm had passed, they went to C. low pressure
their local Publix Supermarket to buy bat-
teries, bottled water, and whatever food D. snow
products they could get that did not re-
quire refrigeration or heat. After waiting 735. This type of climate is dry because it gets
on line for 3 hours, they returned home little rainfall. The days are hot and nights
with nothing. What could the Miller fam- are cold.
ily have done differently? A. arctic
A. They should have Locked up their home B. desert
and set up a tent in the woods.
C. tropical
B. They should have gone on diets so they
would not be hungry. D. temperate
C. They could have gone to their local Pub- 736. Water gains energy and turns into water
lix immediately after they learned that the vapor (gas)
storm was coming to stock up on those
items.
D. They should have asked the Mayor of
Homestead to cancel the hurricane.
732. A is the constant movement of ocean

water.
A. current
B. pool
733. Climate is
A. The day-to-day conditions of the atmo-
sphere at a particular place
A. Transpiration
B. The average weather conditions of a
place taken over a period of time B. Evaporation
C. The same as weather C. Condensation

737. Elevation is the measure of how high 741. Which layer of the atmosphere contains
something is above a reference point. the ionosphere?
What is the most common reference point A. troposphere
used to refer to the elevation of natural
land forms? B. stratosphere
A. Sea level C. mesosphere
B. Lake level D. thermosphere
C. Land level
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742. What happens in the northern hemi-
D. River level sphere when the sun is tilted away from
Earth?
738. Low pressure has
A. summer
A. sunny with no clouds.
B. hot, dry air. B. winter
C. cool, wet air. C. spring

D. none of above D. fall
739. What is C? 743. The daily forecast for Charlotte, North

Carolina, is partly cloudy with a 30%
chance of rain.
A. Weather
B. Climate
744. State if true or false. Monday is a good

day to go for a picnic.
A. Evaporation
B. Condensation
C. Precipitation
D. Runoff
740. The amount of water vapor in the air is
A. True
B. False
745. How does it work?

A. humidity A. Solar panels absorb sunlight
B. rainfall B. It collects gas
C. clouds C. It attracts people
D. none of above D. something to do with sunlight

746. What are the lines on a weather map 751. A team of meteorologists are recording
called that show areas of the same pres- daily temperatures in their city and com-
sure paring the measurements with data col-

lected over several decades. What type
A. Isobars
of information are they investigating?
B. Contour lines
A. weather, because they are measuring
C. Relief lines temperature
D. none of above B. climate, because they are comparing
data over time
747. a dry area on the downwind side of a C. weather because the measurement
mountain can change daily
A. leeward D. climate, because the data is collected
B. windward for only one city
C. rain shadow 752. Which of the following is not a factor that

affects climate?
D. desert
748. Long distance winds that travel above

global winds for thousands of kilometers
A. Air mass
B. Front
C. Storm surge A. Latitude
D. Fog B. Longitude
E. Jet Stream C. Oceans
D. Relief (mountain)
749. High winds and precipitation cause a hur-
ricane’s storm 753. The climate is
A. strength A. the state of the atmosphere at a par-
ticular time and place.
B. intensity
B. the weather in a particular place over
C. shape a long period of time.
D. surge
754. What is happening in the atmosphere at
750. I am a fast-moving ribbon of AIR that one moment of time is called
moves from west to east in the Northern A. Weather
Hemisphere around the Earth.
B. Climate
A. California Current C. meteorology
B. Gulf Stream D. none of above
C. Jet Stream
755. Which of the following is a weather sys-
D. Atlantic Ocean tem with a center of low pressure?

A. cyclone C. Continental Polar

B. anticyclone D. Continental Tropical
C. warm front 760. Distance north or south of the Equator,
D. cold front measured in degrees
756. A gradual increase in average global tem- A. Elevation

perature B. Meteorology
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A. Global warming C. Visibility
B. Greenhouse effect D. Topography
C. Ice age E. Latitude
D. Weather forecasting
761. The helps to more evenly spread out
E. Station model temperatures on earth.
757. In describe in short terms conditions of A. ocean
the atmosphere, some of them in the same B. equator
day. Who am I?
C. altitude
D. climate
762. A device for measuring air pressure is

called a
A. wind gauge
B. thermometer
A. Weather
C. barometer
B. Climate
D. rain gauge
758. Seasons
763. A barometer measures the amount of pre-
cipitation.
A. True
B. False
A. The four natural divisions of the year 764. Which type of precipitation is likely at lo-
based on changes in temperature cation 5?
B. A portion of Earth’s surface with bor-
ders
C. The current outdoor conditions
D. A design or sequence that is repeated
759. What type of air mass comes from the

ocean and either the North or South Pole?
A. Maritime Polar A. warm drizzle
B. Maritime Tropical B. no precipitation

C. moving snowstorm 769. Why does air pressure decrease from the
D. continuous cool rain tropsphere into the exosphere?

E. continuous snowstorm A. There are fewer air molecules as the
altitude increases.
765. What climate zone is the UAE in? B. There are more air molecules as the
A. Tropical altitude increases.
B. Mediterranean C. There are higher temperatures as the
C. Temperate altitude increases.
D. Arid D. There are lower temperatures as the
altitude increases.
766. What conditions are required for sleet?
770. The rainy season in Barbados usually
ends in November
A. weather
B. climate
771. Snow forms when the air is at or below

0 degrees celsius.
A. humid air
B. cold dry air
C. intense thunderstorms
D. temperatures below 0 Celsius
767. What part of a hurricane produces the
most hazardous impact?
A. True
A. High temperatures
B. False
B. Low Temperatures
C. flooding 772. What affects deep ocean currents?
D. lightning A. Temperature
B. Salinity
768. How hot or cold something is-
C. Both of these affect deep ocean cur-
rents
D. none of above
773. What are the reasons for the season?
A. friction
B. temperature
C. gravity
D. none of above A. Earth’s tilt rotation

B. Earth’s tilt revolution 778. Which of these is the odd one out?
C. Earth’s rotation size A. Rain
D. Earth’s tilt resolution B. Snow
774. On January 12, 2012 there was 26 C. Sleet
inches of snow in Amarillo. D. Condensation
A. Climate
779. Water from the sky is called
B. Weather
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775. Maxy researched types of clouds and
how they relate to weather. Which type
of cloud is most likely to produce hail?
A. altostratus
B. cirrostratus
C. cumulonimbus
A. wet
D. stratus
B. cloud
776. Weather instrument that measures wind C. fog
speed.
D. rain
A. wind vane
B. hygrometer 780. Cold dense air slides underneath warm
air. The warm air is forced up, cools, and
C. anemometer condenses.
D. barometer
777. An instrument used to show the direction
of wind and measure the speed
A. Cold Front
B. Warm Front
C. Stationary Front
D. Occluded Front
781. The winters in England are always wet

and windy. Is this an example of weather
or climate?
A. rain guage
B. Thermometer
C. barometer
D. wind sock

A. Weather 786. How do ocean currents affect climates

B. Climate around the world? (Select all that apply)

A. Ocean water moves in currents that
782. South transfers energy, which can affect cli-
A. Tropic of Cancer mates.
B. Tropic of Capricorn B. Oceans regulate the temperatures of
C. Arctic Circle coastal regions, keeping the regions mild.
D. Antarctic Circle C. Ocean water heats and cools much
more quickly than land temperatures do.
783. What causes a hurricane to form?
D. The oceans store large amounts of
A. the formation of thunderstorms over thermal energy and move that energy
warm water around Earth in large ocean currents.
B. the formation of thunderstorms over
cold water 787. The climate of a location is constantly
changing.
C. the formation of thunderstorms over
land
D. the meeting of warm and cold air
784. We can classify climate zones on Earth in
A. true
B. false
788. What kind of weather happens during a
warm front?
A. Hot climates
A. Light rain or light snow
B. Old climates
B. Heavy rain or heavy snow
C. Cold climates
C. Clear skies, temp. warms
D. Temperate climates
D. Clear skies, temp. cools
785. Which environmental factors MOST likely
impact the formation of tornadoes in an 789. Which sentence best describes the rela-
area? tionship between elevation and air temper-
A. High-pressure systems colliding with atures?
other high-pressure systems A. LOWER elevation = COLDER tempera-
B. Cold dry air and warm dry air moving tures
toward each other B. HIGHER elevation = COLDER temper-
C. Low evaporation rates and windy con- atures
ditions C. HIGHER elevations = WARMER tem-
D. Cool dry air colliding with warm moist peratures
air D. none of above

790. One way to get water vapor to condense 795. Which is true about the water cycle?
from the air include A. the water stays in the air
B. the water stays in the clouds
C. the water stays in the ocean
D. the cycle goes round and round
796. What is the term “empirical evidence”
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used to describe?
A. It describes information gained by di-
A. Cooling the air down
rect observation of an event.
B. Warming the air up
B. It describes cause and effect relation-
791. Water falls to the ground as rain. Which ships.
step in the water cycle happens next? C. It describes events that are known by
A. Water flows downhill as runoff. their one-time occurrence.
B. Water evaporates to form water va- D. It describes ideas based on inferences
por. from observations.
C. Water in the air condenses to form wa- 797. What layer of the Earth’s atmosphere
ter droplets. is the layer closest to Earth and where
D. Water droplets in clouds combine and planes usually fly and where weather
grow heavier. takes place?
792. This is the prediction of what the weather A. stratosphere
is going to be like in the near future. B. exosphere
A. Meteorologist C. mesosphere
B. Weather forecast D. troposphere
C. Weather map
798. What is the primary source of energy for
D. none of above the Water Cycle?
793. from what instrument do we measure at- A. Sun
mospheric pressure
B. Fossil Fuels
A. bantometer
C. Water
B. hygrometer
D. Wind Currents
C. wind vane
D. none of above 799. The thermometer measure
A. Atmospheric pressure
land and the equator? B. Temperature
A. Maritime Polar 800. What is the definition of weather?
B. Maritime Tropical A. The condition of the air/atmosphere
C. Continental Polar around the Earth
D. Continental Tropical B. The pattern of weather over time

C. Rain and Snow 807. What do tornadoes look like?

D. When water falls from the sky A. Tornadoes can appear as a traditional
spherical shape, or in a slender rope-like

801. The kind of cloud that creates hail is: form.
A. Cirrus B. others may be nearly invisible, with
B. Cumulus only swirling dust or debris at ground lev-
els as the only indication of the tornado’s
C. Cumulonimbus
presence
D. Stratus
C. Some have a dark, reddish look to
802. If the air mass comes from the Artic re- them
gion (a very cold place), then the air mass D. none of above
will be:
808. The layer of the atmosphere closest to
A. Cold Earth is
B. Warm A. stratosphere
C. Dry B. thermosphere
D. Moist C. mesosphere
803. Human activities increase greenhouse D. troposphere
gases in the atmosphere 809. Piarco received three inches of rainfall
A. True last month is an example
B. False A. weather
B. climate
804. What is your teacher’s complete name?
A. Roselyn A. Collantes 810. The water cycle has no start or end
B. Roselyn Vincent A. Collantes A. true
C. Miss Rose Collantes B. false
D. none of above 811. The mass of water pushed on the shore

from a hurricane is called a(n)
805. What type of air mass would begin over
A. Tidal Wave
Canada?
B. tsunami
A. cT
C. Storm Surge
B. mT
D. none of above
C. cP
812. A weather forecaster is talking about a
D. cT
front that is bringing cold temps and lots
806. What are layered clouds that cover much of snow. What type of front is he refer-
of the sky called? ring to?
A. cumulous
B. cumulonimbus
C. stratus
D. cirrus

A. cold front 817. The average, year-after-year conditions

B. warm front of temperature, precipitation, winds, and
clouds in an area:
C. occluded front (cold overtakes warm)
A. Tropical Zone
D. stationary front (not moving)
B. Climate
813. Which is MOST LIKELY to cause a hurri- C. The boy
cane?
D. The girl
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A. a distant tidal wave
818. What weather is created during a station-
B. a deep underwater earthquake
ary front?
C. warm evaporated water from the
A. Blizzards and snow
ocean
B. Many days of wet weather
D. cold evaporating water from the ocean
C. Warm, dry days
814. In which month do they get the most pre-
D. Drizzly rain followed by sunny skies
cipitation in this location?
819. Which Climate Zone is the arrow pointing
to?
A. January
B. May
C. August
D. November A. Polar
815. Low pressure will usually bring what B. Temperate
kind of weather? C. Tropical
A. Sunny D. none of above
B. Calm
820. The temperature range of Equatorial Cli-
C. Stormy mate is usually
D. none of above A. approximately 3 ◦
816. Where is the place in the world with the B. higher than 10 ◦
least rain? C. approximately 26 ◦
A. Al-Kafra, Sahrat Desert, Libya D. approximately 28 ◦
B. Atacama Desert, Chile 821. The amount of moisture in air is com-
C. Lut Desert, Iran monly expressed as humidity.
D. Dry Valleys, Antarctica A. low

B. high 825. torrid zone experiences climate.

C. relative A. tropical

D. dense B. cold
822. What describes changing atmosphere like C. moderate
rain, cold or windy? D. none of above
A. Climate
826. As the Density of the Air Decreases, How
B. Humidity Does It Move?
C. Weather A. Rises
D. none of above B. Sinks
823. A metal spoon getting heated by contact C. Stays the Same
with hot coffee in a mug is heat transfer D. none of above
by
827. When convection occurs
A. cool and warm gases or liquids sink.
B. cool and warm gases or liquids rise.
C. warm gases or liquids rise and cool
gases or liquids sink.
D. warm and cool gases or liquids sink
and cool gases or liquids rise
828. What is water that flows in rivers and

streams into the oceans and lakes?
A. conduction
B. convection
C. radiation
D. hydration
824. Why do latitudes close to the equator
have warm climates?
A. They receive less solar energy

B. They are closer to an ocean current
C. They receive more solar energy A. evaporating
D. They receive less rainfall B. condensing

C. precipitating 833. Why do hurricanes inflict more damage

than tornadoes?
D. runoff
A. they are larger
829. Rising warm air currents is an example B. longer duration
of?
C. also associated with flooding and
A. Radiation strong rains
B. Conduction D. all of the rest
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C. Convection 834. What is the coldest air mass?
D. none of above A. water masses
B. arctic air masses
830. What is the name of this weather tool?
C. Polar air masses
D. tropical masses
835. Which statement below best describes

weather?
A. Weather is the average temperature
of an area over several years.
B. Weather is recorded yearly.
C. Weather changes and is recorded
daily.
A. thermometer
D. Weather cannot be predicted.
B. barometer
836. What kind of climatic and weather condi-
C. anemometer tions do cacao trees need to grow well?
D. wind vane Select all correct answers.
831. If it only rains one month out of the year,

the climate would be
A. mostly wet.
B. neither wet or dry.
C. mostly dry.
D. none of above
832. A description of the pattern of weather

over many years is a region’s
A. weather forecast.
B. air mass.
C. climate.
D. weather system. A. Wet

B. Windy 841. When its winter in the Southern Hemi-

C. Cold sphere, what season is it in the Northern
Hemisphere?

D. Warm/Hot
A. Spring
837. Maritime climate is
B. Summer
A. Cold
C. Fall
B. Hot
C. Rainy D. Winter
D. Moderate 842. Cool air becomes dense and heavy exert-

ing pressure
838. What is cloud seeding?
A. When you plant seeds in the cloud to A. High
grow plants. B. Low
B. When humans use chemicals to in-
crease the amount of rainfall a cloud can 843. The Earth’s surface is curved, and this im-
produce. pacts climate.
C. When humans use chemicals to make A. True
clouds. B. False
D. When humans play with clouds.
844. This is called
839. What type of climate is found throughout
Greenland?
A. Weather vane
B. Anemometer
A. arctic
C. Climograph
B. desert
D. Thermometer
C. tropical
D. temperate 845. On weather maps, the symbol, a line
with upside-down ice cream conenes on it,
840. The instrument which helps us to find the
symbolizes
wind speed *
A. anemometer A. A cold front
B. wind vane B. A warm front

C. hygrometer C. A snow storm
D. none of above D. An occluded front

846. Between the Tropic of Cancer and the C. near the equator.
Tropic of Capricorn is the Zone. D. far from the ocean.
A. Tropical
851. The expected weather conditions in an
B. Temperate area over a long period of time
C. Polar
D. none of above
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847. Which two major factors determine cli-
mate? (Flexbook question #2)
A. elevation and precipitation
B. latitude & temperature
C. elevation & latitude
D. precipitation & temperature
848. An instrument used to measure heat en- A. climate

ergy or temperature. B. weather
C. forecasting
D. none of above
852. The diagram shows the movement of air

over a mountain ridge. The location with
the driest climate would MOST likely be
A. thermometer
B. hygrometer
C. anemometer
A. 1
D. barometer
B. 2
849. This type of climate is cool or cold most
C. 3
of the year.
D. 4
A. arctic
B. desert 853. The process of the water cycle where wa-
ter vapor (gas) cools and changes into a
C. temperate liquid.
D. tropical A. evaporation
850. The sun’s rays are least direct B. condensation
A. near the poles. C. precipitation
B. in July. D. none of above

854. There is a 50% chance of rain for the 858. The following statements are about con-
weekend. ditions in Texas cities. Which statement
shows information about climate?

A. Weather
B. Climate A. San Angelo’s record rainfall was 10.16
cm (4 in) on January 23, 1973
855. Average weather conditions of a region B. In 1930, Dallas reported an extreme
over several years is called low temperature on-3 degrees
C. Austin has an average of only 1.5 cm
of annual snowfall each year
D. Lubbock has recorded a wind gust of
144.84 kph
859. Which tool measures air temperature?

A. Thermometer
B. Anemometer
C. Wind Vane
D. Wind sock
A. weather
860. What do water droplets form?
B. season
A. clouds
C. cold front
B. condensation
D. climate
C. evaporation
856. Winds may be named for their location D. humidity
of for the direction from which they blow.
Which winds blow from the 30 degrees lat- 861. What weather element shows the pic-
itude in both hemispheres almost to the ture?
equator?
A. easterlies
B. westerlies
C. trade winds
D. the doldrums
857. What happens to water’s ability to hold A. Air temperature

water vapor as the air gets warmer?
B. Precipitation
A. It decreases
C. Wind
B. It increases
D. none of above
C. It stays the same, duh!
D. Can air even hold water vapor? 862. Air in a low pressure system moves

C. catch it in the autumn

D. none of above
867. Which US state has a polar climate?
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A. clockwise
B. counterclockwise A. Virginia
B. New York
863. My house was flooded because of yester-
day’s rain. C. Maine
A. weather D. Alaska
B. climate
868. When two cold air masses trap a warm
864. One of the reasons that free oxygen in air mass by surrounding it.
our atmosphere is important to the devel- A. Warm front
opment and maintenance of life on Earth is
because oxygen B. Cold front
A. is necessary for photosynthesis to oc- C. Stationary front
cur D. Occluded front
B. combines with iron in volcanic rocks
869. Where is the air pressure the greatest?
C. can form ozone and block some UV ra-
diation
D. was very abundant in Earth’s early at-
mosphere
E. reduces atmospheric temperature
tagsSC.912.E.7.7 A. 1
865. What is the scientific definition of the B. 2
albedo effect?
C. 3
A. How much sunlight an object reflects
D. 4
B. How much sunlight an object absorbs
C. How hot an object gets 870. What causes a thunderstorm?
D. How cold an object gets A. air
866. How do you prevent a summer cold? B. wind

A. Catch it in the winter C. moist air
B. Catch it in the spring D. rain

871. How many days was it snowy? C. a thick layer of nitrogen

D. none of above

877. Which of the following is a greenhouse
gas?
A. 3
B. 5
C. 2 A. carbon monoxide
D. 2.5 B. oxygen
872. Temperatures in the Arctic are usually be- C. nitrogen
low freezing is an example of D. carbon dioxide
A. weather
878. In August, you can usually expect it to be
B. climate hot and humid in Corpus Christi.
873. These scientists study wind and weather A. Climate
A. meteorologist B. Weather
B. pathologist 879. Thin wispy clouds high in the atmosphere
C. geologist are called
D. biologist
874. What temperature is shown on this ther-
mometer?
A. 40◦ F
B. 50◦ F
C. 44◦ F
D. 42◦ F A. Cirrus Clouds
B. Stratus Clouds
875. Weather or Climate? It was really hot
out yesterday. C. Cumulus Clouds
A. Weather D. none of above
B. Climate 880. The Sun’s rays fall directly on the areas

near the
876. The atmosphere is
A. North Pole
A. an envelope of gases that surround
Earth B. Equator
B. an envelope of oxygen surrounding the C. South Pole

Universe D. Antarctic Circle

881. This is a range, measured in degrees B. Climate

Fahrenheit, that tells how hot and cold the C. Temperature
day will be.
D. Humidity
A. High and Low Temperatures
886. What 2 things meet to form a front?
B. Precipitation
C. Wind direction
D. Wind Speed
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E. Air Pressure
882. What latitudes are generally the wettest

because heat absorption and evaporation
in the oceans is the highest? A. Storms
A. The temperate latitudes, 30-60 de- B. Ocean Currents
grees C. Jet Streams
B. The tropics, immediately around the D. Air masses
equator
887. Which month has the highest average
C. The Arctic and Antarctic, at points temperature?
above 60 degrees
D. Average precipitation levels are about
the same at all latitudes.
883. Which fluffy, white clouds with flat

bottoms are usually present during fair
weather?
A. August
A. Cumulus
B. July
B. Cumulonimbus
C. June
C. Cirrus
D. May
D. Stratus
888. What vegetation is there in temperate cli-
884. What is the definition of weather? mates?
A. The average day to day changes in the
atmosphere.
B. The short term day to day changes in
atmospheric conditions.
C. Look up in the sky.
D. The average long term weather condi-
tions over a long period of time. A. Grassland
885. takes data averages of 30 or more B. Woodland
years, such as average rainfall. C. Desert
A. Weather D. Tundra

889. Several months during the year that have 892. Precipitation is
similar temperaturesis known as A. rain, sleet, snow or hail.

B. only rain.
C. only snow or hail.
D. none of above
893. A geological period (the Ice Age) lasting
millions of years during which the Earth ex-
hibited large glaciers and ice sheets
A. Weather
B. Climate
894. The continuous process by which water is
A. Season
used and re-used on earth; it is responsible
B. climate for weather and climate.
C. weather
D. Summer
A. water cycle
B. recycle
C. humidity
D. jet stream
895. Which side of a mountain range receives
the most rain?
A. Rain Gauge
A. Windward side
B. Barometer
B. Leeward side
C. Weather Vane C. There is no difference in the amount of
D. Thermometer rain from one side of the mountain to the
other.
E. Anemometer
D. none of above
891. Temperature is the measure of in the
896. This type of front pushes moist air up.
atmosphere around the Earth.
Pressure increases.
A. heat energy
B. cold air only
C. winds
D. waves

A. Warm Front 901. How many Factors affect climate?

B. Cold Front A. 6 factors
C. Stationary Front B. Many, but we know only few
D. Occluded Front C. 4 factors
897. Short term conditions in the atmosphere. D. none of above
902. A lava lamp with putty which heats,
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flows to the top, cools, then flows to the
bottom is an example of:
A. conduction
B. convection
A. Weather C. radiation
B. Climate D. none of above
898. Climate involves a study of long term 903. Which is represented in this pic-
trends generally for how many years? ture:weather or climate?
A. 30
B. 52
C. 50
D. 66
899. warm front

A. cold front
B. occluded front
C. stationary front
A. Weather
D. none of above
B. Climate
900. This weather instrument is a
904. Warm air REPLACES cold air it is called
A. thermometer A. warm front

B. wind vane B. cold front
C. anemometer C. wind
D. rain gauge D. air mass

905. Which directions does the UK’s prevailing

wind come from?

A. NO
B. SE
C. SW
D. NW
A. clear, sunny skies
906. Which are the lowest clouds? B. cloudy and rainy
910. The blow from the subtropical

high-pressure belt to the sub-polar low-
pressure belt in both the hemispheres.
A. Planetary
B. Trade
C. Westerlies
A. cirrus D. Polar
B. cumulus
911. Damp means burning; very hot?
C. stratus
A. True
D. none of above B. False
907. Warm ocean currents generally come 912. Name the two types of low level clouds
from
A. Altostratus and Altocumulus
A. The North Pole
B. Cirrus and Cumulus
B. The South Pole
C. Cirrocumulus and Cumulonimbus
C. The Equator
D. Stratus and Nimbostratus
D. Both A and B
913. Ocean currents, like the Gulf Stream, af-
908. When changing from a solid to a liquid, fect world climate by
the water molecules are A. Spreading plant and animal life over a
A. melting and moving away from each wider area
other. B. Ensuring ocean density is not the same
B. evaporating and moving away from globally
each other C. Carrying sediment from rivers and in-
C. melting and moving closer to each land basins
other D. Transferring heat to and from various
D. freezing and moving closer to each regions
other
914. This is a rise in temperature Earth has due
909. A low pressure system is located over to certain gases in the atmosphere that
Georgia. What type of weather will they trap energy from the sun.
have? A. global warming

B. CFC Effect 919. The weather and the water cycle rely on
C. Greenhouse Effect one thing. What is it?
D. None of the above A. Water
B. Sun
915. Which instrument would best PREDICT a
storm coming? C. Lava
A. Rain gauge D. Oxygen
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B. Barometer 920. True or false:An anemometer measures
C. Weather Vane air pressure.
B. False
916. Which of the following describes what is
happening in a high pressure system? 921. Forms of water such as rain, snow, sleet,
or hail that fall from clouds and reach
Earth’s surface.
A. climate
B. precipitation
C. weather
A. cold air sinking D. fronts
B. cold air rising
922. Where does a hurricane form?
C. warm air rising
A. Over a cold body of water
D. none of above
B. Over a warm body of water
917. The maximum temperature for a particu-
C. Over cold land
lar day is recorded in the
D. Over warm land
A. Evening
B. Night 923. This is called
C. Morning
D. Afternoon
918. The coldest climate zone is
A. tropical
B. temperate
C. polar
D. none of above A. Weather vane

B. Anemometer B. a dog barks

C. Climograph C. a front is created

D. Thermometer D. warm air enters
924. How do you call when the force of the 929. The sun’s rays are less direct in this re-
wind is extremely strong? gion.
A. polar region
B. temperate region
C. tropical region
D. latitude region
930. This type of climate is not as cold as arctic

climates or as hot as tropical climates.
A. Breeze A. arctic
B. Gale B. desert
C. Hurricane C. tropical
D. none of above D. temperate
925. What is Weather 931. Tropical means
A. the atmospheric conditions of a partic- A. wet
ular place and time
B. dry
B. the average atmospheric conditions
C. cold
over a long period of time
D. warm
926. What is responsible for warming the
Earth’s surface and creating wind? 932. Weather refers to
A. The Moon
B. Earth’s interior (inside)
C. Coriolis effect
D. The Sun
927. is the amount of water vapour in the

air
A. fog A. the meteorological conditions in a spe-
B. Humidity cific place at any time
C. frost B. the meteorological conditions in a

place at a specific time
D. none of above
C. the usual state of the atmosphere over
928. What happens when two air masses a long period of time
meet? D. the usual state of the atmosphere over
A. a hurricane occurs a short period of time

933. What are the two main factors that de- A. air pressure
termine the climate of an area?
B. rain fall
A. precipitation and humidity
C. temperature
B. temperature and air pressure
D. wind direction
C. wind conditions and humidity
D. temperature and precipitation 937. The most familiar features of a places cli-
mate are there average ?
934. Seattle and Wenatchee, are less than
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A. temperature and rainfall
3 hours drive through mountains apart.
Seattle gets 95 cms of precipitation and B. rainfall and nature
Wenatchee gets 22 cm of precipitation. C. temperature and wildlife
What could explain this?
D. nature and wildlife
938. The weather conditions in an area over a

A. weather
B. climate
A. Seattle is further south
B. Seattle is higher in elevation. C. water cycle
C. Wenatachee is in a rain shadow. D. relative humidity

D. Wenatachee is farther from the ocean. 939. Data
935. Which of the following is the lowest type
of cloud?
A. Cirrus
B. Altocumulus
C. Cumulus
D. Stratus
A. A statement about what you think will
936. What does this measure? happen, based on what you know
B. The amount of something
C. Information that has been collected
940. This gas makes up 21% of the atmo-

sphere
A. ozone
B. oxygen
C. nitrogen
D. water vapor

941. Where is a hurricane most likely to hap- 945. Which tool do we use to measure temper-
pen? ature?

A. Pluviometer
B. Thermometer
C. Anemometer
D. Barometer
946. A sling psychrometer measures relative

A. A humidity. Which instrument below is a
sling psychrometer?
B. B
C. c
D. D
A.
942. Condensation is a part. of the water cy-
cle
A. True
B. False
B.
943. A study of climate includes the use
of maps that are different from simple
weather maps. A map of which of the fol-
lowing is one that would be used in the
study of climate? C.
A. Number of sunny days per year in
Northern Africa
B. Location of current rains in Southeast
Nebraska D.
C. Path of a hurricane in the Gulf over a

week
D. Position of a cold front yesterday out- 947. What climate does Adelaide have?
side Detroit, Michigan
944. Which describes the Coriolis Effect’s ef-
fect on ocean currents?
A. The temperatures on land change
deep water currents.
B. When an underwater volcano erupts,
the energy makes new currents.
A. Equatorial
C. The gravitational force from the Moon
B. Desert
pulls surface currents.
D. The wind moves the ocean’s surface C. Mediterranean
water and determines surface currents. D. Semi-arid

948. Raindrops that are pushed up over and 953. A destructive, rotating column of air that
over again into tall clouds and freeze be- has very high wind speeds and that may
fore falling to the earth form be visible as a funnel-shaped cloud
A. Lightening A. Thunder
B. Snow B. Humidity
C. Hail C. Lightning
D. Blizzards D. Hurricane
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E. Tornado
949. Since weather is long term, Which one de-
scribes this? 954. Which of these are types of weather?
Tick as many as are correct.
A. It has been warm during the summer
every year in Texas A. Drizzling
B. It started raining for 1 minute in May B. Sunny
21, 1547 C. Foggy
C. None of these D. Sub-tropical
D. You think it’s a trick question? Click E. hailing
here if yes.
955. A tornado was spotted 3 days ago out-
950. Tourists get very sun burnt in the side Plainview.
Caribbean Sun A. weather
A. Climate B. climate
B. Weather
956. Determine the contour interval
951. Heat
A. 10 m
A. Moves from hot to cold
B. 20 m
B. Moves from cold to hot
C. 50 m
C. Always rises up
D. 100 m
D. It depends on the molecules
957. the amount of solar radiation reaching a
952. h. Andalucía has got two / three differ- given area. the amount of solar radiation
ent climate types. reaching a given area.
A. two A. Solar radiation
B. three B. radiation

C. insolation 964. Which of the following is the earth’s

D. none largest reservoir of carbon dioxide?

A. atmosphere
958. When looking at the precipitation in the
desert over time, we noticed that the B. icebergs
desert is very dry. C. oceans
A. Weather D. soil tagsSC.912.E.7.9
B. Climate
965. When water is heated in the ocean by the
959. When air pressure is low, you can expect sun and turns into water vapor
A. clouds and rain A. condensation
B. warm temperatures
B. evaporation
C. sunny, clear days
C. transpiration
D. to have dry skin
D. runoff
960. What is responsible for global warming?
966. pressure systems are characterized
A. Humans and human activity
by fair weather.
B. Animals
A. High
C. Natural disaster
B. Low
D. No one
961. Spanish climates are: 967. The water vapour or moisture present in
the air is called
A. Mountain, continental, oceanic, sub-
tropical and mediterranean climate. A. rain
B. Mountain, polar, oceanic, subtropical B. humidity
and mountain climate. C. cloud
C. Polar, continental, oceanic, tropical D. dew
and mountain climate.
D. none of above 968. Different types of winds form in certain
locations at different times of the day.
962. One summer day while Pilar is at the Which breezes form at night when land
ocean, the wind begins blowing from the cools faster than water?
ocean onto the land. What change might
Pilar expect in the weather? A. Sea breezes
A. increase in humidity B. Land breezes

B. decrease in humidity C. Valley breezes
C. increased temperature D. Mountain breezes
D. increase in air pressure
969. Rain came with the cold front that came
963. The Amazon and Congo Basins both have through last week is an example of
A. A Tropical Marine Climate A. weather
B. An Equatorial Climate B. climate

970. The biggest threat towards development

is?
A. Climate Change
B. Pollution
C. Melting Ice Caps
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D. Population Growth
971. These clouds can bring thunderstorms,

heavy rain, lightening, and sometimes
hail.
A. W
A. cumulus B. X
B. cumulonimbus C. Y
D. Z
C. cirrus
975. Which of the following activities con-
D. stratus tributes the most to carbon emissions glob-
ally?
972. What kind of weather is light snowfall? A. Deforestation
B. Agriculture
A. severe weather
C. Burning fossil fuels
B. not severe weather D. Respiration
976. What is the main cause of deepwater

973. Both stationary and moving technological ocean currents?
methods are used in weather data collec-
tion. Which technology is an example of a A. freshwater rivers and streams flowing
stationary method? into the ocean.
B. wind, caused by variations in air pres-
A. satellites sure, blowing on water.
B. airplanes C. differences in water density because
of variations in water temperature and
C. marine ships salt concentration.
D. the Coriolis effect:Earth’s rotation
D. anchored buoys
causing the water in the oceans to move.
974. A student needs approximately 250 mL 977. Which weather tool will measure the
of water for an experiment. Which letter amount of precipitation, such as rain, from
in the illustrationbest represents this esti- a single weather event?
mate? A. rain gauge

B. barometer 982. what is in the picture?

C. ruler

D. weather vane
978. How do winter storms form?

A. from the clash of two air masses of dif-
ferent temperatures and moisture levels
B. when an air mass of warm, moist,
A. Wind turbine
Canadian air moves west and interacts
with a warm, moist air mass moving north B. Windmill
from the Gulf of Mexico. C. Solar Panels
C. when water vapor undergoes deposi- D. none of above
tion,
983. The weather system pictured on the map
D. none of above is moving from west to east. Based on this
information, which of the cities shown on
979. What is an environmental effect of a hur-
the map will most likely be the next to see
ricane?
a drop in temperatures?
A. Peoples homes are destroyed.
B. The government lose money.
C. Animal habitats are destroyed.
D. none of above
980. How is weather different from climate?

A. It’s the same
B. Weather is over a long person and cli- A. Albany
mate is one day
B. Atlanta
C. Weather is one day and climate is a
C. Macon
long period of time
D. Savannah
D. Yes
984. Which of these BEST explains the reason
981. El Niño conditions occur when the surface that thunderstorms are likely to form on a
waters of the Pacific Ocean off of South hot day?
America are warmer than normal near the
equator. Which condition would you ex- A. Warm, humid air rises quickly and then
pect to observe near the western coast of cools
North America during an El Niño year? B. As cold air slowly rises it loses humid-
ity and causes rain.
A. lower humidity
C. The air is usually calm and allows the
B. increased flooding
clouds to form
C. decreased flooding D. Dry air rises quickly and forms low-
D. drought conditions level cloud layers.

985. Which selection correctly orders the 990. what are the hottest months in the Philip-
gases in our atmosphere from greatest to pines?
least? A. November and December
A. Oxygen, Nitrogen, Other Gases B. March and May
B. Nitrogen, Other Gases, Oxygen C. August and September
C. Oxygen, Other Gases, Nitrogen D. none of above
D. Nitrogen, Oxygen, Other Gases 991. Which tool would best be used to mea-
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sure precipitation?
986. An instrument that measures air pressure
A. anemometer A.
B. rain gauge
C. thermometer
D. barometer B.
987. When a warm air mass and a cold air

mass collide and can’t move anywhere.
A. Warm front
C.
B. Cold front
C. Stationary front
D. Occluded front
D.
988. When there is a difference in air pressure,
air moves from
992. What do we call water in its gas state?
A. Areas of low pressure to areas of high
pressure A. rain
B. snow
B. It depends on the temperature of the
air C. ice
C. From areas of high pressure to areas D. water vapor
of low pressure 993. What instrument is used to measure air
D. It could move either way temperature?
A. Thermometer
989. Which of the following are examples of
B. Barometer
climate
C. hygrometer
A. Temperature
D. Anemometer
B. Polar
994. Low pressure will usually bring what
C. Desert kind of weather?
D. Tropical A. Sunny
E. Precipitation B. Calm

C. Stormy 999. Which weather condition will most likely

occur when the atmospheric pressure in an
Explanation: area begins falling?

Low pressure areas allow warm air to A. dry
rise, forming clouds. This means that ar- B. cold
eas of low pressure tend to bring storms.
C. rainy
D. none of above D. sunny
995. What kind of cloud is this? 1000. This weather instrument is called a
barometer, what does a barometer mea-
sure?
A. cumulus
B. cumulonimbus
C. stratus
D. stratonimbus
A. Wind
996. How big was Typhoon Tip, the largest
hurricane on record (diameter)? B. High Pressure
A. 200 km C. Air Pressure
B. 800 km D. Moisture
C. 1, 200 km
1001. What day of the year has the shortest
D. 2, 200 km day? (sun up to sun down)
997. Which condition usually means cloudy, A. vernal equinox

stormy weather? B. winter solstice
A. high pressure C. summer solstice
B. low pressure
D. none of above
998. The gas that is the second most abundant
in the atmosphere is 1002. What does the prefix “nimbo” mean?
A. oxygen A. puffy
B. nitrogen B. produce precipitation

C. carbon dioxide C. wispy
D. argon D. layer

1003. It describes the typical weather condi- 1007. Sunlight strikes directly at the:
tions in an entire region for a very long A. North pole
time.
B. Heat zones
C. South pole
D. Equator
1008. Water droplets in clouds that join to-
gether to make larger drops form:
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. Dew
A. Weather B. Sleet
B. Climate C. Frost
D. Rain
1004. The circulation of hot and cold fluids (liq-
uids and gases) 1009. The places near the Equator receive
more
A. convection
A. Sunlight
B. radiation B. Cold air
C. density C. Moderate Climate
D. temperature D. none of above
1005. The image shows a weather map with 1010. is moving air. It makes trees and
different pressure systems. What type things move.
of weather would Texas be having right
now?
A. Fog
B. Wind
C. Rain
D. Cloud
A. clear, sunny, dry weather
B. rainy, cloudy, stormy weather 1011. What does this symbol represent?
1006. This type of front can bring strong

storms
A. cold
A. Cold Front
B. warm B. Warm Front
C. stationary C. Stationary Front
D. occluded D. Occluded Front

1012. All changes in the weather are caused 1016. Weather reports are prepared by
by the A. Geologists

A. Moon B. Meteorologists
B. Sun C. Germinologists
C. Earth D. Physicians
D. Altitude
1017. describes the condition of the air
1013. The vertical movement of air is called outdoors.
A. weather
B. climate
1018. Deserts are an environment with a high
humidity.
A. True
B. False
1019. Latitude plays a major role in determin-
ing the climate, or long-term weather pat-
A. Wind
terns, of an area. Because of differences
B. Air current in the intensity of solar energy, climates in
C. Radiation higher latitudes are generally colder than
D. Insolation climates in lower latitudes. What causes
some areas of Earth to receive less intense
1014. An intense storm that consists of heavy solar energy than others?
rain, strong winds, lightning, and thunder A. mass of Earth
A. Precipitation B. density of Earth
B. Humidity C. curvature of Earth
C. Thunderstorm
D. elevation of Earth
D. Hurricane
1020. The side of a mountain that faces away
E. Tornado
from the oncoming wind. The downward
1015. What is the greenhouse effect? side of mountains.
A. weather
A. warming of the earth due to gases in
our atmosphere. B. windward
B. cooling of the earth due to gases in our C. fronts
atmosphere D. leeward

1021. What are the average weather condi- 1026. The amount of water vapor present in
tions in a large area over time? the air is called
A. Weather
B. Climate
C. Temperature
D. Air Pressure
NARAYAN CHANGDER
1022. High pressure has
A. weather
A. lots of dark clouds.
B. humidity
B. hot, dry air.
C. air mass
C. cool, wet air.
D. dew point
D. none of above
1027. What is the electrical discharge created
1023. Cities closer to water most likely will be by a thunderstorm called?
A. more dry A. Thunder
B. more humid B. Rain

C. Tolland
C. hotter
D. Lightning
D. none of above
1028. It has rained for 40 years in May.
1024. The average weather conditions of a re-
gion is A. weather
B. climate
A. daily temperature
B. the forecast 1029. What type of weather is a tornado?
C. climate A. severe weather

B. not severe weather
D. none of above
1030. The weather forecast tomorrow says
1025. Meteorologist often look at differences there will be a 15 mph northeast wind and
in air pressure when they are trying to a high temperature of 52 degrees. Which
predict the weather. Why do these differ- three instruments will a meteorologist use
ences occur? to make this prediction?
A. The sun heats different places at dif- A. sling psychrometer, thermometer, and
ferent rates. anemometer
B. The moon’s gravity has a different B. anemometer, rain gauge, and
strength at different places. anemometer
C. Earth’s rotation makes different C. thermometer, snow gauge, and wind
places move at different speeds. vane
D. Volcanoes add different amounts of D. wind vane, thermometer, and
heat and gas to the air in different places. anemometer

1031. (a) conditions can change day to day, C. cold front

while changes in (b) are determinedover D. warm front
much longer periods of time.

A. a Weather 1037. Places located at high latitude receives
less sunlight than places at low latitude.
B. b climate
A. True
C. short term
B. False
D. minutes
E. long period of time 1038. Processes that remove carbon from the
atmosphere are said to be
1032. Name the instrument used to measure
air pressure. A. Carbon Sources
A. barometer B. Carbon Sinks

B. hygrometer C. Carbon Emissions
C. anemometer D. Carbon Dioxide
D. thermometer 1039. What was an important finding of the
HMS Challenger’s oceanic voyages from
1033. e. Mountain climates get hotter / colder
1872 to 1876?
the higher they are.
A. The deepest seafloors are covered in
A. hotter
marine grasses.
B. colder
B. Bacteria live in ocean-floor vents
1034. Which statement describes climate where magma seeps through the earth’s
crust.
A. winter is usually the coldest time of
year C. The deepest valleys on earth are found
B. 75 F with a 10% chance of rain in the mid-Atlantic.
C. Cloudy skies D. Far beneath the surface, the oceans

are not lifeless.
D. hurricanes
1040. The layer of the atmosphere where
1035. the analysis of scientific data to predict jet airplanes fly. Temperatures increase
future weather conditions with altitude and the ozone layer is found
A. Global warming within which absorbs harmful ultraviolet
B. Greenhouse effect rays of sunlight
C. Ice age A. Stratosphere
D. Weather forecasting B. Density
E. Station model C. Cloud
D. Weather pattern
1036. A large volume of air in which temper-
ature and moisture content are nearly the 1041. Which word pair best describes the re-
same throughout. sult of tropical continental air in the sum-
A. front mer?
B. air mass A. hot and cloudy

B. cool and sunny 1047. Which one of the following factors does
NOT influence climate?
C. hot and sunny
D. cool and cloudy A. ocean currents
B. the Sun’s energy
1042. The revolution of the Earth causes
C. global wind patterns
A. climate change
D. soil composition
B. day and night
NARAYAN CHANGDER
C. the earth to tilt on its axis 1048. factors affecting Atmospheric pressure
(choose all that apply)
D. all of the above
A. Altitude
1043. The climate on even the tallest moun- B. Temperature
tains near the Equator is too cold for
glaciers to form. C. Water Vapor
A. true D. None
B. false 1049. As you move further from the equator
and closer to the poles the weather
1044. Which of the following contains only el-
ements of weather? A. the air pressure will decrease
A. Precipitation, hurricane, tsunami, B. the air pressure will increase
earthquake. C. the temperature will decrease
B. Precipitation, air pressure, wind, sun- D. the temperature will increase
shine.
C. Precipitation, temperature, cyclone, 1050. Choose the correct option
vortex.
D. Cyclone, vortex, whirlpool, tornado.
1045. Heat that transfers via swirling gases

or liquids is called A. Cold front
A. convection B. Warm front
B. conduction C. Stationary front
C. radiation D. Occluded front
D. induction
1051. What is a warm front?
1046. A hot and humid zone near the equator A. . low level clouds usually associated
with heavy precipitation. with rain
A. Tropical Zone B. any form of water that falls to the earth
B. Temperate Zone from the air
C. Continental Zone C. . used to measure air pressure
D. none of above D. where warm air replaces cold air

1052. Local winds are produced by 1058. Which of the following is an effect of a
hurricane?
A. local clouds.

A. heavy rain, flooding, strong winds
B. local meteorologists.
blow over power lines, lightning can start
C. local rainfall. fires
D. local geographic features. B. high wind damage, destroy buildings
trees, power lines, and crops
1053. What instrument is used to measure pre-
cipitation? C. Winds can blow over trees and build-
ings, storm waves rise and cause massive
A. thermometer flooding in the coastal zone
B. anemometer D. There are no effects
C. hydrometer
1059. These clouds are wispy or curly, white,
D. rain gauge thin & feather-like
1054. The United States has a climate. A. cumulus
A. Tropical B. cumulonimbus
B. Temperate C. cirrus
C. Polar D. stratus
D. Desert 1060. Changes in climate are responsible for

changes in
1055. These clouds are puffy white clouds
with flat bottoms. A. weather
A. Cirrus B. years
B. Cumulus C. seasons
C. Stratus D. none of above
D. none of above 1061. The equator is dominated by
1056. Which measures wind speed? A. high pressure

B. cold air
A. Anemometer
C. low pressure
B. Wind vane
1057. Phoenix, Arizona has extremely hot Explanation:

summers.
The equator is very warm. Air is warmed
up and rises, creating an area of low pres-
sure.
D. none of above
1062. which of the following explains why

A. Weather
one side of a mountain has more precipi-
B. Climate tation than the other side?

A. mountains force air to rise, and air A. Billings

cools and releases moisture as it rises
B. Denver
(this is the only answer that discusses ris-
ing air) C. New York City
B. atomosphere gets denser as elevation D. Seattle
increases
1067. How can forests be increased?
C. temperatures are higher on one side
of a mountain than on the other A. A.)Replanting trees in deforested
NARAYAN CHANGDER
D. land on one side is more green and places
lush than the other B. B.)Adding trees to unforested, clear
land.
1063. Which of Spain’s five climates is found
in the Islas Canarias? It is mild all year C. A.) and B.)
round and it does not rain frequently. D. Not this
A. Oceanic climate
B. Subtropical climate 1068. Which layer of the atmosphere is the
least dense?
C. Continental-Mediterranean climate
A. exosphere
D. Mediterranean climate
E. Mountain climate B. stratosphere
C. troposphere
1064. take in water through their roots
and evaporate water into the atmosphere D. mesosphere
through their leaves.
1069. warm front
A. oceans
A. cold front
B. rivers
C. ground water B. occluded front
D. plants C. stationary front
1065. On which days did the sunset at the D. none of above

same time?
1070. ....is the average weather condition that
A. Monday persists over a long period of time at a par-
B. Tuesday ticular place.
C. Thursday A. climate
D. Friday B. altitude
1066. Which city had the lowest LOW temper- C. weather
ature?
D. none of above
1071. What type of clothes will you wear in

hot weather?
A.

1077. What is the ‘range’ of a set of data?

B. A. The average

B. The difference between the biggest
and smallest number
C. C. The middle number of a set of data
D. All of the numbers added together
D. none of above
1078. What kind of weather does this
1072. .... means that the sky is overcast. weather system bring?
A. two oktas
B. four oktas
C. eight oktas
D. none of above
1073. Meteorologists on TV just read a

weather report. A. Precipitation and clouds for several
days.
A. True
B. False B. Precipitation and clouds until some-
thing stronger moves the front out of the
1074. Where would you expect to see nice way.
weather?
C. Strong thunderstorms that may be-
come severe.
D. none of above
1079. What is this weather tool called?
A. low pressure area

B. high pressure area
1075. see; look at

A. types
B. cycle
C. observe
D. begins
A. anemometer
1076. Buildings can create wind tunnels as
well as shelter us from the wind B. rain gauge
A. True C. thermometer
B. False D. satellite

1080. Areas close to the sea have cooler sum-

mers and milder winters.
A. True
B. False
1081. Climate means:

A. the weather a place has over a LONG
NARAYAN CHANGDER
period of time.
A. North to south
B. the amount of precipitation in a place. B. South to north
C. the temperature in a place. C. East to west
D. none of above D. West to east
1082. Finding a high place it wait is a safety 1086. The actual amount of water vapour
measure during a present in air is called relative humidity.
A. Thunderstorm
B. Tornado
C. Hurricane
D. Flashflood
1083. Winds that blow from the west are A. True

called B. False
A. Easterlies 1087. Which does a hurricane not have?
B. polar A. Strong winds
C. Westerlies B. Heavy rain
D. Temperates C. Storm surges
D. Snow
1084. The average, year-after-year condi-
tions of temperature, precipitation, winds, 1088. The moving air that we can’t see it, but
and clouds in an area is known as we can feel it and we know is there be-
cause it makes tree leaves move, is called:
A. latitude
B. weather
C. climate
D. altitude
1085. If A is a low pressure band and B is a

high pressure band, which direction does a
global wind want to flow between these
two areas?

A. Precipitation 1093. Which stage does ground water try

B. Humidity to return to the ocean or soak into the
ground?

C. Wind
D. none of above
1089. Which of the following best describes cli-
mate?
ness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc.
B. long-term conditions of the atmo-
sphere at a place in regards to heat, dry- A. condensation
ness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc. B. evaporation
1090. Seasons in the northern and southern C. precipitation
hemispheres
D. run off
A. Are the same (example when it is win-
ter in the northern hemisphere it is also 1094. It’s
winter in the southern hemisphere).
B. Are opposite from each other (exam-
ple when it’s spring in one, it’s the fall in
the other. When it’s summer in one, it’s
winter in the other).
1091. What is a weather front?
A. audible
B. suny
C. suny
D. sunny
A. An air mass and a pressure system 1095. The one main reason we have weather
is because of the
B. A combination of two air masses
C. A boundary between two air masses A. Moon
D. A combination of two pressure sys- B. Sun
tems C. TIdes
1092. Cold fronts bring D. none of above
A. rain followed by cool dry air
B. hurricanes 1096. TRUE OR FALSE:The temperature is
milder, more moderate, in inland continen-
C. rain followed by hot humid air tal areas and more extreme in coastal ar-
D. fair weather eas.

C.
D.
1101. What happend when animals that are

white where do the live
A. True A. tundra
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. False B. Desert
C. It depends on the altitude C. rainforest
D. It depends on the longitude D. grassland
1097. Each winter since 1980, a family mea- 1102. What kind of front is pictured?
sures the snowfall in their year and
records the yearly average. This average
is most common when describing what fea-
ture of the area?
A. Weather
B. Climate
C. Water cycle
A. cold front
D. Erosion patterns
B. warm front
1098. Which climate does Viet Nam belong to?
C. stationary front
A. Temperate Moonson D. occluded front
B. Tropical Monsoon
1103. Wind moves from areas of to
C. Oceanic Climate pressure.
D. Subtropical A. high to low
1099. A person who studies the weather, uses B. low to high
weather instruments, and makes predic- C. same direction
tions about what the weather will be like
in the near future is called D. none of above
A. meteorologist 1104. The Water Cycle plays a role in weather

B. climatologist that occurs on Earth and can contribute to
severe weather.
1100. Which of the following is the symbol for A. true
an occluded front?
B. false
A. 1105. When the altitude increases; the tem-
perature decreases
B. A. True
B. False

1106. The impact on the planet due to global C. rainy

warming is called D. snowing

A. Convectional rain
1110. At and around the equator you could ex-
B. Climate change pect weather conditions
C. The seasons A. arid
D. The weather B. semi-arid
1107. Sam heard thunder from lightning while C. artic

he was in the pool. What should he do? D. humid
A. Get an umbrella and wait next to the 1111. Low pressure has
pool.
B. Stand next to a taller object until the
storm passes.
C. Go indoors and stay away from win-
dows, water and electronic equipment.
D. Stay in the water until after the storm
has passed.
A. cool, wet air
1108. The flow of air from an ocean or lake to
land. B. hot, dry air
C. sunny with no clouds
D. none of above
1112. The weather pattern of a particular
place for a long period of time is known
as climate
A. True
B. False
A. sea breeze
1113. This is the evaporation of water from
B. land breeze above ground parts of plants, especially
C. leeward from leaves but also from stems and flow-
ers.
D. jet stream
A. condensation
1109. It’s B. evaporation
C. precipitation
D. run-off
E. transpiration
1114. Average weather condition over a long
period of time.
A. hot A. Weather
B. sunny B. Climate

1115. The rainy monsoon, hulhan�u comes

from the
A. east-west
B. north-east
C. south-west
D. north-south A. Northwest
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. Southeast
1116. A wooly mammoth skeleton is found in
C. Northeast
the Platte River. What can you conclude
about the area’s past environment? D. Southwest
A. It was once very wet. 1120. Where are low-pressure belts located?
B. It was once under water. A. the equator
B. 30*N and 30*S
C. It was once very cold.
C. the poles
D. Little Foot and friends got lost on their
D. 60*N and 60*S
adventure to the Great Valley.
1121. Which statement represents weather
1117. What does an anemometer measure? data?
A. wind speed A. Less than 30mm of rainfall annually
B. wind direction B. 50% humidity at 4pm
C. Monsoon rains during summers
C. humidity
D. none of above
D. how hot or cold it is
1122. When the cold air pushes under the
1118. This is when water that falls from the warm air it is a
clouds gets collected in the oceans, rivers,
lakes, streams and ground.
A. Cold Front
B. Warm Front
C. Stationary Front
D. none of above
A. condensation 1123. This kind of front is formed when two
B. runoff air masses meet and don’t move.
C. precipitation A. Cold front

B. Warm front
D. evaporation
C. Stationary front
1119. What direction is the cold front moving? D. none of above

1124. Why do meteorologist use this tool? 1128. The force of air molecules pushing on an
area.

A. weather
B. dew point
C. humidity
D. air pressure
1129. Which of these statements best de-

A. To measure temperature scribes a difference in climate?
B. To measure wind direction A. Las Vegas had clear skies and Carson
C. To measure snow fall City had cloudy skies last week.
D. To measure rainfall B. Yesterday Carson City had lower baro-
metric pressure than Las Vegas.
1125. Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest moun- C. Last July Las Vegas had a higher aver-
tain in age temperature than Carson City.
D. Carson City averages over twice as
much rain yearly as Las Vegas.
1130. The direction of the symbol indicates the

A. strength of the front
B. type of front
A. India C. direction of air movement
B. China D. none of above
C. France
1131. Which biome is represented by this data
D. Africa
1126. What instrument do we use to measure

precipitation?
A. Pluviometer
B. Thermometer
C. Barometer
D. Anemometer A. tundra
B. desert
1127. Which type of data confirms that one air
mass is being replaced by another air mass C. grassland
in a particular area? D. tropical rainforest
A. high wind speed
1132. The Earth’s seasons are caused by the
B. high air pressure tilting of the Earth.
C. high air temperature A. True
D. high levels of humidity B. False

1133. What is the definition of “Greenhouse

Effect?”
A. Gases that increase Earth’s tempera-
ture
B. when the gases in Earth’s atmosphere
trap heat (infrared radiation) from the Sun A. maritime polar
and keep the planet warm (warms planet)
B. maritime tropical
NARAYAN CHANGDER
C. the pattern of weather that occurs C. continental polar
over time
D. continental tropical
D. When our climate changes
1138. A horizontal movement of ocean water
1134. A light rain is called that is caused by wind
A. Precipitation
A. drizzle
B. Wind
B. sleet
C. Thunderstorm
C. hail D. Relative Humidity
D. snow E. Surface Currents
1135. ‘Day to day changes in the atmosphere’ 1139. What is a SIMILARITY between
A. Weather
B. Climate
1136. How many types of climate are there?
A. Both do not change

B. Both describe the conditions of an
area
C. Both describe the length of a season
D. Both are easy to predict
1140. It refers to the condition of the atmo-
sphere over a short period of time.
A. Five
A. Weather
B. Two B. Climate
1137. What type of air mass can be found at C. Pressure
“C”? D. Precipitation

1141. Water in lakes and rivers that does not 1146. Warm air mass that does not carry wa-
contain salt- ter:

A. recycled water A. continental tropical
B. new water B. continental polar
C. salt water C. maritime tropical
D. fresh water D. maritime polar
1142. How do you say GRANIZO in english? 1147. This is a weather instrument that de-
A. Sleet tects which direction wind is going.
B. Hail A. anemometer
C. Snow B. thermometer
D. Rain C. barometer
D. weather vane
1143. Does this statement describe weather
or climate? “The wind speeds were up to 1148. What would you expect from a Conti-
30 mph today!” nental Polar air mass?
A. Weather
B. Climate
1144. Houses in the mountains have roofs.

*
A. flat
B. circular
C. sloping A. moist, warm air
D. none of above B. dry, cold air
1145. What is the temperature shown on the C. dry, warm air

fourth thermometer? D. none of above
1149. Weather changes

A. yearly.
B. weekly.
C. everyday.
A. 60 degrees Fahrenheit D. none of above
B. 30 degrees Fahrenheit 1150. If you go to San Antonio next week you
C. 100 degrees Fahrenheit should pack an umbrella.
D. 10 degrees Fahrenheit A. weather
E. 70 degrees Fahrenheit B. climate

1151. As you move up a mountain the will

decrease.
A. humidity
B. wind
C. temperature
D. condensation
NARAYAN CHANGDER
1152. What does LOWERN stand for
A. Latitude Ocean currents Winds Eleva- A. Cold winter, mild summers and a rainy
tion Relief Near water season.
B. Latitude Ocean currents Winds Eleva- B. High temperatures all year roung and
tion Relief Near forests abundant precipitations.
C. Latitude Ocean currents Winds Ele- C. Mild winter, cold summers and
vatin Relief Near mountains droughts in summer.
D. Mild temperatures all year round and
D. Latitude Ocean currents Winds Eleva-
abundant, regular precipitations.
tion Relief Near glaciers
1156. Students used a tool to collect weather
1153. This is measured in miles per hour, and data and recorded their observations.
tells how fast it is predicted to blow during Their observations show a change in which
the day. of the following weather conditions?
A. High and Low Temperatures
B. Precipitation
C. Wind direction
D. Wind Speed
E. Air Pressure A. Amount of rain

B. Sky conditions
1154. climate is described as hot and wet,
and is located in low latitudes. C. High temperature
A. Tropical D. Wind direction
B. Dry 1157. Most of Spain is in the
C. Continental A. hot zone

B. cold zone
D. Moderate
C. temperate zone
1155. Oceanic climate has D. none of above

1158. We use a (a) to measure the wind direc- 1161. is a low ground level cloud
tion. A. mist

B. fog
C. rain
D. sunshine
1162. What types of air masses form over
land?
A. Maritime
B. Continental
A. a weather vane C. Polar

D. Tropical
B. anemometer
C. barometer 1163. Name the instrument used to measure
wind speed.
D. rain gauge
A. hygrometer
E. wind sock
B. Anemometer
F. wind rooster
C. Barometer
1159. Students at an elementary school set
D. Thermometer
up a weather station in 1985. The fifth-
grade classes have been responsible for 1164. Which term refers to the atmospheric
measuring and recording the daily temper- conditions of a certain place at a certain
ature, wind speed, wind direction, precipi- time?
tation, and cloud cover every year. Which
A. Dew point
characteristics of the area would students
be able to describe only after 30 or more B. Humidity
years? C. Water cycle
A. geology D. Weather
B. climate
1165. Where was it?
C. geography
A. Oymyakon, Russia
D. weather B. Vostok Station, Antarctica
1160. This layer of the atmosphere can heat C. North Ice, Greenland
up to 1, 500◦ C or higher when the Sun is D. Prospect Creek, Alaska, USA
active, making an aurora that lights up the
night sky. Astronauts orbiting Earth in the 1166. Cirrus
space station or space shuttle spend their A. lines drawn on weather maps to show
time in this layer where barometric pressure is the same
A. Stratus B. . high feathery clouds made of ice crys-
B. Barometer tals
C. Thermosphere C. fluffy fair weather clouds
D. Air pressure D. . where warm air replaces cold air

1167. A high specific heat means 1171. All of the following tools are use-
A. It heats up quickly with energy added ful in measuring local weather conditions
EXCEPT-
B. It requires more energy to change tem-
perature A. thermometers
B. rain gauges
1168. Which one is a warm front?
C. telescopes
A. D. anemometer
NARAYAN CHANGDER
1172. What are the conditions in a continental
B. tropical air mass
A. moist and warm
B. dry and warm
C.
C. dry and cold
D. D. none of above
1173. In which city are thunderstorms likely to
1169. Each school year for 30 years, the
occur? (look carefully; there could be two
amount of rain that fell at a school was
fronts connected in a single line)
measured and recorded. Tracking rainfall
over a long period provides the most infor-
mation about which characteristics of an
area?
A. Climate
B. Temperature of one day
C. Weather
A. San Diego
D. Type of soil
B. Chicago
1170. What is happening in our atmosphere at
C. Tulsa
a certain time and place.
D. Boston
1174. flattened out clouds act like a blanket
A. stratus
B. cirrus
C. cumulus
D. none of above
1175. Which of the following are created by
clear skies?
A. weather A. warm fronts
B. front B. cold fronts
C. climate C. fairly uniform temperatures
D. zone D. frequent changes in temperature

1176. The ocean absorbs a majority of the 1179. It is hot and humid throughout the year
heat energy that reaches the earth from in the
the sun. What happens to this heat? A. Temperate Zone

A. The heat spreads evenly throughout B. Frigid Zone
the ocean, keeping coastal areas colder.
C. Torrid Zone
B. The heat prevents the evaporation of
D. mountains
water, making coastal areas drier.
C. The heat remains in the waters that ab- 1180. Humidity is measured with a
sorbed it, making coastal areas hotter. A. barometer
D. The heat is distributed throughout the B. thermometer
world via underwater currents. C. hygrometer
1177. Using the symbol in the diagram, what D. anemometer
are the weather conditions that this
1181. Tropical climate zones are very wet and
weather station represents?
humid because
A. the temperature is cold.
B. they have many types of plants.
C. the Earth travels in a circle around the
sun.
D. sunbeams shine directly on them,
causing more water evaporation and rain-
A. Clear sky, wind from the northwest at fall.
19-28 MPH, rain, and temperature at 57 1182. What are the 2 major factors that affect
degrees a region’s climate?
B. Cloudy sky, wind from the northeast at A. Temperature and humidity
19-28 MPH, snow, and temperature at 57
degrees B. Precipitation and temperature
C. Temperature and precipitation
C. Partly cloudy, wind from the south-
west at 0-15 MPH, rain, and temperature D. Latitude and altitude
at 57 degrees
1183. This instrument measures wind speed,
D. Clear sky, wind from the southeast at and it is called
40-50 MPH, rain, and temperature at 57
degrees
1178. The sun directly overhead at the Equator

is
A. equinox
B. revolution
C. precipitation
D. atmosphere

A. anemometer 1188. Worldwide, temperatures have been in-

B. thermometer creasing for more than 100 years. Is this
evidence of global warming?
C. rain gauge
A. yes
D. computer
B. no
1184. Number 3 represents which stage of the
water cycle? 1189. What forms when 2 air masses meet
and create weather?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. a formation
B. warm air
C. a front
D. to tornado
1190. Air is a mixture of different gases, but

A. Precipitation falls from the clouds as the main gases are
water, freezing rain, or snow
A. Oxygen and carbon dioxide
B. Water vapor rises and changes from a
B. Oxygen and nitrogen
gas to a liquid and forms clouds.
C. Nitrogen and carbon dioxide
C. Groundwater forms from water that
does not evaporate D. none of above
D. Heat energy causes liquid water to 1191. Unprotected exposure to the sun’s rays
evaporate is a factor in the development of skin can-
cer. Which of the following is an example
1185. Which is true about a low pressure sys-
of empirical evidence that supports this hy-
tem?
pothesis?
A. There is heavy air.
A. An advertisement for a sun block prod-
B. There is light air. uct that claims it protects skin against ul-
C. There is typically clear weather. traviolet rays by a certain percentage.
D. The weather is always hot. B. Data showing a relationship between
the amount of sun exposure and the odds
1186. i live in the Rainforest i need to hide of getting skin cancer.
what do i do
C. A skin cancer survivor’s recollection
A. Climb trees
that he had a bad sunburn as a child.
B. hide
D. A model of a skin cell showing where
C. run DNA is in the cell.
D. none
1192. Which weather tool measures air pres-
1187. You can the sun and clouds sure?
A. make A. thermometer
B. measure B. barometer
C. observe C. anemometer
D. change D. psychrometer

1193. When there is thunder and lightning out- D. The amount of matter in a given vol-
side what do you hear or see first? ume.

A. Thunder
1199. The study of weather is called
B. Lightening
A. Meteorology
C. Both at the same time
B. Weather Forcasting
D. none of above
C. Astronomy
1194. What is the map symbol for fog?
D. Prediciting
A. F
B. = 1200. What are collections?
C. + A. water that collects in different areas.
D. // B. water underground
1195. What does nimbus mean? C. sunlight

A. storm D. Water rains
B. rain
1201. Why does city “B” have clear skies?
C. nimble
D. rainbow
1196. Evaporation is when

A. Liquid evaporates from plants
B. Water vapor turns into a liquid
C. Liquid turns into water vapor
A. It is in North America
D. none of above
B. There is not a front moving through city
1197. What is precipitation? “B”
A. the sweat from our bodies on hot days C. Clouds do not form in the West
B. the gas that we use in furnaces and
D. It is located near a high pressure sys-
ovens
tem
C. any form of water that falls from the
sky 1202. Is this a nimbostratus cloud?
D. warm rain, but not cold snow or sleet
1198. What is the Coriolis effect?

A. heat transfer caused by the rising of
hotter, less dense fluids and the falling of
cooler, more dense fluids.
B. A punk rock band.
A. True
C. the apparent deflection of moving air
as a result of Earth’s rotation. B. False

1203. Water released from the leaves of 1207. It was sunny all weekend.
plants.
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. Condensation
B. Infiltration
C. Transpiration A. climate
D. none of above B. weather
1204. Hurricanes are classified according to 1208. In the water cycle, water vapor evap-
their wind speeds. What instrument could orates into the atmosphere and forms
be used to classify a hurricane? clouds through condensation. What hap-
A. Thermometer pens in the atmosphere to the water in or-
der for the clouds to form?
B. Barometer
C. Anemometer
D. Wind vane
1205. The cold front brought in rain and low

pressure.
A. weather
B. climate
1206. Which statements describe parts of the

water cycle and how clouds form?(1) Wa-
ter evaporates from the earth’s surface as
it changes from a liquid to a gas.(2) Wa- A. Water drops mix with air pollution to
ter vapor rises with rising, warm air.(3) form clouds.
At higher altitudes, where temperatures B. The evaporated water warms up and
are cool, vapor (along with dust parti- moves closer together.
cles)condenses into drops of water that
form clouds.(4) Low-pressure conditions C. The evaporated water cools and drops
also help clouds form get closer together.
A. 1 and 2 D. The sun heats the evaporated water
B. 1 and 3 and the water drops move faster.
C. 1, 2, and 4 1209. What air masses are continental tropi-

D. All of the above cal?

1213. New Jersey is in the Zone.

A. Temperate

B. Tropical
C. Polar
D. none of above
A. F 1214. What climate zone is Antarctica in?
B. E A. Tropical
C. B and E B. Temperate
D. A C. Polar
1210. Weather is day to day change in the D. Pangea

of a place.
1215. I need a warm jacket for the winter.
A. atmospheric conditions A. Weather
B. precipitation B. Climate
1211. The Sun is the ultimate energy source 1216. Which location do Cacao trees grow?
for all other objects in the Solar System.
Which process transfers energy from the
Sun through space to all other objects in
the Solar System?
A. conduction
B. convection
C. radiation
D. reflection tagsSC.912.P.10.4
1212. Wich climate do they have in the canary

A. A
islands)
B. B
C. C
D. none of above
1217. What zone is the equator in?

A. Temperate
B. Polar
A. Subtropical climate. C. Tropical
B. Oceanic climate D. none of above
C. Mediterranean climate
1218. How many days was the weather
D. Mountain climate recorded in total?

1222. What is a long period of cooling dur-

ing which ice sheets covered the continents
called?
A. Cold Age
B. Glacier
C. Ice Age
D. The boy
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. 3 days
1223. A visible mass of condensed water va-
B. 9 days
por floating in the atmosphere, typically
C. 11 days high above the ground.
D. 12 days A. Stratosphere
B. Weather pattern
1219. In the summer we usually experience
high temperatures and very little rain. C. Density
A. weather D. Cloud
B. climate 1224. What is climate?

A. What’s going on with the atmosphere
1220. What is this?
at any particular time
B. The type of weather that occurs during
a particular season
C. An area’s pattern of weather over a
long period of time
D. How much sunshine an area gets
1225. Which of these best describes climate

rather than weather?
A. Wind speed is changing as a storm
moves through an area.
A. Hail
B. The temperature is decreasing in a
B. Rain
slow-moving cold front.
C. Snow C. Annual high temperatuers in the sum-
D. Sleet mer have increased over many decades.
D. The rainfall during one year was
1221. A convection current is caused by greater than the rainfall during the next
A. cool air rising, while warm air sinks year.
B. cool air and warm air hitting each 1226. What is rain-laden winds? (choose that
other apply)
C. warm air rising, while cool air sinks A. Monsoon wind
D. cool air forming rain clouds B. land breeze

C. sea breeze C. cloud cover

D. none of above D. all of these

1227. Where do clouds come from? 1233. The day-to-day conditions of the atmo-
sphere at a given place and at a given time.
A. From children’s dreams. They form
from the dreams that escape through A. climate
their ears at night. B. weather
B. Clouds are made of tiny liquid water C. trend
drops. When the water on the surface of
D. season
the earth evaporates, it rises into the air
and forms a cloud 1234. In Japan, cyclone is called
C. Clouds come from the sky A. Hurricane
D. Clouds have always been there. B. Tornado
1228. Altitude is the height of a place C. Typhoon
A. Above the sea level D. none of above
B. Under the sea level 1235. which of the following is the cause of
C. All of the above the change of seasons?
D. None of the above A. the distance of a place from the Equa-
tor
1229. South B. prevailling winds blowing across land
A. Tropic of Cancer or water
B. Tropic of Capricorn C. the tilt of the Earth’s axis
C. Arctic Circle D. the rotation of the Earth
D. Antarctic Circle 1236. rainfall occurs in equatorial region
1230. What type of weather system brings A. orographic
stormy weather? B. frontal
A. Low pressure C. convectional
B. High pressure D. cyclonic
1231. A rain gauge measures what? 1237. Water content in the air is known as
A. Air pressure A. moisture
B. Wind speed wind speed B. humidity
C. Amount of rain fall C. wind
D. Wind direction D. none of above
1232. Which of these can be used to describe 1238. Transfer of thermal energy through
the condition of the atmosphere “space”
A. temperature A. conduction
B. wind speed B. convection

C. radiation
D. none of above
1239. The typical day in Laredo would be

warm or hot.
A. weather
B. climate A. is located in the South of the Iberian
NARAYAN CHANGDER
Peninsula.
1240. Average weather conditions for a region
year after year. B. is located in Mediterranean coast,
Balearic Islands and Ceuta and Melilla.
A. Climate
C. is located in areas over 1, 500 meters
B. Weather high.
C. Pattern D. none of above
D. Prediction 1245. When you are on the beach, during the
day sun heats the land faster than the wa-
1241. Which kind of weather change will occur
ter and makes the air above it hot, this
with an increase in air pressure?
air rises and pulls in air from the sea to
A. cooler and drier replace it, this is called a
B. colder and rainier
C. hotter and stormier
D. warmer and moister
1242. Weather occurs in which layer of the at-

mosphere?
A. troposphere A. prevailing winds
B. stratosphere B. land breeze
C. mesosphere C. jet stream
D. thermosphere D. sea breeze
1243. Which of the following is a natural dis- 1246. The layers of the atmosphere are classi-
aster caused by the shaking of the Earth’s fied according to changes in
surface? A. altitude
A. Tornado B. density
B. Hurricane C. pressure
C. Earthquake D. temperature
D. Flood 1247. A student states the weather is the

same as the climate. Which response BEST
1244. What sentence is true? The Mediter- tells the student the difference between
ranean climate weather and climate?

A. Weather is about the wind and the rain,

but climate is about the clouds.

B. Weather is the conditions in one day,
but climate is the conditions over a long
time.
C. Weather is measured with tools like A. Thermosphere
thermometers, but climate is measured B. Mesosphere
with tools like forecasts. C. Ozone layer
D. Weather is recorded on charts, but cli- D. None of the above
mate is recorded on world maps.
1253. Tropical climates are found
1248. Which of the following is an example of A. North and South of the equator
climate? B. At the poles
A. An intense thunderstorm in Shimla C. half way between the poles and equa-
B. The average temperature in Chicago tor
over the past 50 years D. none of above
C. A hot day in Delhi in the summer 1254. The areas between the 60 and 90
degrees North/South is known is also
D. A foggy day in San Francisco
known as AND
1249. The equinox happens times per A. middle latitudes
year. B. high latitudes
A. One C. tropical climate zone
B. two D. temperate climate zone
E. arctic climate zone
C. three
D. four 1255. The North and South Poles are usually
cold and dry.
1250. Onshore wind blows from sea to land
which is also called as
A. Sea breeze
B. Land breeze
1251. Which tool do we use to measure pre- A. Weather

cipitation? B. Climate
A. Pluviometer 1256. The amount of moisture in the air is
B. Thermometer called:
A. Barometric pressure
C. Anemometer
B. Wind
D. Barometer
C. Temperature
1252. Where does weather occur? D. Humidity

1257. The desert is very dry, it’s an example 1262. conditions of the air outdoors
of. A. weather only
A. Weather B. climate only
B. Climate
C. weather and climate
1258. Winds that blow from 300 latitude to D. none of above
the equator are called:
1263. What kind of cloud is this?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. cumulus
A. westerlies B. cumulonimbus
B. polar easterlies C. stratus
C. trade winds D. stratonimbus
D. horse latitudes 1264. When a warm front occurs, what type

of weather does it bring?
1259. Artic regions have a cooler climate with
temperatures because of their physical A. thunderstorms
location on Earth. B. warm and clear
A. Higher C. hail
B. Fair D. clouds and long rains
C. Lower
1265. what is sea breeze
D. Extremely hot
A. air from land to sea
1260. have different instruments to record B. air from sea to land
data about weather.
A. Stations 1266. Summers are usually mild in Lansing,
Michigan
B. Weather forecasters
A. Weather
C. Weather stations
B. Climate
D. none of above
1267. Which of the following is the correct or-
1261. T or F:Water temperatures change der of the atmosphere layers from Earth
quicker than land temperatures. to space?
A. T A. troposphere, stratosphere, meso-
B. F sphere, thermosphere, exosphere

B. troposphere, mesosphere, thermo- 1271. What is climate?

sphere, exosphere, stratosphere A. a region’s short term weather pattern

C. thermosphere, stratosphere, meso- B. a region’s long term weather pattern
sphere, troposphere, exosphere
C. the types of organisms that live in an
D. troposphere, stratosphere, meso- area
sphere, exosphere, thermosphere
D. the temperature of a region during the
1268. A mixture of rain and snow is called summer
A. drizzle 1272. Why is precipitation important to peo-
B. sleet ple
C. hail A. It’s needed for ocean currents.
D. snow B. It provides life-giving water.
C. It cools Earth
1269. Bands of high-speed winds about 10
kilometers above Earth’s surface. D. It changes the climate.
1273. Why is the poles colder than the equator

area?
A. The sun is more direct
B. The sun is closer
C. The sun is less direct
D. The sun is further away always.
1274. A land breeze is when the land is

and the sea is
A. thunderstorms A. warm, cool
B. windward B. cool, warm
C. tornadoes C. cool, cool
D. jet stream D. warm, warm
1270. Why did the students most likely add 1275. The following are albedo values for
the clay mountain to the model? three objects:Object 1 = 0.83Object 2 =
0.24Object 3 = 0.05All three objects are
placed under a heat lamp for the same
amount of time. Which of these objects
would most likely heat up at a slower
rate?
A. Object 1
A. To help model precipitation.
B. Object 2
B. To help model runoff. C. Object 3
C. To help model condensation. D. None of these objects absorb incoming
D. To help model evaporation. radiation

1276. Places near the equator have higher C. Water has fewer currents intropical
temperatures because oceans than in colder oceans.
D. Air has more moisture overtropical
oceans than over cold oceans.*
1279. Rain is formed when warm air sinks,
cools and condenses to form rain clouds
A. True
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. False
A. the solar energy travelled the shortest
to reach the surface of places near the 1280. what is wind?
equator A. Moving Air
B. they receive the highest angle of inci- B. a horizontal movement of air from high
dence of sun rays (solar energy) pressure area to low pressure area
C. the solar energy is most concentrated C. moving ice
near the equator
D. none
D. all of the above
1281. Which diagram represents the tilt of the
1277. Which of the following is NOT a factor Earth’s axis relative to the Sun’s rays on
that influences climate? December 15th?
A.
A. Latitude B.
B. Longitude
C. Altitude
D. Proximity to ocenas
C.
E. Atmospheric pressure
1278. Yvette was looking at a map that

showed where hurricanes had formed. She
noticed that more hurricanes formed over D.
tropical oceans than over colder ocean ar-
eas. Which of these BEST explains why
more hurricanes form over tropical oceans 1282. Why is deforestation a problem with
than cold oceans? global warming?
A. Water has more waves in tropicalo- A. It increases the amount of carbon diox-
ceans than in colder oceans. ide in the air
B. Air has less moisture overtropical B. It decreases the amount of carbon
oceans than over cold oceans. dioxide in the air

C. It provides humans with more wood to

burn

D. none of above
1283. Give the number and name of the layer

that contains the ozone layer.
A. Warm Front
B. Global Warming
C. Convection
D. none of above
1287. I describe the long term atmospheric

conditions of a region. Who am I?
A. 1. Troposphere
B. 5. Exosphere
A. Weather
C. 3. Ionosphere
B. Climate
D. 2. Stratosphere
1288. Which climate zone gets the most
1284. *Air in the troposphere is mostly nitro- amount of direct sunlight and rainfall and
gen and oxygen. What percentage of the is the warmest?
air is nitrogen? A. tropical
A. 70% B. temperate
B. 78% C. polar
D. none of above
C. 90%
D. 21% 1289. Polar, tropical and temperate are the
main categories of it.
1285. Weather keeps A. weather
A. changing B. climate
B. varying 1290. What are climate zones?

C. stable
D. none of above
1286. The energy transfer through circulation

A. areas that are divided by precipitation 1296. What is a jet stream?

and temperature
B. different levels of hills and mountains
divided by altitude
C. weather at different times of day and
in different months
D. areas that are divided mainly by clouds
and time A. A warm ocean current
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. A high speed wind that circles Earth
1291. Places like Delhi and Kanpur have
climate C. A cold ocean current
A. Moderate D. A type of local wind
B. Extreme 1297. Day to day changes in the atmosphere
C. Humid are known as?
D. none of above A. Weather
B. Vegetation
1292. What are the climate zones in the
world? C. Climate
A. Tropical, temperate, and polar D. Both a and c
B. Rainforest, desert, and tundra 1298. Which statement about Hawaii refers to
C. Ocean, land, and sky its climate?
D. Spring, summer, autumn, and winter A. A blizzard occurs on one of Hawaii’s
tallest mountain peaks.
1293. The sun rises late and sets early during?
B. A high temperature of 37.8◦ C was
A. Winter season recorded earlier today in Hawaii.
B. Summer season C. The mountains were shaded by cumu-
C. Rainy season lus clouds on a Tuesday afternoon.
D. All of these D. The coolest months are February and
March.
1294. In what layer of the atmosphere do me-
teors appear in? 1299. Winds are caused by differences in
A. Thermosphere A. precipitation.
B. Troposphere B. air pressure.
C. Stratosphere C. latitudes
D. Mesosphere D. fronts
1295. Area of Earth where direct sunlight 1300. What is the water cycle?
warms the air and water A. the 3 forms of water
A. equator B. the movement of water on, above, or
B. North Pole below the surface of the Earth
C. prime meridian C. when water melts
D. South Pole D. when clouds form

1301. Which of the following is an example of

climate data? C.
A. A town’s specific location on the earth.

B. A town’s atmospheric measurements
on a certain day.
D.
C. A region’s set of meteorological instru-
ments.
D. A region’s average temperature and 1307. The condition of the atmosphere, such
rainfall for 20 years. as temperature, cloud cover, wind speed
1302. High or low albedo:dirt and rainfall
A. high A. climate
B. low B. weather
1303. Which cloud is thin and feathery? C. season
A. cirrus D. none of above

B. cumulus 1308. Energy from the sun that heats the
C. stratus earth.
D. none of above
1304. Water vapor cools and turns into liquid
A. Precipitation
B. Condensation
C. Transpiration
D. Evaporation A. Lunar Energy
1305. TRUE or FALSE”When a place is higher B. Solar Energy

above sea level, it is colder.” C. Thermal Energy
A. TRUE D. none of above
B. FALSE
1309. Which movement of Earth causes day
1306. Choose the picture that best represents and night?
the “geosphere”. A. Rotation
B. Revolution
A.
C. Axial Tilt
D. Orbit
1310. Each winter since 1980, a family mea-

sures the snowfall in their yard and
B. records theyearly average. This average
is most common when describing what fea-
ture of thearea?
A. weather

B. climate 1314. This storm covers a narrow path, yet it

is extremely destructive. It often forms
C. water cycle
over flat land. What storm is described?
D. erosion patterns
A. Flood
1311. As Elevation increases, air pressure de- B. Hurricane
creases C. Tornado
A. True D. Thunderstorm
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. False 1315. Instrument used to measure the amount
of snowfall
1312. The movement of air masses is
A. snow Gauge
B. hygrometer
C. Anemometer
D. windvane
1316. During a day at the beach, which state-

ment is true
A. The water will heat up faster than the
A. Atmospheric pressure sand
B. Precipitation B. The sand will heat up faster than the
water
C. Temperature
D. Wind 1317. What do stratus clouds look like?
A. flat and hazy
1313. What does this symbol show?
B. dark and puffy
C. white and puffy
D. I literally have no earthly idea!
1318. The temperature at which water vapor

condenses is the
B. humidity
C. freezing point
D. dew point
1319. Equator is
A. High pressure A. 90 ◦ N Latitude
B. Low pressure B. 0 ◦ Latitude
C. Low humidity C. 180 ◦ N Latitude
D. Longing for someone (strong feelings) D. 90 ◦ S Latitude

1320. When the prefix nimbo-is added to a 1324. events that repeat themselves in the
cloud what does it tell you? same order

A. That the cloud will disappear soon A. types
B. That the cloud will produce precipita- B. cycle
tion C. usual
C. That the cloud is moving very quickly D. begins
D. That the cloud is high in the air
1325. The Coriolis effect causes
1321. Choose the correct option A. global winds and water to move in a
curved path instead of a straight line
B. continental deflection
C. the Earth to rotate on its axis
D. the orbit Earth takes around the sun
1326. How do meteorologists predict the

A. Cold front weather?
B. Warm front A. By observing birds and bees
C. Stationary front B. By using computers, radar, and
D. Occluded front weather satellites
C. By measuring air temperature and air
1322. Which instrument tells the direction of pressure
the wind?
D. By studying the water cycle
1327. The amount of water vapor in the air.

A. weather
B. dew point
C. humidity
D. air pressure
A. thermometer 1328. The fog is making driving difficult.
B. hygrometer A. Weather
C. Wind vane B. Climate
D. Rain gauge 1329. The continuous movement of water

from the air, to the land, back to the air
1323. Water vapor in the air is called: is known as
A. Sleet A. the collection cycle
B. Humidity B. the water cycle
C. Weather C. a cyclone
D. Wind D. the splash zone

1330. which list has the layers of atmosphere 1336. A is a large, rotating low-pressure
in correct order from the earth to space system that forms over the warm waters
A. troposphere, stratosphere, meso- of oceans near the equator.
sphere, thermosphere, exosphere A. tornado
B. stratosphere, thermosphere, exo-
B. hurricane
sphere, troposphere, mesosphere
C. exosphere, thermosphere, meso- C. thunderstorm
sphere, stratosphere, troposphere
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D. flooding
D. none of above
1337. If the specific heat capacity of water is
1331. How is sleet different from snow? about 4 times larger than sand, then
A. it’s not a form of precipitation
B. it’s a liquid not ice
C. it starts as rain and freezes in the air.
it’s already falling and passing through
the cold zone snow formation
D. none of above
1332. snow falls through a warm patch of air, A. Sand heats up faster than water
melts, and then freezes again
B. Water heats up faster than sand
A. sleet
B. freezing rain C. Sand and water heat up the same rate
C. snow D. Sand cannot get hotter than water
D. rain
1333. Where is Tornado Alley located?
A. Long term patterns over an area that
A. Near the equator of the Earth changes slowly
B. Near the North Pole
B. day to day changes of temperature,
C. South Central Los Angeles precipitation, and air pressure.
D. Middle states of United States C. Month to month changes of atmo-
1334. School will start late tomorrow due to spheric conditions
predicted snow and sleet tonight. D. Long term patterns over an area that
A. Weather changes quickly.
B. Climate
1339. of a place does not change fre-
1335. What kind of weather happens after a quently.
warm front moves out?
A. Weather
B. Climate
C. Clear skies, temp. warms C. Wind
D. Clear skies, temp. cools D. none of above

1340. This landscape could belong to a B. high latitude area

C. low latitude area

D. low longitude area
1345. is the angular distance in degrees

North and South from the Equator.
A. Longitude
A. Cold climate zone. B. Latitude
B. Temperate climate zone. C. Equator
C. Hot climate zone. D. Height
D. none of above
1346. When we burn fossil fuels, such as oil
1341. The climate of Virginia is extreme and and coal in vehicles and factories, which
has harsh winters and summers. greenhouse gas is released into the atmo-
A. True sphere?
B. False A. carbon dioxide

B. oxygen
1342. Which two cities are most likely to ex-
perience clear, dry weather? C. nitrogen
D. helium
1347. What can happen when an area does not

get enough rain?
A. Drought
B. Flood
C. Sleet
A. Seattle San Francisco
D. Hail
B. Chicago Minneapolis
C. Chicago Nashville 1348. What can be measured in degrees Cel-
sius?
D. Dallas Houston
A. Temperature
1343. The Sun’s rays are stronger when they
B. Precipitation
are closer to the equator. When we are
further from the equator it gets colder C. Weight
A. Latitude D. Wind Direction
B. Wind 1349. Range of temperature is the term used
C. Altitude for
D. Distance from the sea A. maximum & minimum temperatures
1344. Between the Tropics, it is also known as B. maximum temperatures

a C. minimum temperatures
A. middle latitude area D. none

1350. What is the difference between B. A strong gust of wind.

Weather and Climate C. It’s a very nice day with very nice
A. Weather happens now, Climate hap- weather.
pens over time D. none of above
B. Climate happens now, Weather hap-
pens over time 1355. What should the wind speed be for it to
be a blizzard?
C. Weather happens now, Climate hap-
A. 80 mph
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pens now
D. None of these B. 35 mph
C. 120 mph
1351. Hot air (RISES / FALLS)
D. 15 mph
A. RISES
B. FALLS 1356. What is the first layer of the Atmo-
sphere? (lowest)
1352. Many people try to encourage others to A. Troposphere
carpool or use public transportation, such
as buses. How does this help conserve B. Thermosphere
(SAVE) nonrenewable resources? C. Stratosphere
A. We cut down fewer trees, since we D. None of these
need fewer roads.
B. Taking the bus is less expensive than weather:The arctic is dry and cold.
owning a car.
A. climate
C. These options put fewer pollutants in
the atmosphere. B. weather
D. We use less gasoline, which is made 1358. Which shows a cumulus cloud?
from fossil fuels.
A.
1353. What climate does a desert have?
B.
A. Tropical C.
B. Polar
C. Arid/Dry D. none of above
D. Temperate 1359. Sunshine is light and heat that comes
1354. What is a cold front? from
A. Occurs when a moving mass of clod air A. a light bulb

isreplacing a warmer air mass. B. the sun

C. power stations C. The Atlantic Ocean causes the Coastal

D. the earth’s interior Plain to have a mild climate

D. The Piedmont region causes the
1360. Select the statement that is false. Coastal Plain to have a mild climate
1363. Big droplets of water which fall down
as rain drops
A. drops of water
B. precipitation
C. Drop of mud
D. condensation
A. The weather in Leh is predicted to re- 1364. Tornadoes form within large cumulonim-
main partly cloudy until Sunday. bus clouds.
B. The climate in Leh is hot and humid A. True
C. The average minimum temperature is B. False
60 C.
1365. Which season is represented by D?
D. It is a very dry day in Leh.
1361. Which type of rain occurs when two air

masses meet?
A. Convectional
B. Relief
C. Frontal
D. None of the above A. spring
1362. Why does the Coastal Plain have the B. winter
mildest climate of all five regions in Geor- C. summer
gia? D. autumn
1366. What instrument measures air pres-
sure?
A. barometer
B. thermometer
1367. It is snowing in the Mojave Desert.
A. Climate
B. Weather
A. The surrounding states cause the 1368. Yesterday was the hottest day of the
Coastal Plain to have a mild climate year.
B. The Appalachian Plateau causes the A. Weather
Coastal Plain to have a mild climate B. Climate

1369. Which type of cloud is lowest in the 1375. What causes seasons?
sky? A. The earth’s tilt on its axis.
A. Cirrus B. The distance of the earth from the sun.
B. Cumulus C. An area’s elevation.
C. Stratus D. none of above
D. none of above
1376. What kind of weather happens after a
1370. Water begins to evaporate when you cold front moves out?
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add to it. A. Light rain or light snow
A. cold B. Heavy rain or heavy snow
B. ice
C. Clear skies, temp. warms
C. water cycle
D. Clear skies, temp. cools
D. heat
1377. Animals that live here have blubber or
1371. Which layer of the atmosphere is the thick fur:
farthest from us?
A. temperate
A. thermosphere
B. polar
B. troposphere
C. tropical
C. exosphere
D. mild
D. mesosphere
E. desert
1372. Dallas usually gets about 50cm of rain
1378. Which cloud brings nice weather?
each year.
A. Cumulonimbus
A. climate
B. Cumulus
B. weather
C. Stratus
1373. Everybody agreed that the day was just
D. none of above
right for a picnic and swim. What a bright,
sunny morning! 1379. What happens when water vapor
A. Weather freezes in the Earth’s atmosphere?
B. Climate A. It hailstorms
1374. Jacques sees many dragonflies in the B. It snows

swampy area near his home. He doesn’t C. It makes freezing rain
usually see them in the grassy area near D. It makes sleet
his grandmother’s home. Which of these
conditions can he conclude that dragonflies 1380. What kind of climate do you live in when
prefer? you are farther from the ocean?
A. cold A. Cold Climate
B. humid B. Tropical Climate
C. dry C. Continental Climate
D. windy D. none of above

1381. The rainy season is from March-June B. weather

each year. C. forecast

A. Climate D. sunlight
B. Weather
1386. He was at the park and suddenly it
1382. when a warm air mass takes over a cold started to rain.
air mass the result is a
A. stationary front
B. warm front
C. cold front
D. occluded front
A. weather
1383. Which of these is the most likely
weather condition at Location 2 when com- B. climate
pared to Location 1? 1387. T or F:The Boy and The Girl are pre-
dictable.
A. T
B. F
A. Location 2 has higher average wind 1388. Fierce tropical storm with high speed
speeds. winds.
B. Location 2 experiences more hurri- A. current
canes.
B. Monsoon
C. Location 2 has less rain.
C. typhoon
D. Location 2 is hotter.
D. hurricane
1384. What is the main characteristic of
weather? 1389. Large bodies of water affect climate of
the land next to them because
A. water heats up and cools more slowly
than land
B. water heats up and cools faster than
land
C. water and land cool at the same time
A. long period of time D. water and land heat at the same rate
B. short period of time 1390. Water from a puddle that dries up is an
C. severe weather example of which part of the water cycle?
D. the five climates zones A. condensation
1385. is the average pattern for weather B. perspiration

over a long period of time. C. evaporation
A. climate D. percolation

1391. In diagram Y, which warms up more B. It was 8 degrees Fahrenheit warmer

slowly, the land or the water? on Day 2.
C. It was 8 degrees Fahrenheit cooler on
Day 2.
D. It was 4 degrees Fahrenheit warmer
on Day 2.
1394. Measures amount of rain that falls.
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A. land
B. water
C. both warm up equally
D. none of above
1392. There are many regulations that deal

with driving a car. These regulations are
examples of?
A. Thermometer
A. Theory
B. Law B. Rain Gauge
C. Both C. Weather Vane

D. I have no idea D. Anemometer
1393. John measured the temperature of a 1395. A hygrometer measures

room at the same time on two different
A. Wind direction
days. What claim can he make from his
data? B. air moisture ( humidity)
C. wind speed
D. wind speed and wind direction
1396. Which is not a safe place to go during a

tornado warning?
A. Face down in a ditch

B. In a bathtub
C. Under a tree
A. It was 4 degrees Fahrenheit cooler on
Day 2. D. In the basement

1397. What are the factors that influence cli- B. Desert

mate? C. Grassland

A. Wildlife. D. Tundra
B. Latitude, altitude and distance from
the sea. 1401. A layer of air that surrounds Earth to
keep us warm is called
C. Weather forecasts.
A. atmosphere
D. Sleet and hail.
B. Sun’s rays
1398. The amount of water vapor present in C. ozone layer
the air is called
D. air pressure
1402. The greenhouse effect is caused by in-

creases in what gas in the atmosphere
A. Carbon Dioxide
B. Oxygen
C. Nitrogen
A. weather D. none of above
B. humidity
1403. Cold air (RISES/ FALLS)
C. air mass
A. RISES
D. water cycle
B. FALLS
1399. The Ozone layer protects humans from
what? 1404. Compared to climates near sea level, cli-
mates at high elevation (such as on moun-
A. Instagram Stalkers tains) tend to be
B. Ultra Violet rays A. warmer and wetter
C. Hail B. colder and wetter
D. Meteors C. warmer and drier
1400. Biomes of the World:A wide range of D. colder and drier
temperatures and precipitation here; You
would find a canopy at the top, lower trees 1405. Which these meteorological symbols,
underneath, then shrubs, and the biodi- numbered 1 through 4, represents a sta-
verse understory at the bottom. tionary front?
A. Deciduous Forest A. Front 1

B. Front 2 1410. The heat from a hot burner to a pot is

C. Front 3 transferred by
D. Front 4
1406. Where does the earth have the hottest

climates
A. near the prime meridian
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B. in between the equator and the poles
C. near the poles A. convection
D. near the equator B. insulation
1407. Another word for water vapor is- C. radiation
A. high pressure D. conduction
B. humidity 1411. Which conditions are usually the effect

C. climate of a low air pressure system?
D. none of above A. clear, dry weather

B. cloudy, wet weather
1408. A tool used to measure the pressure in
C. cold, dry weather
the atmosphere is called
D. hot, dry weather
1412. Which side of a mountain range is closer

to the ocean?
A. leeward side
B. rain shadow side
C. windward side
D. downwind side
1413. What vegetation is there in cold cli-

mates?
A. Barometer
B. Anemometer
C. Thermometer
D. Satellite
1409. When it hails, there is usually also

A. Snow and sleet A. Tundra
B. Wind and rain B. Grassland
C. Cold air C. Desert
D. Clouds all day long D. Woodland

1414. Patterns of changes from season to sea- 1419. What role does runoff play in the water
son and year to year cycle?

A. Weather A. process in which liquid turns to water
vapor
B. Climate
B. carries water from precipitation into
1415. Condition of air temperature, air pres- oceans
sure, wind, humidity and rainfall in the C. it takes water out of the water cycle
atmosphere at a given place and time is
known as D. none of above
A. Weather 1420. A(n) is the boundary where two air
B. Season masses meet.
C. Climate A. air mass
D. none of above B. storm

C. collision
1416. In August, you can generally expect hot
D. front
temperatures on Cape Cod.
A. Climate 1421. What type of weather could a cold front
bring? (2 answers)
B. Weather
A. precipitation
1417. This landscape could belong to a B. cloudy skies
C. sunny skies
D. lava
1422. A region that is very dry for most or all

of the year is called a
A. swamp
B. desert
A. Cold climate zone.
C. ecosystem
B. Temperate climate zone.
D. none of above
C. Hot climate zone.
D. none of above 1423. This is the symbol for a weather
front.
1418. A carnivore has stripes on his body and
moves very fast to catch it’s prey. it is
likely to be found in the
A. North pole A. Cold
B. South pole B. Warm
C. Deserts C. Stationary
D. Tropical Rainforests D. Occluded

1424. The amount of water vapour in gram per

cubic metre
A. Absolute humidity
B. Relative humidity
1425. Earth’s second atmosphere formed from
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A. outgassing
B. the Sun’s solar wind
C. comet vaporization A. Measures wind speed
D. leftover gases from the nebula B. Measures rain
tagsSC.912.E.7.1
C. Measures temperature
1426. moisture condensed from the atmo- D. Tells wind direction
sphere that forms small drops of water on
any cool surface at night 1430. tornado
A. Cloud A. A person who forecast the weather
and studies the climate patterns.
B. Dew Point
B. The average weather conditions in an
C. Dew area over a long period of time deter-
D. Humidity mined by temperature and precipitation
C. A rapidly whirling, funnel-shaped
1427. As the temperature decreases the pres- cloud that reaches down to touch Earth’s
sure in decrease. surface.
A. True D. none of above
B. False
1431. The Elephant uses it’s trunk as a sense
1428. This is the symbol for a organ for detecting
A. Sound
B. Taste
C. Sight
D. Smell
A. Stationary Front
1432. In the northwestern United States, the
B. Occluded Front jet stream brings in moist air from the Pa-
cific Ocean. The warm, moist air hits a
C. Cold Front
mountain range located about 200 miles
D. Warm Front inland, causing the air to rise and cool.
How does this affect the weather west of
1429. What does this tool do? the mountain range?

A. Areas west of the mountain range re- B. Orographic

ceive more rainfall than areas east of the
C. Cyclonic
mountain range.

D. none of above
B. Areas west of the mountain range
have consistently cool temperatures all
1436. Water vapor in the air is also known as
year.
A. precipitation
C. Areas west of the mountain range
have consistently warm temperatures all B. condensation
year.
C. humidity
D. Areas west of the mountain range re-
ceive less rainfall than areas east of the D. none of above
mountain range.
1437. Air that is moving is called
1433. How is it possible that Norway and A. A front
Southern Greenland on the same latitude
(60◦ N) have vastly different climates. B. Wind
Norway is much warmer than Southern C. Humidity
Greenland in the winter?
D. Atmosphere
A. Southern Greenland is closer to the
North Pole than Norway 1438. What is the climate like in the the polar
B. Norway has many active volcanoes regions?
which makes the weather warmer
C. The North Pole is located in Greenland,
making the place very cold
D. Ocean currents carry heat toward Nor-
way, but not toward Greenland
1434. observed over time

A. weather only A. cold and dry
B. climate only B. cold and wet
C. weather and climate C. warm and dry
D. none of above D. warm and wet
1435. This type of rainfall is called rainfall. 1439. The prevailing westerlies, the major
wind belts over the continental United
States, generallly push air masses from
A. east to west
B. west to east
C. north to south
A. Convectional D. south to north

1440. A continental polar air mass forms in: A. Weather Vane

A. the Pacific Ocean. B. Rain Gauge
B. northern Canada. C. Thermometer
C. the Gulf of Mexico. D. Anemometer
D. the desert. 1444. Weather data is different from climate
1441. This climate in Spain has very hot tem- data. Which of these is an example of
weather data?
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peratures in summer and very low in win-
ter. A. Skies are mostly cloudy at 5:00 pm in
Las Vegas on May 3rd, 2012.
A. Mediterranean
B. New England has an average of more
B. Oceanic
than 100 rainy days each year.
C. Mountain
C. Northern Europe has much colder win-
D. Mediterranean-Continental ters than South America.
1442. Beavers make their lodges out of tree D. The high plateau region of Antarctica
branches and mud. In which environment has constant light winds from the south.
is a beaver most likely to be found?
1445. Which type of pressure system is pic-
A. Tundra tured?
B. Forest
C. desert
D. marsh
1443. Used to check temperature.
A. high
B. low
C. medium
D. none
1446. You would expect to see clouds forming

and possible precipitation
A. in Utah (the H)
B. in Florida

C. in Nebraska (between the H and the L)

D. in Indiana
A.

1447. Which of the following is NOT a form of
precipitation?
A. snow
B. hail
C. rain B.
D. clouds
1448. Choose the correct definition of Spain’s

Continental-Mediterranean climate.
ters are cool and summers are mild, and
Rain is frequent and it often snows in the C.
higher areas.
C. It’s found on the southern and eastern
ten.
D. It’s the largest climate in Spain. Sum-
mild all year round and it does not rain fre-
quently.
D.
1449. Which weather conditions are associ-
ated with El Niño?
A. increased temperature, increased pre-
cipitation
B. decreased temperature, increased
precipitation 1451. An area’s is the weather conditions
C. increased temperature, decreased over a long period of time.
precipitation
A. weather
D. decreased temperature, decreased
precipitation B. climate
C. precipitation
1450. Which instrument does a meteorologist
use to measure wind speed? D. temperature

1452. The sound you hear after a lightning. 1457. A temperate climate is?
A. thunderstorm A. consistently cool
B. lightning B. consistently warm
C. thunder C. consistently moderate

D. warm and cool
D. extreme
1458. What is monsoon in the given option
1453. Which of the following is NOT a factor
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that affects weather? A. V feel a sense of relief when it rains of
the after the summer days the rainy sea-
A. temperature son starts from coastal region in June and
B. humidity cover the whole of India by the middle of
June
C. latitude
B. From mainland who made February
D. precipitation the whole of north in the grip of It has
short legs and long nights.
E. cloudiness
1459. We usually receive a lot of rain in May.
1454. What type of air mass would have cold,
dry air? A. Weather
B. Climate
A. tropical continental
B. tropical maritime 1460. What is a hurricane?
C. polar continental A. a traditional funnel shape, or in a slen-

der rope-like form
D. polar maritime
B. A change in wind direction and an
increase in wind speed with increasing
1455. What causes atmospheric pressure?
height creates an invisible, horizontal
A. sunlight spinning effect in the lower atmosphere
B. weight of the air C. tropical storms. They take place be-
tween the Equator and the Tropic of Can-
C. wind
cer to the north, or between the Equator
D. Earth’s magnetic field and the Tropic of Capricorn to the south
D. none of above
1456. Jenny measures the outside tempera-
ture as 0 degrees Celsius, 32 degrees 1461. Water shortages can be created by
Fahrenheit. She observes precipitation
A. weather related issues like drought
falling from the clouds in solid crystal
forms. What type of precipitation is Jenny B. human consumption
most likely observing? C. human withdrawal
A. hail D. All of these reasons.
B. rain 1462. Information that has been collected.
C. sleet A. Data
D. snow B. Extent

C. Pattern C. determines where they form

D. Range D. determines the direction of the wind

rotation
1463. Spontaneous generation was an idea
that living things appear from nonliving 1467. What is the process called when wa-
things. This was disproved by Louis Pas- ter vapor cools and joins together?
teur’s experiment using bacteria to demon- (Ex:Clouds)
strate bacteria comes from existing bacte-
ria. What is this an example of? A. Condensation
A. A scientific theory changes as an or- B. Precipitation
ganism evolves. C. Run Off
B. Scientific knowledge changes as new D. Evaporation
evidence is discovered by experiments.
E. Transpiration
C. Changes cannot be made because it is
a scientific law. 1468. This is the symbol for which type of
D. Bacteria have been observed and mod- front?
ified many times.
1464. This photo represents a climate
A. cold front
B. warm front
C. stationary front
A. Polar D. occluded front
B. Temperate
1469. this zone receives very heavy rainfall
C. Tropical
A. torrid
D. Arid
B. temperate
1465. If the air feels sticky and your hair
frizzes up, you may want to check a C. frigid
A. Barometer D. none of above
B. Thermometer 1470. The angle at which the earth tilts as it
C. Anemometer travels around the sun effects:
D. Sling psychrometer A. the angle at which sun ray’s reach
earth’s surface
1466. How does the Coriolis Effect influence
hurricanes and cyclones B. the changing of the seasons
A. determines how powerful they will be C. the number of daylight hours
B. determines where they will go D. all of the above

1471. Why do people cut trees down? 1476. The transfer of heat by the movement
A. To clear land of a fluid.
B. To free up space for agricultural rea- A. Continental

sons B. Air Mass
C. To sell lumber
C. Convection
D. All of the above
D. Atmosphere
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1472. I need to wear a sweater and long pants
today. 1477. Which climate zone gets the least sun-
A. Weather light and is the coldest?
B. Climate A. tropical
1473. Urban areas are warmer than rural ar- B. temperate

eas because
C. polar
A. There are more reflective surfaces
D. none of above
B. More heat is generated by buildings,
cars and industry
1478. Temperature cant be measured
C. Rainfall is higher in urban areas
A. True
D. Sun’s radiation is stronger in cities
B. False
1474. Which month has the highest precipita-
tion? 1479. Weather is affected by air pressure
A. True
B. False

weather occurs is the
A. January
B. August
C. December
D. June
1475. Dew is what?

A. Water that is pushed out by plants
B. Water that was a gas in the atmo- A. thermosphere
sphere, but when it cooled turned into liq-
uid water touching a solid object B. stratosphere
C. Water from the ground C. mesosphere

D. none of above D. troposphere

1481. This tool is A. used to measure air temperature.

B. used to measure wind speed.

C. used to collect and measure precipita-
tion.
D. used to measure wind direction.
E. used to measure the atmospheric pres-
sure.
1482. These maps show points of equal baro-

metric air pressure (wind speed).
A. isotherm map
B. isobar map
C. isodown map
D. temperature map
1483. Wet weather is good for frogs because:

A. it is hot.
B. it is wet.
C. it keeps their skin from getting too dry.
D. none of above
1484. Ling heard on the news that a high-

pressure system is moving into her area.
What weather conditions should she ex-
pect?
A. clear skies
B. fog
C. thunder clouds
D. sleet
1485. What will most likely happen if the rel-

ative humidity reaches 100% and the air
temperature is very high?

A. rain may form 1491. Which diagram shows the formation of

B. snow may form a land breeze?
C. hail may form

D. fog may form
1486. Climate is
A. what is happening in an area now
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B. what we expect an area to be like A. diagram Y
1487. Why do warm air masses go up and B. diagram X

over cold air masses when they meet? C. neither
A. Warm air is less dense. D. both
B. Warm air is more dense. 1492. are made of water vapor that con-
C. There is more moisture held in cold air denses in the troposphere.
masses. A. dew
D. Scientists do not yet know why this B. clouds
happens.
C. evaporation
1488. What is the condition of the atmosphere D. transpiration
at a certain time and place?
1493. Coriolis Effect
A. climate zone
A. bands of high and low pressure found
B. weather
about every 30 degrees of latitude
C. climate B. the curving of a path of a moving ob-
D. element ject from an otherwise straight path due
to Earths rotation
1489. You are working for WBOC and Dan
C. winds that blow from east to west be-
Satterfield has asked you to calculate the
tween 60 and 90 degrees latitude in both
mode temperature of a few days in Decem-
hemispheres
ber. The following are the high tempera-
tures he needs calculated. They are in Cel- D. narrow belts of strong winds that blow
sius. 10.5, 11.4, 13.1, 10.5, 11.6, 12.9, in the upper troposphere
10.5, 13.3
1494. What does a rain guage measure?
A. 11.6
A. how hot or cold it is
B. 10.5
B. wind direction
C. 12
C. humidity
D. 11.7
D. precipitation
1490. Sunny
1495. Which statement below describes cli-
A. Sunny mate?
B. Sol A. It’s hot outside.

B. It’s normally warm outside. 1500. This climate has very cold temperatures
(-50◦ C) in winter. It is located around 60◦
C. It’s raining outside.
and 75◦ North and South of the Equator.

D. It’s cold and snowing outside. This is the region.
1496. The type of climate we live in is called A. Mediterranean

the B. Tropical
A. Polar Zone C. Tundra
B. Grassland Zone D. Temperate
C. Temperate Zone 1501. Identify the type of front that is shown
D. Tropical Zone in the image.
1497. The Earth is tilted on an axis. When a

location on Earth is tilted towards the sun,
then it is
A. Occluded Front
B. Cold Front
C. Stationary Front
D. Warm Front
A. winter
1502. Every few years, an event occurs in
B. spring which the waters in the eastern Pa-
C. fall cific Ocean become warmer. This event
changes weather patterns worldwide,
D. summer
causing drought, floods, blizzards, hurri-
1498. when everything becomes covered with canes and tornadoes. What is the name
water of this event?
A. Kuroshio Current
A. drought
B. Global conveyor
B. avalanche
C. The boy
C. hoar frost
D. Typhoon
D. flood
1503. What are the average weather condi-
1499. What type of front forms when cold and tions in an area over a long period of time
warm air stop moving? called?
A. Cold A. weather
B. Warm B. climate
C. Hot C. seasons
D. Stationary D. average weather

1504. What does this represent? A. Closer to the sun

B. More direct light from Earth’s tilt
C. Stronger light from the sun
D. Earth spins slower
1509. Why do we have winds on Earth?
A. Because of the trade winds
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B. Because of earth’s orbit around the
A. rain Sun
B. cloudy C. Because earth receives the sun’s rays
unevenly
C. thunderstorms
D. none of above
D. sunny
1510. This is the symbol for a
1505. They are highest clouds in the sky. They
look curly, white and feathery. Usually
mean good weather.
A. Cumulus
B. Cumulonimbus
C. Cirrus
A. Cold Front
D. Stratus B. Warm Front
1506. Which of the following is a part of C. Stationary Front
weather? D. Occluded Front
A. temperature
1511. The world has 5 different climate zones.
B. wind direction
C. precipitation
D. all of the above
1507. When water changes into gas

A. condensation
A. True.
B. evaporation B. False.
C. water cycle
D. air pressure
1508. Why is it warmer in the summer?
A. Long-term weather patterns

B. Daily Temperatures

C. The amount of air pressure in the 1518. Why is there day and night?
Earth’s atmosphere. A. Earth’s revolution around the sun

D. Day by day changes in the Earth’s at- B. Sun’s revolution around the earth
mosphere
C. the rotation of the moon
1513. Which of these changes slowly over D. the rotation of the the earth
many, many years?
1519. During a hurricane, which safety mea-
A. weather sures should you take?
B. climate A. Lie in a ditch
B. Stand under trees
1514. Rain, snow and sleet are forms of
C. Take selfies on the beach
A. precipitation
D. Move further inland
B. humidity
1520. Gasses in the atmosphere
C. monsoons
A. 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, 1% Others
D. none of above
B. 78% Oxygen, 21% Nitrogen, 1% Others
1515. Temperature of the atmosphere is mea- C. 78% Helium, 21% Other, 1 % Air
sured through
D. none of above
A. Barometer
1521. What type of instrument is used to mea-
B. Thermometer sure wind speed?
C. Anemometer A. wind vane
D. none of above B. speedometer
C. the Beaufort scale
1516. Which term refers to the movement of
air from areas of high pressure to areas of D. anemometer
low pressure?
1522. Weather is
A. Windward A. The common atmospheric conditions
B. Leeward in a given place.
C. Wind B. Temperature and precipitation
D. Current C. The state of the atmosphere at a given
time and place. It Changes frequently.
1517. These climates are found on the At- D. Rain, wind, clouds
lantic coast.They have mild temperatures
all year round.There is usually a lot of pre- 1523. Located at the leading edge of a tem-
cipitation. perature drop off. Bring heavy thunder-
storms, rain, and hail. Cool, fair weather
A. Mountain climates
is likely to follow.
B. Oceanic climates A. Warm Front
C. Continental Mediterranean climates B. Cold Front
D. Mediterranean climates C. Occluded Front
E. Subtropical climates D. Stationary Front

1524. How many layers are there in the 1528. Where is most water found on Earth?
Earth’s atmosphere? A. glaciers
A. 4 B. lakes
B. 5 C. rivers
C. 6 D. oceans
D. none of above
1529. Because of its huge (very big) size the
1525. Which front would you possibly see US climate is incred-ibly varied.
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heavy rain or snow fall? A. true
A. warm front B. false
B. cold front 1530. It is 24 degrees right now in Lubbock
C. stationary front A. Weather
D. occluded front B. Climate
1526. Which is the best explanation for how 1531. Which of the following gases DOES NOT
air masses move across the United States? trap heat?
A. The prevailing westerlies move air A. carbon dioxide
masses from west to east across the
B. nitrogen
United States but may be deflected by the
jet stream. C. water vapor
B. The trade winds move air masses from D. methane
west to east across the United States. 1532. What causes water droplets to form on
C. The jet stream moves air masses the outside of a cold glass?
from the Pacific Ocean across the United A. evaporation
States.
B. condensation
D. The warm air of the Gulf Stream
causes air masses to move from the At- C. leakage
lantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean. D. pressure
1527. What type of front is shown in the pic- 1533. Weather is

ture? A. What air is like outside.
B. Pattern of weather in a place over
many years.
C. The evaporation of water
D. none of above
1534. Causes of Climate Change are
A. only human activity
A. cold front B. a combination of natural and human
B. warm front forces
C. occluded front C. only natural forces
D. stationary front D. none of above

1535. The jet stream has a great impact on 1539. T or F:Hurricanes and typhoons are es-
changing weather conditions in an area be- sentially the same thing.
cause it

A. T
A. does not change with the seasons
B. F
B. is a determinant of major air move-
ments
1540. In most places, weather can change
C. keeps the atmosphere supplied with from minute-to-minute, hour-to-hour, day-
moisture to-day, and season-to-season.
D. speeds up evaporation following pre- A. True
cipitation
B. False
1536. Which type of forest experiences the 4
seasons? 1541. Guyana generally receives more rainfall
A. Boreal than Antigua
B. Tropical A. Climate
C. Temperate B. weather
D. Gump
1542. High humidity means what?
1537. What is one way that oceans affect the
weather? A. There is a lot of water vapor in the air
A. Air masses over the ocean condense B. The temperature is cool
water, which decreases fog and rain.
C. There is a cold front approaching
B. Air masses over the ocean pick up wa-
ter, which causes a rapid rise in tempera- D. There is a high-pressure system
ture.
C. Air masses over the ocean condense 1543. What can you see in this picture?
water, which causes a rapid drop in tem-
perature.
D. Air masses over the ocean pick up wa-
ter, which increases fog and rain.
1538. Which statement correctly describes

how clouds are formed?
A. Clouds form when a large block of ice
is frozen in the sky.
B. Clouds form when a solid changes di-
rectly to a gas through sublimation.
C. Clouds form when water vapor con- A. An anemometer
denses around tiny specks of dirt in the B. A barometer
air.
C. A rain gauge
D. Clouds form when water vapor evapo-
rates from a lake, river, puddle, or ocean. D. A thermometer

1544. What is the climate like at the top of 1548. The wind blowing from land to sea is
a mountain compared to the bottom of a known as
mountain? A. sea breeze
B. on-shore wind
C. land breeze
D. none of above
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1549. Usually or always are words describing
A. investigations.
B. generalizations.
A. cooler
C. humidity.
B. wetter
D. none of above
C. warmer
D. hotter 1550. The energy transfer by waves is
1545. It measures the speed of wind

A. Anemometer
B. Wind vane
C. Rain Gauge A. Radiation
D. Altimeter B. Air Pressure
1546. The more heat the particles contain, the C. Conduction

faster they move about. In which state D. none of above
of matter do the particles have the MOST
heat? [hint:Consider the particles that 1551. A dry climate in which temperatures are
make up each state of matter] high in summer andlower than 5 ◦ C in win-
ter, there is a big difference between tem-
A. in both a solid and liquid peratures at night and during the day.and
B. in a liquid precipitationis scarce,
C. in a gas
D. in a solid
1547. The electric discharge between clouds

or between clouds and the ground when
rapidly heated air expands suddenly is
A. Thunder A. Dry tropical
B. Earthquake B. Hot desert
C. Tornado C. Steppe
D. Lightning D. Mediterranean

1552. What weather instrument measures air C. precipitation

pressure? D. all of the above

A. hygrometer
1558. Which of the following is located at the
B. Barometer
leading edge of a warm air mass, brings
C. Rain Gauge gentle rain or light snow, followed by
D. Wind Vane warmer, milder weather.
A. Warm Front
1553. A humid air mass that forms over
oceans. B. Cold Front
A. Maritime C. Occluded Front
B. Warm Front D. Stationary Front
C. Polar 1559. Climate affects , , and
D. Weather
A. transportation
1554. In the Northern Hemisphere, wind trav- B. food habits
eling north appears to curve to the east
C. daily life of people
because of the
D. occupation
A. trade winds.
E. clothing
B. convection currents.
C. Coriolis effect. 1560. State whether the given statement is
D. polar easterlies. true or false:Moist air is lighter than the
dry air.
1555. The weight of the atmosphere pressing A. True
down on the earth. It is measured by a
barometer in units called millibars. B. False
A. Air Pressure 1561. Which of the following statements is
B. Stratus not true?
C. Barometer
D. Thermosphere
1556. What happens to the amount of oxygen

molecules as altitude increases?
A. fewer molecules
B. more molecules A. There are about 1000 tornadoes in the
U.S. every year.
C. same amount of molecules
B. More tornadoes occur in Mexico than
D. nothing happens to the molecules
in the U.S.
1557. Select all of the ways we can measure C. Only a small number of tornadoes ac-
weather tually strike buildings.
A. temperature D. Every year hundreds of people are
B. wind killed or injured by tornadoes.

1562. An instrument that determines from 1567. Which heats more slowly?
which direction the wind is blowing.
A. land
A. rain gauge
B. large body of water
B. anemometer
C. barometer 1568. the condition of the atmosphere at a par-
ticular location and time
D. wind vane
A. climate
1563. The climate changes every day.
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B. weather
A. True
C. solstice
B. False
D. equinox
ocean and the equator? 1569. Tropic of Capricorn is
A. Maritime Polar A. 66 1/2 ◦ S Latitude
B. Maritime Tropical
B. 66 1/2 ◦ N Latitude
C. Continental Polar
C. 23 1/2 ◦ S Latitude
D. Continental Tropical
D. 23 1/2 ◦ N Latitude
1565. City A is much larger than City B, but
they are located at the same latitude and 1570. Which of the following are greenhouse
elevation. However, City A is is receiv- gases?
ing more rainfall than City B. Given this
A. water vapor
information, which statement most likely
explains why? B. carbon dioxide and nitrous oxide
A. City A is much cooler than City B, which C. methane
means more condensation in the air.
D. CFCs
B. City A is farther inland than City B,
which is next to the ocean on the coast- 1571. March, April, and May are the months
line. in this season.
C. City A has more water fountains than A. Winter
City B, which adds clouds and moisture to
the air. B. Spring
D. City A has more large buildings than C. Summer

City B, which force more air upward into D. Autumn
the atmosphere.
1572. What kind of weather would an oc-
1566. The amount of moisture in the air is
cluded front likely bring?
called It is measure by a
A. weather, thermometer A. sunny and warm
B. rain, rain gauge B. much precipitation

C. humidity, hygrometer C. thunderstorms
D. precipitation, ruler D. cold and dry

1573. On Thursday, the weather is 1579. What kind of precipitation can you see
A. Partly cloudy in the picture?

B. Sunny
C. Thunder storm
D. Rainy
1574. ice crystals that form from water vapor
A. snow
B. rain
A. Rain
C. sleet
B. Snow
D. freezing rain
C. Hail
1575. Climate or Weather? Oklahoma saw 2
D. none of above
tornadoes, 57 lightning strikes, 9 inches of
rain, and high winds every day this week. 1580. Is the Greenhouse Effect good for us?
A. Climate A. No, because it makes the earth too hot
B. Weather to live
1576. Which side of the UK receives the most B. Yes, because it helps keeping the earth
rainfall? warm
A. West 1581. What do we call long periods of unusu-
B. East ally hot, dry weather?
1577. Which one of the following is not a fac-
tor of climate?
A. Distance from the Prime Meridian
B. Distance from the sea
C. Rainfall
D. Wind A. Draw
1578. This front can cause tornadoes when a B. Drop
warm air mass collides with a cold air mass
C. Drawings
and is quickly forced upward.
D. Drought
1582. This tool is used by meteorologists to.

(a)
A. occluded front
B. stationary front
C. warm front
D. cold front

A. a find the direction of the wind. 1589. What is a natural hazard?

B. find north, south, west, and east. A. Burning yourself on the iron at home
C. show where the rain is coming from. B. A road traffic accident
D. find wind speed. C. A natural event which causes a threat
to human activity or people
1583. The condition of the atmosphere at a
given time and place is called D. A natural event which involves a hu-
man causes hazard
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A. Weather
B. Climate 1590. What is the name of the weather instru-
ment that measures the direction of the
1584. People who study about weather are wind?
called A. Wind Vane
A. astronomers B. Anemometer
B. meteorologists C. Thermometer
C. odontologists D. Barometer
D. none of above
1591. A student used this to take measure-
1585. the ice pellets that fall with rain are ments of weather events. What did
called he most likely observe when using the
anemometer?
A. snowflakes
B. ice pellets
C. hailstones
D. ice crystals
1586. heavy rainfall

A. cold front
B. warm front
1587. What type of front moves quickly and

can produce severe thunderstorms?
A. Stationary
B. Warm
A. wind direction
C. Cold
B. temperature
D. Occluded
C. humid
1588. It protects thermometer from direct sun D. wind speed
rays
A. Stevenson screen 1592. Center of cyclone is called
B. Six maximum and minimum thermome- A. Eye of storm

ter B. Epicenter

1593. Which of the following air masses 1597. The gas that is most abundant in the at-
would be characterized as warm and dry? mosphere is

A. Maritime tropical A. oxygen
B. Continental tropical B. nitrogen
C. Maritime polar C. carbon dioxide
D. Continental polar D. argon
1594. Two towns are in the same region. How 1598. The day-to-day conditions in a specific
would the climate of a city at a lower alti- place is called the
tude compare to the climate of a town at
A. weather
a higher altitude?
B. climate
A. The city at a lower altitude would have
a drier climate. 1599. Scientists study upper atmospheric con-
B. The city at a lower altitude would have ditions to
a warmer climate.
A. make local forecasts
C. The city at a lower altitude would have
B. make short-range forecasts
a wetter climate.
C. study the outer atmosphere
D. The city at a lower altitude would have
a colder climate. D. track global weather patterns
1595. What is used to help prevent buildings 1600. Winters in Amarillo can reach tempera-
from catching fire in thunder and lightning tures below zero.
storms? A. Climate
A. Lightning rod B. Weather
B. House on stilts
1601. The image shows a/an
C. Underground shelters
A. Stationary front:the boundary be-
D. Shingles
tween two air masses where neither air
1596. What is the difference between mass is moving
weather and climate? B. Cold front:the leading edge of a cold
A. Weather is measured over a period of air mass is pushing against a warm air
years, and climate changes daily mass
B. Weather changes daily and can be pre- C. Warm front:the leading edge of a
dicted, but climate cannot ever be pre- warm air mass is pushing in to replace a
dicted. cold air mass
C. Weather cannot be predicted, but cli- D. Occluded front:the area between two
mate is certain. air masses where it’s constantly in motion
D. Weather conditions describe the daily 1602. Review:Temperature is

atmospheric conditions, and climate is the
A. how hot or cold the air is
average weather of an area measured
over many years. B. something measured by a barometer

1603. The circle graph represents the gases in C. Precipitation

our atmosphere. What gas is represented D. Wind conditions
by the green section in the circle?
1607. Mountains can influence an area’s cli-
mate
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A. ozone
B. hydrogen A. True
C. nitrogen B. False
D. carbon monoxide
1608. Describe the air on the leeward side of
1604. Cold air mass that is carrying water is: a mountain.
A. continental tropical
B. continental polar
C. maritime tropical
D. maritime polar
1605. Which diagram shows the formation of A. cold

a sea breeze? B. warm
C. dry
D. moist
1609. Weather Symbol:H represents

A. low air pressure
B. high air pressure
A. diagram Y
B. diagram X 1610. The weather elements are:-
Temperature-Wind-Humidity
C. neither
D. both
1606. One of the main factors used to deter-

mine climate is temperature. For example,
a tropical climate has generally warm tem-
peratures throughout the year. What is
the other main factor used to determine A. Precipitation
climate? B. Rain
A. Humidity C. Snow
B. Air pressure D. Heat

1611. True or False:Climate refers to the day- 1617. This climate type is known for warm
to-day changes in weather. temperatures and two distinct seasons

A. True A. Tropical
B. False B. Humid Continental
C. Marine West Coast
1612. “this week has been chilly”
D. Tropical Wet and Dry
A. weather
1618. What makes up clouds?
B. climate
A. Distilled water and dust
C. both
B. Condensed Water and dust
D. nether C. Dust and steam
1613. Where would you find a tropical mar- D. Ice and snow
itime air mass?
1619. How does a warm front form?
A. over the ocean, near the equator A. warm air becomes caught between
B. over the ocean, near the poles cold air masses
C. over a continent, near the equator B. two air masses meet and stay sepa-
rated
D. over a continent, near the poles
C. warm air moves over cold air and re-
1614. Earth is currently experiencing places it
A. a warming trend D. cold air moves under warm air and
pushes it up
B. a period of unchanging climate
1620. Warm air rises because it is dense
C. a cooling trend
then cold air.
D. an ice age
A. More
1615. Thin, flat blankets without clearly de- B. Less
fined edges that often cover a majority of
1621. The temperature at which more conden-
the sky
sation than evaporation occurs.
A. Cirrus Clouds
A. weather
B. Cumulus Clouds B. dew point
C. Stratus Clouds C. humidity
D. Fog D. air pressure
E. Storm Surge 1622. cold front
1616. What do nimbus clouds look like? A. colder air, heavy rain, thunderstorms,
snow
A. light and long
B. the cold rain that we have in the winter
B. puffy and white
C. rain that becomes snow because its
C. purple cold outside
D. dark and gray D. none of the above

1623. Climate depends on 1628. The measure of how clear the atmo-
A. tropical cyclones and hurricanes. sphere is
B. rain, sleet, snow, and hail.

C. tornadoes and thunderstorms.
D. location, wind, water and air
1624. What weather change is most likely to
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happen if air pressure is falling?
A. The weather will become warmer
A. Humidity
B. The weather will become stormy
B. Clarity
C. The weather will become cooler
C. Visibility
D. The weather will become fair
D. Clearness
1625. True or False:In a tornado watch, a tor-
1629. If a warm wind passes over snow, the
nado has been spotted.
snow can be heated rapidly. When this
A. True happens, the snow can change directly into
B. False water vapor without first becoming liquid
water. What is the correct erm for this
1626. What is the temperature at this station process?
A. Deposition
B. Evaporation
C. Melting
D. Sublimation
A. 75 degrees 1630. Warm air molecules move

B. 61 degrees A. faster
C. 987 degrees B. slower
D. 11 degrees 1631. The process by which water droplets
form on grass is called?
1627. Microclimate
A. The average weather conditions in an
B. a front where a warm air mass is
caught between two colder air masses
and brings cool temperatures and large
amounts of rain and snow
A. Condensation
C. Climate within a small area that differs
significantly from the climate of the sur- B. Deposition
rounding area C. Evaporation
D. none of above D. Sublimation

1632. The place shown in the picture is from B. Wind

which heat zone? Tick the correct option.
C. Precipitation

D. Temperature
1635. Observe the image and mark which of

the statement is true
A. Torrid
B. Temperate
C. Frigid
D. none of above
1633. You can predict the weather at a high A. Temperature increases by every 1 de-
or low pressure system. Which of the fol- gree for every 165 meters of accent
lowing is true about high and low air pres-
sure? B. Lower layers are cooler than the upper
layers
C. Places located at higher altitude have
warmer temperature
D. Temperature decreases by every 1 de-
gree for every 165 meters of accent
1636. What drives our climate here on Earth?

A. latitude
B. the Sun
A. High air pressure brings precipitation
or cloudiness and warmer air, while low C. rotational speed of the Earth
pressure brings clear skies and cooler air. D. oceans
B. High pressure brings precipitation or
cloudiness and cooler air, while low pres- 1637. What does a thermometer measure?
sure brings clear skies and warmer air. A. Temperature
C. High air pressure brings clear skies
B. Wind pressure
and cooler air, while low pressure brings
precipitation or cloudines and warmer air. C. Wind speed
D. High air pressure brings clear skies D. Air pressure
and warmer air, while low pressure
brings precipitation or cloudiness and 1638. There are only cirrus clouds in the sky
cooler air. today.
1634. We use a rain gauge to measure A. Weather
A. Humidity B. Climate

1639. A large, swirling, low pressure system A. Higher ice CO2 levels are the result of
that forms over the warm Atlantic ocean. higher temperatures.
It has winds of at least 120 km/h and B. Lower ice CO2 levels are the result of
loses force/power when it reaches land. higher temperatures.
C. Higher atmospheric CO2 levels leads
to higher temperatures.
D. Lower atmospheric CO2 levels leads to
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higher temperatures. tagsSC.912.E.7.7
1642. Loo is
A. A very hot and dry wind that blows in
the plains of northern India
B. It is a warm and dry wind. it blows in
the Rockies mountains of North America
A. precipitation on eastern side
B. blizzard C. It blows during winter in southern re-
gion of the Alps.in the southern Europe
C. tornado
D. none of above
D. hurricane
1643. What is the name of the device that
1640. What is weather? measures wind speed?
A. The amount of moisture in the air A. Anemometer
B. The number of clouds in the sky B. Wind vane
C. The speed of the wind C. Barometer
D. The state of the atmosphere at any par- D. hydrometer
ticular time.
1644. How are thunderstorms and hurricanes
1641. Data collected from ice cores have been dangerous?
compared in the diagrams illustrated be- A. They can cause flooding.
low taken from a research station in
Antarctica. What climate relationship can B. Strong winds can damage buildings.
most likely be concluded from the informa- C. The can produce lightning.
tion shown in these two graphs?
D. All of the above.
1645. What weather occurrence is described

as a massive rotating storm which forms
when warm moist air meets tropical wa-
ter?
A. Tsunami
B. Hurricane
C. Tornado
D. Thunderstorm

1646. It doesn’t rain very much here ever B. hot

A. temperate C. cold

B. polar D. wet
C. tropical 1650. UV radiation is absorbed in the strato-
D. mild sphere by which feature?
E. desert A. Greenhouse
1647. THE WEATHER ARE THE NORMAL B. Oxygen

WEATHER CONDITIONS AT DIFFERENT C. Ozone
TIMES OF THE YEAR. D. Cyanobacteria
A. TRUE
1651. Overflow of water onto land
B. FALSE
A. Flood
Explanation:CLIMATE ARE THE NORMAL
WEATHER CONDITIONS AT DIFFERENT B. Drought
TIMES OF THE YEAR. C. Volcanic Eruption
1648. People often discuss weather and cli- D. Landslide
mate by saying phrases like the ones listed
1652. What is the height of an area above sea
above. Which of the charts have the
level?
phrases listed in the appropriate columns?
A. elevation
B. topography
C. latitude
D. longitude
A.
1653. Which of these is NOT a factor that de-
B. termines the climate of a place?
A. latitude
C. B. wind patterns
C. longitude
D. D. elevation
1649. What type of climate would you find in 1654. A measure of how hot or cold the air is:
a rain forest? A. temperature
B. precipitation
C. humidity
D. none of above
1655. High pressure will usually bring what
kind of weather?
A. clear and dry
A. day B. cloudy and wet

1656. Where is the continental climate found? 1662. Greece is always hot in the Summer.
A. Near the sea
B. Dry places
C. Away from the sea
D. None of the poem
1657. In both hemispheres the winds that flow
toward the equator between 30 and 0 de-
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grees latitude are called A. Weather
A. Fronts B. Climate
B. Prevailing Westerlies 1663. A tool used to measure the direction of
C. Polar Easterlies the wind is called
D. Trade winds
Explanation:
1658. Climate is day to day conditions of a re-

gion.
A. True
B. False
A. No rain or snow
B. Water that falls from the sky
C. Increase in earth’s temperature
A. Anemometer
D. none of above
B. Thermometer
1660. It measures air pressure C. Satellite
A. Barometer D. Weather Vane
B. Thermometer
1664. an instrument that measures changes in
C. Anemometer air pressure
D. none of above
1661. Someone who studies and predicts the
weather
A. barometer
B. meteorologist
C. precipitation
D. atmosphere

A. barometer 1669. PLACES NEAR THE POLES ARE HOTTER

B. thermometer THAN THE PLACES NEAR THE EQUATOR.

C. wind vane A. TRUE
D. anemometer B. FALSE
1665. These clouds are the closest to the 1670. Climate covers-
ground. Their name means layer-or sheet
like. They bring rain or snow and cover A. smaller areas than weather
most of the sky. B. larger areas than weather
A. Cirrus
C. the same amount of area as weather
B. Stratus
D. none of above
C. Cumulonimbus
D. Cumulus 1671. On the basis of the prevailing climatic
conditions, the world can be divided into
1666. is the average weather pattern of a major climatic regions.
region over time.
A. 5
A. Climate
B. Maps B. 6
C. 7
1667. Which location probably has the great-
est annual rainfall? D. none of above
A. A
A. Atlantic Ocean
B. F
B. Pacific Ocean
C. C
D. D C. Indian Ocean
D. Southern Ocean
1668. which of the below is barometer?
1673. It refers to the average weather condi-
tions in a place over many years.
A.
A. Weather
B. Climate
C. Pressure
B.
D. Precipitation

1674. In the water cycle, as water evaporates 1679. The relative size of the atmosphere
and rises into the atmosphere it begins to layer as compared to the solid part of
collect with dust particles. This formation Earth is most similar to:
is called A. the meat of a peach as compared to
A. dust storm the pit of the peach.
B. cloud B. the skin of a grape as compared to the
C. tornado meat of the grape.
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D. thunderstorm C. the peel of an orange as compared to
the meat of the orange.
1675. Which factors would most likely affect
D. the meat of a cherry as compared to
the weather on a small island in the ocean?
the pit of the cherry.
A. the formation of dry air masses
E. the rind of a watermelon as com-
B. ocean surface currents pared to the meat of the watermelon.
C. the formation of humid air masses tagsSC.912.N.3.5
D. isobars 1680. Carbon is stored in
1676. The leaves are turning colors and falling A. Trees and other living things
off of the trees because the days and
B. Oceans
nights are cooler.
C. underground in soil and fossil fuels
A. Weather
D. All are correct
B. Climate
1677. The amount of Water Vapour in the air 1681. The weight of air as it presses down on
is called Earth’s surface
A. Air Pressure A. front

B. Rain B. air pressure
C. Humidity C. air mass
D. Clouds D. evaporation
1678. If a scientist makes a new discovery, 1682. Which front leads to steady rain for sev-
why must other scientists review and eral days?
replicate the results before the discovery A. warm front
can be published?
B. cold front
A. New discoveries can only be debated
C. stationary front
after they are published and confirmed
B. Scientific knowledge must come from D. occluded front
a great deal of debate and confirmation 1683. When a substance changes from a liquid
within the science community. to a gas it is known as?
C. Other scientists must like the new dis- A. Evaporation
covery before it can be published.
B. Condensation
D. New discoveries must be accepted by
all members of the scientific community C. Precipitation
first. D. Surface run-off

1684. What layer of the atmosphere is the C. The North Atlantic Drift is a warm
nearest to the surface of the Earth? (0-12 ocean current than brings colder air
km)

D. none of above
1689. A system forms where air sinks to-
ward surface.
A. high-pressure
B. low-pressure
1690. What factor causes surface currents
north and south of the equator to move
in different directions?
A. Troposphere
A. the sun’s energy
B. Stratosphere
B. the Coriolis force
C. Mesosphere
C. the density of the water or air
D. Thermosphere
D. continental deflection
E. Exosphere
Explanation:
1685. Fall here tends to be dry and cool.
The Coriolis Effect causes wind to move
A. climate
in a curved direction.The rotation of the
B. weather Earth causes winds to curve.
1686. What happens on the windward side of 1691. Rain, sleet, snow, and hail are all exam-
a mountain? ples of
A. A rain shadow is created. A. Climate
B. No clouds form on this side. B. Precipitation
C. Clouds form as air rises and it rains on C. Temperature
this side. D. Weather
D. Air falls, creating clouds. 1692. How hot or cold the weather is
1687. Cities closer to water most likely will be A. Sunshine
A. hotter. B. Temperature
C. Winds
B. more humid.
D. Humidity
C. more dry.
D. none of above 1693. What is the actual amount of water
vapour present in air called?
1688. The west of the UK is warmer in winter A. Relative humidity
because
B. Absolute humidity
A. The North Pacific Current is a warm
ocean current than brings warmer air 1694. can change in just a few hours.
B. The North Atlantic Drift is a warm A. weather
ocean current than brings warmer air B. climate

1695. The current outdoor conditions. C. anemometer

A. Pattern D. psychrometer
B. Range 1701. What is the difference between
C. Climate weather and climate?
D. Weather A. They are both the same.
B. Weather refers to short-term changes
1696. Clouds are formed during the process of
in the atmosphere, climate describes
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A. Precipitation what the weather is like over a long period
B. Condensation of time in a specific area.
C. Evaporation C. Climate refers to short term changes

in the atmosphere and weather describes
D. Transpiration what the climate is like right now.
1697. Warm fronts bring D. Climate and weather happen at the
same time.
A. rain followed by cool dry air
B. hurricanes 1702. The Continental Polar is very dry
cold; but the Maritime Tropical is warm
C. rain followed by hot humid air
moist.
D. fair weather
1698. What would most likely happen if it

didn’t rain in a certain area for a long pe-
riod of time?
A. animals and plants would live the same
way they do now
B. animals would drink all the water and
leave none for the plants A. climate
C. plants would die, and animals wouldn’t B. air mass
be able to receive nutrients from eating
C. front
plants.
D. back
D. nutrients would find a different way to
get to the plants and animals 1703. Rain, sleet and snow are examples of
1699. I have warm winters and hot summers. A. Precipitation
A. Tropical zone B. Temperature

C. Air Pressure
B. Polar zone
D. Humidity
C. Temperate zone
D. Mild zone 1704. What is a convection cell?
A. extremely dense and heavy masses of
1700. Air pressure is measured with a air
A. barometer B. a place on the beach where scientists
B. thermometer watch weather

C. an instrument scientists use to mea- A. Temperature

sure wind speeds B. Wind Vane

D. a pattern of rising warm air and sink- C. Wind Direction
ing cold air
D. Rainfall
1705. What is the wind direction for the fol-
1708. Anticlyclones cause unstabe weather
lowing station model?
and rain
A. north A. True
B. east B. False
C. northwest 1709. What kind of weather system is this?
D. northeast
1706. These are the highest clouds in the sky.
They look white, thin and wispy. They usu-
ally mean good weather.
A. cold front
B. warm front
C. stationary front
D. none of above
1710. Looking at the weather station model,
A. Cumulus what is the wind speed?
B. Cirrus A. 15 mph
C. Stratus B. 15 knots
D. none of above C. 25 mph
1707. This weather tool is used to determine D. 25 knots
1711. The force that air exerts over a certain
area due to its weight or motion is
A. climate
B. air pressure
C. weather
D. wind

1712. Who is a meteorologist? C. rain gauge

A. An expert on weather D. barometer
B. An old man or lady with a crystal ball 1717. This type of cloud is thin, wispy, and
C. Someone who counts meteors made of ice crystals
D. none of above
1713. Global warming is known as the gradual
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increase in of the atmosphere.
A. precipitation
B. sun spots
C. temperature
D. ocean currents A. cumulus cloud
B. stratus cloud
1714. In pressure systems, air rises
C. cirrus cloud
A. high
D. cumulonimbus cloud
B. low
C. medium 1718. What is the natural movement of air?
D. none A. Rain Gauge

B. Wind Vane
1715. Atmospheric pressure is measured with
the help of C. Rain
A. Barometer D. Wind
B. Anemometer 1719. climate and weather at two different
C. hygrometer terms. They cannot be interchanged
D. none of above A. true
B. false
1720. Precipitation in the form of rain mixed
with partially melted snow.
A. Sleet
B. Hail
A. thermometer C. Snow
B. anemometer D. Rain

1721. what is chinook? A. February

A. a hot southerly wind on the northern B. March

slopes of the Alps. C. April
B. a warm dry wind which blows down D. May
the east side of the Rocky Mountains at
the end of winter. 1726. Maritime polar air masses are
C. strong, dusty, gusty, hot and dry sum- A. dry and cold
mer wind
B. humid and cold
D. none of above
C. humid and warm
1722. What causes the seasons D. dry and warm
A. the motion of the earth around the sun
1727. Temperature, humidity, wind and precip-
B. the rotation of the earth itation are the elements that describe it.
C. the tilt of the earth’s axis A. weather
D. none of above B. climate
1723. What does a thermometer do? 1728. c. Inland / Coastal regions are colder in
A. An instrument that measures atmo- winter.
spheric pressure A. Inland regions
B. A device the collects and measures the B. Coastal regions
amount of rain that falls
1729. As warm air rises, cooler air moves in
C. A device measuring wind speed to take its place, creating
D. An instrument that measures and indi- A. ocean currents
cates temperature
B. wind
1724. In which direction does air move? C. storm surges
A. A. From North to South. D. fronts
B. . From South to North.
1730. Elevation is the measure of how high
C. . From a high pressure area to a low something is above a reference point.
pressure area. What is the MOST common reference point
D. From a low pressure area to a high used to refer to the elevation of natural
pressure area. landforms?
1725. Which month had the highest average A. lake level

rainfall in 2014? B. land level
C. river level
D. sea level
1731. The force of a column of air pressing

down is called what?
A. Air Mass

B. Air Pressure 1736. The Coriolis Effect is caused by what?

C. Air A. The wind blowing
D. Heavy B. Earth’s gravity pulling things down
C. The rotation of the Earth
1732. The Gulf Stream is a warm current.
It flows from the Gulf of Mexico along D. The pull of the Moon
the eastern coast. It’s northern exten-
Explanation:
sion flows across the Atlantic to Scotland.
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Allen lives on the coast of Scotland. What The rotation of the Earth causes the Cori-
effect does the Gulf Stream have on the olis Effect.
temperatures there?
A. It warms ocean and land tempera- 1737. Low level clouds that are flat and tend
tures to cover much of the sky. They are gray in
color and may produce light rain or drizzle
B. It cools ocean and land temperatures
A. Stratus
C. It warms ocean temperatures and
B. Thermosphere
cools land temperatures
C. Barometer
D. It cools ocean temperatures and
warms land temperatures D. Air pressure
1733. What layer of the atmosphere is closest 1738. What city is shown to have rain?
to outer space? A. Denver
A. mesosphere B. Atlanta
B. exosphere C. Billings
C. troposphere D. All of the above
D. stratosphere 1739. Specific Heat
1734. During the winter the days are shorter A. The distance in degrees north or south
and the nights are longer. of the equator
A. True B. The amount of thermal energy re-
quired to increase the temp of 1 kg of ma-
B. False terial 1 degree Celsius.
1735. Why do scientists record patterns in C. The transfer of thermal energy be-
weather? tween materials by the collisions of par-
ticles. (Transfer of energy through direct
A. They can tell what the exact tempera-
contact)
ture will be the next day.
D. The transfer of thermal energy by elec-
B. They can prove that the patterns are tromagnetic waves.
wrong.
C. They can make predicitons about what 1740. Why is it hotter at the equator than at
will happen next. the poles?
D. They can use the patterns to change A. It is closer to the sun

the seasons. B. The sun shines for longer

C. The suns rays are more focusses B. trade winds

D. The skies are clear C. jet streams

D. tornados
1741. What season are these children experi-
encing? 1746. How is a High Pressure system repre-
A. Winter sented on a weather map?
B. Spring A. Big Red H

B. Big Red L
C. Summer
C. Big Blue W
D. Fall
Explanation:Winter is the coldest season. D. Big Blue H
Some places experience very cold and 1747. A way to show or represent data is
snowy winters. What is winter like where called
you live?
A. Sand
1742. It describes the atmospheric conditions B. Seasons
present in a specific place and time.
C. Graph
A. weather D. Tornado
B. climate
1748. What NOT an effect of deforestation?
1743. What type of storm front is this?
A. animals homes are destroyed

A. warm front B. increases global warming
B. cold front C. decreases global warming
C. stationary front D. more carbon dioxide is released in at-
mosphere
D. occluded front
1749. Climate of a place may change day to
1744. Humidity is the measure of how much day or even hour to hour.
is in the air at a given time.
A. True
A. water vapour
B. False
B. gases
1750. A Monkey is found to have silver-white
C. pollution mane surrounding the head. it is called
D. wind A. Gorilla
1745. Narrow belts of fast moving winds in B. Lion-tailed macaque
the upper troposphere are called C. Chimpanzee
A. local winds D. Bandar

1751. We use a thermometer to measure 1755. A violently rotating column of air called
A. temperature a when it comes in contact with the
ground.
B. humidity
C. precipitation
D. wind
1752. In the upper Midwest and extending to
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the east, there are five large bodies of
freshwater called the Great Lakes. They
are hundreds of miles wide and some of
the deepest bodies of water in the United A. hurrican
States. Because they are so large, they B. tornado
have a great deal of surface. This ef- C. trade wind
fects weather patterns in areas close to
the lakes. How would you expect weather D. local wind
patterns to be different in an area next
1756. What is necessary for clouds to form?
to the shoreline of one of the Great Lakes
compared to an area further inland?
A. The inland area would have warmer
winters and colder summers
B. There would be no significant differ-
ences in weather patterns between these
two areas.
C. The shoreline area would have
warmer winters and colder summers A. Sun, water, vapor, and warm air.
D. The shoreline area would get more B. Warm air rises, cools, and condenses.
rain during the summer. C. Air temperature is higher than the dew
point.
1753. What is the distance north or south of
the equator? D. none of above
A. longitude 1757. Which is an example of a natural re-

B. latitude source of greenhouse gases?
A. Flowers releasing oxygen into the at-
C. isobars
mosphere
D. millibars
B. Carbon dioxide released from animals
1754. A sea breeze is when the sea is and through respiration
the land is C. Exhaust from cars
A. cool, cool D. none of above
B. warm, cool
1758. Which of these does NOT affect an
C. cool, warm area’s temperature?
D. warm, warm A. Distance form a large body of water

B. longitude A. Warm Front

C. latitude B. Cold Front

D. altitude C. Stationary front
D. Occluded front
1759. This device measures wind speed.
A. thermometer 1763. A cloud that forms close to the ground,
especially in winters is
B. anemometer
A. dew
C. barometer
B. frost
D. rain gauge
C. fog
1760. A forecaster predicting the weather for
D. hail
an area would find which of the following
most helpful? 1764. What would happen if deforestation is
A. average yearly precipitation NOT mitigated?
B. today’s barometric pressure A. oxygen in the atmosphere increases
C. temperature changes in one month B. carbon dioxide level in the atmosphere
increases
D. how often natural disasters occur
C. nitrogen and sulfur in the atmosphere
1761. What do the blue bars represent on a decreases
climate graph? D. temperature of the atmosphere de-
creases
1765. The Temperate zone receives rays of

the sun
A. Straight
B. Slanting
A. Months C. Extremely Slanting
B. Temperature D. none of above
C. Precipitation 1766. Which season is represented by B?
D. Axis
1762. The air mass on the left formed over a

polar region and the air mass on the right
formed over a tropical region. Which type
of front is at the front of air mass A?
A. summer
B. autumn
C. spring
D. winter

1767. When the north pole is tilted toward the C. climate

sun, what season is it in Texas?
D. element
A. fall
B. winter 1772. Where would you expect to see nice
weather?
C. spring
D. summer
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1768. Condition of the air such as temperature,
cloud cover, wind and rain describe-
A. climate
B. gravity
C. weather
A. low pressure area
D. none of above
B. high pressure area
1769. Which tool helps to see storms over
ocean? 1773. The water vapour or moisture present
in the air is called
A. Telescope
A. rain
B. Barometer
C. Satellite B. humidity
D. Anemometer C. cloud
D. none of above
1770. A warm front moving into an area can
bring this type of weather 1774. Average atmospheric condition of a
A. Warmer Temperatures, Clear Skies large area over a long period of time:*
B. Colder Temperatures, Clear Skies A. weather
C. Warmer Temperatures, Clouds, and B. climate
steady precipitation
C. ionosphere
D. Colder Temperatures, Clouds, and Pre-
cipitation D. none of above
1771. What is the condition of outside air at a 1775. land breeze blows during the day
certain time and place? A. true
B. false
1776. This weather instrument measures the

amount of rain fall in an area.
A. weather vane
B. rain gauge
A. climate zone C. barometer
B. weather D. anemometer

1777. What is lightning? 1781. What are the two main factors that de-
termine the climate of an area?
A. Lightning is a bright flash of electricity

produced by a thunderstorm A. precipitation and humidity
B. Lightning is a bright flash of electricity B. temperature and air pressure
produced by a blizzard. C. wind conditions and humidity
C. Lightning is not an electric current D. temperature and precipitation
D. none of above
1782. What is this weather tool called?
1778. One summer afternoon, Kim heard on
the news that the humidity in Ocala,
Florida was 80%. How would the air feel
when Kim goes outside?
A. cold and dry
B. warm and wet
C. cold and wet
D. warm and dry
1779. Energy from the sun is transferred to

A. barometer
the earth by
B. anemometer
A. conduction
C. thermometer
B. conservation
D. weather vane
C. convection
D. radiation 1783. A measure of the transparency of the
atmosphere is called
1780. This weather instruments shows
A. Air mass
B. Climate
C. Visibility
D. Humidity
1784. Which one is NOT one of the weather

factors?
A. Air temperature
B. Precipitation
A. wind speed C. Wind
B. wind direction D. Weather vane
C. air pressure
1785. Condition of the air such as temperature,
D. air mass cloud cover, wind, and rain describe-

C. A stratonimbus cloud is darker than a

stratus cloud, and causes rain.
D. A stratus cloud only covers part of the
sky, and a stratonimbus cloud covers the
whole sky.
A. climate 1790. What are the two main factors that de-
scribe the climate of a region?
B. gravity
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A. elevation and latitude
C. weather
B. temperature and latitude
D. none of above
1786. If there was precipitation on Wednes- D. latitude and precipitation
day, what would it most likely be?
1791. Climate change causes extreme weather
conditions such as:
A. Flooding
B. Heat Waves
C. Hurricanes
D. All of the above
A. Sleet 1792. When you wake up before sunrise to
B. Rain take your dog for a walk on the beach,
which of the following conditions would
C. Snow
you expect to be true?
D. Ice
A. The air over the land is warmer than
1787. Which type of air pressure brings rain? the air over the water.
A. High B. There will be no wind.
B. Low C. The air over the water is warmer than
the air over the land.
1788. What is the term for a factor that “may”
change due to a INDEPENDENT variable? D. A morning shower always occurs right
by the ocean.
A. control variable
B. hypothetical variable 1793. What causes wind to blow?
C. operational variable A. Differences in longitude
D. dependent variable B. Shock waves from clouds

C. Differences in air temperature and
1789. How can you tell the difference between pressure
a stratus and a stratonimbus cloud?
D. The rotation of the earth
A. A stratus cloud is small and a straton-
imbus cloud is very tall. 1794. THE ZONE IS ALSO KNOWN AS
B. A stratonimbus cloud has a lighter TROPICAL ZONE
color. A. TORRID

B. TEMPERATE 1800. The amount of rainfall is measured using

C. FRIGID a
A. Rain Gauge

D. TROPICAL
B. Anemometer
1795. Temperatures in the TEMPERATE ZONES
are 1801. What term is used to describe a dense,
lush forest with high annual rainfall and
A. cold all year
abundant biodiversity?
B. always warm
A. Savannah
C. warm in summer and cold in winter B. Grassland
D. none of above C. Steppe
1796. Meteorologists forecast this. D. Rainforest
A. Climate 1802. Jay and Jeff were responsible for
B. Weather recording the class weather data each day
in March. What weather instrument, seen
1797. The critical part of the atmosphere for here, should they use for measuring the
protecting life on the ground from exces- daily wind speed?
sive ultraviolet radiation is the:
A. hydrosphere
B. stratosphere
C. troposphere
D. ionosphere
E. ozone layer
1798. What is the amount of water vapor in

the air called?
A. Humidity
B. Precipitation
C. Air mass A. barometer
D. Relative Humidity B. anemometer

C. thermometer
1799. Look at the picture:This is a map
D. sling psychrometer
1803. In which layer of the atmosphere does

weather occur?
A. climate
B. weather

A. Mesosphere
B. Thermosphere
C. Stratosphere
D. Troposphere
1804. Average weather conditions of a region

year after year
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A. cold
B. light
C. heavy
D. hot
1807. When a cold front meets a warm air

mass, there will likely be:
A. heavy rain and thunderstorms.
B. light drizzle.
C. sunny skies.
D. no clouds.
A. weather
1808. affects weather because the further
B. season
north or south you go from the Equator,
C. cold front the less solar energy (heat).
D. climate A. altitude
B. latitude
1805. Select the elements of the weather
C. sunlight
D. atmosphere
1809. The boundary between two air masses

is known as:
A. wind
B. waves
C. air temperature
D. precipitation A. front
E. sun B. storm
1806. Precipitation happens when clouds of C. climate

water droplets are too D. flood

1810. It is A. humidity
B. air pressure

C. wind conditions
D. precipitation
1815. Land and ocean waters warm at differ-
ent rates. What is usually the result?
A. Wind or Breeze
A. Foggy B. Snow
B. Rainy C. Rain
C. Lightning D. Warm Temperatures
D. none of above
1816. Pete made a list of things to be included
1811. Nebraska is in a climate region. in his family’s emergency kit. Which of
these is NOT necessary in an emergency
A. cold
kit?
B. hot
A. Radio
C. hot and wet
B. First aid supplies
D. none of above
C. Magazines
1812. Which type of air mass is dry and D. Contact information card
warm?
1817. The layer of air surrounding the earth is
called
A. Climate
B. Atmosphere
C. Weather
D. Wind
1818. Define climate.
A. Continental polar A. different air masses
B. Continental tropical B. condition of the atmsophere over a
C. Maritime polar short time
D. Maritime tropical C. average condition over a long period
of time
1813. Weather is a long term atmospheric con-
D. none of above
dition of a place.
A. True 1819. Which climate zone is closer to the Equa-
tor?
B. False
A. The temperate climate zone
1814. Many factors are used to determine the B. The polar climate zone
climate of an area. Which of the following
is one of the two main factors that deter- C. The tropical climate zone
mine climate? D. none of above

1820. Continental tropical air masses are B. Measures the sunlight

A. dry and cold C. Measures the wind direction-north,
B. humid and cold south, east, west
C. humid and warm D. Measures the wind speed in mph
D. dry and warm E. Measures the precipitation in mm
1821. If there was precipitation on Friday, 1825. The is the beginning source of en-
what could it most likely be? ergy for the water cycle.
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A. sun
B. wind
C. geothermal
D. volcano
1826. There is a hurricane affecting the Gulf
Coast.
A. rain A. climate
B. sleet B. weather
C. snow 1827. What is a meteorologist?
D. hail A. The condition of the atmosphere at a
1822. A huge body of air that has similar tem- certain time and place
perature, humidity and air pressure B. The Earth going around the sun; caus-
A. climate ing seasons
B. wind C. The study of weather

D. An expert in or student of meteorology;
C. front
a weather forecaster.
D. air masses
1828. What are the 5 masses of air
1823. We can predict the weather in an area
A. continental polar
in the future. To do this, we need to know
what the weather is like in the area right B. continental arctic
now. To make the prediction, it would also C. Continental tropical
be most helpful to know what else?
D. maritime polar
A. The weather patterns in this area in
E. Martime tropical / All of the above
the past
B. How many people live in this area 1829. Dallas has gotten 2 inches of rain this
month
C. The size of the biggest city in this area
A. Weather
D. If the area has many weather instru-
ments B. Climate
1824. What is an anemometer used for? 1830. Air flows from pressure areas.
A. Measure the temperature in degrees A. low to high
Celcius B. high to low

1831. If a city has a high temperature of 82

degrees F and a low temperature of 48
degrees F with low winds and humidity A.

and high air pressure, what is the current
weather condition?
A. cold, dry, and cloudy
B. warm and rainy B.
C. warm and sunny with a few clouds
D. cold and snowy
C.
1832. This climate is very warm and dry. Of-
ten there is little rainfall.
D.
1836. Mountain climate:

A. It is cold in winter, and warmer in sum-
mer.
B. In areas over 1000 meters high.
C. In winter there is snow.
A. Cold or Polar
D. none of above
B. Warm
1837. Look at the diagram to answer the ques-
C. Temperate tion that follows.If a northern coastline
D. Tropical such as the Norway coast is located near
a warm ocean current
1833. Pressure is the effect of
A. the weight of all the air above pressing
down
B. water vapor in the atmosphere
C. greenhouse gases
D. solar radiation
1834. If its in the Northern hemisphere,

then its summer in the Southern hemi-
sphere. A. the climate will be colder than normal
for that latitude.
A. spring
B. the climate will be warmer than nor-
B. summer mal for that latitude.
C. fall C. spring is longer than normal for that
latitude.
D. winter
D. spring is shorter than normal for that
1835. Which of these images is a wind vane? latitude.

1838. What is wind? 1842. Plotted on the contour map below are
the locations of five schools. Match
the elevations with the letter for each
school.(1.) Point D on map
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A. Large scale movement of air caused by
differences in air pressure and tempera-
ture
B. Large scale movement of CO2 caused A. 0 ft
by differences in air pressure B. 20 ft
C. Large scale movement of air caused by C. 30 ft
differences in temperature
D. 10-20 ft
D. Large scale movement of temperature
E. 0-10 ft
caused by differences in air pressure
1843. The measure of the height above sea
1839. Air pressure is lower on the top of the level.
mountain than at the bottom.
A. latitude
A. True
B. longitude
B. False
C. elevation
1840. What causes an air mass to have a high D. none of above
pressure?
A. air above is moving downward
B. moving upward
C. explosion
D. moisture in the air
1841. Shortwave sunlight passes through

Earth’s atmosphere, where it strikes the A. Occluded Front
surface and is converted into longer-
B. Stationary Front
wavelength radiation.
C. Warm Front
A. infrared
D. Cold Front
B. ultraviolet
1845. What triggers the development of a tor-
C. visible
nado?
D. microwave
A. a cold air mass colliding with a hot air
E. cosmic tagsSC.912.P.10.1 SC.912.P.10.4 mass

B. water vapor rising too quickly from the 1851. A Temperate Climate has seasons
ocean A. 1

C. unstable Coriolis forces B. 2
D. the colliding of two cold fronts C. 3
1846. Shauna put water in a pan, then she D. 4
put it in the window, later the water was
lower, why? 1852. What weather condition could be mea-
sured by a Celsius thermometer?
A. Evaporation
A. Precipitation
B. Condensation
B. Temperature
C. Magic
C. Wind Speed
D. Aliens
D. Cloud Cover
1847. Winds which blow throughout the year
in same direction 1853. Stevenson Screen is a special box in
which the maximum and minimum ther-
A. planetary wind mometers and the wet and dry bulb ther-
B. Monsoon wind mometers are kept.
C. loo A. True
D. none of above B. False
1848. Weather fronts are caused by interac- 1854. Which statement is true about precipita-
tions between air masses of different tion?
A. latitude and longitude A. Precipitation is how hot or cold the air
is at a given time and is measured with a
B. temperature and humidity thermometer.
C. forms of precipitation B. Precipitation is how fast the wind
D. none of above is moving and is measured with an
anemometer.
1849. What weather instrument measures air
C. Precipitation is the direction from
pressure?
which the wind is blowing and is measured
A. Anemometer with a wind vane.
B. Barometer D. Precipitation is the type of water
C. Thermometer falling to Earth from the clouds and is mea-
sured with a rain gauge.
D. Rain gauge
1855. The amount of water vapor in the air is:
1850. What the weather is like in a particular
place over a long period of time is called A. precipitation
the B. temperature
A. weather C. humidity
B. climate D. none of above

1856. Weather refers to 1860. Varies from day to day.

A. a measure of long-term atmosphere.
B. short-term conditions of the atmo-
sphere.
C. a situation in which an area of land be-
comes covered with water.
D. rain or snow that falls on the ground.
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1857. Range A. Weather
B. Climate
1861. What type of front forms where a cold

air mass meets a warm air mass, but no
movement is occurring?
A. The current outdoor conditions
B. The four natural divisions of the year A. stationary
based on changes in temperature B. occluded
C. A portion of Earth’s surface with bor- C. warm
ders
D. cold
D. The difference between the largest
and smallest values in a set of values 1862. Select ALL the factors that affect an
1858. What does this tool measure? area’s climate.
A. elevation
B. thunderstorm
C. latitude
D. bodies of water
1863. What is an economic effect of a hurri-

cane?
A. Peoples homes are destroyed.
B. The government lose money.
C. Animal habitats are destroyed.
A. Wind direction
D. none of above
B. Wind speed
C. Air pressure 1864. Which statement is related to
WEATHER?
D. Precipitation
A. It is normally very warm here in April.
1859. Weather is the day to day conditions of
the atmosphere B. This is the coldest its been in 10 years
A. True C. Today it snowed
B. False D. none of above

1865. What does this tool measure? B. polar (very cold)

C. temperate (warm)

D. desert (very hot)
1869. Identify the climate factors in each sen-

tence below.”We have to stay indoors
when it rains”
A. Air temperature
A. Wind speed B. Precipitation
B. Wind direction
C. Wind
C. Air pressure
D. none of above
D. Temperature
1870. Places with lower latitude numbers are
1866. Which best describes climate
A. warmer
B. colder
1871. Hurricanes form when

A. Air rotates within a thunderstorm.
A. Yesterday, it was rainy B. Warm air over the ocean begins to spin
B. Summer was hot and dry near the equator.
C. It rained last week C. A cold air mass forces a warm air
D. none of above mass to quickly rise.
D. Warm air is pushed up and over a cold
1867. The higher a place is above sea level, air mass.
the its climate.
A. cooler 1872. What is B?
B. warmer
1868. The middle of Australia has a cli-

mate?
A. Evaporation
B. Condensation
C. Precipitation
A. tropical (warm/hot/humid) D. Runoff

1873. Stratus clouds that form near to the 1878. Region

ground are called
A. Steam
B. Cumulonimbus Clouds
C. Weather
D. Fog
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1874. To be classified as a hurricane, what A. The current outdoor conditions
is the speed of wind the cyclone should
have? B. The four natural divisions of the year
A. 54 mph
C. A statement about what you think will
B. 74 mp happen, based on what you know
C. 94 mph D. A portion of Earth’s surface with bor-
ders
D. 104 mph
1879. The polar jet stream influences the
1875. Sixes maximum and minimum ther- weather in North America. Which of
mometer is used for measuring the following illustrations shows the jet
A. Daily temperature stream pulling warm air into Canada?
B. Maximum and minimum temperature
of a day A.
C. Diurnal range of temperature
D. none of above
B.
1876. This weather tool measures wind speed
and direction
A. thermometer
C.
B. barometer
C. anemometer
D. psychrometer D.
1877. Altitude is
A. How far a place is from the equator 1880. Which instrument is used to detect pre-
cipitation?
B. How high land is above sea level
A. Rain Gauge
C. Movement of warm or cold water
around oceans B. Radar
C. Thermometer
D. Directions wind blows in most of the
time D. Anemometer

1881. Climate of a place affects the lifestyle 1886. Students gathered weather data during
of people. the day and recorded it in a table. What
tool did the students use to gather the

A. True
data?
B. False
1882. Which event will occur next in this se-

ries of meteorological events at an ocean-
front town? 1. Bright, sunny day 2. Night A. Wind Vane
falls 3.Land and ocean begin to lose stored
B. Thermometer
heat fro the sun 4. One (land or ocean)
first reaches a temperature that is equal C. Rain Guage
to the one of its surrounding 5. High pres- D. Barometer
sure front moves in over the land
A. cool land breeze 1887. Tyler compared the temperature on top
of Mount Everest to the temperature at
B. cool sea breeze the base of the mountain. Which of the
C. warm land breeze following descriptions would best describe
the temperatures that Tyler compared?
D. warm sea breeze
A. The temperature on the top of Everest
1883. What type of severe weather would was a little warmer than the temperature
MOST likely cause you and your family to at the base of the mountain.
follow your evacuation plan? B. The temperature on the top of Everest
A. Thunderstorm much warmer than the temperature at the
base of the mountain.
B. Hurricane
C. The temperature on the top of Everest
C. Volcanic eruption was the same as the temperature at the
D. Ice storm base of the mountain.
D. The temperature on the top of Everest
1884. What is the climate like in a temperate was cooler than the temperature at the
zone? base of the mountain.
A. hot
1888. When changing from a liquid to a gas,
B. very warm and wet the water molecules are
C. moderate A. freezing and moving away from each
D. very cold other.
B. evaporating and moving away from
1885. Weather conditions in a region over a each other
long period of time
C. condensing and moving closer to each
A. humidity other
B. drought D. evaporating and moving closer to each
C. temperature other
D. climate 1889. What kind of front is pictured?

C. The average rainfall from January-

June in 2014
D. The average degrees from January-
June in 2014
1894. The main source of energy that initiates

the water cycle is
A. cold front
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B. warm front A. the sun
C. stationary front B. the moon

D. occluded front C. wind currents
1890. Changes from minute-to-minute, hour- D. sound waves
to-hour, day-to-day
A. Climate 1895. Tornadoes are measured on the
scale.
B. Weather
A. Fujita
1891. We can find the age of rocks because
uranium decays at a predictable rate into B. Simpson
the poisonous metal , which can build C. Tornado
up in a humans body and lead to insanity
or death. D. big
A. Aluminum
1896. A storm system starts in Kansas, and is
B. Steel following the winds moving east. Which
C. Lead state will have the storm later that day?
D. Titanium
1892. , is the kind of plant life that grows
in a certain climate.
A. ecosystem
B. vegetation
1893. What is this graph showing?
A. Colorado
B. Missouri
C. Nebraska
D. Oklahoma
1897. What kind of sunlight does the equator

A. The average temperature from get?
January-June in 2014
A. direct sunlight
B. The average weather from January-
June in 2014 B. not a whole lot of sunlight

1898. A global wind system is the product of 1903. In what layer of the atmosphere do all
which basic physical occurrence? weather events occur?

A. the combination of heated air A. Stratosphere
B. the combination of air masses B. Exosphere
C. the rising of cooled air and sinking of
C. Mesosphere
heated air
D. the rising of heated air and sinking of D. Troposphere
cool air
1904. What does this image show on a
1899. This biome is extremely dry and can be weather map?
hot or cold.
A. Aquatic
B. Tundra
C. Desert
D. Grasslands
1900. What day did it rain the least? A. cold front
B. warm front
1905. What is this a picture of?
A. Day 1
B. Day 2
C. Day 3
D. Day 4
1901. What is the process of liquid water
changing to a gas or water vapor called?
A. Life cycle
A. Thermometer
B. Evaporation
B. Barometer
C. Condensation
C. hygrometer
D. Molecular fusion
D. Psychrometer
1902. Climates that have average tempera-
tures that do not go below 64F are called 1906. What is the map symbol for snow?
the zones.
A. *
A. Tropical
B. Polar B. =
C. Temperate C. SS
D. none of above D. @

1907. The current conditions of the atmo- C. wind vane

sphere is called It changes very D. rain gauge
quickly.
1911. What unit is used to measure humidity?
A. Climate
A. Percent
B. Weather
B. Degrees Fahrenheit or Degrees Cel-
C. Season sius
D. Range C. Miles per Hour or Kilometers per Hour
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E. Prediction D. Cardinal Directions
1908. The Bahamas has what type of Climate? 1912. When an asteroid strikes Earth, partic-
ulates (bad particles) fill the air, the sun-
light is blocked, and
A. hot
B. dry A. Earth’s temperatures drop.
C. cold B. Earth’s temperatures increase.
D. wet C. Earth explodes.
D. The dinosaurs rise from the dead.
1909. Which instrument tells the direction of
the wind? 1913. When a cold air mass moves into a
warm air mass, it will get colder and we
will have severe weather. What type of
front is this?
A. warm front
B. cold front
C. occluded front
D. stationary front
A. Barometer 1914. Certain gases in the atmosphere:water
B. hygrometer vapor, carbon dioxide, methane and ni-
trous oxide, help maintain the Earth’s tem-
C. Wind vane
peratures and climate. These are called:
D. Rain gauge
1910. Which instrument tells a farmer that it A. Ozone gases

is time to water the crops? B. Solar gases
A. thermometer C. Greenhouse gases
B. sling psychrometer D. Stomach gases

1915. sea breeze blows during the night 1921. Humidity in the air can when water
A. true vapor condenses to form drops of water,
clouds, and then rain.

B. false
A. increase
1916. Very high feathery clouds are called B. decrease
A. Stratus clouds 1922. Climate is the average of conditions
B. Cirrus clouds A. for one week.
C. Cumulonimbus clouds B. over months.
D. Nimbostratus clouds C. for one day.
D. none of above
1917. Which is an influence on long term cli-
mate cycles? 1923. What is the role of the sun in the water
A. ocean currents cycle?
B. trade winds
C. shape of Earth’s orbit
D. shape of winter jet stream
1918. A warm-water event that can change

weather patterns causing heavy rains or
droughts:
A. The boy
B. The girl A. provide heat energy for evaporation
C. Sunspots B. provide heat energy for condensation
D. Global Warming C. dry out the soil for runoff to occur
D. provide thermal energy for accumula-
1919. Someone who studies the weather. tion
A. rain gauge
1924. What data is typically found on a cli-
B. taxonomists matograph?
C. meteorologist
D. satellites
1920. This type of cloud is thick and puffy

on top, and generally flat on the bottom.
It has well-defined edges and can change
shape rapidly.
A. cumulus cloud A. The chance of rain this week
B. stratus cloud B. Tomorrow’s temp
C. cirrus cloud C. Mean monthly temp
D. cloud 9 D. Relative weekly humidity

1925. It helps to find wind direction 1929. Lines that connect places with the same
atmospheric pressure are
A. Wind vane
B. Anemometer
1926. Which describes weather data?

A. Less than 30 mm of rain annually
(yearly)
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B. 50% humidity at 4pm
C. Monsoon rains during the summer A. Isotherms
D. none of above B. Isohyets
1927. How do scientists collect evidence about C. Isobars

climate? D. Isotops
A. using remote sensing from space with
1930. In which direction do prevailing wester-
satellites
lies flow?
B. by ground-based measurements of A. from east to west
surface temperatures, carbon dioxide con-
centration and sea level B. from west to east
C. by collecting “proxy data” from tree C. from north to south

rings, ice cores, and historical records D. from south to north
D. all of the above 1931. In Fahrenheit scale the freezing and boil-
ing point of Water are
1928. The baby chickens are kept warm from
the heat lamps demonstrates this type of A. 30◦ , 200◦
heat transfer. B. 32◦ , 112◦
C. 32◦ , 212◦
D. none of above
1932. In 2012, England had a record wet Sum-

mer while the U.S. had drought conditions.
A. Weather
B. Climate
1933. AN ANEMOMETER MEASURES THE

AMOUNT OF RAIN.
A. conduction A. TRUE
B. convection B. FALSE
Explanation:AN ANEMOMETER MEA-
C. radiation
SURES THE SPEED OF THE WIND. THE
D. none of above UNIT IS KILOMETERS PER HOUR. km/h

1934. Which statement best explains how air B. The cooling of ocean waters in the cen-
masses interact to cause severe weather? tral and eastern Pacific Ocean.
C. A heavy snowfall event.

A. Warm air masses and cold air masses
have different densities, and when D. A volcanic eruption.
the densities equalize causing a rapid
decrease in air pressure and stormy 1938. Precipitation which falls as rain and
weather results thenfreezes when it hits objects and sur-
faces on the ground, whose temperature
B. As the fronts move away from one an- is below freezing (below zero)
other, the cold air mass is heated by the
warm air mass. When cool air becomes A. hurricane
warm, heavy precipitation is likely B. freezing rain
C. Cold air is denser than warm air, so the C. hurricane
cold air mass travels beneath the warm D. tornado
air, pushing it up. Storms are often the
result of rising warm air 1939. When the air temperature is HIGH, the
weather is
D. Since warm air is more dense than cold
air, the cold air mass is forced higher.
When the cold air becomes too heavy, it
releases heavy precipitation
1935. When a cold front overtakes a warm

front, the temperature drops as the warm
air mass is cut off from the ground and
pushed upward. It can bring strong winds
and heavy precipitation. A. hot
A. Warm Front B. cold
B. Cold Front 1940. Students measured the rainfall outside
C. Occluded Front their classroom for five days and recorded
D. Stationary Front their observations. The greatest increase
in the amount of rainfall was between-
1936. Which of the statements below de-
scribes the climate of an area?
A. A storm is moving through Denver and
4 inches of snow is expected. A. June 12 and June 13
B. June 11 and June 12
B. A thunderstorm will cause flooding in
Houston all week. C. June 10 and June 11
C. San Diego typically has warm weather D. June 13 and June 14
and sunny skies in June. 1941. Seasonal winds that bring rain.
D. This year Seattle had more rain than A. hurricane
last year.
B. vegetation
1937. What is “La Niña” in meteorology? C. typhoon
A. A type of tropical fruit. D. Monsoon

1942. What is ocean 2?
A. Clear, cool, dry weather

B. Heavy rain and storms
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A. Atlantic Ocean
C. Light rain
B. Pacific Ocean
D. Light rain for several days
C. Indian Ocean
1947. Places situated near the Equator recieve
D. Arctic Ocean
rays of the sun.
1943. A barometer is used to measure A. slanting
B. direct
C. moderate
D. none of above
1948. Use the table to answer the question.

Each location has an average annual tem-
perature above 18◦ C (64◦ F). Which loca-
tion is most likely to have a tropical cli-
A. air pressure mate?
B. humidity
C. precipitation
D. wind speed
1944. In our weather grid of hailstorms, we A. Location A

noticed the temperature:
B. Location B
A. Usually dropped
C. Location C
B. Usually increased D. Location D
C. Always stayed the same
1949. Your local meteorologist announces that
D. Was below freezing the humidity today is at 95%. What does
this mean?
1945. It did not rain at all this month.
A. The air pressure is very low
A. Weather
B. There is a high chance of getting snow
B. Climate
C. There is a great deal of moisture in the
1946. What are the current weather condi- air
tions in Chicago? D. The air is very dry

1950. This is the symbol for a weather C. Weather describes daily conditions
front. and climate describes averages.

D. none of above
1954. Which statement correctly defines

wind?
A. Wind is the movement of air from ar-
eas of low pressure to areas of high pres-
A. Cold sure
B. Warm B. Wind is the movement of air to a colder
C. Stationary area in the atmosphere.
D. Occluded C. Wind is the movement of air from ar-
eas of high pressure to areas of low pres-
1951. The layer of the atmosphere where sure.
D. Wind is the movement of air pushed
around and bouncing off Earth’s surface.
1955. Lines joining places have similar rainfall

at a particular time is called
A. isobars
B. isohyets
A. thermosphere 1956. The sunny monsoon, Iruvai comes from

B. stratosphere the
C. mesosphere A. north-east
D. troposphere B. south-east
C. south-west
1952. Which statement describes convectional
rainfall? D. north-west
A. When a cold air mass and warm air 1957. Choose all the factors which can affect
mass meet. climate.
B. When the sun’s energy heats the A. Altitude
ground.
B. Distance from seas and oceans
C. When air is forced to rise over moun-
tains. C. Latitude
D. When it rains in front of you. D. Higher temperatures
E. Lots of rain
1953. How are weather and climate different?
A. They both describe averages, but cli- 1958. Which statement is true about hurri-
mate is over years. canes?
B. Climate describes daily conditions and A. Tides provide the rotation needed for
weather describes averages. storm cell development

B. Most hurricanes develop in early B. Surface Current

spring when ocean temperatures are the
coldest C. Prevailing Winds
C. Some hurricanes can develop over
large land areas, such as Tornado Alley D. Weather
D. Warm water, at least 80 degrees

Fahrenheit, provides the energy needed 1963. What is the best description of
for increased evaporation.
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“Drought”?
1959. What are formed when water vapor
condenses? A. A extended period of abnormally low
rainfall
B. A period of normal rainfall
C. A sudden increase in rainfall
D. A temporary decrease in rainfall
1964. Which answer choice correctly classifies

A. Clouds statements about weather and climate?
B. Mountains
A. Weather:Hail can form in thunder-
C. Transpiration
stroms with high windsClimate:The high
D. Valleys temperature for Tuesday was 280 F
1960. What type of cloud appears feathery or
B. Weather:There will be thunderstorms
wispy?
tomorrowClimate:The month of Febru-
A. Cirrus ary has had the coldest temperature on
B. Stratus record for thirty years
C. Cumulus
D. Ice 1965. We can divide the Earth into heat
zones
1961. The sun’s rays are least direct near the
equator. A. 8
A. True
B. False-near the poles B. 1
C. False-at high altitudes C. 3

D. False-far from the ocean
D. 5
1962. Distance North and South from the equa-
tor
A. Latitude 1966. Rain gauge

1969. A group of students collected data about

wind speed, wind direction, humidity, and
temperature. They recorded when they

saw fog. In which situation will they ob-
serve the formation of fog over the ocean?
A. warm, humid air from land cooling as
it moves over cold ocean water
B. cold, humid air from land warming as
it moves over warm ocean water
C. wind blowing at a high speed over
warm ocean water as humidity increases
D. cold, dry air warming and becoming
more humid as it moves over warm ocean
water
1970. A metal cube at temperature of 70◦ C

A. We use it to measure temperature. is immersed in water at temperature of
The unit is degrees Celsius. 20◦ C. The metal heat while the water
B. We use it to measure precipitation. heat.
unit is km/h.
unit is percent (%)
1967. Areas near the sea are cooler in summer A. gains, loses
and warmer in winter. B. loses, gains
1971. Which of the following states make up

Tornado Alley?
A. Georgia, Alabama, North Caroline, Ten-
nessee
B. Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri
A. True
C. New York, New Hampshire, Delaware,
B. False Rhode Island
1968. the westerlies are also called D. none of above
A. trade winds 1972. How do weather and climate differ?
B. anti-trade A. They are the same thing.
C. easterlies B. One is based on current information
D. none and one is based on history

C. Weather is for small areas and climate

applies to the whole country or continent
D. Weather explains moisture and rain,
while climate describes air and wind
1973. What causes seasons?

A. Cold air rises
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B. The Earth tilts as it goes around the
Moon
C. The Sun tilts toward the Earth A. 2. Stratosphere
D. The Earth tilts as it goes around the B. 1. Troposphere
Sun
C. 3. Troposphere
1974. Tropical, temperate, and polar are terms D. 6. Exosphere
that describe climate zones due to
1977. Why do we see variety of life existing
A. Rainfall amount
on earth?
B. Latitude
A. Because of rotation of earth
C. Temperature B. Because of climatic differences
D. Snowfall amount C. Because of animals and birds
1975. Which type of precipitation is likely at D. none of above

location 1?
1978. What type of air mass would form over
the northern Atlantic Ocean?
A. Continental Polar Air Mass
B. Maritime Tropical Air Mass
C. Maritime Polar Air Mass
D. Continental Tropical Air Mass
1979. Temperatures are warmer in the south

A. warm drizzle
of the UK because
B. no precipitation A. The south has a lower latitude mean-
C. moving snowstorm ing it’s closer to the equator
D. continuous cool rain B. The south has a higher latitude mean-

ing that it is closer to the equator
E. continuous snowstorm
C. The south has a lower latitude mean-
ing it is further away from the equator.
1976. Give the number and name of the layer
in which Earth’s weather occurs. D. none of above

1980. A force applied by the weight of the at-

mosphere.

A. cold front
B. air pressure
C. barometer
D. humidity
1981. The diagram shows wind flow from an

ocean over a mountain range. Which re-
gion indicates where the vegetation will
be most plentiful?
A. used to measure air temperature.

C. used to collect and measure precipita-
tion.
D. used to measure wind direction.
E. used to measure the atmospheric pres-
A. R
sure.
B. S
1985. We know the precipitation level measur-
C. T ing it with the
D. W
1982. The climate refers to the tempeture a

place has over a long period of time.
A. True
B. False
1983. What is Weather?

A. anemometer
A. State of Atmosphere for a short period B. thermometer
of Time.
C. rain gauge
B. State of Atmosphere for a long period D. radio
of Time.
1986. Weather report helps farmers to
1984. This tool is A. plan future crop

B. plan present crop 1991. What is a tool for measuring wind

C. all of the above speed?
D. none of above A. wind vane

B. speedometer
1987. I wonder what the is outside. Is it
hot or cold? C. anemometer
A. precipitation D. none of above

1992. What is the term for the variable that
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B. humidity
we manipulate during an experiment?
C. temperature
A. control variable
D. wind direction
B. hypothetical variable
1988. The Venn diagram is comparing climate
C. independent variable
with weather. We often hear newscast-
ers refer to hour-to-hour or day-to-day, D. dependent variable
changes. Where in the Venn diagram
1993. What is he prevailing of the Caribbean?
would we put those phrases?
A. South-east trade winds
B. Southerly winds
C. North-east trade winds
D. Northerly winds
1994. What absorbs ultraviolet rays in the at-
mosphere?
A. A
A. troposphere
B. B
B. stratosphere
C. C
C. ozone layer
D. D
D. greenhouse gases
1989. The tropical climate region is
1995. What is the meaning of climate
A. closest to the poles above latitude
A. It is the wind which blow
66.5 N and S
B. the composite or generally prevailing
B. closest to the equator between
weather conditions of a region, as tem-
23.5 S and 23.5 N latitudes
perature, air pressure, humidity, precip-
C. In between itation, sunshine, cloudiness, and winds,
D. none of above throughout the year, averaged over a se-
ries of years. a region or area character-
1990. The Earth is covered by a jacket of gases ized by a given climate:to move to a warm
which is called climate.
A. Atmosphere 1996. Winters in Minnesota frequently expe-
B. Weather rience temperatures below zero.
C. Climate A. Climate

1997. WATER COVERS ALL THE LAND. THE B. brings less rainfall.
LAND CANNOT FILTER THE WATER FAST C. rises the temperature.
ENOUGH.

D. releases more moisture.
A. DROUGHT
B. HEATWAVES 2002. the temperature of a place with an
increase in the altitude
C. FLOOD
A. decreases
D. HAIL
B. increases
1998. When are thunderstorms most likely to
C. does not change
occur?
D. none of above
A. Spring and Summer
B. Summer and Fall 2003. The air all around us here on Earth is
called the
C. Winter and Fall
A. atmosphere
D. Winter and Spring
B. gas
1999. Animals that live here do not pant to
cool off, otherwise they will lose water C. wind
A. temperate D. water
B. polar 2004. What layer of the atmosphere is the sec-

C. tropical ond farthest from the surface of the Earth?
(80-500 km)
D. mild
E. desert
2000. The suspended particles that are in the

form of clouds in our atmosphere
A. Troposphere
B. Stratosphere
C. Mesosphere
D. Thermosphere
A. help air to rise
E. Exosphere
B. cool the air to dew point
C. give water droplets a surface on which 2005. Which is an example of heat being trans-
to form ferred by conduction?
D. allow the rate of condensation to = A. a furnace heating the air in a school
saturation B. an ice cube melting in a person’s hand
2001. The wind blows over the cold ocean cur- C. a pot of water on a stove boiling
rent D. the sun heating water in a swimming
A. brings heavy rainfall. pool

2006. The biggest factor in determining cli- 2010. are water droplets that fall from
mate is the of the place. the atmosphere in the form of rain, sleet,
A. elevation snow, or hail.
B. an ocean A. condensation
C. latitude B. precipitation
D. mountain C. humidity
2007. Study the setup for an investigation in D. none of above
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which soil and water are being heated.
What changes would you make to the 2011. What instrument measures tempera-
setup to make it a fair test? ture?
A. rain gauge
B. hydrometer
C. thermometer
D. wind vane
2012. Which climate has low precipitation?

A. Tropical
A. Put equal amounts of soil and water in
each beaker. B. Polar
B. Place the beakers of soil and water C. Desert
equal distances from the lamp.
D. none of above
C. The setup is correct.
D. I would do both A and B. 2013. Shortest day of the year
2008. Which current affects the west coast? A. Autumnal Equinox

A. California Current B. Summer Solstice
B. Gulf Stream Current C. Winter Solstice
C. Caribbean Sea Current D. Vernal Equinox
D. none of above
2014. Which statement best describes the
2009. Which is true about locations near the weather?
equator?
A. The temperature is increasing as the
A. they receive more direct sunlight and
cloud cover decreases
have cool temperatures
B. they receive more direct sunlight and B. Wind speeds are greatest during the
have warm temperatures spring
C. they receive indirect sunlight and have C. Since 1970, yearly rainfall averages
cool temperatures are lower than usual
D. they receive indirect sunlight and have D. Flash flooding has increased in many
warm temperatures areas during the last few decades

2015. Which of the following is an example of C. Altitudes makes no difference

a greenhouse gas? D. none of above

A. Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
2021. While visiting the beach during summer
B. Nitrogen (N2)
vacation, a sea breeze keeps you cool and
C. Oxygen (O2) comfortable during the hottest part of the
D. Neon (Ne) day. Which BEST explains why this hap-
pens?
2016. A diagram that displays many different
A. A strom is approaching
weather measurements for a particular lo-
cation. B. There are similarities in temperature
between the land and the water
A. location model
B. area model C. cool air rising over land allows warm
air from the ocean to blow inland
C. weather model
D. warm air rising over land allows cooler
D. station model air from the ocean to blow inland
2017. Which of the following forms of precipi-
2022. Scientists who study climate are called
tation falls as a liquid?
A. rain
A. Meteorologists
B. freezing rain
B. Climatologists
C. hail
D. both rain and freezing and rain 2023. Which of the following does NOT have
an affect on a region’s climate?
2018. All the continents once fit together in
this one large landmass that began to
break up about 200 million years ago.
A. Landmass
B. Bethel
C. Super Continent X
D. Pangea
A. Large bodies of water
2019. Which of the following adds oxygen to
the atmosphere? B. Latitude
A. Photosynthesis C. Mountains
B. Forest fires D. Longitude

C. Weathering of rocks 2024. changes from day to day, while
D. Life processes of animals changes from region to region.
A. climate, weather
2020. The temperature of a place increases as
the B. weather, climate
A. Altitude decreases C. wind, atmosphere
B. Altitude increases D. atmosphere, wind

2025. THE AREA BETWEEN THE TROPIC OF 2031. Which cloud covers the whole sky and
CANCER AND THE ARCTIC CIRCLE IS A looks like a blanket?
A. COLD ZONE A. cirrus
B. TEMPERATE ZONE B. cumulus
C. HOT ZONE C. stratus
2032. What is the name of a person who
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2026. The area that receives the most direct
rays of the Sun (equator, 0◦ ) will have the forescast weather?
LOWEST yearly temperatures. A. weather man
A. True B. geologist
B. False C. meteorologist
D. scientist
2027. Which refers to the amount of water va-
por present in the atmosphere? 2033. In this layer of the atmosphere We can
A. Atmospheric pressure find the Ozone Layer
B. Humidity A. Exosphere
B. Thermosphere
2028. High winds and precipitation cause a
hurricane’s storm surge? C. Troposphere
A. True D. Stratosphere
B. False E. Mesosphere
2034. Which storm is likely to cause quick de-

2029. WHEN PRECIPITATION FALLS AS
structionalong a narrow path?
LUMPS OF ICE, THAT IS CALLED
A. BLIZZARDS
B. HAIL
C. FLOOD
D. HEATWAVES
2030. warm front

mined by temperature and precipitation A. Blizzard
B. A period of extremely cold tempera- B. Tornado
C. Hurricane
was covered with massive ice sheets.
D. none of above
C. a front where warm air moves over
cold air and brings drizzly rain and then 2035. Which of these four conditions DO NOT
are followed by warm and clear weather affect weather?
D. none of above A. Temperature

B. Air Pressure 2040. An instrument used to measure humid-

C. Daylight savings time ity in the air.

D. Humidity
2036. The temperature increased (became

warmer) due to the
A. cold front
B. warm front
C. tornado A. thermometer
B. hygrometer
D. thunderstorm
C. anemometer
2037. There are several things that cause D. barometer
weather to occur. Which of the following
cause weather to occur? 2041. Minute-by-minute changes in the atmo-
sphere does not describes what?
A. Latitude, Air pressure, amount of wa-
ter, and winds. A. Weather
B. Winds, Altitude, plate movement, and B. Climate
winds. 2042. Which areas typically have low pres-
C. Latitude, Altitude, Air pressure, and sure?
winds.
D. none of above
2038. What subclimate do you live in?

A. Humid Subtropical
B. Desert
C. Tundra
D. Humid Continental
A. A and E
2039. Which city is experiencing thunder- B. C
storms? C. B and D
D. A, C, and E
2043. When are tornadoes most likely to oc-
cur?
A. Tornadoes can happen at any time of
the year and at any time of the day
B. Tornadoes only happen during sum-
A. Denver
mer and usually at night.
B. New York
C. Most tornadoes occur during winter or
C. Miami early spring.
D. Boise D. none of above

2044. The coldest parts of our atmosphere 2049. What is the condition of the Earth’s at-
where it can reach to-90◦ C. mosphere at a certain time and place?
A. Meteorology A. climate
B. Altitude B. temperature
C. Mesosphere C. weather
D. air pressure
D. Cirrus
2050. a visible body of water droplets or ice
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2045. The average weather patterns over a particles suspended in the atmosphere
period of time
A. Cloud
A. climate
B. Dew Point
B. weather C. Dew
2046. These climates are found in the inte- D. Humidity
rior.They have hot summers and very cold
2051. What type of clouds tell us that the
winters.There isn’t much precipitation.
weather is changing in the next couple of
A. Mountain climates days?
B. Oceanic climates A. cirrus
C. Continental Mediterranean climates B. cumulus
D. Mediterranean climates C. cumulonimbus
D. stratus
E. Subtropical climates
2047. What is an example of gas in the atmo- in a high pressure system?
sphere?
A. Ice Crystals
B. Water Droplets C. Clear conditions
C. Water Vapor D. Cloudy conditions
D. none of above
2053. What is special or different about the
cumulonimbus cloud?
2048. What does this image represent?
A. It is really tall
B. It reaches into both high and low areas
of the atmosphere
C. It is the biggest
D. All of these are true
A. Cold front 2054. Weather or Climate?In parts of the Sa-

hara desert less than 1 inch of rain falls
B. High pressure annually.
C. Warm front A. Weather
D. Wind B. Climate

2055. What percentage of the Sun’s energy A. Barometer

that reaches Earth’s surface is absorbed in B. Anemometer
the atmosphere?

C. Weather Vane
D. Rain Gauge
2059. The climate zone that is at both the top
and the bottom of the globe
A. Temperate
B. Tropical
C. Mild
A. 19 D. Polar
B. 6 2060. How does a warm front form?
C. 23 A. Warm air becomes caught between
D. 47 cold air masses.
E. 30 tagsSC.912.P.10.2 SC.912.P.10.4 B. Two air masses meet and stay sepa-
rated.
2056. What kind of weather is usually associ-
C. Warm air mover over under warm air
ated with a low pressure system?
and replaces it.
A. Sunny weather D. Cold air moves under warm air and
B. Precipitation (rain, snow, etc.) pushes it up.
2057. Energy from the sun reaches Earth 2061. Rapidly moving cold air mass runs into
through , or the transfer or thermal en- a warm air mass the cold air slides under
ergy from one material to another by elec- the warm air. This is called a
tromagnetic waves. A. cold front
A. conduction B. warm front
B. convection C. stationary front
C. radiation D. none of above
D. none of above 2062. Climate and weather are different con-
2058. A tool used to measure the speed of the cepts, though they are related. How are
wind is called the concepts of weather and climate dif-
ferent?
A. Weather refers to conditions nearer to
the ground than climate.
B. Climate is related to the amount of sun-
light; weather is not.
C. Weather conditions include precipita-
tion, but climate does not.
D. Climate covers larger areas and longer
times than weather.

2063. What would happen to the climate and 2067. What is the effect of the Gulf Stream on
weather conditions if the Earth did not Europe?
have ocean currents?
A. crashes of warm and cool water in the
A. Evaporation and condensation from ocean
ocean surface waters would stop result-
B. colder climates near the equator
ing in the lack of rainfall.
B. The climate would become incredi- C. large waves on the coast of Europe
bly hot contributing to current climate D. warm climates in northern Europe
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change.
C. The equator would be incredibly cold 2068. When liquid changes from a liquid to a
all the time, and the poles would be incred- gas it is called precipitation.
ibly hot creating climate conditions that A. True
would be nearly impossible to live in.
B. False
D. The equator would be incredibly hot all
the time, and the poles would be incred- 2069. This photo represents a climate
ibly cold creating climate conditions that
would be nearly impossible to live in.
2064. What are tornadoes?

A. a storm with thunder and lighting and
typically also heavy rain or hail
B. a storm that can be the same as thun-
A. Tropical
derstorms, but can be even more danger-
ous B. Polar
C. a mobile, destructive vortex of vio- C. Temperate
lently rotating winds having the appear-
D. none of above
ance of a funnel shaped cloud and beneath
a large storm system. 2070. The climate of a place is affected by its
D. a huge storm with strong winds and distance from the
storm surges
A. sea
2065. Does the following statement represent B. equator
weather or climate? It rained 3 inches yes-
terday. C. altitude
A. weather D. none of above

B. climate 2071. At the beach on a hot day, you notice
2066. What is the gradual increase in average dark clouds moving in from over the ocean.
global temperature called? What most likely caused this to happen?
A. Heat A. precipitation and evaporation

B. Climate B. transpiration and evaporation
C. Greenhouse Effect C. water is wet
D. Global Warming D. evaporation and condensation

2072. Which of the following is a description 2076. When warm air rises high into the atmo-
of climate data? sphere and then begins to cool, the cool air
sinks back down. This is called

A. New York had a record rainfall on
Wednesday.
B. Lima, Peru had a low temperature last
night of 17◦ C.
C. Winds are currently from the south in
Ann Arbor, Michigan.
D. The coast of Antartica has very short A. Convection currents
summers. B. Jet stream
2073. Thermometer C. condensation
D. air pressure
A. 2077. This weather instrument is a
B.
C.
A. anemometer
B. Christmas ornament
D. C. wind vane
D. barometer
2078. In general, land changes temperature

2074. Which climate zone do we live in? more quickly than the ocean. How does
A. Temperate this fact create sea breezes?
B. Tropical
C. Polar
D. Savannas
2075. Which of these is a polar climate in the
US? A. Warm air rises over land; cool air falls
A. Virginia over ocean creating convection currents
during the day.
B. New York
B. Cool air rises over land; warm air falls
C. Maine over the ocean creating convection cur-
D. Alaska rents during the day.

C. Cool air rises over land; warm air rises

over the ocean creating convection cur-
rents during the night.
D. Cool air falls over land; warm air falls
over the ocean creating convection cur-
rents during the day. A. Equator is warmer than the poles.
B. Sunlight has to travel longer distance
2079. A tropical climate in the US would be? near the poles
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A. Virginia C. Per unit insolation decreases near the
B. New York equator
C. California D. Sun rays pass short distance and loose
little heat near the equator
D. Florida
2085. To make weather you need 3 things.
2080. Air masses are named for They are
A. the type of air they contain A. sand, plants and rocks
B. people, places and things
B. animals
C. air, water and heat
C. people
D. gravity, forces and electricity
D. where they form
2086. Warm air and cold air
2081. Daily temperature, daily rainfall, daily A. rises, sinks
amount of sunshine
B. sinks, rises
A. Weather
2087. j. The archipelago in the Atlantic
B. Climate / Mediterranean Sea has got a coastal
Mediterranean climate.
2082. Which weather warning means ‘danger
to life’ in the UK? A. Atlantic
B. Mediterranean Sea
A. Green
2088. Temperatures in a temperate climate
B. Yellow
are
C. Amber
A. cold all year
D. Red B. always warm
2083. Name the three climatic or heat zones? C. warm in summer and cold in winter
D. none of above
A. Temperate
B. Equatorial region 2089. Rain, Snow, Sleet and Hail are forms of
C. Torrid
A. Condensation
D. Frigid B. Precipitation
2084. Observe the image and mark which of C. Evaporation
the following statement is false D. Climate

2090. Aurora records the following observa- 2093. An animal that hibernates
tions:It rained on Monday. It was sunny
on Tuesday. It rained again on Wednesday.

What is Aurora recording?
A. Observations of the climate
B. Observations of the weather
C. Observations of both weather and cli-
mate
A. reduces its activintyin hot summer
D. Observations of neither weather nor
climate B. reduces its activity in cold weather and
winter
2091. Precipitation is C. has thin fur
D. none of above
2094. Humidity
A. measures the temperature of the air
B. the amount of water vapor in the air
C. when water changes into a gas
D. when water changes into a gas
A. Hotness or coldness
B. Height above sea level 2095. What type of clouds are pictured?
C. Water falling from the sky
D. Distance from the equator
2092. The amount of water vapor or moisture

in the air.
A. Cirrus
B. Stratus
C. Cumulous
D. Cloud
2096. affects the kind of food we eat and

clothes we wear
A. warm front A. Temperature
B. precipitation B. Humidity
C. humidity C. Climate
D. air pressure D. none of above

2097. Air moves in large, circular patterns C. Heat from the Sun will cause liquid wa-
called: ter to condense and form water vapor.
A. pressure belts. D. Heat from the Sun will cause liquid wa-
ter to evaporate and form water vapor.
B. doldrums.
C. convection cells. 2102. Where do jet streams tend to form?
D. trade winds.
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2098. Thermograph can record and measure
precipitation.
A. True
B. False
2099. What is the best explanation for why

the Earth has global wind patterns that do
not travel directly from the North to the A. A and E
South?
B. A, B, D, and E
A. The tilt of the Earth’s axis C. B and D
B. Ocean currents cause the air above to D. A, B, C, D, and E
warm or cool leading to global wind pat-
terns 2103. Which of these is NOT predicted to hap-
C. Increasing global temperatures pen with global climate change?
D. Rotation of the Earth and the Coriolis

Effect
2100. What does this symbol show on a

weather map?
A. rising sea levels

B. more precipitation everywhere
C. less Arctic ice
D. more severe storms
A. cold front 2104. What are fossil fuels made of?

B. warm front A. carbon
B. decayed plants and animals
2101. How will the Sun’s energy affect the
water cycle? C. nitrogen
A. The ocean water will increase due to D. bacteria
the runoff of the rivers. 2105. Weather is the actual conditions in the
B. The rivers and lakes will increase be- atmosphere at a particular place and time,
cause of more precipitation. usually over a 24 hour period.

A. true C. no change in the amount of sunlight it

B. False receives

D. none of above
2106. What air masses are continental polar?
2110. Which term is used to describe the av-
erage temperature and rainfall of an area
over many years?
A. environment
B. climate
C. adaptation
D. habitat
A. B and E
B. E 2111. What can affect the types of vegeta-
tion? Choose 2.
C. A
A. amount of rainfall
D. B
B. the elevation
2107. When do hurricanes begin to lose their C. the temperature
force?
D. the influence
A. At night.
2112. What is a barometer?
B. During the day.
C. When they move over land.
D. When they move over warm water.
2108. A gentle breeze that flows from the wa-

ter towards the land.
A. A tool used to measure temperature

B. A tool used to measure rainfall
A. Sea breeze C. A tool used to measure air pressure
B. Land breeze D. A person who studies weather
C. Hurricane 2113. Hot air weighs less than cold air
D. convection cell
2109. The farther away from the Equator a lo-

cation is,
A. the less sunlight this location receives
B. the more sunlight this location re-
ceives

A. True B. Monsoon rains during the summer

B. False C. 50% humidity at 4pm
D. none of above
2114. What layer does weather take place in?
A. Troposphere 2119. What is weather?
B. Thermosphere A. The average weather conditions over
a long period of time.
C. Mesosphere
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B. The minute by minute conditions out-
D. Stratosphere
side.
2115. When a cold front is approaching, what 2120. The sun is the only source of heat for
happens? the troposphere.
A. warm air is pushing under cold air A. True
causing humid weather and lower temper-
atures B. False
B. warm air is pushing under cold air 2121. Rain, snow, sleet, hail. Condensed wa-
causing humid weather and higher tem- ter falls back to Earth.
peratures A. condensation
C. warm air rises, cools, and causes rain B. evaporation
and thunderstorms
C. precipitation
D. cold air is pushed over warm air caus-
ing rain and thunderstorms D. run-off
E. transpiration
2116. The Arctic typically has cold and snowy
winters 2122. During the last decade, the tempera-
A. Weather tures dropped 5 points.
A. Weather
B. Climate
B. Climate
2117. Krystal puts a hot spoon into a bowl of
cold ice cream. Based on your knowledge 2123. Region between the Tropic of Cancer
of heat flow, what will be the result? and the Tropic of Capricorn. The sun’s rays
are most intense and the temperatures are
A. The ice cream will melt because the
always warm.
cold will flow from the ice cream to the
spoon. A. tropical zone
B. The ice cream will not be affected. B. temperate zone
C. The spoon will become colder because C. polar zone
the cold will flow from the ice cream to the D. warm front
spoon.
2124. What is an air mass?
D. The ice cream will melt because heat
will flow from the spoon to the ice cream. A. a place where weather always
changes in an extreme way
2118. Which describes weather data? B. a large body or air with the same tem-
A. Less than 30 mm of rain annually perature and moisture

C. any kind of cloud that produces rain, 2130. Name the liquid used in this instrument.
sleet, snow, or hail

D. any kind of air that is wet and freezing
2125. Which is a natural source of greenhouse

gases?
A. aerosols
B. deforestation
C. volcanic eruptions
D. burning fossil fuels
2126. What kind of front is pictured?
A. Alcohol
B. Mercury
2131. Precipitation usually refers to:
A. rainfall, hail and clay.
A. cold front B. rainfall, lava and dew.
B. warm front C. rainfall, snow and sleet.
C. stationary front D. rainfall, ash and snow.
D. occluded front 2132. In the morning you notice the grass is
wet with dew. When you get home later
2127. Which cloud is the lowest in the sky? that day, the grass is dry. What most
A. cirrus likely caused this change?
B. cumulus A. evaporation
C. stratus B. condensation
D. none of above C. precipitation
D. runoff
2128. In Alaska, the average daytime temper-
atures range from approximately 55 to 78 2133. weather can last a season
◦ F.
A. true
A. Weather
B. false
B. Climate
2134. The difference between the largest and
2129. First day of fall smallest value in a set of values is called
A. Autumnal Equinox A. Climate
B. Summer Solstice B. Weather
C. Winter Solstice C. Season
D. Vernal Equinox D. Range

2135. What is meant by Climate? D. The desert was once covered in salt
A. Climate takes short period of time to water.
change 2140. We need warm clothes in Goa in Decem-
B. Climate Takes long period of time to ber.
change A. True
C. It may take 35 to 40 days to change B. False
D. Climate changes from year to year
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2141. The three major types of winds are:
2136. The fog is making driving difficult. A. Trade winds, Periodic winds, Local
A. climate winds
B. weather B. Planetary winds, Polar winds, Mon-
soon winds
2137. We live in a temperate climate zone,
we have cold winters, warm summers and C. Planetary winds, Periodic winds, Local
moderate precipitation. This type of cli- winds
mate has seasons. D. Periodic winds, Monsoon winds, Trade
winds
2142. What is a thermometer used for?

Celcius
A. two south, east, west
B. three D. Measures the wind speed in mph
C. four E. Measures the precipitation in mm
D. one
2143. Tairawhiti has a climate
2138. Rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls from A. Tropical
clouds in the sky is
B. Temperate
A. Temperature
C. Sub-tropical
B. Precipitation
D. Continental
C. Humidity
D. Wind 2144. Weather Symbol:line with semicircles
represents
2139. Which conclusion could be drawn from A. cold front
finding the fossilized remains of a whale
in a desert? B. warm front
A. Timmy the T-Rex was an amazing fish- 2145. Average weather condition of a region
erman back in the day. over a long period of time
B. Whalenados are a thing. A. Climate
C. The desert was once at a high altitude. B. Season

C. Humidity C. Clothes dry faster on sunny days.

D. none of above D. Clothes dry faster on cloudy days.

2146. How is the greenhouse effect produced? 2149. The of a place remains more or less
the same, year after year.
A. Weather
B. Seasons
C. Climate
D. none of above
A. When solar energy trespasses the at- 2150. Which of these occurs in a warm front?
mosphere. A. A cold air mass and warm air mass
B. When some energy is reflected back to separate
earth. B. A cold air mass replaces a warm air
C. When the green house is burned. mass
D. When the sun doesn’t emit radiation. C. A cold air mass and warm air mass
combine
2147. Which of these best describes climate D. A warm air mass replaces a cold air
rather than weather? mass
A. Wind speed is changing as a storm
2151. Ocean currents regulate
moves through an area.
A. a city’s weather
B. The temperature is decreasing in a
slow-moving cold front. B. an area’s climate
C. Annual high temperatures in the sum- C. global temperatures
mer have increased over many decades. D. a city’s precipitation
D. The rainfall during one year was
2152. Which type of front is pictured?
greater than the rainfall during the follow-
ing year.
2148. Cindy hangs wet towels on the line ev-

ery morning and checks how long it takes A. cold front
her towels to dry. After six days, she has
gathered the following data. What conclu- B. warm front
sion should she reach by using her data? C. occluded front
D. stationary front
2153. Climate changes happen over a period

of how many years?
A. One Hundred Years
A. You need wind to dry clothes. B. Ten years
B. Clothes dry in the same amount on C. Never

sunny and cloudy days. D. Thousands of years

2154. Hurricanes are measured on the 2159. When water vapour rises over high land
scale this causes what type of rainfall?
A. Fujita A. Convectional rainfall
B. Simpson B. Frontal rainfall
C. Hurricane C. Relief rainfall
D. They don’t have a scale for measure-
D. none of above
ment.
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2155. During which part of the water cycle do 2160. Number 1:
clouds form?
A. condensation A. When the temperature is above 0 ◦ C,

water drops fall as rain.
B. transpiration
C. precipitation B. Heat from the Sun warms water on the
surface of the Earth.
D. evaporation
C. When the temperature is below 0 ◦ C,
2156. What type of clouds are usually associ- ice crystals fall as snow.
ated with thunderstorms?
D. Lots of water drops and ice crystals
A. Cirrus together formclouds. When they become
B. Stratus heavy, gravity pulls them down to Earth.
This is called precipitation.
C. Cumulus
D. Storm 2161. What type of cloud is this? Very high,
flat layer, makes a halo
2157. Celsius scale is used to measure
A. temperature
B. pressure
C. wind
D. none of above
2158. What is the climate of the top of a moun-
tain like as compared to the bottom of the
mountain?
A. warmer A. Cirrostratus
B. cooler B. Cirrocumulus
C. drier C. Altocumulus
D. wetter D. Stratocumulus

2162. The is cold in the Arctic zone 2167. This is when warmth from the sun
causes water from oceans, lakes, and soil
A. Weather
to rise into the air and turn into gas.

B. Climate
2163. natural gas

A. renewable
B. non-renewable
2164. The two primary factors describing cli-

mate are:
A. Temperature and wind speed
B. Precipitation and rainfall A. condensation
C. Temperature and humidity B. runoff
D. Temperature and precipitation C. precipitation
2165. Nearly 100 years ago, a large volcano D. evaporation
erupted in the South Pacific. The follow-
ing year, some NE cities in the US recorded 2168. When the air temperature is LOW, the
snowfall every month. Most of the North- weather is
ern Hemisphere experienced a cold sum-
mer. How are they related?
A. The eruption temporarily intensified
the greenhouse effect
B. Thermal energy released during the
eruption caused a decrease n Earth’s to-
tal heat energy
C. The eruption damaged the ozone layer,
causing a decrease in the amount of solar A. hot
energy reaching Earth
B. cold
D. Atmospheric dust from the eruption
caused a decrease in the amount of solar 2169. A small storm often accompanied by
energy reaching Earth heavy precipitation and frequent thunder
and lightning. To stay safe, go inside away
2166. This severe weather involves lightning, from the lightning
rain, and forms from a cumulonimbus
A. Tornado
cloud.
B. Hurricane
A. thunderstorm
C. Thunderstorm
B. tornado
D. none of above
C. hurricane
D. blizzard 2170. This photo represents a climate

2174. temperate zones

A. Latitudes between the tropics and the
Arctic Circle in the north and the Antarc-
tic Circle in the south; regions with milder
B. cold air moves under warm air forcing
A. Tropical warm air up
B. Polar
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C. A rapidly whirling, funnel-shaped
C. Arid cloud that reaches down to touch Earth’s
surface.
D. Temperate
D. none of above
2171. Why are there different climates on
Earth? 2175. From where does the majority of the
precipitation that falls on land originate?
A. Global Warming
A. Moisture that permanently resides in
B. Uneven heating the atmosphere
2172. Average weather conditions of a region B. Water that evaporates from plants and
year after year describe which one of other living organisms
these C. Evaporation from lakes and rivers
A. Temperature D. Evaporation from the ocean
B. Weather 2176. The changes to water when energy from
C. Climate the sun and gravity are utilized.
D. Cold Front A. The Water Cycle

B. Weather
2173. What weather instrument is pictured
C. Transpiration
here?
D. none of above
2177. Trees create shelter and shade from the

sun making it the perfect place to cool
down on a hot day
A. True
B. False
2178. A student made two observations about

a city. Observation 1:The last time it
rained was 18 days ago.Observation 2:It
was below freezing outside this morning.
A. Thermometer
Which comparison can be made using the
B. Psychrometer student’s observations?
C. Barometer A. Both describe the weather in the city.
D. Anemometer B. Both describe the climate in the city.

C. Observation 1 describes the weather, 2184. Greenhouse gases cause surface tem-
and Observation 2 describes the climate. peratures to increase because they

D. Observation 1 describes the climate, A. reflect solar radiation.
and Observation 2 describes the weather. B. increase precipitation amounts.
2179. The percentage of water vapor in the C. absorb Earth’s radiation.
air compared to the maximum amount of D. absorb solar radiation.
water vapor that air can hold at a given
temperature 2185. I am home to the rainforest and am lo-
cated near the middle of the earth near the
A. Precipitation
equator.
B. Humidity A. Tropical zone
C. Thunderstorm B. Polar zone
D. Relative Humidity C. Temperate zone
E. Fog D. Mild zone
2180. What type of weather would you ex- 2186. What is the difference between
pect to see after a cold front has passed weather and climate?
through an area?
A. Weather describes conditions of the
A. cool and clear skies air outside a a time and place. Climate is
B. warm and humid the pattern of weather in an area of a long
period of time.
C. thunderstorms
B. Weather is the general pattern of
D. foggy weather over a long period of time. Cli-
mate describes the condition of the air at
2181. Air masses are large bodies of air that a certain time or place.
can be many miles wide.
2187. Which region is often called the ‘home
A. True
of domestic animals ‘?
B. False
A. Monsoon
2182. Fog is what type of cloud? B. Tropical
A. Stratus C. Both 1 and 2
B. Cumulus D. None of the above
C. Cirrus 2188. does warm water evaporate quicker
D. Cumulonimbus than cold water
A. true
B. false
A. rain
2189. What part of the water cycle is when
B. snow
water vapor cools and turns back into a
C. sleet liquid?
D. all of these are correct A. evaporation

B. condensation A. Weather refers to conditions neare to

C. precipitation the ground than climate
B. Climate covers larger areas and longer
D. runoff and collection
times than weather
2190. Winds that blow constantly in a particu- C. Weather conditions include precipita-
lar direction throughout the year are called tion, but climate does not.
D. none of above
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2194. If conditions are correct for a tornado to
form, a weather will be issued.
A. Watch
B. Advisory
C. Warning
D. none of above
A. Prevailing winds
2195. The large pieces of the Earth’s crust are
B. Local winds called:
C. Periodic winds
D. Monsoon winds
2191. What would this climate most likely be?
A. Tectonic plates
B. Land ridges
C. Continental chunks
A. Polar 2196. A measurement that tells how hot or

cold it is
B. Temperate
A. weather
C. Mountains
B. temperature
D. Tropical C. seasons
2192. The amount of water vapour present in D. precipitation
the air
2197. What is the name of the job that tells
A. humidity the weather?
B. dew
C. precipitation
D. Celsius
2193. Climate and weather are different con-

cepts, though they are related.How are
weather and climate different?

A. meteorologist 2203. Which surface will absorb more energy

B. weather man from the sun?

C. weather person A. Asphalt Parking Lot
D. none of above B. Cement Sidewalk
2198. What is the other name of the Climate
C. Playground Woodchips
Zone?
A. cool Zones D. Dirt
B. Heat Zones
2204. Is the picture talking about the weather
C. Cold Zone s
or the climate?
D. Moderate Zones
that meet is called?
A. front
B. back
C. side
D. air mass
2200. How does altitude affect temperature?
A. The higher up a place is the higher the
temperature will be. A. Weather
B. The higher up a place is the lower the
B. Climate
temperature will be.
C. The temperature remains the same
2205. In deserts day temperature may cross
throughout the atmosphere
and night temperature may fall below
D. none of above
2201. A climate generally located on the east- A. 30◦ C/10◦ C
ern side of a continent and characterized
by hot, sultry summers and cool winters B. 22◦ C/15◦ C
A. tropical zone C. 80◦ C/11◦ C
B. subarctic zone
D. 50◦ C/10◦ C
C. humid subtropical climate
D. dry-summer subtropical climate 2206. A is an intense storm with strong
2202. Which of the following have been linked winds, heavy rain, lightning, and thunder.
to climate change? A. tornado
A. droughts
B. hurricane
B. flooding
C. melting of polar ice caps C. thunderstorm
D. all of the above D. none of above

2207. Which characteristics affect a region’s 2211. There won’t be much recess this week
climate? because of all the rain.
A. number of animals in the regions, alti- A. weather
tude, distance from equator B. climate
B. altitude, availability of natural re-
2212. Warnings for this potential natural dis-
sources, landforms, distance from equa-
aster:Dark, often greenish skyLarge hailA
tor
large, dark, low-lying cloud (particularly
NARAYAN CHANGDER
C. altitude, distance from equator, land- if rotating)Loud roar, similar to a freight
forms, proximity to large bodies of water train.If you see approaching storms or any
D. proximity to large bodies of water, of the danger signs, be prepared to take
number of plants per square miles, land- shelter immediately.The potential disaster
forms being described is a
2208. Planetary wind is also called as

A. Prevailing wind
B. permanent wind
C. trade wind
D. polar winds
A. blizzard
2209. Climate zones are first classified for
B. hurricane
their
C. thunderstorm
A. Precipitation
D. tornado
B. Temperature
C. Living Things 2213. Which statement best describes cli-
mate?
D. elevation
A. Average atmospheric conditions pre-
2210. Walking on the warm sand sand with vailing over 30 years
your bare feet demonstrates this type of B. Actual atmospheric conditions usually
heat transfer. over a daily period.
C. Actual atmospheric conditions at a par-
ticular place and time
D. Average atmospheric conditions usu-
ally prevailing over 24-hour period
2214. When water falls to the ground as rain,

sleet, snow or hail.
A. conduction A. precipitation
B. convection B. temperature
C. radiation C. humidity

2215. Two students living in different loca-

tions decide to use rain gauges to compare
the amounts of precipitation in their loca-

tions over the course of a week. One stu-
dent lives in Canada, and the other student
lives in Florida. In which months would a
rain gauge likely NOT provide accurate pre-
cipitation data for a comparison between A. Weather
the two locations?
B. Climate
A. March, April, May
2220. The center of a hurricane is called the
B. December, January, February
C. September, October, November A. center
D. June, July, August B. brain
C. eye
2216. Right now the Earth is tilted away from
the sun, so we experience winter. D. circle
A. Weather 2221. What stage of the water cycle does wa-
B. Climate ter vapor turn to water droplets?
A. Evaporation
2217. Which of the following sets of data best
B. Condensation
represents weather information, but NOT
climate? C. Precipitation
A. Average daily rainfall for the Dallas D. Run-off
area in the last month
2222. Maritime air masses travel over
B. Average yearly temperatures for the
A. The land
Dallas area in the 1900s
B. The sea
C. Monthly air pressure averages for the
Dallas area since 1974 C. They don’t travel over anything
they come from space
D. Monthly humidity averages for the Dal-
las area in the last 4 decades D. none of above
2218. A barometer is used to measure 2223. If a person is describing the daily

changes in temperature and precipitation,
A. Temperature they are referring to an area’s-
B. Air Pressure A. Geology
C. Humidity B. Climate
D. none of above C. Geography

D. Weather
2219. It refers to short-term changes in the at-
mosphere.It is only temporary. 2224. What is this instrument used for?

2228. Nimbostratus and cumulonimbus clouds

can signal what type of upcoming
weather?
A. fair skies
B. hot, sunny weather
C. windy weather
D. rainy weather
NARAYAN CHANGDER
2229. At the equator, the air is:
A. warm, less dense, and rising
B. warm, more dense, and rising
A. it used to measured wind direction C. cool, more dense, and sinking
B. it is used to measure air pressure D. cool, less dense, and sinking
C. it used to measure rainfall
2230. is called as ‘Ship of the Desert’
D. none of above
A. Monkey
2225. forecasts are more accurate than B. Camel
forecasts made for longer periods of time.
C. Elephant
A. short-range
D. Tiger
B. medium-range
C. long-range 2231. How do meteorologist study the
weather?
D. none of above
A. With scientific tools, collecting data,
2226. the sound caused by the rapid expan- and analyzing patterns. They graph
sion of air along an electrical strike weather data over time.
A. Thunder B. With weather tools
B. Wind C. Following patterns
C. Lightning D. With their eyes
D. Hurricane
2232. Temperate climates are
E. Tornado
2227. Is this photo an example of weather or
climate data?
A. Mediterranean climates
B. Oceanic climates
A. weather C. Continental climates
B. climate D. Desert climates

2233. Does this statement describe weather 2237. What is this weather tool called?
or climate? The Amazon Rainforest re-
ceives an average of 30 cm of rain in the

month of March.
A. weather
B. climate
2234. What does this symbol represent on a
weather map?
A. stationary front
B. occluded front
C. no front
D. what even is a front?
2235. The oldest member in BLACKPINK is A. weather vane
B. rain gauge
C. thermometer
D. barometer
2238. Moisture in the atmosphere is called

A. a:Kim Jisso A. density
B. b:Kim Jennie B. evaporation
C. c:Park Rose
C. humidity
D. d:Lalisa Manoban
D. air pressure
2236. Which instrument measures amount of
rain fall? 2239. The windward side of the mountain gets
more rainfall than the leeward side.
A. True
B. False
2240. Trees lose their leaves in autumn (fall)

A. temperate
B. polar
A. Wind vane
B. hygrometer C. tropical
C. Anemometer D. mild
D. Rain gauge E. desert

2241. WHEN WE SAY, “ IN THE NORTH 2246. what is humidity?(choose all that apply)
THE TEMPERATURES ARE MILD ALL YEAR A. a quantity representing the amount of
ROUND”, THAT IS water vapour in the atmosphere or in a
A. WEATHER gas.
B. CLIMATE B. atmospheric moisture.
C. the amount of water vapour present in
2242. Climate change can cause increases in the air
asthma, allergies and heart disease.
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D. none of above
A. True
2247. Meteors burn up here Special lightning
B. False called sprites Noctilucent clouds form over
north and south poles The phrases above
2243. What kind of weather would you expect describe what layer of the atmosphere?
if the sky was filled with stratus clouds.
A. thunderstorms
B. light rains
C. snow
D. fair weather
2244. Approximately what percentage of

A. exosphere
Earth’s surface is covered with water?
B. ionosphere
A. 30%
C. mesosphere
B. 50%
D. thermosphere
C. 70%
2248. In some years there are more hurricanes
D. 90% than usual. This is probably because
2245. What is the name of the object in the A. the ocean is warmer than usual
picture? B. the ozone layer is very thin
C. there are more windy days than usual
D. the gravitational pull of the Moon is
stronger
2249. Warm air rises and the cool air sinks

demonstrates this type of heat transfer.
A. Anemometer
B. Barometer
C. Wind Vane
D. Rain Gauge

A. conduction 2253. Which tool is used to measure precipita-

tion?
B. convection

A. thermometer
C. radiation
B. compass
D. Insolation
C. wind vane
2250. This tool is used to measure the amount D. rain gauge
of rainfall. What is it called?
A. Cold front
B. Warm front
A. snow gauge
C. Occluded front
B. rain gauge
D. Stationary front
C. ruler
2255. Where will the temperature be highest?
D. thermometer
A. Arctic Circle
2251. What is another name for rain, snow, B. Tropic of Cancer
sleet, and hail?
C. Equator
A. Liquidation
D. none of above
B. Temperature
2256. WEATHER and CLIMATE are the same
C. Alienation
A. true
D. Precipitation
B. false
2252. A weather forecast tells you about
2257. What is the main source of heat energy
for weather on the earth?
A. Precipitation
B. The sun
C. Air
D. Metals
A. last week’s weather
2258. As ALTITUDE INCREASES, what happens
B. today and tomorrow’s weather to air pressure?
C. the climate in your region A. It increases
D. none of above B. It decreases

2259. A satellite is a tool that 2264. How many types of barometers are
there
A. changes the weather on earth
A. 2
B. makes the earth hotter
B. 3
C. makes the earth colder
C. 5
D. takes pictures of the earth
D. 1
2260. You look at a map of Pangaea, and see 2265. Why is snow white?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
that the area you live in used to be much
closer to the equator millions of years ago. A. it absorbs beams of white light
What is a likely effect this would have had B. snow’s complex structure allows the
on the climate at that time? light from shining through its lattice for-
mation
A. The area used to be consistently warm
all year-round. C. it reflects beams of white light
B. The area used to have much colder D. none of above
winters. 2266. what was the hottest temperature ever
C. The area used to be consistently cold recorded in Africa?
all year-round.
D. The area used to cold and dry all year-
round.
2261. Artic climates are mostly

A. hot
B. cold A. 53C
C. warm B. 50C
D. none of above C. lettuce
D. none of above
2262. is the typical weather in a place over
a long period of time. 2267. What kind of weather does this
A. weather weather system bring?
B. climate
C. data
D. precipitation
2263. Spain is located in the

A. Temperate zone A. Precipitation and clouds for several
days.
B. Hot zone
B. Precipitation and clouds until some-
C. European zone
thing stronger moves the front out of the
D. Cold zone way.

C. Strong thunderstorms that may be-

come severe.

D. none of above
2268. Where do hurricanes originate (start

at)?
A. Warm Tropical oceans
B. Cold Polar regions A. Why some very far northern places
aren’t as cold
C. Warm Mountain tops
B. Why water moves a certain way
D. Dry Land
C. The direction fish swim.
2269. Which of these BEST explains the reason D. Where one could find high and low
the reason that thunderstorms are likely pressure systems.
to form on a hot day?
2273. During what seasons do the equinox oc-
A. Warm, humid air rises quickly and then cur?
cools A. fall and winter
B. as air slowly rises it loses humidity and B. fall and spring
causes rain
C. spring and summer
C. the air is usually calm and allows the D. winter and summer
clouds to form
2274. Brings surface water into the atmo-
D. the air rises quickly and forms low- sphere as water vapor
level cloud layers
A. Precipitation
2270. How does Altitude affect climate B. Condensation
A. lower altitudes are colder C. Transpiration
B. Higher altitudes are warmer D. Evaporation
C. Higher altitudes are colder 2275. Which of the following is a characteris-

tic of an anticyclone?
D. Altitude does not affect climate
A. has a center of high pressure
2271. What term is used to describe the daily B. has clockwise winds in the Northern
atmospheric conditions in an area? Hemisphere
A. climate C. is generally associated with clear
weather
B. weather
D. all of the above
C. temperature
2276. Energy for convection on the Earth
D. precipitation comes from
2272. What could this map of ocean currents A. The sun

help you understand? B. The moon

C. Solar winds 2279. Weather symbols help us describe-

D. The ocean A. gravity’s pull of the Earth
B. conditions of the temperature and air
2277. Dawn is comparing the effects of cold
weather on different states. Which of the C. the four seasons
following in an example ofpossible result- D. none of above
sof cold weather in Florida?
2280. What do we call the winds that are in-
fluenced by the local geography and tem-
NARAYAN CHANGDER
perature variations?
A. Trade winds.
B. Polar easterlies.
C. Local wind.
D. Jet stream.
A. Prolonged exposure to extreme tem- 2281. Precipitation includes:
peratures may result in hypothermia
A. Rainfall
B. Roads and structures can collapse,
utility services may be interrupted B. Snowfall
C. Hailstone
C. Strong winds can topple trees, flash
floods can wash away cars, people, and D. All of the above
houses
2282. The amount of precipitation measured
D. Storm surges and heavy rains may over the course of a year.
causes flooding and strong winds may de-
A. climate
stroy structures
B. weather
2278. The map shows the average low tem-
peratures in SC. Which area is most likely 2283. The meteorologist predicts that tomor-
to receive snow in November? row, it will be very windy outside.
A. Weather
B. Climate
2284. Which of the following is NOT one of the

three types of climate regions?
A. Polar
B. Tropical
C. Chilly
A. Area “B” because it is farther North.
D. Temperate
B. Area “C” because it is on the North
Coast. 2285. Too much greenhouse gases can be a
bad thing for the environment, however,
C. Area “D” because it is on the South the Earth needs some greenhouse gases in
Coast. the atmosphere. Why does the Earth need
D. Area “A” because it is the coolest. some greenhouse gases?

A. To help form clouds in the atmosphere 2291. What does this symbol represent on a
B. To regulate the amount of rain needed weather map?

C. To regulate the Earth’s climate
D. none of above
2286. How do we characterize an air mass

that forms near the poles?
A. Dry
B. Wet A. cold front
C. Warm B. warm front
D. Cold C. high pressure system
D. low pressure system
2287. The most important form of precipita-
tion is 2292. What is the purpose of a barometer?
A. Sleet A. Measures the temperature of the air.
B. Rainfall B. Measures the amount of wind.
C. Hail C. Measures the number of clouds in the
D. none of above sky.
D. Measures the amount of pressure in
2288. What type of weather do we have in
the air.
The Bahamas?
A. dry 2293. The weight of the atmosphere is It
is measure by the
B. topical
C. rainy
D. sub-tropical
2289. Which of these instruments measures

the temperature?
A. Kilometre
A. air pressure, thermometer
B. Barometer
B. temperature, thermometer
C. Thermometer
C. air pressure, barometer
D. Anemometer
D. temperature, barometer
2290. What is the greenhouse effect?
A. The warming of a planet due to 2294. Water that falls to the ground from the
trapped radiation. clouds is
B. The cooling of Earth due to air pollu- A. condensation

tion. B. evaporation
C. The heating of a solid, such as a rock. C. precipitation
D. none of above D. transpiration

2295. The concentration of water vapour in C. Cumulonimbus

the air is called D. none of above
A. Temperature
2301. What is the name of the object in the
B. Precipitation picture?
C. Humidity
D. Wind
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2296. Which of the following is an example
of data that would be considered weather
rather than climate?
A. Southeast Asia experiences most of its
precipitation from April to September.
B. The Chicago area received 17 cm of A. Anemometer
snow on December 4, 2012.
B. Barometer
C. More than 80% of Australia receives
C. Wind Vane
less than 60 cm of rain during the entire
year. D. Rain Gauge
D. The average annual (yearly) minimum 2302. What is the main source of energy for
temperature in Central Europe is-23 ◦ C to- the water cycle?
18 ◦ C.
A. Clouds
2297. The Earth rotates one time on its axis B. Sun
every
C. Oceans
A. 24 hours
D. Tornadoes
B. 365 Days
2303. Increased carbon dioxide may cause
2298. Which can be built to prevent floods? global warming by trapping more in
A. Barometer the atmosphere.
B. Anemometer A. water
C. Levee B. gases
D. Weather Vane C. heat
2299. In hot seasons, during daytime, the sea D. water vapor

or ocean remains cooler than the continent 2304. What air masses are maritime polar?
(landmass).
A. True
B. False
2300. Large clouds that can produce thunder-

storms are called
A. Cirrocumulus
B. Altostratus A. B

B. F and D B. long-term conditions (months/years)

of the atmosphere at a place in regards to
C. A and C
heat, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc.

D. A
2308. air sinks/falls because it is
2305. Used to measure wind speed. dense.
A. Cold, More
B. Warm, Less
C. Cold, Less
D. Warm, More
2309. What part of the water cycle does this

picture show?
A. Anemometer
B. Weather Vane
C. Thermometer
D. Rain Gauge A. condensation
2306. Which of the following describes a lim- B. precipitation

itation of the drawing but NOT a clay C. evaporation
model?
D. none of above
A. It cannot represent a living cell since
the cytoplasm should be in constant mo- 2310. Condensed water vapor or ice crystals
tion. form
B. It does not contain the correct number A. Hail
of nuclei.
B. Clouds
C. It does not represent the main parts of
C. Blizzards
a cell.
D. Tornados
D. It cannot represent a living cell since
a true cell is 3-dimensional.
2311. The hottest biome
2307. Which of the following best describes A. Desert
weather?
B. Grassland
C. Rainforest
ness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc. D. Taiga

2312. Solar Radiation is able to heat the 2317. What is solar eclipse?
earth’s surface directly. A. Earth passes between Moon and Sun
A. True B. Moon passes between Earth and Sun
B. False
2318. Air pressure is greatest when near
2313. What describes what is currently hap- Earth’s surface because?
pening? A. The air molecules are farther apart.
A. Weather B. The air molecules are closer together.
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. Climate C. Air molecules collide.
D. Air molecules are tightly packed.
2314. This climate has hot, dry summers and
cool, wet winters. 2319. Global Warming does not affect humans,
only plants and animals
A. Mediterranean
A. True
B. Desert
B. False
C. Tropical
2320. Most water vapor in the atmosphere
D. Temperate
comes from
E. Mountains
A. evaporation from oceans.
2315. Which hazard can be caused by humans? B. evaporation from soil.
A. Tornado C. transpiration from plants.
B. Hurricane D. the burning of fossil fuels.
C. Pollution 2321. Rainfall is caused by-
D. Blizzard A. Humid air
B. Hot air
2316. How many primary wind belts are there
in each hemisphere? C. Cold Air
D. none of above
2322. This winter should be colder than nor-
mal.
A. Weather
B. Climate
2323. Which instrument tells the direction of
the wind?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4

A. Wind vane 2328. Which of the following isnota form of

B. hygrometer precipitation?

C. Wind vane
D. Rain gauge
2324. Which climate has high temperatures?

A. Tropical
B. Polar
C. Desert
A. Rain
D. none of above
B. Sleet
2325. The meteorologist said that it will be
C. Fog
hot and sunny this weekend.
D. Snow
2329. What is the water cycle?
A. Weather
B. Climate
A. the 3 forms of water
2326. Rain, snow, sleet, and hail are all exam- B. the movement of water on, above, or
ples of below the surface of the Earth
A. Weather C. when water melts
B. Climate D. when clouds form
2327. Global winds that move from West to 2330. Latitude lines go?
East are?
A. North and south
B. East and west
C. Diagonal
D. none of above
2331. Frozen water droplets are called

A. Trade Winds A. drizzle
B. Westerly Winds B. sleet
C. Polar Winds C. hail
D. Local Winds D. snow

2332. What will the climate in this heat zone 2336. The climate in Fargo, ND, with its bit-
will be? Tick the correct option. terly cold winters, is an example of what
kind of climate?
A. Polar (E)
B. Dry (B)
C. Humid mid-latitude with Mild winters
(C)
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D. Continental (D)
A. Hot
2337. short term
B. Very cold
A. weather only
C. Dry
B. climate only
D. none of above
2333. What sentence is true? The Continental
D. none of above
climate
2338. The place where two air masses meet is
a front.
A. True
B. False
2339. A front is
A. is located in the South of the Iberian

Peninsula.
B. has mild temperatures all year.
C. has lots of rainfall all year.
D. none of above
2334. Weather follows patterns A. where warm air is cooling at earth’s

surface
A. Yes
B. No B. a boundary where hot and cold air are
separating
2335. Which of the following is NOT a major C. a boundary where two different air
part of weather? masses meet
A. Pressure D. where cold air is rising and forming
B. Humidity rain clouds
C. Wind
2340. Winds that constantly blow from the
D. Fronts same direction are known as the

C. when air becomes fully saturated be-

cause temperature decreases while the
amount of moisture stays constant

D. instrument used to measure wind
speed
2344. What INSTRUMENT measures wind di-
rection? (north, south, east or west)
A. Windy winds
B. Gulf Stream
C. Jet Stream
D. Prevailing Winds
2341. Which if the following factors has a

strong influence on the area’s climate?
A. Nearby ocean currents
B. Amount of fog in the morning A. Thermometer
B. Rain gauge
C. Diversity of flora and fauna
C. Weather vane
D. Soil type
D. Anemometer
2342. equatorial regions experience cli-
mate 2345. clouds form layers or smooth, even
sheets
A. hot and humid
B. cold and humid
C. hot and dry
D. none of above
2343. What is Dew Point?
A. stratus
B. cumulus
C. cirrus
D. none of above
2346. what are the coolest months in the
Philippines?
A. December to February
A. water in liquid or solid form that falls
from the sky to the ground; Rain, snow, B. May and June
sleet, and hail C. April
B. a cloud that forms near earth’s surface D. none of above

2347. If the temperature is low, it is D. The cool water vapor met the warm
mirror. This caused the vapor to reach its
dew point.
2351. What do you call a person who studies

weather and the atmosphere?
A. Scientist
B. Meteorologist
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C. Reporter
A. hot
D. Psychologist
B. warm
2352. What do we call large storms that bring
C. cold
strong winds and heavy rain?
D. none of above
A. showers
2348. Which of the statements below is re- B. fronts
lated to climate? C. hurricanes
A. The average temperature in Houston D. earthquakes
is 78 degrees F.
B. Last month was very rainy. 2353. When two cold air masses converge on
a warm air mass.
C. Next week it will be very cold.
A. cold front
D. Last year it snowed in Houston on 2 dif-
ferent days B. warm front
C. stationary front
2349. Which is the hottest part of the earth?
D. occluded front
A. Torrid zone
2354. are a great effect on the of a
B. North pole
place.
C. Tropic of cancer A. People, life
D. Equator B. Winds, climate
2350. After taking a hot shower, you notice C. Global warming, houses
your mirror is foggy. What caused this to D. none of above
occur?
A. The warm water vapor met the cool 2355. What type of vegetation is this?
dew point.
B. The warm water vapor met the warm
dew point.
C. The cool water vapor met the cool mir-
ror. This caused the vapor to reach its
dew point. A. tundra

B. forest 2361. Which is most responsible for guiding

C. desert the movement of different air masses
across the United States?

D. grassland
A. the oceans
2356. Weather changes minute by minute
A. True B. trade winds
B. False C. the jet stream
2357. . An overnight freeze that damages or- D. easterly winds

ange crops in central Florida.
2362. What do greenhouse gases do?
A. absorb Earth’s outgoing infrared radi-
ation
B. reflect Earth’s incoming infrared radia-
tion
C. magnify ultraviolet radiation in the at-
mosphere
A. Weather
B. Climate D. block the Sun’s infrared radiation
2358. Popcorn cooking in a microwave 2363. The four natural divisions of the year
A. Conduction based on changes in temperature due to
the varied amounts of sunlight.
B. Convection
C. Radiation A. Winter
D. none of above B. Summer
2359. This climate has warm and cold tempera- C. Seasons
tures, no extremes. It has rainfall through-
D. Pattern
out the year.
A. Desert 2364. Low pressure would indicate what kind
B. Mediterranean of weather
C. Tropical A. sunny and fair weather
D. Desert
B. cloudy and rainy weather
E. Temperate
2360. The study of weather and Earth’s atmo- 2365. What does a barometer measure?
sphere A. The wind speed
A. Elevation
B. The air pressure
B. Meteorology
C. The wind direction
C. Visibility
D. Topography D. The temperature
E. Latitude E. The amount of precipitation

2366. Consider the four locations in the north- 2371. What are the effects of climate change?
ern hemisphere. Where do you think the Pick 3
air would be the most humid?
A. The world is getting warmer.
A. Alaska
B. Ice is melting and their is more flood-
B. Arizona
ing.
C. Florida
C. The ocean is getting colder
D. Virginia
NARAYAN CHANGDER
D. We are getting more extreme
2367. Changes from minute-to-minute, hour-
weather.
to-hour, day-to-day is known as
A. Climate 2372. the process that occurs when water
B. Weather changes from a liquid to a gas caused by
heat
2368. TEMPERATE DECIDUOUS FORESTS
A. Temperature ranges from 30◦ to-3◦ in A. run-off
Winter B. condensation
B. *Many trees lose their leaves in au-
C. heat energy
tumn
C. Located near the Equator D. evaporation
D. *Soil is rich in nutrients
2373. An anemometer is used to measure
2369. Which of the following is NOT true
about weather and climate?
A. climate is daily A. rain fall

B. climate is the average over time B. snow
C. weather is daily
C. wind speed
D. weather has to do with the conditions
in the atmosphere D. wind direction
2370. The areas between the 30 and 60 2374. The average of temperature, precipita-
degrees North/South is known is also tion, humidity over an extended period of
known as AND time is called
A. middle latitudes
A. climate
B. high latitudes
B. weather
C. tropical climate zone
D. temperate climate zone C. elevation
E. arctic climate zone D. none of above

2375. is the general temperature and pre- C. It makes evaporation occur faster
cipitation we can expect in a region. D. It increases condensation

2380. Which of the following has the greatest
effect on the formation of rain or snow?
A. cloud cover
B. humidity
C. air pressure
A. Climate D. temperature
B. Weather
2376. The sun’s radiant energy is NOT a major A. all the air around Earth.
factor in producing
B. the average temperature in a place
A. The water cycle over a long period.
B. Humidity of air C. the conditions of the atmosphere at a
C. Air temperature certain time and place
D. Motion of tides D. none of above
2377. Heat from the sun travels to Earth by 2382. Today has been really cold and rainy.
A. conduction
B. convection
C. insulation
D. radiation
A. Weather.
B. Climate.
2383. What type of air mass would bring
warm, humid weather?
A. cT
B. cP
A. High Pressure C. mP
B. Warm Front D. mT
C. Cold Front 2384. When does the least precipitation oc-
D. Mountains cur?
2379. Which best explains why runoff is im-

portant?
A. It returns water to other locations on
Earth
B. It increases the chance of flooding

A. February-March 2389. Last week it was cold and rainy in East

Bridgewater.
B. April-May
A. Climate
C. June-July
B. Weather
D. November-December
2390. When the Earth is on a tilt, what degree
2385. In the layers of the atmosphere, Air tem- is it tilted?
perature differences result mainly because
A. 25 degrees
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of
B. 90 degrees
A. Composition of gases
C. 23.5 degrees
B. the way solar energy is absorbed
D. 26.5 degrees
through the atmosphere
C. the further you move up, the fewer 2391. Which city is currently experiencing a
molecules snow storm?
D. Density decrease with increase in alti-

tude
2386. It is hot in December and in June

A. temperate
B. polar
A. Seattle
C. tropical
B. The Angels
D. mild C. Chicago
E. desert D. New York
2387. At a high altitude, air becomes thinner 2392. This weather instrument measures air
and hence absorbs and retains heat pressure in an area.
A. more A. barometer
B. same B. thermometer
C. less C. anemometer
D. rain gauge
D. none of above
2393. Which best describes the tropical zone?
2388. What is Data
A. Average weather conditions for a re-
gion year after year
B. Information that has been collected
C. How hot or cold something is
D. Common
A. high average rainfall and high average
E. A chart temperatures

B. low average rainfall and high daytime

temperatures

C. high average rainfall and moderate
daily temperatures
D. low average rainfall and moderate
daily temperatures
2394. Which cloud looks puffy like cotton

balls? A. hygrometer
A. cirrus B. rain gauge
C. anemometer
B. cumulus
D. barometer
C. stratus
D. none of above given place and time is called
A. season
2395. Typical United States weather patterns
show the continental polar air mass mov- B. climate
ing south toward the Gulf of Mexico. Why C. altitude
does this air mass movement happen? D. weather
A. Colder air masses move from north to 2399. is the cooling off of water in the at-
south. mosphere, changing from a gas to a liquid.
B. Continental air masses always move in A. condensation
the direct of the nearest body of water. B. precipitation
C. The polar air mass moves south to C. humidity
replace the rising maritime tropical air
D. none of above
mass.
2400. What is storm that contains storm
D. The continental polar air mass is
surges and has wind speeds of 74 mph-
blocked in by maritime air masses on all
200 mph?
sides.
A. thunderstorms
2396. How much rain falls there (mm per B. severe thunderstorms
year)? C. tornadoes
A. about 10 mm per year D. hurricanes
B. about 5 mm per year 2401. The aurora (the Southern and Northern
Lights) primarily occur in the
C. about 1 mm per year
A. mesosphere
D. No rain ever recorded
B. stratosphere
2397. An instrument used to measure precipi- C. thermosphere
tation, like rain or snow. D. troposphere

2402. Winds are created by differences in C. 78%

A. air temperature D. 90%
B. air pressure 2408. Which is a way human affect the envi-
C. altitude ronment?
D. humidity A. A tsunami flooding a city
2403. Any form of water that falls from clouds B. A tornado destroying a town
NARAYAN CHANGDER
is called C. A campsite starting a wildfire
A. dew D. An avalanche crashing down the moun-
B. condensation tain
C. evaporation 2409. One afternoon Jerry looks out the win-

dow and observes falling precipitation.
D. precipitation
The temperature is 2◦ C, and the wind
2404. Which of these do not affect a surface speed is 5 miles per hour to the north.
current? (from the Solar, Weather, Ocean What type of precipitation does Jerry most
notes) likely see?
A. Coriolis effect A. Hail
B. continental deflection B. Rain
C. winds C. Sleet
D. density of water D. Snow
2405. What does a wind vane do? 2410. “Houston received three inches of rain-
fall last month” is an example of
A. It measures the wind speed.
A. weather
B. it meaures the sea level
B. climate
C. it turns into a helicopter(obviously the
right answer) 2411. A student read a brochure about the
D. It measures which way wind is going Piney Woods of Texas and learned the av-
erage annual rainfall is 40-52 inches (100-
2406. Hail stones fell for a short time be- 150 cm) each year and the humidity is typ-
fore Leticia left for school. What weather ically high. The information the student
event was happening at the time? read is called
A. Thunderstorm A. a weather forecast
B. Hurricane B. local erosion factors
C. Blizzard C. regional climate data
D. Light rain D. last year’s weather data
2407. What is the percentage of oxygen in 2412. What are lines on a weather map con-
Earth’s atmosphere? necting points of equal pressure?
A. 1% A. Isotherms
B. 20% B. Isoclines

C. Isobars D. movement
D. Isochrons E. pressure tagsSC.912.E.7.3

2413. Which of the following is a migratory 2418. Rain, hail, snow, and sleet fall from the
bird? sky, is which part of the water cycle?
A. Siberian Crane A. Evaporation
B. Arctic Tern B. Condensation
C. Both (A) and (B) C. Precipitation
D. none of these D. Transpiration
2414. What will happen if a lot of rain falls in 2419. The measure of how hot or cold a place
a short period of time, on land that does is.
not absorb the water well?
A. temperature
A. The amount of condensation will de-
crease. B. weather
B. There will be a large amount of runoff. C. global warming

C. The amount of precipitation will in- D. equinox
crease.
2420. The Canary Current, is a surface current.
D. The amount of precipitation will de- What causes it?
crease.
A. wind
2415. As elevation increases, atmospheric B. differences in density
pressure
C. differences in salinity
A. increases
D. differences in temperature
B. decreases
2421. Rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls from
2416. Which of the following are used to clouds in the sky.
study and forecast most weather-related
events? A. weather
A. doppler radar B. precipitation
B. Satellites and satellite images C. humidity
C. Weather maps D. climate
D. All of the above 2422. What substances make up most of the
atmosphere?
2417. A person experiences a popping feeling
in their ears during the takeoff or landing A. nothing except sometimes clouds
of an airplane or while driving on steep B. gases such as nitrogen, oxygen, argon,
mountain roads due to changes in the and water vapor
of the atmosphere.
C. tiny particles of pollution from cars and
A. density other machines
B. temperature D. greenhouse gases such as carbon
C. water vapor content dioxide and methane

2423. Does this map show a high or a low C. Hurricanes start in the sky, tornadoes
pressure weather system over the UK? start over warm tropical oceans.
D. There is no difference between them.
2428. A person who studies weather and
weather patterns is a(n)
A. Botanist
B. Astronomer
NARAYAN CHANGDER
C. Geologist
A. High pressure
D. Meteorologist
B. Low pressure
2429. What type of map is shown?
C. Both
D. none of above
2424. Which among the following is NOT an

element of weather?
A. temperature
B. pressure
C. wind
A. satellite
D. land B. radar
2425. What is lake-effect snow? C. isobar
A. When it snows over a lake. D. isotherm
B. When an air mass travels over a lake 2430. Which type of animals are found in Tun-
and picks up moisture, then drops it on the dra climate?
other side.
A. Polar �
C. When it looks like rain but it’s really B. Huskies
snow.
C. Both 1 and 2
D. none of above
D. Scorpions
2426. Predicting weather is known as:
2431. A model shows a city located between
A. Meteorology a warm ocean and next to coastal moun-
B. Weather study tains. Which statement best describes av-
erage weather of this city?
C. Weather forecasting
A. The city will experience high levels of
D. None of these
rainfall.
2427. How are hurricanes different to torna- B. The city will experience high levels of
does? snowfall.
A. Hurricanes start on land, tornadoes C. The city will have long periods of sunny
start over oceans. weather.
B. Hurricane start over warm tropical D. The city will have long periods of very
oceans, tornadoes start over land. cold weather.

2432. What is the result of a maritime polar 2436. moving air from an area of high pres-
air mass? sure to an area of lower pressure; created
by the sun

A. cold, wet air
B. cold, dry air A. weather
C. warm, dry air B. climate
D. warm, cool air C. wind
D. front
2433. What causes wind?
A. air comes from the ground and moves 2437. How do meteorologists make forecasts
a certain direction about the weather?
B. The sun heats Earth’s surface evenly, A. They use a formula that includes
causing different air pressures amount of daylight and average rainfall.
C. The sun heats Earth’s surface un- B. They input current weather data into a
evenly, causing the same temperatures computer model.
D. The sun heats Earth’s surface un- C. They apply what they know about
evenly, causing different air pressures weather and make their best guess.
D. They look at the weather on the same
2434. A space tool for monitoring the weather
date of the previous year.
and climate on earth is called
2438. An air mass gets its temperature and hu-
midity from:
A. the land or water over which it forms.
B. changes in the upper atmosphere.
C. the latitude at which it forms.
D. the air masses that surround it.
2439. a climate that is transitional between

the wet tropics and the subtropical
steppes
A. wet tropical climate
A. Barometer
B. tropical wet and dry climate
B. Anemometer
C. Rain Gauge
D. dry-summer subtropical climate
D. Satellite
E. subarctic climate
2435. how close a place is the equator; usu-
ally, the closer to the equator, the warmer 2440. Rivers, springs, and aquifers are all
it is fresh water components of the hydrologic
A. altitude cycle. As this water progresses through
the cycle, it will eventually into the at-
B. attitude mosphere before and falling back to
C. longitude the earth as precipitation.
D. latitude A. condense; evaporation

B. evaporate; condensing 2446. What type of front is shown in the pic-

C. dissolve; cloud-forming ture?
D. condense; precipitating
2441. A wind vane measure
A. Wind direction
B. air moisture ( humidity)
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C. wind speed
D. wind speed and wind direction
A. cold front
2442. The numbers in this image refer to
B. warm front
C. occluded front
D. stationary front
2447. Factors that influence Climate?

A. Altitude
B. Humidity
A. latitude C. Latitude
B. longitude D. Climate
C. temperature
D. angle of the Sun’s rays hitting Earth 2448. Weather and climate are always chang-
ing. Which of the two takes LONGER to
2443. The weight of the air is called change?
A. altitude A. Weather
B. atmosphere
B. Climate
C. air pressure
D. weather 2449. Which of the following is NOT a natural
cause of climate change?
2444. Sea Breezes
A. move from the sea to the land during
the day
B. move from the sea to the land during
the night
2445. What does the word distribution mean?
A. How many or how few there are.
A. pollution
B. How loud or quiet something is.
B. meteorite collisions
C. How high or low something is.
C. solar spots
D. Where something is and if it is spread
out or grouped together. D. Volcanic eruptions

2450. “When the altitude increases; the tem- C. The wind direction
perature decreases” is an example of D. The temperature
what?

E. The amount of precipitation
A. Influence of ocean currents
B. Influence of proximity to water 2455. What is defined as an area’s long-term
weather patterns?
C. Influence of wind
D. Influence of elevation A. Climate
B. Precipitation
2451. What is the climate near the equator
called? C. Weather
A. Rainforest D. Cold Air

B. Tropical zone 2456. When this weather front moves into an
C. Polar regions area, persistent rain showers or storms
will linger for days.
D. Safety zone
2452. A temperate climate in which tempera-

tures are mild and precipitation is regular
and abundant, between 1, 000 and 1500
mm is
A. cold front
B. stationary front
C. occluded front
D. warm front
A. Oceanic 2457. What is the temperature for the follow-

ing station model?
B. Continental
C. Steppe
D. Mediterranean
2453. Plant life.

A. vegetation
B. typhoon
C. Monsoon
D. hurricane A. 4◦ F
2454. What does a anemometer measure? B. 76◦ F
A. The wind speed C. 80◦ F
B. The air pressure D. 129◦ F

2458. Compared to Washington state, C. relative humidity

Nevada’s annual precipitation average is D. rain
very low. Which of these factors has the
greatest impact on the difference in pre- 2463. Why are the peaks of mountains cooler
cipitation? than the ground surface?
A. The relative sizes of each state
B. The types of industry found in each
state
NARAYAN CHANGDER
C. The location of each state on the conti-
nent
A. The longwave radiation from the sun
D. The relative frequency of volcanic ac- gets reflected off the surface of the earth,
tivity in each state and loses heat energy as it travels to
2459. Tick the factors affecting climate.(Select higher altitudes. This results in lower tem-
3 correct answers). peratures.
A. Longitude B. There are less air molecules thus

lower pressure at higher altitudes. This
B. Altitude means less solar energy is absorbed,
C. Latitude leading to lower temperatures.
D. Mountains C. There is less ground surface at higher
altitudes, thus lesser solar energy ab-
E. Wind
sorbed, giving rise to lower temperatures.
2460. Lines of latitude measure and D. All of the above.
from the equator?
2464. True or False:Areas near the equator
have warmer climates than areas far from
the equator.
A. True
B. False
2465. Where is the cloudy day?
A. east and west A.

B. north and south
2461. Downpour? B.
A. Adjective?
B. Noun?
C.
2462. The amount of water vapor in the air is
known as
A. dew point
D.
B. humidity

2466. Measures wind direction 2471. The instrument used for measuring the
amount of rainfall. *

A. barometer
B. thermometer
C. rain gauge
D. none of above
2472. Meteorologists track cyclones and anti-

A. Thermometer cyclones because they
B. Anemometer A. are dangerous forms of severe
C. Rain Gauge weather
D. Weather Vane B. help predict stormy or clear weather
C. help forcast weather weeks in the fu-
2467. It is usually raining in Seattle. ture
A. Weather D. give more accurate facts than fronts
B. Climate
2473. Wind, the movement of air goes from
2468. A can from when a rapidly spinning A. high pressure to low pressure
column of low pressure air, called a funnel
B. low pressure to high pressure
cloud touches the ground.
A. thunderstorm 2474. What is the climate usually like in Ari-
zona?
B. hurricane
C. tornado
D. none of above
2469. Which of the following does not live in

polar region?
A. Penguin
B. Polar bear A. Cold
C. Camel B. Hot
D. Reindeer C. Cloudy
2470. What are gases in the atmosphere that D. Windy
trap some of the incoming heat from the
2475. Which city has the highest the highest
sun, keeping it close to the earth’s sur-
temperature?
face?
A. Whitehouse gases
B. Greenhouse gases
C. Mobil gases
D. Pilot gases

A. dallas
B. Chicago
C. The Angels
D. Miami
NARAYAN CHANGDER
2476. During the day, clouds can keep an area
cool by
A. reflecting more sunlight back into

space
B. radiating heat back down to Earth’s

surface
2477. Climate is the conditions outside at a

specific time in one place.
A. True
A. Precipitation
B. False B. Wind Speed
C. Humidity
2478. I can change, but it happens slowly over D. Temperature
the years. Who am I?
2480. Choose the correct description of cold cli-
mates.
A. They have low temperatures all year
round and snow is common.
B. They have cold winters and warm sum-
mers. The four seasons of the year are
more noticeable in these areas.
C. These climates are located between
the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of
Capricorn. They are near the equator. It
A. Weather is warm all year round.
D. none of above
B. Climate
2481. The average high temperature for
Austin, Texas, is 80◦ F.
2479. This tool is used to measure A. Weather

B. Climate E. Warm air is denser than cool air so it

tends to sink toward the Earth’s surface.
2482. Look at this weather map symbol. tagsSC.912.P.10.4

What does the symbol stand for?
2486. How can people stay safe during a tor-
nado
A. High Pressure
B. Low Pressure
C. Cold Front
D. Warm Front
A. Tell your mom you love her and freak
2483. Relative humidity can be measured with out
a(n)
B. Get in your car and drive to your
A. anemometer
grandma’s
B. barometer
C. Go outside and look, because it’s North
C. psychrometer
Carolina
D. thermometer
D. go into a basement or sturdy building
2484. Most water vapor in the atmosphere away from windows with food and water
comes from
A. evaporation from soil 2487. The science that deals with the study of
B. transpiration from plants weather.
C. the burning of fossil fuels A. Meteorologist

D. evaporation from oceans B. Meteorology
2485. Which of the following statements C. Scientist
about the movement of Earth’s atmo-
sphere is correct? D. Weather man
A. A column of cool, dense air produces
low pressure at the Earth’s surface. 2488. Possible human solutions for limiting
global warming and climate change are
B. The movement of air within the at-
mospheric convection cells generates the
wind belts. A. being more energy-efficient
C. Cold air is less dense than cool air so it B. using renewable sources of energy
tends to sink toward the Earth’s surface.
C. removing carbon from fossil fuel emis-
D. A column of warm, less dense air pro- sions
duces high pressure at the Earth’s sur-
face. D. all of the above

2489. Does this map show a high or a low 2495. Using the weather map provided, iden-
pressure system over the UK? tify the weather symbols being used.
There IS more than one answer.
A. Warm front
B. Cold front
C. High pressure
NARAYAN CHANGDER
D. Low pressure
A. High pressure
B. Low pressure
2490. what kind of weather can you get from
a weather map?
A. a 5 day weather forecast
B. wind speeds and directions
C. locations of cold fronts
D. barometer pressure 2496. How do tornadoes form
2491. THE UNIT WE USE TO MEASURE TEM- A. form at sea and cause dangerous,
PERATURE IS stormy seas
A. MILLIMETERSmm B. form from thunderstorms. You need
B. DEGREES CELSIUS◦ C warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico
and cool, dry air from Canada.
C. KM/H
D. none of above C. You need unstable air that is relatively
warm and can rise rapidly.
2492. A tool used to measure the amount of
D. none of above
rainfall.
A. anemometer 2497. What is caused by the sinking and rising
B. themometer of cool and warm air?
C. rain gauge A. Temperature
D. none of above
B. Wind
2493. Fall here tends to be dry and cool.
C. Cold Front
A. Weather
D. High Pressure
B. Climate
2494. How much rain falls there (mm per 2498. The Coriolis Effect is caused by
year)?
A. Earth rotating around the sun
A. 118 mm
B. Earth rotating on its axis
B. 1, 872 mm
C. 11, 872 mm C. The tides
D. 118, 000 mm D. Gravity

2499. How many seasons do polar climates 2505. During the summer months, the sun
have? warms an area of tropical ocean water and
a large amount of water evaporates into

A. 1
the air. Which of these weather events
B. 2 will MOST LIKELY will occur?
C. 3 A. blizzard
D. 4 B. hurricane
2500. This climate in Spain has mild tempera- C. tornado
tures all year round.
D. tsunami
A. Mediterranean
2506. Hurricanes form over cold water in
B. Oceanic
oceans near the North Pole.
C. Mountain
A. True
D. Subtropical
B. False
2501. In order for snow to fall, the tempera-
ture must be oF (0 oC) or below. 2507. What type of weather would you ex-
pect from the pressure system pictured?
A. 40
B. 32
C. 10
D. 100
2502. ( Film ) Cloudy with a chance of

A. Meatballs
B. Rain A. clear
C. Snow B. cloudy
D. Storm C. hot
2503. Scientists who study are called D. stormy
A. Cats, catologists 2508. Weather is the condition of the atmo-

B. Weather, meteorologists sphere over a Period of time
C. Bats, batologists A. long
D. none of above B. short
2504. What does the dark blue bead represent 2509. The main human activity that releases
on our water cycle bracelet? greenhouse gases is
A. Oceans A. using bottled water
B. lakes B. burning fossil fuels
C. any type of water C. texting on cellphones
D. rain D. eating meat

2510. Which is NOT the necessary process re- A. weather

quired for sedimentary rock formation? B. latitude
A. melting C. ecosystem
B. compaction D. climate
C. pressure
2515. In which climate zone is most of the USA
D. time located?
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2511. Average temperatures have increased
over several decades
A. Weather
B. Climate
2512. The average weather conditions of a

region- A. Polar
B. Sub-tropical
C. Temperate
D. Tropical
2516. What temperature is this in Fahrenheit?
B. weather
C. climate
D. none of above
2513. How will the Sun’s energy affect the

ocean, rivers, and lakes?
A. The ocean water will increase due to
the runoff of the rivers.
A. 84 degrees
B. The rivers and lakes will increase be-
cause of more precipitation B. 85 degrees
C. Heat from the Sun will cause liquid wa- C. 86 degrees
ter to condense and form water vapor. D. 30 degrees
D. Heat from the Sun will cause liquid wa-
2517. What does this line represent on a
ter to evaporate and form water vapor.
weather map?
2514. In Florida, the average yearly weather
conditions are warm and rainy in the sum-
mer and cool in the winter with less rain.
What is this overall pattern of tempera-
ture and rainfall called? A. cold front

B. warm front 2521. What is weather?

C. stationary front A. Weather is the clouds.

D. none of above B. The average weather in a place for a
2518. What does the picture show? C. How hot it is.
D. The daily condition of the atmosphere.
2522. What is the air circulation system?

A. Supply Ventilation systems
B. fans
C. Air circulation System
D. water
A. climate 2523. is the condition of the atmosphere

and how it behaves over long periods of
B. weather
time.
2519. Following the evaporation stage of the A. Weather
water cycle, the evaporated water B. Climate
C. Temperature
D. Meteorology
2524. What kind of region receives less than

25 centimeters of rain annually?
A. Desert
B. Tropical
C. Continental
D. Polar
2525. This line is the

A. is replaced.
B. forms clouds.
C. precipitates to the ground.
D. is stored in a lake or stream.
2520. Which prevailing wind controls the cli-

mate of the Polar Climate region?
A. Westerlies A. Equator
B. Polar Tradewinds B. Tropic of Cancer
C. Easterlies C. Tropic of Capricorn
D. none of above D. Tropic of Scorpio

2526. When water vapor in the air reaches B. The month with the highest tempera-
percent, it precipitates. ture
A. 10 C. The difference between the hottest
B. 25 and coldest months
D. The difference between the month
C. 75
with the highest and lowest rainfall
D. 100
2532. what are the conditions in a maritime
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2527. What is the energy source for the water polar air mass?
cycle?
A. moist and warm
A. sun
B. moist and cold
B. wind C. dry and cold
C. rain D. none of above
D. oceans
2533. A maritime polar air mass that forms
2528. The instrument used to measure wind over the North Pacific Ocean brings what
speed that often has cups attached to a kind of weather to the Pacific Coast?
pole is called a(n) A. warm and dry
A. barometer B. warm and wet
B. wind vane C. cold and dry
C. windsock D. cold and wet
D. anemometer.
2534. An air mass forms over the Gulf of Mex-
2529. “my water was cold today” ico and moves northeast across Georgia.
What weather conditions are likely to pre-
A. weather vail in Georgia?
B. climate
C. both
D. nether
2530. You and your best friend want to fly a

kite. Before going outside, you check this A. cool and dry
tool to see if the weather is good for kites. B. warm and dry
A. thermometer C. cool and humid
B. barometer D. warm and humid
C. rain gauge
2535. Tropical climate zones are very wet and
D. anemometer humid because
2531. What is meant by the term temperature A. they have may types of plants
range? B. the temperature is very cold
A. The month with the lowest tempera- C. the earth travels in a circle around the
ture sun

D. sunbeams shine directly on them, 2541. What is Climate?

causing more water evaporation and rain- A. The changing of weather throughout
fall

the day
2536. Weather or Climate?There is a chance of B. The weather report for the day
thunderstorms later tonight but the week- C. Condition of the weather over a long
end should be clear. period of time
A. Weather D. None of the above
B. Climate 2542. Usually or average describes-
2537. Define Climate? A. weather
A. Weather averaged over a long period B. climate
of time C. never occurring
B. Weather averaged over a short period D. none of above
of time
2543. ” today is burning hot
2538. Why do scientists need to be careful A. weather
where they place a rain gauge?
B. climate
A. The rain gauge is a delicate instrument
C. nether
with many breakable parts all over it.
D. both
B. A rain gauge cannot be placed in any
area that gets a lot of precipitation. 2544. This is an example of winds.
C. A rain gauge has sharp edges that can
cut scientists’ hands.
D. If the gauge is blocked from rain, it
won’t accurately measure the amount of
rain.
2539. Shows weather conditions over a large

area at a particular time
A. thermometer
B. weather maps
C. warm front
A. Permanent
D. evaporation
B. Periodic
2540. What instrument is used to measure C. Local
wind speed? D. none of above
A. Rain gauge
2545. The measure of how far north or south
B. Thermometer of the equator a place is.
C. Anemometer A. latitude
D. Weather vane B. longitude

C. elevation 2551. Which of the following statements are

D. none of above true?
A. In winter the northern hemisphere is
2546. What instrument is used to measure pre- tilted away from the sun so temperatures
cipitation? are higher
A. An anemometer
B. In winter the northern hemisphere is
B. A weather vane tilted towards the sun so temperatures
C. A pluviometer are lower
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D. A barometer C. In winter the northern hemisphere is
tilted away from the sun so temperatures
E. A thermometer
are lower.
2547. The ocean does not play a role in cli- D. none of above
mate.
A. true 2552. What is the relative humidity outside
if it is cold and dry outside, making lips
B. false crack?
2548. What is a long period of time with little
to no rainfall called?
A. desert
A. 50%
B. oasis
B. 18%
C. drought
C. 72%
D. mirage
D. 100%
2549. Which sentence describes climate?
A. The temperature yesterday was 42 F 2553. What city is experiencing a cold front?
B. The sky was full of clouds before the

storm.
C. Winters in Canada are cold.
D. The wind speed was 15 mph.
2550. In which situation would you use
weather instruments?
A. To predict an upcoming storm A. Atlanta
B. To decide what to eat for lunch B. New York
C. To figure out why your head hurts C. Detroit
D. To predict the future D. Denver

2554. Light that is absorbed by matter trans- B. meter stick

forms into
C. measures air pressure

A. Cooler temperatures
D. big and gray clouds
B. Reflected light
C. A magnetic force 2559. What is this an image of?
D. Thermal Energy
2555. What is the name of this equipment?
A. Weather Satellite
B. Weather Balloon
C. Weather Radar
D. Weather Scope
2560. Lines that connect places with the same

amount of precipitaions are called
A. Isotherms
A. Thermometer B. Isohyets
B. Parheliometer or a Campbell stokes
C. Isobars
recorder
D. Isomills
C. Rain Gauge
D. Wind vane 2561. Rain, hail, sleet or snow and it is mea-
sured in mm
2556. Cold air traveling south from Canada is:
A. Cloud cover
A. continental tropical
B. Visibility
B. continental polar
C. Precipitation
C. maritime tropical
D. maritime polar D. Cloud type
2557. long term 2562. Which climate zone has an average tem-
perature below 64 degrees Fahrenheit in
A. weather only the winter and above 50 degrees Fahren-
B. climate only heit in the summer. It experiences the four
C. weather and climate seasons.
D. none of above A. polar zone
B. temperate zone
2558. barometer
C. tropical zone
A. the pressure caused by the weight of
a column of air pushing down on an area D. none of above

2563. Continental tropical air masses centered 2568. What is in air circulation?
over northern Mexico have little influence A. Heat, convection cells
on weather in the United States because
they B. wind
A. are too high in altitude. C. fire
B. rarely move outside their source re- D. earth
gion.
2569. local weather is mostly determined by
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C. only move toward the equator.
A. Amount of pollution
D. never influence weather.
B. Moon Phases
2564. The greenhouse gas having the greatest C. Air masses
role in human-caused global warming is
D. none of above
2570. Compared to the windward side of a

mountain, the leeward side will be
A. drier and have less plant life
B. drier and have more plant life
A. methane C. more humid and have less plant life
B. carbon dioxide D. more humid and have more plant life
C. CFCs (chlorofluorocarbons) 2571. Which is true about weather predic-

D. ozone tions?
A. Weather predictions are not certain,
2565. The North and South Poles are usually because weather forecasters do not use
cold and dry. scientific data to make their predictions.
A. Weather B. Weather predictions are highly certain,
B. Climate because weather forecasters use scien-
tific data to make their predictions.
2566. What generally happens to the air tem-
perature as we move from the Equator to C. Weather predictions are not certain,
the poles? because weather does not follow any pat-
terns that allow for prediction.
A. It decreases
D. Weather predictions are not certain,
B. It increases
because weather is caused by many fac-
C. It remains constant tors that can change quickly over short pe-
D. None of the above riods of time.
2567. Which of the following fuels Earth’s 2572. Identify the following type of front
weather systems?
A. The moon’s gravitational pull
B. Earth’s tilted axis
C. The Coriolis Effect A. cold
D. The sun B. stationary

C. warm 2578. There is a 50% chance of snow today

D. occuled A. Weather

2573. Southern California is hot and dry for B. Climate
most of the year. This Statement is de-
scribing 2579. When solid water (ice) changes directly
to water vapor without first becoming a
A. Southern Californias Weather liquid.
B. Southern California forecast today A. sublimation
C. Southern Californias climate
B. deposition
D. Southern Californias influence on
C. condensation
global warming
D. evaporation
2574. What causes the global wind patterns?
A. Differences in pressure and tempera- 2580. Humidity is a measure of
ture
B. Differences in humidity
C. Differences in salinity
D. none of above
2575. What comes after evaporation during

the water cycle? How does this occur?
A. Temperature
B. Water Vapor
C. Air pressure
D. Rainfall
2581. Your friend argues that underwater vol-

A. Water evaporates into water vapor canic activity is the main cause of in-
B. Water vapor condenses and forms a creased ocean temperatures over the past
cloud 100 years. Which of the following is the
best way to evaluate your friend’s argu-
C. Water precipitates to the ground ment?
D. Water runs down into the hydrosphere
A. Plan and conduct an investigation to
2576. The will be cool and windy this test your friend’s claim.
weekend. B. Ask your friend questions to identify
A. Weather which supporting evidence they have.
B. Climate C. Build a model to generate data on your
friend’s claim.
2577. HILL STATIONS LIKE SHIMLA, NAINITAL
AND OOTY ARE VERY HOT IN SUMMERS D. Agree with your friend because un-
derwater volcanic activity would generate
A. TRUE thermal energy, which would cause the
B. FALSE temperature of the oceans to rise.

2582. As snow and ice are deposited in arctic 2585. After water vapor rises and cools,
environments, layers build up over time. A. precipitation occurs
Because air is trapped during the forma-
tion of each new layer, scientists can take B. condensation occurs
a cross section of ice and analyze it to de- C. evaporation occurs
termine how the atmosphere has changed
D. runoff occurs
over time. These samples are called ice
cores. An example of ice core data is 2586. Why is it always cooler by the water on
shown below. Which conclusion is best
NARAYAN CHANGDER
a hot summer day?
supported by this data?
A. Water heats up slowly.
B. Thunderstorms cool things off.
C. Precipitation makes it feel cooler.
D. Warm water moves north.
2587. What forms when moisture evaporates

into the air, and then cools?
A. a climate
B. a cloud
A. Carbon no longer leaves the atmo- C. wind
sphere.
D. altitude
B. The total amount of carbon on Earth
has increased over time. 2588. WHAT IS THIS WEATHER INSTRU-
C. The more recently the air was de- MENT?
posited, the more carbon it can store. A. WEATHER VANE
D. The amount of carbon in the atmo- B. THERMOMETER
sphere was stable for a period of time.
C. ANEMOMETER
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D. RAIN GAUGE
2583. The area around the poles is known as
the 2589. Clouds are made up of water droplets
and dust.
A. Torrid Zone
A. True
B. Frigid Zone
B. False
C. Temperate Zone
D. none of above 2590. The curving of air to the right in the
Northern Hemisphere is caused by and
2584. What are the three types of rainfall? is called the Effect.
A. relief, frontal, consistent A. Earth’s rotation Coriolis
B. Rapid, frontal, convectional B. Earth’s revolution Coriolis
C. relief, frontal, convectional C. Earth’s rotation Doppler
D. Relief, frozen, convectional D. Earth’s revolution Doppler

2591. Where the warm and cold air meet and B. continental air masses
stall, clouds and fog form, and it may rain
C. warm air masses
or snow. It could bring many days of

clouds and precipitation. D. maritime air masses
A. Warm Front
2597. What type of front forms when a warm
B. Cold Front air mass moves over a cold air mass?
C. Occluded Front A. cold front
D. Stationary Front B. warm front
2592. Precipitation occurs because C. stationary front
A. the droplets evaporate in the air D. occluded front
B. the droplets are too light for the air to
hold 2598. Which type of front is near Seattle?
C. the droplets are too heavy for the air
to hold
D. none of above
2593. The actual amount of water vapour

present in the air
A. Absolute humidity
B. Relative humidity A. a cold front
C. Humidity B. a warm front
D. none of above
C. an occluded front
2594. A hurricane is brewing! If you wanted D. a stationary front
to measure the wind speed, rainfall, and
air pressure during the storm, what tools 2599. What type of weather is Dallas having
would you need? right now?
A. anemometer, rain gauge, thermome-
ter
B. wind vane, barometer, anemometer
C. thermometer, anemometer, barome-
ter
D. anemometer, rain gauge, barometer
2595. Polar winds are very cold and dry.

A. True
B. False A. stormy
B. clear skies, fair weather
2596. Cold air masses that form at high lati-
tudes are called C. humid and rainy
A. polar air masses D. snow

2600. Diane is doing research about weather. 2605. Which area of the UK receives the least
She reads some articles in science maga- amount of rainfall
zines, watches two videos, and records A. North West
her own thoughts, ideas, and observa-
tions. Which observation statement is B. South West
something she could test? C. SouthEast
A. On cold days, there are fewer clouds. D. none of above
B. Plants react to changing weather in 2606. Which season is shown in the southern
NARAYAN CHANGDER
various ways. hemisphere?
C. People like to play in warmer weather.
D. When it rains, it is windy.
2601. The coldest zone is

A. Frigid Zone
B. Torrid Zone
C. Temperate Zone
D. none of above
A. winter
2602. A cold front moving into an area can B. spring
bring this type of weather
C. summer
A. Warmer Temperatures, Clear Skies
D. fall
B. Colder Temperatures, Clear Skies
2607. The conditions of the air right now out-
C. Warmer Temperatures, Clouds side
D. Colder Temperatures, Clouds, and Pre- A. weather
cipitation B. currents
2603. “Let’s not go out today. It’s going to C. climate
rain heavily.” This is an example of D. precipitation
A. Weather 2608. How do you measure hours of sunshine?
B. Climate A. Rain Gauge
B. Barometer
2604. Warm ocean currents bring moisture
and warmth to the nearby land while cold C. Anemometer
ocean currents cool the nearby land is D. Campbell Stokes recorder
which FACTOR of CLIMATE?
2609. Condensation occurs when
A. ocean currents
A. water vapor heats up.
B. large bodies of water B. water vapor cools.
C. latitude C. there is no water vapor.
D. altitude/ elevation D. none of above

2610. What does a rain gauge do?

A. An instrument that measures atmo-

spheric pressure
amount of rain that falls
C. A device measuring wind speed
A. St. Louis
B. Step
cates temperature
C. Houston
2611. What does the earth’s atmosphere do? D. San Francisco
A. help to regulate the temperature on 2616. What is it called when plants give off
Earth water vapor as a waste product?
B. Burns up all meteorites in the sky
C. Help UV rays to reach the Earth’s sur-
face
D. Keep ocean waters cold
2612. What is a front?

A. A place where air masses meet A. condensation
B. the front part of a storm B. evaporation
C. An area of very high wind C. sublimation
D. an area that has fair weather D. transpiration
2613. The air in the equatorial region has 2617. Last year we had more snow than this
moisture than other regions of the world. year
A. Weather
A. less
B. Climate
B. more
2618. A scientist that studies the atmosphere
C. same
in order to understand and predict the
D. none of above weather.
A. Scientist
2614. The person who predicts, or forecasts,
the weather is called a B. Meteorologists
A. Climatologist C. Climatologist
D. None of the Above
B. weatherologist
C. meteorologist 2619. Weather is
A. the day-to-day conditions in a specific
D. weather forecaster
place
2615. Which city has the highest high temper- B. what the weather is like in a particular
ature? place over a long period of time

2620. Humidity is the amount of in the air. B. any form of water that falls from
A. Salt clouds and reaches Earth’s surface
B. Water vapor C. the process by which water molecules

in liquid water escape into the air as wa-
C. None of the above ter vapor
D. none of above D. warm, moist climate zone near the
2621. When a rapidly moving cold air mass equator
NARAYAN CHANGDER
runs into a slow moving warm air mass, 2626. The temperature is currently 3◦ .
the result is a (an)
A. climate
A. Warm front
B. weather
B. Cold front
C. Stationary front 2627. Choose the correct option. Solid water
D. Occluded front
2622. What is the layer of the atmosphere

closest to the Earth called?
A. Exosphere
B. Mesosphere
C. Stratosphere
D. Troposphere A. Hail-Snow-Iceberg-Glacier
2623. In a high pressure systems B. Hail-Snow-River-Glacier
A. there are few clouds because the air C. Snow-River-Fog-Hail
in moving downward D. Lake-Snow-Hail-River
B. there are many clouds because the air
is very humid 2628. The tendency for objects to move to the
right in the Northern Hemisphere and the
C. there are few clouds because the air to the left in the Southern Hemisphere is
is moving outward due to the:
D. there are many clouds because the air
is moving upward
2624. ELEMENTS OF WEATHER ARE

A. HUMIDITY
B. TEMPERATURE
C. MOUNTAIN
D. SEA
A. Eckman’s spiral
2625. temperate
B. Coriolis effect
A. seasonably variable climate zone be-
tween 40 and 60 degrees latitude, north C. Westerlies
or south of the equator D. Gyres

2629. What does high humidity mean? B. temperature and density

A. It is cold. C. land and sea

B. It is hot. D. equator and poles
C. There is a little evaporated water in
the air. 2635. Usually or average describes
D. There is a lot of evaporated water in A. typical.
the air.
B. weather.
2630. What is Climate?
C. never occurring.
A. Longer Weather conditions for a large
period of Time ( 30 to 35 years ). D. none of above
B. Shorter Weather conditions for a large
period of Time. 2636. Which statement is true?
A. cold air is more dense than warm air
2631. Nevada usually receives very little rain-
so it rises
fall is an example of
A. climate B. warm air is less dense than cold air so
it rises
B. weather
C. cold air is less dense than warm air so
2632. The is how hot or cold something is. it sinks
A. climate D. warm air is more dense than cold air
B. weather so it rises
C. thermometer
2637. Maritime tropical air masses are
D. temperature
A. dry and cold
2633. What type of front is shown?
B. humid and cold
C. humid and warm
D. dry and warm
2638. there is coral and fish sharks and turtles

where am i
A. ocean
A. Cold front
B. Occluded front B. salt water
C. Stationary front C. tundra

D. Warm front D. fresh water
2634. Ocean currents have an affect on which 2639. If a northern coastline such as the Nor-
two things way coast is located near a warm ocean
A. climate and weather current

B. precipitation
C. evaporation
D. storage
2643. The part of the water cycle where wa-

ter vapor rises, cools, and become a liquid
is called
A. Condensation
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B. Precipitation
A. spring is longer than normal for that
latitude. C. Runoff and Collection
B. the climate will be warmer than nor- D. Evaporation
mal for that latitude.
2644. How does the air higher up compare to
C. spring is shorter than normal for that the air near the ground?
latitude.
A. It is colder higher up
D. the climate will be colder than normal
for that latitude. B. It is warmer higher up
C. Air temperatures are the same
2640. Most solar energy that reaches Earth’s
atmosphere is: D. none of above
A. absorbed by Earth’s surface. 2645. What type of weather can form where
B. reflected by Earth’s surface. a hot, dry air mass meets a cold, moist air
mass?
C. scattered by clouds.
A. hurricanes
D. absorbed by cloud, ozone, and gases.
B. tornadoes
2641. A front where cold air moves in under a
warm air mass. C. cyclones
A. warm front D. blizzards
B. cold front 2646. Moving stream of water, warm or cold,

C. occluded front in the oceans; streams of air
D. stationary front A. hurricane
B. current
2642. What stage of the water cycle does
number 3 in the picture show? C. typhoon
D. Monsoon
2647. Areas closer to the receive more di-

rect sun.
A. Prime Meridian
B. Equator
C. Poles
A. condensation D. Tropic of Capricorn

2648. The area around the poles is known as 2653. The is an extremely cold zone where
you find ice and snow year round.

A. Humidity A. Polar Zone
B. Temperate zone B. Continental Zone
C. Frigid zone C. Temperate Zone
2649. What is the amount of cloud cover for 2654. I describe the conditions of the atmo-
the following station model? sphere at a specific place and time. Who
am I?
A. Weather
B. Climate
2655. A tornado warning was issued for

A. 25% Kansas City this morning.
B. 50% A. Climate
C. 75% B. Weather
D. 100%
2656. Rain or snow that falls on the ground?
2650. Kerala, in South India has sloping roofs A. Drought
so the rainwater can fall down, as it has a
B. Flooding
wet climate.
C. Wreak havoc
A. False
D. Precipitation
B. True
2657. What part of the illustration shows
2651. What instrument is used to measure
Evaporation?
wind?
A. thermometer
B. anemometer
C. hydrometer
D. rain gauge
2652. What describes the average weather of

a region over a long period of time?
A. weather A. 1
B. climate B. 2
C. temperature C. 3
D. rainfall D. 4

2658. what does a rain gauge measure?
A. Scarf
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B. Rain boots
C. Jacket
D. Sunglasses
2662. What was the name of the theory given
to how the Earth is broken into pieces that
are slowly moving?
A. rain speed
B. amount of snow
C. humidity
D. amount of rain
2659. The climate shown on the map repre-

sents A. Slow mover theory
B. Flow theory
C. Crackle theory
D. Plate tectonic theory
2663. When a warm air mass moves a cold air
mass very slowly.
A. Warm front
B. Cold front
A. Tropical Continental C. Stationary front
B. Equatorial D. Occluded front
C. Tropical Marine 2664. Warm air is dense than cold air and
D. Polar Zone rises creating convection currents.
A. more
2660. In our classroom, we measure tempera-
ture in- B. less
A. Fahrenheit for the air conditioning and 2665. snowy
weather outside A. Sunny
B. Celsius for science class B. Snowy
2661. Based on the forecast you should wear C. Stormy
D. Sleet

2666. A high-pressure system is approaching A. is a desert

Florida, as shown in the map.How does air
B. has no precipitation
flow in a high-pressure system?

C. is lush and green
D. has warm, sinking air
2670. What do contour lines that are farther

apart represent?
A. from north to south
A. waterfall
B. from south to north
B. steep area
C. in the same direction as Earth’s rota-
tion C. gentle slope
D. in the opposite direction of Earth’s ro- D. river
tation
2671. The blue lines with triangles on it shows
2667. In meteorology, instruments such as the that there is a
rain gauge, anemometer, and sunshine
recorder are not typically placed inside the
Stevenson’s Screen because
A. they would not fit inside the screen
B. the screen is too hot
C. they need direct exposure to the
weather element they measure for accu-
racy A. Wind
D. they need to be indirectly exposed to B. Warm Front
the weather element so they can measure
accurately C. Cold Front
2668. tropical zone D. Temperature

A. A small storm often accompanied by
2672. In the water cycle, how does water
heavy precipitation and frequent thunder
move from Earth’s surface to the atmo-
and lightning, formed from large cumu-
sphere?
lonimbus clouds
B. A violent winter storm characterized A. water runs downhill and into the ocean
by freezing temperatures, strong winds, B. The sun heats water vapor and it con-
and blowing snow denses
C. The area near the equator, between
C. Water falls as precipitation from
about 23.5 degrees north latitude and
clouds
23.5 degrees south latitude.
D. none of above D. The sun heats ocean water and it evap-
orates
2669. the windward side of a mountain usu-
ally 2673. What is a meteorologist?

C. Sleet
D. Hail
E. All of them
2678. the most common

A. cycle
B. observe
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A. Weather forecaster C. almost
B. Teacher D. usual
C. Scientist
2679. What are the season(s) in the Tropical
D. Doctor Zone?
2674. What is step 3 on the picture of the wa- A. wet and dry
ter cycle?
B. winter, spring, summer and fall
C. wet
D. dry
2680. What are the 2 main factors that deter-

mine climate?
A. Runoff and Collection

B. Condensation
C. Evaporation
D. Precipitation
2675. Air is at higher altitudes. A. Precipitation and Humidity

A. thicker B. Temperature and Air Pressure
B. thinner
C. Precipitation and Air Pressure
2676. Wind tends to deflect to the of its D. Temperature and Precipitation
path in Northern Hemisphere.
A. Left 2681. Which one of the following is a migra-
tory bird?
B. Right
A. Penguin
2677. Which of the following are forms of pre-
cipitation? B. Siberian Crane
A. Rain C. Parrot
B. Snow D. Both (a) and (b)

2682. Choose the correct option A. warm front

B. cold front

C. stationary front
D. occluded front
2686. If you live near the coast, you need to

move further inland if there is a tornado.
A. True
A. nimbostratus cloud
B. False
B. cumulonimbus cloud
C. cirrocumulus cloud 2687. As air cools down, its ability to hold wa-
D. altostratus cloud ter does which of these?
2683. covers an area like a country or a A. increases

state, while covers a specific location. B. decreases
A. Climate, current C. stays the same
B. Weather, climate
D. air can’t hold water
C. Climate, weather
D. Current, weather 2688. What is transpiration?
2684. Which of these helps meteorologists A. the process in which plants release
make weather forecasts? water through their leaves back into the
air
B. the process in which humans release
sweat through their skin back into the air
C. what happens when water vapor turns
into a liquid
D. the scientific name for the water cycle
A. working with other meteorologists
B. weather station data 2689. Cool air molecules move
C. information from satellites A. quickly
D. all of the above B. slowly
2685. What weather front is symbolized
2690. The hottest region of the world are lo-
here?
cated near the
A. Equator
B. Tropic of Cancer
C. Arctic Circle
D. none of above


A. Any form of water that falls from the
sky to the ground.
B. A measure of the transparency of the
atmosphere.
C. The condition of Earth’s atmosphere at
a certain time and place. A. Climate
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D. The amount of water vapor in the air. B. Weather
2692. Does this statement describe weather 2697. What are the four main types of precip-
or climate? Atlanta, Georgia is expecting itation?
a high of 72 degrees today.
A. sun, fog, wind, lightning
A. weather
B. climate B. rain, snow, sleet, and hail
C. clouds, mist, dew, tornado

2693. how high the land is above sea level;
usually the higher the elevation, the cooler D. hurricane, tsunami, earthquake, vol-
it is cano eruption
A. latitude
2698. The order of the layers of the atmo-
B. attitude
sphere from space to the earth’s surface.
C. altitude
A. stratosphere, troposphere, meso-
D. sea level sphere, thermosphere
2694. How can we help reduce the effects of B. troposphere, thermosphere, stratoto-
climate change? sphere, mesosphere
A. Stop planting trees C. troposphere, stratosphere, meso-
B. Walk more sphere, thermosphere
C. Recycle and re-use D. troposphere, stratosphere, thermo-

sphere, mesosphere
D. Eat less meat
2695. Which of the following is NOT a charac- 2699. Ice in Antartica is , or common.
teristic of the eye of a hurricane?
A. data
A. has the storms strongest winds
B. unusual
B. is at the storm’s center
C. typical
C. has no precipitation
D. is warm because of descending air D. weather
2696. Look at the picture:This is a map. 2700. This tool is

B. High Air Pressure

C. Cold Front

D. High Temperatures
2704. This the study and description of the
shape of the land and surface features.
A. Biology
B. Topography
C. Geology
D. Oceanography
A. used to measure air temperature. 2705. The temperature at which air is satu-
rated and condensation forms, when the
rate of condensation is equal to the rate
C. used to collect and measure precipita- of evaporation
tion. A. Air mass
D. used to measure wind direction. B. Air pressure
E. used to measure the atmospheric pres- C. Dew point
sure.
D. Fog
2701. Which term refers to the study of the E. Jet Stream
atmosphere?
2706. The weather forecast map predicts rain
A. astrology
and thunderstorms for central Florida.
B. Climatology Rain misses the area. The map is shown
C. ecology below. Which is the most likely cause for
the incorrect forecast?
D. Meteorology
2702. When a cold air mass forces a warm air

mass up quickly,
A. A warm front forms.
B. The temperature rises.
C. A short period of heavy rain follows.
D. A high results. A. Ocean evaporation, which affects tem-
perature and humidity, was not consid-
2703. Choose the correct option ered.
B. Many conditions in the atmosphere
can interact in unexpected ways.
C. Computer models failed to calculate
the interactions in the atmosphere.
D. Too few weather stations were used
to measure atmospheric and oceanic con-
A. Warm Front ditions. tagsSC.912.E.7.5

2707. These climates are found closer to the A. cirrus cloud

Equator.They have high temperatures all B. cumulus cloud
year round.There isn’t much precipitation.
C. stratus cloud
D. cumulonimbus cloud
B. Oceanic climates
C. Continental Mediterranean climates 2713. The average daytime temperature in
D. Mediterranean climates Sydney, Australia is 23◦ C
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E. Subtropical climates
2708. Weather over a long period of time, or
weather pattern, is referred to as an ar-
eas:
A. culture
B. business
C. weather A. Weather
D. climate B. Climate
2709. Describe a temperate climate. 2714. It lies between the Torrid Zone and
A. dry and cold year round Frigid Zone
B. warm year round, high humidity and A. Arctic Circle
rainfall B. Temperate Zone
C. variety of climate patterns, seasons,
C. Antarctic Circle
moderate precipitation
D. none of above
D. none of above
2710. Today is much colder than usual! 2715. Blizzards, Heatwaves, High winds are
all examples of events.
A. Weather
A. Climate
B. Climate
B. Weather
2711. What do organisms release in the car-
bon/oxygen cycle? 2716. What are large clouds that often pro-
A. carbon dioxide duce thunderstorms?
B. oxygen A. cumulonimbus
2712. This type of cloud is thin and flat, and B. cirrus

the edges are not clearly defined C. cumulous
D. stratus
2717. There is a hurricane-Nicole-affecting

Florida.
A. Weather
B. Climate

2718. In New York State there is a greater

chance of precipitation falling as snow in
January than in March, because in January

the Northern Hemisphere is tilted:
A. Are gases that come from industry

B. Refers to heat that is trapped in the
Earth‘s atmosphere
C. Is a layer of gases around the Earth
A. toward the Sun, and temperatures are D. none of above
warmer
2723. Subtropical climate:
B. toward the Sun, and temperatures are A. In the Canary Islands
colder
B. There is very little rainfall all year and
C. away from the Sun, and temperatures very little vegetation.
are warmer
C. Temperatures vary a lot throughout
D. away from the Sun, and temperatures the year.
are colder
D. none of above
2719. which of these is a cloud that forms near 2724. What is weather?
the ground
A. frost
B. dew
C. fog
D. none of above
2720. Trying to predict the weather is known A. When it is freezing cold all year round.
as weather ?
B. The conditions of the atmosphere
A. Forecast (air/sky) over a short period of time.
B. Podcast C. The speed in which the wind travels.
D. The atmosphere (air/sky) over long pe-
2721. What is the name of the climate zones
riods of time.
at the north and south of the map?
A. Tropical 2725. Choose the correct option
B. Polar
C. Temperate
D. none of above
2722. The greenhouse effect

A. Rain gauge 2730. The greenhouse effect works by trap-

ping:
B. Mercury barometer
A. incoming infrared radiation from the
C. Aneroid barometer
Sun.
D. Thermometer B. incoming ultraviolet radiation from the
Sun.
2726. Most of the United States is in “this”
climate zone: C. outgoing infrared radiation from the
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Earth.
D. outgoing ultraviolet radiation from the
Earth.
E. the heat from the Sun in Earth’s atmo-
sphere. tagsSC.912.E.7.7
2731. Which of the following best describes cli-

mate?
A. tropical A. day to day conditions of the atmo-

B. temperate ness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc.
C. polar B. long-term conditions (months/years)
D. sub-tropical of the atmosphere at a place in regards to
heat, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc.
2727. A person who studies changes in climate 2732. How tightly pressed together the
is a molecules are.
A. meteorologist A. meteorologist
B. climatologist B. density
2728. Which movement of ocean water has C. weather

the greatest direct effect on the growth D. cloud
of producers?
2733. The higher the altitude of a city, the
A. upwelling the temperatures are.
B. deep current
C. surface current
D. convection current
2729. Which of these things are NOT related

to weather and climate?
A. Temperature A. hotter
B. volcanic eruptions B. colder
C. Air Pressure C. more consistent
D. Precipitation D. weirder

2734. The box is raised on stilts so that

A. it is easier to see from far

B. it is easier to read the instruments and
there is no effect from the ground
C. it is easier to change the instruments
inside
D. none of above
2735. Which of these are different weather

conditions?
A. Hot, Windy, Sunny, Cloudy
D. none of above
2736. The force with which air molecules push

on a surface is
A. Visibility A. Satellite
B. Temperature B. Rain Gauge
C. Humidity C. Weather Vane
D. Air Pressure D. Barometer
2739. Which form of precipitation begins as a

2737. Any type of water that falls from the at-
frozen crystal, melts as it falls, then re-
mosphere and reaches the earth is known
freezes before it hits the ground?
as
A. rain
A. tropical storms
B. hail
B. precipitation
C. snow
C. rain
D. sleet
D. atmospheric deposits
2740. Zoe is a meteorologist. She is using a
2738. A tool used for collecting and measuring barometer. What feature of weather is
rainfall totals is called Zoe studying with a barometer?

C. Humidity
D. Temperature
2744. Studying trees to research climate clues:
A. Dendrology
B. Dendroclimatology
C. Paleodendrology
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D. Ancient climatology
A. Humidity 2745. We can expect rain on Tuesday.
B. Wind Speed
C. Temperature
D. Air Pressure
2741. What is the big difference between cli-

mate and weather?
A. Weather
B. Climate
2746. Climate is patterns of weather in a place
over a longer period, usually about
years.
A. Weather can only happen on certain A. 20
occasions and climate can happen any- B. 50
time anywhere
C. 10
B. Weather is how if feels outside for one
D. 30
day and climate is how it feels for periods
of time 2747. What is climate?
C. There is no difference between them A. The average conditions in a place over
D. Weather is real and climate is fake a longer period of time.
B. The average conditions in a place over
2742. These areas is located between 66.5◦ N a short period of time.
and the North Pole and 66.5◦ S and the
South Pole. It has low temperatures and C. The daily environmental conditions we
very little precipitation. experience around us
D. The temperature in a place over a
A. Polar Climate Zones
seven day period.
B. Temperate Climate Zones
2748. Which climate zone experiences cold
C. Tropical Climate Zones
winters and warm summers?
D. The Arctic Climate Zones
A. Polar
2743. We use a wind vane to know B. Temperate
A. Wind speed C. Tropical
B. Wind direction D. none of above

2749. the unit in which atmospheric pressure 2753. A team of meteorologists are recording
is measured? daily temperatures in their city and com-
paring the measurements with data col-

A. centimeter
lected over several decades. What type
B. millimeter of information are they investigating?
C. intermediate bar A. Weather, because they are measuring
temperature
D. none
B. Climate, because they are comparing
2750. Climate is the weather found data over time
A. In a certain place over a long period of C. Weather, because the measurements
time. can change daily
B. In the entire world over five years. D. Climate, because the data is collected
for only one city
C. On the outside.
D. In a certain place over 12 hours
2751. Coriolis Effect-Winds veer toward

or due to speed of earth’s rotation
A. West, East
B. North, South
C. Warm, Cold A. Rain Gauge
D. Canada, Mexico B. Barometer
C. Weather Vane
D. Thermometer
E. Anemometer
2755. why does the equator experience about
the same temperatures year around?
A. it tilts toward the sun and gets much
more direct solar energy
B. it has no prevailing winds
A. The average weather conditions for a C. it has no mountains to affect it’s cli-
region year after year (Long-Term) mate
B. The current outdoor weather condi- D. the sun’s rays strike the equator at
tions (Short-Term) about the same angle all year

2756. Cold fronts bring temperatures and 2760. What is one role of the ocean in convec-
conditions. tion?
A. to provide a home for animals
B. to absorb & release heat
C. To surf on
D. To drink from
2761. Warm air rising and cool air falling pro-
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A. warm; clear duce a
B. cool; clear A. Direct Current
C. warm; stormy B. Convection Current
D. cool; stormy C. Alternating Current
2757. a. Only regions in the north / south of D. Indirect Current
Spain have got an oceanic climate.
2762. A student reads the following descrip-
A. north tion of San Francisco:“It has cool summers,
B. south warm winters, and not much rain.” What
information does this description best pro-
2758. How does the average annual surface vide?
temperature compare from latitude to lat-
itude? A. The weather on a specific day
A. As latitude increases, the average an- B. A forecast of what the weather will be
nual surface temperature decreases. tomorrow
B. As latitude increases, the average an- C. The general climate of San Francisco
nual surface temperature increases. during the year
C. As latitude increases, the average an- D. A description of how San Francisco’s
nual surface temperature remains the climate has changed over 30 years
same. 2763. John lives in Northern India. Which one
D. Well, it’s not this one. of the heat zones does he live in?
2759. Which is continent B? A. Torrid Zone
B. Temperate Zone
C. Frigid Zone
D. none of above
2764. What is the difference between

A. North America A. Weather describes the conditions in
B. South America the air outside at a certain place. Climate
is the general weather in an area over a
C. Australasia long period of time.
D. Africa B. Weather is the general pattern of
E. Asia weather in an area over a long period of

time. Climate describes the conditions in C. A period of extremely cold tempera-

the air outside at a certain time and place. tures when part of the planet’s surface

C. Weather describes changes with the
seasons. Climate is the conditions in the D. none of above
air outside at a certain time and place.
D. Climate describes the seasons of a cer- 2769. Low atmospheric pressure is associated
tain place. Weather is the pattern of con- with weather.
ditions in an area over a long period of A. Calm
time.
B. Stormy
2765. If you see an “L” on the weather map,
what type of weather can you expect 2770. Which tool do we use to measure the
there? speed of the wind?
A. lousy A. Pluviometer
B. light pressure B. Thermometer
C. low pressure C. Anemometer
D. lightning D. Barometer
2766. What type of vegetation is this?
2771. Hot air weighs less than cold air
A. True
B. False
2772. A is used to measure temperature.

A. barometer
A. tundra B. anemometer
B. forest C. psychrometer
C. desert D. thermometer
D. grassland
2773. Weather is
2767. The movement of air.
A. What is expected to happen
A. Wind
B. What is happening now
B. Temperature
C. Rain 2774. A huge body of air that has similar tem-
perature and humidity at any given height
D. A fan
is called an
2768. Ice Age A. front
A. intense tropical storm with winds ex- B. jet stream
ceeding 119 km/h
C. air mass
B. Lines joining places that have the same
temperature D. cyclone

2775. Condensation happens when 2780. What does a thermometer measure?

changes to because it has been cooled.
A. The wind speed
B. The air pressure
D. The temperature
E. The amount of precipitation
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A. liquid, gas 2781. What do flat roofs in cold places do not
B. gas, liquid tell?
C. liquid, solid A. That they have a super cold climate
D. gas, solid B. That there is lot of humidity and hot cli-
2776. What are the Seasons of India? Tick all mate
the correct options.Then click submit. C. They make flat roofs to let sunlight in
A. Winter Season D. none of above
B. Foggy Season
2782. Humidity is the
C. Summer Season
D. Cloudy Season A. Amount of Water Vapor in the Air
B. Amount of Wind in the Air
2777. What is the percentage of Earth’s atmo-
sphere (by volume) that is carbon dioxide C. Amount of Precipitation in the Air
(CO2)? D. Amount of Pressure in the Air
A. 3
B. 21
the tilt of the earth during the spring and
C. 0.9 fall equinoxes?
D. 78
E. 0.04 tagsSC.912.E.7.7
2778. The climate of Hawaii is cooler dur-
ing the summer than the climate of other
places in the same latitudes. This is MOST
LIKELY a direct result of
A. climate change
A. The earth is tilted away from the sun
B. plate tectonics
(Northern hemisphere)
C. ocean temperatures
B. The earth is tilted neither toward or
D. the Coriolis Effect away from the sun (tilt is side to side)
2779. The distance from the equator affects C. The earth is tilted toward the sun
the climate zone (Northern hemisphere)
A. True D. The earth is not tilted during spring
B. False and fall

2784. Climate also one of the factor which af- 2789. Which is true about clouds?
fects the atmospheric pressure. A. Precipitation causes clouds.

A. True B. Condensation causes clouds.
B. False C. Clouds are made of cotton.
2785. Carbon can be found in D. none of above
A. The atmosphere 2790. How does a jet stream change from sum-
B. Soil mer to winter in the United States?
C. Fossil fuels A. It travels slower and rises in elevation

B. It travels slower and dips down farther
D. All of the above
south
2786. Which best describes El Niño? C. It travels faster and dips down farther
A. The water in the Pacific Ocean gets south
warmer than normal and causes fewer D. It travels faster and moves farther
hurricanes to form. north
B. The water in the Pacific Ocean gets 2791. What are the two main factors that de-
colder than normal and causes more hur- termine the climate of an area?
ricanes to form.
C. The water in the Pacific Ocean gets
colder than normal, and the flow of the jet B. wind conditions and humidity
stream is disrupted. C. temperature and air pressure
D. The water in the Pacific Ocean gets D. temperature and precipitation
warmer than normal, and the flow of the
2792. What would you expect from a Mar-
jet stream is disrupted.
itime Tropical air mass?
2787. Is this the Tropical rainforest?
A. True A. dry, warm air

B. False B. moist, cold air
2788. Water vapor in the air. C. moist, warm air
A. humidity D. none of above
B. climate 2793. An ARID climate region is very
C. temperature A. dry
D. weather B. wet

2794. Climate does not have patterns, only C. Thermometer

weather does. D. Barometer
A. True
2799. What is Climate?
B. False
A. weather conditions that change
2795. Weather is B. weather conditions that prevail a small
A. The short term state of the atmo- area
sphere C. weather conditions that do not prevail
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B. The long term state of the atmosphere over a long period of time
C. The same as the climate D. Weather conditions that prevail over a

vast area and for a long period of time is
D. none of above called climate
2796. What are some predictions about local 2800. Which of the following lists all the zones
changes brought on by global warming? in the correct order, starting at the North
Pole and ending at the South Pole?
A. polar, temperate, tropic, polar
B. polar, temperate, tropic, temperate,
polar
C. polar, tropic, temperate, polar
D. polar, tropical, temperate, tropical, po-
A. More severe thunderstorms lar
B. Days warming faster than nights 2801. Why does a hurricane weaken over
C. Rising sea levels land?
D. All of the above A. the lack of warm, moist air
B. rising hot air
2797. Hurricanes form near areas close to the
equator. Why? C. sinking cold are
A. Solar heating is greatest near the D. uneven heating of land and water
equator. 2802. What weather element shows the pic-
B. The Moon’s plane of orbit is close to ture?
the equator.
C. Earth’s volcanic activity is clustered
around the equator.
D. the rate of rotation of Earth’s surface
is less at the equator.
2798. What weather instrument should you

use if you want to measure the temper- A. Air temperature
ature? B. Precipitation
A. Wind Vane C. Wind
B. Anemometer D. none of above

2803. dew drops that gets frozen due to fall 2809. When you explain the , you tell
in temperature about the daily conditionsoutside. It may
be hot, rainy, or cold

A. dew
B. frost A. weather
C. freeze B. climate
D. solidification 2810. A is moving in, so this must be a

front.
2804. True/False:As temperature increases,
air is able to hold more water.
A. True
B. False

or climate? “Last summer was drier than
average”
A. thunderstorm, warm
A. Weather
B. bank of high wispy clouds, warm
B. Climate
C. tornado, occluded
2806. Hurricanes form in tropical waters be-
D. thunderstorm, cold
tween 8 and 20 degrees north and south
of the equator. Hurricanes rarely form at 2811. What is an anemometre?
high latitudes because the water is too
A. Something that measures wind speed
A. cold
B. Something that measures tempera-
B. shallow
ture
C. deep
C. Something that measures the rainfall
D. warm
D. Something that measures anemones
2807. Which tool measures the amount of rain
2812. In Tornado Alley, warm moist air from
that has fallen?
the Rocky Mountains meets cool dry air
A. Water Gauge from the Gulf of Mexico head on.
B. hygrometer A. true
C. Rain Gauge B. false
D. Hydrometer
2813. If you want to know how much it rained
2808. This is when the rotation of the Earth last night, you would use a to measure
deflects the direction of the wind. the amount of rainfall.
A. convergent effect A. rain guage
B. marginal effect B. wind vane
C. Coriolis effect C. thermometer
D. Coriolis effect D. anemometer

2814. Grasslands have a rainy and dry sea- A. cold

son. B. light
A. Weather C. heavy
B. Climate D. hot
2815. Weather is measured over an average 2819. Air takes on the of the surface
of 30 years around it.
A. True
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A. Size
B. False B. Density
2816. What layer of the atmosphere is the sec- C. Mass
ond nearest to the surface of the Earth? D. Temperature
(12-60 km)
2820. Rising, warm ocean water that forms
in the Gulf of Mexico travels past Florida
and moves north along the East Coast of
the United States. How might this warm
Gulf Stream affectweather in Charleston,
South Carolina?
A. It would bring warmer temperatures
to Charleston.
A. Troposphere
B. It would bring cooler temperatures to
B. Stratosphere
Charleston.
C. Mesosphere
C. It would cool Charleston only at night.
D. Thermosphere
D. It would cool Charleston only during
E. Exosphere the day.
2817. A weather prediction is a 2821. Surface currents can affect climate and
A. fortune weather. Which phrase describes surface
currents?
B. guess
A. daily changes in the level of ocean wa-
C. weather forecast
ter
D. opinion
B. water that empties from rivers into the
2818. Precipitation happens when clouds of ocean
water droplets are too C. stream-like movements of water near
the surface of the ocean
D. slow mixing of warm and cold water
near the surface of the ocean
2822. During which season the northern hemi-

sphere of Earth tilted toward the sun and
gets the most direct sunlight?
A. Summer

B. Winter 2829. evaporation

C. fall A. the process by which water molecules

D. Spring in liquid water escape into the air as wa-
ter vapor
2823. Cities closer to water most likely will be
B. warmer air; light and steady precipita-
A. more dry tion; move southwest to northeast
B. hotter C. any form of water that falls from
C. more humid clouds and reaches Earth’s surface
D. none of above D. vaporization
2824. Does this statement describe weather 2830. What is this weather instrument?
or climate? “It’s hurricane season”
A. Weather
B. Climate
2825. Does January or March have the lowest
average temperature?
A. wind vane
A. January B. rain gauge
B. March C. thermometer
C. They are the same D. barometer
D. none of above
2831. The condition of the air and sky at a cer-
2826. A typical day in Brazil would be humid tain time is
and hot.
A. weather
A. Weather
B. climate
B. Climate
C. precipitation
2827. Through research and data, scientists
D. temperature
have found that Earth’s temperature has
been 2832. Organizations that defend the natural
A. increasing environment (there are more than one an-
B. decreasing swer):
A. Greenpeace
2828. The average pattern of weather for a
particular region B. I’LL TAKE
A. Climate C. HIM
B. Weather D. Save the Children

2833. Which city is close to a warm front? 2838. What is humidity?

A. The amount of water vapor in the air
B. The current outdoor conditions
C. The amount of water in the air
D. RAIN
E. fog
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. Chicago 2839. THE HEAT ZONE OF THE EARTH WHICH
RECEIVES MAXIMUM INSOLATION.
B. New York
A. TEMPERATE
C. Boise
B. TORRID
D. Denver
C. FRIGID
2834. The Arctic is very cold and dry. D. ALL THE HEAT ZONES
A. Climate 2840. is the heat which we receive on the
B. Weather earth’s surface.
A. solar light
2835. The winds blowing from land to sea are
known as B. solar radiation
C. Solar eclipse
A. land breeze
D. NONE
B. sea breeze
C. cold breeze 2841. Climate changes suddenly.

B. False
2836. Which one of these temperatures is
most likely to have snow? 2842. what kind of weather does a stationary
front bring?
A. sunny and-5 C
A. drizzly rian followed by clear weather
B. windy and 2 C
B. severe storms
C. Cloudy and-2 C
C. many days of cloudy, wet weather
D. partly cloudy and 5 C
D. barometric pressure
2837. Climate Systems are made of the follow- 2843. Choose the best forecast for Dallas on
ing:(check all that apply) Saturday.
A. Atmosphere
B. Oceans
C. Land
D. Ice
E. Biosphere

A. thunderstorms 2849. What is elevation?

B. snow A. the depth of the ocean

C. warmer temperatures B. the height of the atmosphere
D. clear skies C. the depth of a lake
D. the height above sea level
2844. Regions closest to tend to have
warmer year-round climates. 2850. What is climate?
A. Forest Fires
B. South Pole
C. North Pole
D. the Equator
2845. All of the following are factors that af-

fect climate except one, which is it? A. What’s happening in space at a time
A. Distance from the sea and place.
B. Altitude B. What’s happening in our atmosphere

at a time and place
C. Latitude
C. The average weather over many years
D. Longitude
D. The average temperature over many
2846. Which of the following is not solid pre- years.
cipitation?
2851. As the polar ice melts, the sea levels
A. hail fall.
B. snow A. True
C. sleet B. False
D. rain 2852. What on earth absorbs solar radiation
and releases the heat to drive the move-
2847. the scientists who study weather are
ment of the atmosphere?
called
A. oceans
A. meteorologists
B. mountains
B. climatologists
C. icebergs
C. psychologists
D. none of above
D. none of above
2853. Climate is affected by many factors in-
2848. The condition of Earth’s atmosphere at cluding:
a certain time and place.
A. latitude, elevation, bodies of water,
A. weather wind
B. climate B. tides and currents
C. water cycle C. air pressure
D. relative humidity D. snow and sleet

2854. Antarctica is cold all the time. What is A. are usually farthest from the Sun
its climate? B. absorb the greatest amount of insola-
tion
C. receive the most hours of daylight
D. receive low-angle insolation
2859. A hurricane forms over warm ocean wa-

ters, has very strong winds, and an “eye”
NARAYAN CHANGDER
at the center.
A. Tropical A. True
B. Polar B. False
C. Arid/Dry 2860. What is a large body of air that has the
D. Temperate same characteristics such as temperature
& humidity?
2855. Which of the following explains how
water undergoes a change of state in one A. hurricane
stage of the water cycle in order to move B. tornado
from the ocean’s surface into the air? C. weather front
A. Liquid water that is heated by the sun D. air mass
becomes a gas and rises
2861. What do you think is a temperate cli-
B. Gaseous water rises as it is cooled by
mate?
the ocean.
C. Liquid water that is heated by the sun
condenses into rain.
D. Gaseous water collects in drops of fog
above the ocean’s surface.
2856. The conditions of the air such as temper-

ature, cloud cover, wind speed and rain-
fall. A. A mild climate with mild to hot sum-
mers and light to low rainfall.
A. climate
B. Hot and wet all year round with a hu-
B. weather mid climate.
2857. Which instrument measures air pres- C. Very warm to hot with humid summers
sure? and mild to cool winters.
A. thermometer D. Hot and dry summers and winters.
B. anemometer 2862. Depends on Latitude
C. hygrometer A. Weather
D. barometer B. Climate
2858. Very cold climates occur at Earth’s North C. none of the above
and South Poles because the polar regions D. none of above

2863. What kind of climate would you expect 2867. What would this climate most likely be?
in the South Florida Everglades?

A. tropical wet and dry
B. humid continental warm A. Temperate
C. cloudy with a chance of alligators B. Tropical
D. marine west coast
C. Desert
2864. It is overcast and dark today in Boston.
D. Mediterranean
2868. It was sunny all weekend.
A. climate
B. weather
A. Weather 2869. When Oskar visited Peru, he expected

B. Climate it to be very tropical because it is very
close to the equator. Peru is a very rocky,
2865. September, October, and November are mountainous country. He was surprised
the months in this season. to find areas of cooler temperatures and
A. Winter snow. Where was Oskar when he found
B. Spring these conditions?
C. Summer A. Near an iceberg
D. Autumn
B. On a mountain
2866. Global winds curve because of the
Earth’s rotation. This is called C. Near a cool ocean
D. Bottom of a hill
2870. A studies the weather and collects

data to make predictions.
A. Biologist
A. Local Winds.
B. News Reporter
B. Jet Stream.
C. Coriolis Effect. C. Meteorologist
D. Convection D. Doctor

2871. What is the weather like on the west A. cumulus

side of the mountain? (Remember, Never B. cirrus
Eat Soggy Waffles).
C. stratus
D. cumulonimbus
2875. The ozone layer

A. protects us from global warming
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. blocks UV rays
A. Cool winters and warm summers.
C. creates human-made chemicals like
B. Warm winters and hot summers. CFCs
C. Warm winters and cool summers. D. is the layer between the crust and the
D. Cold winters and cold summers. mantle
2872. What is the condition of Earth’s atmo- 2876. What does an anemometer measure?
sphere at a certain time and place called? A. Wind speed
A. Wind B. Wind direction
B. Weather C. Wind strength
C. Humidity D. Wind temperature
D. Dew Point
2877. Places with higher latitude numbers are
2873. winds that occur at mid-latitudes; these
carry warm air from SW to NE A. warmer
A. hurricanes B. colder
B. greenhouse gas
2878. LARGE TROPICAL STORMS WITH
C. westerlies STRONG WINDS THAT DEVELOP OVER
D. easterlies THE OCEANS.
A. THUNDERSTORMS
2874. Which cloud is this?
B. FLOOD
C. TORNADOES
D. HURRICANES
2879. The lowest recorded temperature for

Austin, TX is-20 F.
A. Weather
B. Climate
2880. This forms when the warm air rises

through colder air forming a rotating fun-
nel of air.
A. Hurricane

B. Tornado C. Rain
C. Snow storm D. Lava

D. freezing rain
2886. What term is the measure of dissolved
2881. Which climate has warm and cold salts in water?
temperatures, no extremes, and rainfall
throughout the year? Many plants and an- A. Thermocline
imals live in this climate. B. Salinity
A. polar
C. Saltiness
B. tropical
D. Tides
C. temperate
D. desert 2887. what tool measures air pressure?
2882. Which is a factor that affects the rate A. thermometer (heat and temperature)
at which thermal energy is absorbed on B. psychrometer
Earth?
C. anemometer
A. Latitude
B. Equator D. barometer
C. Condensation 2888. When a water is changed to a gas be-

D. none of above cause it was heated by the sun is called
2883. Air moves around a high pressure sys-

tem in a direction.
A. clockwise
B. counter clockwise
2884. What heats faster, land or water?

A. Land
A. condensation
B. Water
B. transpiration
2885. Which is not a form of precipitation?
C. precipitation
D. evaporation
2889. In the winter, Continental polar air

masses bring what type of air to North
America?
A. dry and warm
B. humid and cold
A. Hail C. dry and cold

B. Snow D. humid and warm

2890. What type of clothes will you wear in Rain is frequent and it often snows in the
rainy weather? higher areas.
C. It’s found on the southern and eastern
A. coasts of Spain. It is hot in summer and
ten.
B. D. It’s the largest climate in Spain. Sum-
NARAYAN CHANGDER
C. mild all year round and it does not rain fre-
quently.
D. none of above 2895. What is evaporation?

A. rain or snow fall
2891. Many factors are used to determine the
climate of an area. Which of the following B. water changes to water vapor
are the two main factors that determine C. water vapor cools and forms drops
climate?
D. the amount of water in a lake
2896. Movement of ocean water at or near the
ocean’s surface
A. Latitude
D. temperature and precipitation B. Weather
2892. High pressure means C. Surface Current
A. cool, wet air. D. Climate
B. hot, dry air. 2897. A design or sequence that is repeated.
C. lots of dark clouds. A. Prediction
D. none of above B. Range
2893. To melt is (cause to) become liquid by C. Pattern
heat? D. Extent
A. True
2898. A Low pressure system has moved into
B. False Texas. What type of weather is to be an-
ticipated?
subtropical climate.

A. Dry B. False
B. col 2904. Types of Ocean Circulation

C. Wet A. Wind stress
D. Snow B. Sea surface
2899. The difference between weather and cli- C. Wind-driven circulation, Water density
mate is: circulation
A. weather is based on temperature and D. Momentum
precipitations and climate conditions in-
cluding air masses. 2905. The ozone layer protects living things on
Earth from
B. weather is used to predict climate with
100% accuracy A. visible light.
C. weather is a long term effect and cli- B. infrared rays.
mate changes from day to day C. ultraviolet radiation.
D. weather is the daily conditions of the D. carbon dioxide.
atmosphere and climate is the average of
those conditions 2906. What is weather?
2900. It is 45 degrees in the mountains.

A. Climate
B. Weather
2901. At the beach on a hot day, you notice

dark clouds moving in from over the ocean.
What most likely caused this to happen?
A. precipitation and evaporation
B. transpiration and evaporation
A. The change in the atmosphere that oc-
C. water is wet curs on a daily basis
D. evaporation and condensation B. An area’s long-term weather pattern
2902. What is the first layer of the atmo- C. The types of organisms that live in an
sphere area
A. Troposphere D. The temperature of an area during the
B. Mesosphere summer
C. Exosphere 2907. Why does warm air rise?
D. Thermosphere
E. Stratosphere
2903. Hill tops and places exposed to the wind

tend to be warmer than those which are
sheltered.
A. True

A. Warm air is more dense than cooler 2912. We live in the United States. What cli-
air. mate zone is the United States in?
B. Warm air has more pressure than A. tropical
cooler air. B. temperate
C. Warm air is less dense than cooler air. C. polar
D. Warm air has a higher dew point than D. none of above
cooler air.
2913. A big blue H on a weather map shows
NARAYAN CHANGDER
2908. These type of reports help people plan where there is a
for the weather?
A. Warm front
A. Climate Reports B. High pressure air mass
B. Cloud Reports C. Low pressure air mass
C. Weather Reports D. Cold front
D. Forecast Reports 2914. What two characteristics are used to de-
2909. This changes every four months cribe the climate of an area?
A. Weather A. temperature and climate

B. precipitation and temperature
B. Climate
C. precipitation and weather
C. Seasons
D. elevation and surface currents
D. none of above
2915. Hot climates are
2910. How does wind move?
A. From area of high pressure to low
pressure
B. From areas of low pressure to high
pressure
2911. Gray sheets of clouds that bring rain.

A. Stratus A. Desert climates
B. Cumulus B. Mediterranean climates
C. Cloud C. Equatorial climates
D. Cirrus D. Tropical climates

2916. Alex’s hometown received 36 inches of 2920. A way of organizing numbers that can
snowfall last winter. What can you con- help you see patterns.
clude from that data?

A. claim
A. His town is located in a climate with B. graph
cold winters
C. pattern
B. Next year it is unlikely to snow as much
there D. argument
C. A lot of rain probably fell in the spring 2921. Determines the type of animals that can
live there.
D. The climate in his town is getting
colder and wetter A. Weather
B. Climate
2917. Which of Spain’s five climates occurs
near the Atlantic Ocean? Winters are cool 2922. Which technology collects data for
and summers are mild, and it rains fre- weather, climate, and environmental mon-
quently. itoring from space?
A. Oceanic climate A. weather stations
B. Mountain climate B. weather balloons
C. Continental-Mediterranean climate C. satellites
D. Mediterranean climate D. radar
E. Subtropical climate 2923. What type of weather would a continen-
2918. The blanket of air which surrounds the tal tropical air mass bring?
Earth is called: A. dry and cold weather
A. Hydrosphere B. wet and cold weather
B. Atmosphere C. dry and warm weather
C. Green house gases D. wet and warm weather
D. None of these 2924. What type of weather would you asso-
ciate with a low pressure system?
2919. is the short term condition of the at-
mosphere at any given time. A. cold and sunny
B. cold and clear
C. warm and clear
D. cloudy and rainy
2925. Condensed water vapor near the Earth’s
surface
A. Air mass
A. Weather B. Air pressure
B. Climate C. Dew point
C. Wind D. Fog
D. Temperature E. Jet Stream

2926. What does this tool do? 2929. If someone makes the generalization
that “it’s typically sunny in Arizona.” This
is an example of-
A. climate
B. weather
C. investigations
D. none of above
NARAYAN CHANGDER
2930. How does a cumulonimbus cloud move?
A. Really fast
B. It has a pattern of rising and falling
A. measures the pressure in the air
C. Always east to west
B. measures the temperature
D. Very slow
2927. I am in between the tropical and polar
zones. I have all 4 seasons.
weather map?
A. Tropical zone
B. Polar zone
C. Temperate zone
D. Mild zone
2928. Why is it important that the house map

includes a window?
A. cold front
B. warm front
2932. Which climate region is in green/in be-

A. It will allow the family to see what is tween the tropics and the poles
happening outside.
B. If the doors become blocked, it could
be an exit
C. During an earthquake it will need to be
barricaded
D. The tree outside could break it during
a storm

A. Hot 2938. A will tell us what direction the

wind is blowing.
B. Polar

A. wind vane
C. Temperate
B. wind guage
C. wind sock
2933. Where are high-pressure belts located? D. wind ruler
A. the equator 2939. Winds are currently blowing from the
B. 30*N and 30*S North in Denver, Colorado.
C. the poles A. weather

B. climate
D. 60*N and 60*S
2940. The conditions of the atmosphere at a
2934. Precipitation is certain time and place.
A. Water vapor that falls to the ground; A. weather
rain, snow, sleet, hail, etc. B. climate
B. Water vapor that goes into space. C. precipitation
C. Ocean water. D. atmosphere
D. A cloud. 2941. Which of these is NOT true about
weather?
2935. How are weather and climate different?
A. Weather can change from day to day
A. One focuses on rainfall and the other
B. Weather describes the conditions in
on temperature.
the air outside
B. Weather is the overall conditions C. Weather can change from season to
whereas climate is the current conditions. season
C. Climate is the average temperature D. Scientists always know what the
and rainfall of an area over time whereas weather will be
weather is what’s happening now.
2942. The organizations that defend care for
D. The is no difference really. the Environment are (more than one):
2936. A prediction of wind shows the of A. Greenpeace
the direction and speed of the wind. B. I’LL TAKE
A. certainty C. HIM
B. probability D. Save the Children
2943. Very cold water that freezes when it
2937. What region is the coldest?
hits the ground
A. mountain
A. rain
B. arctic B. sleet
C. desert C. freezing rain
D. tropical D. snow

2944. White fluffy clouds that form at lower A. conduction

levels. B. radiation
A. cumulus C. convection
B. stratus D. none of above
C. cirrus
2949. Use the table to answer which location
D. none of above has the wettest climate?
2945. Contour lines that are very far apart in-
NARAYAN CHANGDER
dicate the landscape is
A. gentle/gradual
B. steep
A. Location A
C. a forest
B. Location B
D. a swamp
C. Location C
2946. How does a thunderstorm catch fish? D. Location D
A. with a fishing rod
2950. regions near the poles of earth are
B. with a lighting rod
A. tropical regions
C. with a fork lift truck
B. polar regions
D. none of above
C. rainforest
2947. How often does the weather change? D. tropical rainforest
A. Every Day 2951. What 2 gases make up most of the at-
B. Every week mosphere
C. Twice a week A. nitrogen and oxygen
D. none of above B. nitrogen and carbon dioxide
2948. The paper rising above the campfire is C. Oxygen and carbon dioxide
an example of: D. none of above
2952. What kind of breeze is this and when
would it form?
A. Land breeze-daytime
B. Land breeze-nighttime
C. Sea breeze-daytime
D. Sea breeze-nighttime

2953. Mr. Williams bald head is beautiful. 2959. What does this symbol represent on a
A. True weather map?

B. False
2954. Which weather tool measures the aver-

age kinetic energy in molecules?
A. thermometer
B. barometer
A. occluded front
C. psychrometer
B. cold front
D. anemometer
C. stationary front
2955. Which of the following is an example of D. warm front
precipitation?
A. sleet 2960. Which term best describes how the
earth’s atmosphere is heated?
B. hail
A. Spirally
C. snow
B. Unevenly
D. all of the above
C. Circularly
2956. This type of severe weather causes D. Kinetically
heavy flooding, high winds, and storm
surge. 2961. What are the common effects of ex-
A. Tornado tended dry season?
B. Hurricane A. Earthquake, andTsunami
C. Blizzard B. Wildfire, Lack of Water Supply, and-
Dried land.
D. Thunderstorm
C. Flood, Strong Typhoon, andLandslide
2957. The atmosphere exerts a force (pres-
sure) on Earth. Why does the atmosphere D. none of above
exert pressure on Earth?
2962. The area between the Tropic of Cancer
A. Because of the energy from the Sun. and the Tropic of Capricorn is the
B. Because of the Greenhouse Effect. A. Torrid Zone
C. Because of the weight of the air. B. Temperate Zone
D. Because of the ozone layer. C. Frigid Zone
2958. Which climate is closest to the equator? D. none of above
A. Tropical climate. 2963. During a tornado, the basement is the
B. Arid climate. safest place to be.
C. Polar climate. A. True
D. Temperate climate. B. False

2964. What are the three main types of 2969. Which areas typically have high pres-
clouds? (Select all three answers) sure?
A. precipitation
B. cirrus
C. evaporation
D. cumulus
NARAYAN CHANGDER
E. stratus
2965. P= Polar = Cold

A. true
B. false A. A and E
B. C
2966. How are tornadoes and hurricanes simi-
lar? C. B and D
A. They both last for many days. D. A, C, and E
B. Both can form in a single thunder- 2970. What is O3?

storm.
A. Oxygen
C. They both are hundred of kilometers
B. Ozone
across.
C. Oranges
D. They both have dangerous winds.
D. Opposites
2967. Why does a large body of water moder-
ate the temperature of the land near it? 2971. The area in which you live has a partic-
A. Because of water’s high specific heat ular climate. It also has weather. What is
capacity. climate?
B. Because water is cold.

C. Because water attracts the sunlight.
D. Because of water’s cohesive proper-
ties.
2968. low pressure system

A. A violent winter storm characterized A. The area in which you live has a partic-
by freezing temperatures, strong winds, ular climate. It also has weather. What is
and blowing snow climate?
B. A line on a weather map that joins B. Climate is determined by temperature
places that have the same air pressure and precipitation.
C. a large body of circulating air with low C. Climate is the condition of Earth’s at-
pressure at its center and higher pressure mosphere at a particular time and place.
outside of the system D. Climate is the characteristic weather
D. none of above in an area over a long period of time.

2972. An air mass that forms above a warm, 2978. In some years there are more hurricanes
dry desert will than usual. This is probably because

A. remain in that location A. the ocean is warmer than usual.
B. deposit lots of rain in that area B. the ozone layer is very thin.
C. quickly travel across Earth’s surface C. there are more windy days than usual.
D. take on the characteristics of that loca- D. the gravitational pull of the Moon is
tion stronger.
2973. What is air pressure? 2979. The temperature at which condensation

begins is called
A. How hot or cold something is.
B. Any form of water that falls to the
B. humidity
ground from the clouds.
C. dew point
C. The force of air molecules pushing on
an area. D. water vapor
D. Air that moves horizontally, or perpen- 2980. If relative humidity is at 100%, what
dicular to the ground. is probably happening?
A. A drought
2974. Which term describes the natural pro-
cess of the Earth’s atmosphere trapping B. Occluded fronts
heat from the sun? C. Wind storm
A. Global warming. D. Rain
B. Ozone depletion. 2981. An anemometer is used to measure
C. Greenhouse effect.
D. Acid rain.
2975. Nothing was visible in the morning, It

was foggy
A. WEATHER
B. CLIMATE
A. air pressure
2976. What type of pressure systems creates
rainy and stormy weather? B. humidity
A. High Pressure C. precipitation

D. wind speed
B. Low Pressure
C. Medium PressureFront 2982. What does symbol # 1 mean?
D. Fronts
2977. Wet and cold winters; hot and dry sum-

mers describe
A. Weather
B. Climate

A. stationary front In high pressure systems, air cannot rise

B. occluded front to form clouds, creating clear skies and
cool weather
C. warm front
D. none of above
D. cold front
2983. The top 3 Earth-hurting habits we need 2987. What are meteorologists?
to eliminate and reform are throwing plas- A. Scientists who study the weather
tic away, burning fossil fuels, and
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. Scientists who study the ocean
C. Scientists who study earthquakes
D. Scientists who study space
2988. A Snow Warning was issues for south-

ern Canada
A. Weather
A. reforestation
B. Climate
B. deforestation
C. recycling 2989. Weather is made up of a variety of con-
D. using wind power ditions in the atmosphere. It includes tem-
perature, or the amount of in the air,
2984. The layer of the atmosphere that pro- as well as humidity, the amount of
tects us from harmful sun rays is called? in the air. Pressure is another factor of
A. Troposphere weather as it affects wind, or the motion
of Precipitation also affects weather,
B. Oxygen Layer and includes and other forms of water
C. Ozone Layer that falls from clouds.
D. none of above A. heat, moisture, air, rain
2985. Lines that connect places with the same B. moisture, heat, waves, wind
temperatures are calles C. heat, water, sunlight, moisture
A. Isotherms D. sunshine, heat, coolness, oxygen
B. Isohyets
2990. What type of climate is in the tundra re-
C. Isobars
gion?
D. Isomills
A. Hot
2986. High pressure will usually bring what B. Cold
kind of weather?
C. Rainy
A. Clear Skies
D. Moderate
B. Cloudy
C. Windy 2991. Precipitation is rain, snow, or any other
moisture that falls from the sky.
Explanation: A. True
B. False

2992. what is the purpose of isobars? 2995. An instrument for measuring tempera-
A. to measure air pressure ture, often a sealed glass tube.

A. Cloud
B. to describe the weather conditions in
a weather station B. hygrometer
C. to find out what form precipitation will C. Cumulus
take D. Thermometer
D. to connect points of equal air pressure 2996. Climate is the average weather condi-
on a weather map tions recorded over a span of
2993. Why does cutting down trees increase A. years
global warming? B. weeks
A. trees soak up carbon dioxide C. days
B. trees provide shade which counteracts D. none of above
global warming
2997. forms when the air temperature is
C. trees absorbs the sun’s energy with- below freezing and water vapor changes
out radiating back into the atmosphere directly to solid.
D. trees drain greenhouse gases like A. Rain
methane from soil
B. Snow
2994. Which statement most accurately de- C. Sleet
scribes the temperature trend in the Tro-
D. Hail
posphere? Temperatures
2998. how hot or cold something is
A. temperature
B. humidity
C. weather
D. climate
2999. a huge body of air that has similar tem-

perature, humidity, and air pressure
A. global winds
B. front
C. high pressure system
A. rise with increasing altitude above the
Earth D. air mass
B. rise then fall with increasing altitude 3000. What three things are needed to have a
above the Earth blizzard?
C. decrease with increasing altitude A. warm air at the surface, lots of mois-
above the Earth ture, and lift
D. remain constant with increasing alti- B. cold air at the surface, lots of moisture,
tude above the Earth and lift

C. Cold air must rise over warm air. 3006. Region north of the Tropic of Cancer and
D. none of above south of the Tropic of Capricorn. The sun’s
rays strike the Earth at smaller angle than
3001. The water cycle is a closed loop process. the tropical zone.
A. True A. tropical zone
B. False
B. temperate zone
3002. The forecaster predicting the weather
C. polar zone
NARAYAN CHANGDER
for an area would find which of the fol-
lowing MOST helpful? D. cold front
A. Average yearly precipitation
B. Today’s barometric pressure 3007. High clouds are made up primarily of ice
crystals.
C. Temperature changes in one month
D. How often natural disasters occur A. True
B. False
3003. An instrument that measures tempera-
ture.
3008. Why are coastal areas cooler during the
A. anemometer
day than inland areas?
B. rain gauge
A. It rains during the day in coastal areas.
C. thermometer
D. barometer B. A cool breeze blows from the sea dur-
ing the day.
3004. Mediterranean climates have
C. Coastal areas experience storms ev-
ery other day.
D. The sea absorbs the heat of the air
over coastal areas.
3009. A pot is heated on a stove. Which pro-

cess causes the metal handle of the pot to
A. extreme temperatures also become hot?
B. hot summers and mild winters A. combustion
C. high temperatures all year
B. convection
D. none of above
C. radiation
3005. What part of the water cycle is when
water falls from the sky as rain, sleet, D. conduction
snow, or hail?
A. evaporation 3010. Jenny’s roof sprang a leak last week be-
cause of all the rain.
B. condensation
C. precipitation A. Weather
D. runoff and collection B. Climate

3011. What is the Climate?

A. Climate is the weather condition of a

particular place.
B. Climate is the weather condition of the
atmosphere over a period of time.
C. Climate is the average weather condi- A. evaporation
tion of a particular place over a period of B. precipitation
time.
C. runoff
D. none of above
D. condensation
3012. The equatorial climate is found near
3017. The city with the star would be experi-
A. Equator encing what type of weather?
B. Arctic Circle
C. Capricorn
3013. Wind direction refers to?

A. Updrafts and downdrafts
B. The direction the wind is blowing to-
wards
A. Cloudy, wet weather due to the low air
C. The direction the wind is blowing from pressure.
D. Solid objects resisting the flow of air, B. Cloudy, wet weather due to the high air
redirecting it around their sides. pressure.
3014. different times of the year C. Sunny, dry weather due to the low
pressure.
A. precipitation
D. Sunny, dry weather due to the high
B. climates pressure.
C. temperature 3018. “atmo-” means
D. seasons A. gas or vapor
3015. Rain that occurs on a certain day of the B. water
week is describing C. Earth or rocks
A. seasons. D. life
B. climate. 3019. Small areas with climates that differ
C. weather. from the surrounding area are known as?
D. none of above A. small climates
B. micro areas
3016. A student drew the picture below of
the water cycle. What process was repre- C. microclimates
sented by the water dripping into the cup? D. abnormalities

3020. A wind vane or wind sock is used to find
A. Wind Speed
B. Wind Direction
C. Air Pressure
D. Temperature A. True
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. False
3021. which is NOT one of the 3 main types of
clouds 3026. A dry air mass that forms over land.
A. Stradivarius A. Continental
B. Cirrus B. Air mass

C. Convection
C. Cumulus
D. Atmosphere
D. Stratus
3027. What source of energy evaporates the
3022. What is the term given to heat created most water from Earth’s surface?
by cities A. volcanoes
A. Urban canopy layer effect B. the sun
B. Urban boundary layer effect C. lightning
C. Urban heat island effect D. wind
D. Urban microclimate effect 3028. Lines drawn on weather maps to show
where barometric pressure is the same
3023. In the oceans the colder water sinks into
A. jet stream
deep basins, while warmer water stays
closer to the surface. The water then B. weather map
moves around the ocean basin. This causes C. humidity
A. Tidal waves D. isobars
B. Ocean currents 3029. We have more fog when is higher
C. Lake effect snow A. temperature
D. Plate tectonics B. humidity
C. wind
3024. Average weather conditions for a region
year after year. D. none of above
A. hot and humid 3030. This picture shows
B. climate
C. windy
D. none of above
3025. Oceans do not affect an area’s climate.

A. Convectional rain 3036. The way Earth’s rotation makes the

winds curve
B. Orographic rain

A. Coriolis Effect
C. Frontal rain
B. Cuticle Effect
D. none of above
C. Revolution
3031. Which of the following statements is in- D. rotation
correct for penguins?-
3037. Which type of weather is associated
A. They huddle together.
with this type of front?
B. They cannot swim.
C. They have webbed feet.
D. They have streamlined body.
3032. What does a thermometer do?

A. it measures your arm lenght
A. gentle rain, followed by humid
B. it measures the air pressure weather.
C. It measures the temprature B. thunderstorms or heavy rain
D. it turns into a pc and starts playing val- C. many days of rain or precipitation
orant D. fair weather and clear skies
3033. At the beach, the water and sand are 3038. What happens when air reaches its dew
not absorbing and losing heat equally. point?
Which is MOST LIKELY to occur? A. Relative humidity is 100 % and conden-
A. rain sation occurs
B. snow B. clouds form
C. humidity C. humidity decreases and air is satu-
rated
D. wind
D. none of above
3034. Atmospheric pressure is measured using
3039. If you are caught in a snowstorm, you
should seek shelter from the wind.
A. Millimetres A. True
B. Millibars B. False
C. Kilometres
3040. Why do coastal areas have cooler sum-
D. Measuring Jar mers than inland areas at the same lati-
tude?
3035. What generally happens to tempera-
A. because bodies of water heat up and
tures as you increase in elevation?
cool off more slowly than land
A. increase
B. because bodies of water heat up and
B. decrease cool off more rapidly than land

C. because bodies of water heat up more

slowly than land, but cool off more rapidly
than land
D. because bodies of water heat up more
slowly than land, but cool off more rapidly
than land A. cold front
3041. What is the term that means “the B. warm front
NARAYAN CHANGDER
weather conditions prevailing in an area C. stationary front
over a period of time or seasons”?
D. none of above
A. Climate
B. Weather 3045. Ocean currents have an important role
in determining the in an area
C. Forecasts
A. climate
D. Predictions
B. landforms
3042. Which two factors define a front?
C. wind direc!on
A. Two mountain zones
D. types of clouds
B. Two air masses
C. Polar winds and ocean density 3046. The clouds that are big & fluffy like cot-
ton are
D. Geography and climate
A. cumulus
3043. What is the name of the weather instru- B. stratus
ment pictured here?
C. cirrus
D. none of above
3047. A tropical storm with sustained winds

of at least 119 kilometers per hour is
called a
A. tornado.
B. thunderstorm.
C. monsoon.
D. hurricane.
3048. A cool wind blowing from land to sea is

A. Wind Vane called a
B. Rain Gauge A. Land Breeze
C. Anemometer B. Sea Breeze
D. none of above C. Hurricane
3044. What type of weather system is this? D. Tornado

3049. Mia lives in a place that is usually sunny C. In the north of the Iberian Peninsula
with frequent summer rains. For most of D. none of above
the year, it is warm and humid. Mia has

never seen snow where she lives. In what 3054. Temperatures in the POLAR ZONES are
type of climate zone does Mia most likely
live?
A. cold all year
A. desert
B. always warm
B. polar
C. warm in summer and cold in winter
C. temperate
D. none of above
D. tropical
3050. Select the two effects (or impacts) of 3055. A person who studies and predicts
flooding? weather
A. Rescuing people by boat A. climatologist
B. Cars stranded on roads B. meteorologist

C. Putting sand bags by the door C. weatherologist
D. Trains cancelled due to damage D. none of above
3051. SNOW STORMS WITH A LOT OF WIND. 3056. What are the two main factors that de-
A. HURRICANES termine the climate of a region?
B. TORNADOES A. precipitation and humidity

C. BLIZZARDS B. precipitation and temperature
D. HEATWAVES C. wind conditions and humidity
D. none of above
3052. The Sahara Desert is hot and dry all
year. Is this an example of weather or 3057. Alexis lives in Cheyenne, Wyoming. She
climate? made this graph to show the average tem-
perature and precipitation there.Based on
the information, in which climate zone is
Cheyenne located?
A. weather
B. climate
3053. Oceanic climate:

A. Equatorial
A. On the coast, temperatures are cold all
B. Polar
year round.
B. There is lots of rainfall all year, lots of C. Temperate
vegetation and a very green landscape. D. Tropical

3058. What are isobars? 3063. The gradual increase in the temperature
A. Lines connecting places of equal tem- of the atmosphere is known as
perature A. sunspots
B. Lines drawn connecting places of B. global warming
equal pressure
C. ice ages
C. Lines drawn to places of different tem-
D. arid
peratures
NARAYAN CHANGDER
D. Lines drawn to places of different pres- 3064. If you wanted to visit an area with very
sures little wind, where might you go?
3059. What is the Weather? A. the Jet stream in the northern hemi-
sphere
A. Weather is the condition of the atmo-
sphere at a particular place and time. B. the north or south pole
B. Weather is the condition of the atmo- C. the area around the Mediterranean
sphere at a particular time. Sea
C. Weather is the condition of the atmo- D. the Doldrums around the equator
sphere of a particular place.
3065. When water vapor turns directly into ice
D. none of above without first becoming a liquid.
3060. What symbol is this? A. sublimation
B. deposition
C. condensation
D. evaporation
3066. It snowed on Christmas day two years

ago in Dallas, Texas is an example of
A. warm front A. weather
B. cold front B. climate
C. stationary front
3067. Air in a high pressure system moves
D. occluded front
in a low-pressure system?
A. clear skies and gentle breezes
B. clouds and rain
C. wildfires
D. sinkholes
3062. The conditions in an area over a long pe-
riod of time is known as
A. Climate A. outward
B. Weather B. inward

3068. What climate zone is Michigan in A. Cold front

A. polar B. Warm Front

B. torpical C. Stationary Front
C. temperate D. Occluded Front
D. mild
3074. Clouds which are likely to bring thunder-
3069. Which of the following does NOT reduce storms are called
the damage caused from flooding?
A. Cumulonimbus
A. Levee
B. Stratus
B. Dam
C. Cirrus
C. Storm Shelter
D. clouded
D. none of above
3075. When weather patterns change over a
3070. Clues to what ancient climates were like
long period of time, we call it
come from
A. ice cores
B. fossil tree rings
C. plant pollens
D. all of the above
3071. The short-term condition of the atmo-
sphere at a certain time and place is de-
fined as; tells you what you would wear A. climate adaptation
for the day B. weather change
A. climate C. climate change
B. precipitation
D. weather adaptation
C. weather
D. seasons 3076. What of the following is the best claim
that can be made about the climate in Con-
3072. Occurs when liquid water changes into way, SC from this data?
water vapor.
A. sublimation
B. deposition
C. condensation
D. evaporation
3073. What type of front is this? When a cold
air mass collides with a warm air mass
and slides under it, pushing it up very A. It is cooler and wetter during the win-
quickly, making huge tower of cumulonim- ter in Conway.
bus clouds; results in colder weather, thun- B. It is hotter and drier during the sum-
derstorms and/or possibly tornadoes. mer in Conway.

C. It is hotter and wetter during the sum- 3080. Wind moving in two direction over a
mer in Conway. prairie make air in the middle spin. This
is the beginning of a
D. It is cooler and drier during the spring
in Conway. A. Hurricane
B. Thunderstorm
3077. How does the weather change from
summer to autumn? C. Hailstorm
A. It gets hotter D. Tornado
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. It gets colder
3081. Condensation occurs when-
C. It rains more
D. It rains less
3078. Imagine that you hear the following

weather report:“Florida is sweltering in
summerlike heat and humidity ahead of
a cold front that promises to bring down
polar air from Canada and cool down the A. there is no water vapor
state next week.” What is a front?
B. water vapor heats up
A. A boundary between two air masses
with different densities and usually differ- C. water vapor cools
ent temperatures. D. none of above
B. A boundary between two air masses
with the same temperatures. 3082. What is the difference between and cli-
mate
C. A region where there are severe thun-
derstorms. A. the both are same
D. An area where a tropical storm is likely B. weather lasts for short time and cli-
to form. mate is for a long time
C. climate is short and weather is long
3079. This is the type of boundary that occurs
when tectonic plates move apart. D. none of above
3083. Which of the following is a description

of climate?
A. Today it is hot and sunny in Phoenix,
Arizona.
B. Summers are usually mild in Lansing,
Michigan.
A. convergent
C. Last week it rained every day in San
B. divergent
Antonio, Texas.
C. transform
D. Yesterday was cold and windy in An-
D. none of the above chorage, Alaska.

3084. What factor contributes to the warm, A. -28

wet climate in the British Isles?
B. 8

A. The California Current.
C. 36
B. The Gulf Stream.
D. 0
C. Polar regions.
D. The equator. 3090. Precipitation is measured using which in-
strument?
3085. What weather instrument measures
how hot or cold it is outside? A. A jug
A. anemometer B. A barometer
B. barometer C. A rain guage
C. meteorologist D. Your hands
D. thermometer
3091. What amount of time is covered in a
3086. On which days would it be wise to carry “short-term” weather forecast (not ex-
an umbrella? tended forecast)?
A. Monday
B. Tuesday
C. Wednesday
D. Thursday
3087. Comparing the ozone layer and green-
house gases
A. both reflect all solar radiation
A. 0 to 48 hours
B. both absorb solar radiation
B. 0 to 72 hours
C. both absorb only infrared radiation
C. 1 to 7 days
D. both reflect only ultraviolet radiation
D. 1 to 10 days
3088. The skies are expected to clear in the
afternoon. 3092. What is weather?
A. Weather A. The average temperature of a place
B. Climate B. The condition of the air outside
3089. What is the temperature range (differ- C. The study of rocks and minerals
ence between the highest and lowest) in
D. none of above
Frobisher Bay?
3093. Which best describes climate
A. Yesterday, it was rainy
B. Summer was hot and dry
C. It rained last week
D. none of above

3094. Relatively warm air in the atmosphere C. winter

rises and moves toward relatively cool air. D. mediterranean
In turn, the colder air sinks and moves to-
ward the warmer air. What is the effect of 3098. What is the meaning of climate in short
this continuous circulation of air? A. the composite or generally prevailing
A. Convection currents absorb air weather conditions of a region, as tem-
molecules. perature, air pressure, humidity, precip-
itation, sunshine, cloudiness, and winds,
B. Convection currents escape into
NARAYAN CHANGDER
throughout the year, averaged over a se-
space.
ries of years. a region or area character-
C. It becomes cooler and forms clouds. ized by a given climate:to move to a warm
D. Convection currents break up the tro- climate.
posphere. B. It is the wind which blows
3095. What term describes the circulation of 3099. Which type of cloud is this?
air or water that forms from uneven heat-
ing.
A. Condensation current
B. Convection current
C. Jet stream
D. none of above
3096. Select some indicators of climate change A. cirrus

that would be expected to INCREASE in a B. stratus
warming world.
C. cumulus
A. Obesity D. none of above
B. Sea Level
3100. When a cold front moves in
C. Extreme Weather Events
A. it forces warm air to rise rapidly creat-
D. Racial Conflict ing big clouds and likely rain
E. Sea Surface Temperature B. it pushes against warm air and be-
comes a stationary front
3097. That kind of trees loose their leaves in
autumn. We call them (a) trees C. the cold air goes above the warm air
causing a clear sky
D. it forms a wedge and the warm air
slowly rises and may form small clouds
3101. What’s the humidity and temperature of
a maritime tropical air mass?
A. Wet and cold
B. Dry and warm
A. a deciduous C. Wet and warm
B. evergreen D. Dry and cold

3102. Why are there not more renewable re- A. The air temperature went up and then
sources available? down.

A. Too expensive B. Monday and Friday were the warmest
B. No/little government support days.
C. Fossil Fuels are cheaper C. The air temperature was higher on Fri-
day than Monday.
D. All of them
D. The air temperature went up steadily
3103. Close the door; there is a dust storm from Monday to Friday
A. WEATHER 3107. The symbol for high pressure is a circle
B. CLIMATE with
3104. Which months have the warmest tem- A. nothing inside it

peratures? B. the letter L inside it
C. the letter H inside it
D. none of above
3108. You fill a cup with water, cover it with

plastic, and place it near a sunny window.
After 2 hours, you notice water droplets
streaming down the cup. What process of
the water cycle caused the water droplets
A. December, January, February to move down the sides?
B. March, April, May A. Evaporation
C. June, July, August B. Condensation

D. September, October, November C. Precipitation
D. Transpiration
3105. “The wind is blowing 10 miles per hour”
is an example of 3109. What climate is found in central Aus-
A. wind vane tralia?
B. wind speed A. Humid Subtropical
C. wind direction B. Desert
D. wind chill C. Tropical Savanna
D. none of above
3106. A fifth grade class took daily readings
of the air temperature for a week and 3110. The weather in the United States moves
recorded them on a class chart.Based on from
the chart, which statement is correct?
A. East to West
B. North to South
C. West to East
D. none of above

3111. What are the layers of the atmosphere? 3114. What is a weather map?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. An image that represents all climates
A. The troposphere
B. A map showing climate change
B. The stratosphere
C. An image that represents weather con-
C. Outer layers (mesosphere and thermo- ditions
sphere) D. A map showing the weather over a
D. All answers are correct large area
3112. What is the name of this equipment? 3115. What is Climate?

A. The current outdoor conditions
B. Rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls from
clouds in the sky
D. The amount of water vapor in the air
E. Average weather conditions for a re-
3116. Which of the following are greenhouse
gases?
A. Thermometer A. Carbon dioxide

B. Methane
B. Parheliometer or a Campbell stokes
recorder C. Water vapour
C. Rain Gauge D. All answers are correct
D. Wind vane 3117. The amount of water vapor in the air is
3113. When would a thermometer be useful?

A. Measuring the amount of rainfall in
your backyard
B. Checking the wind before heading out
in a sailboat
A. Air pressure
C. Deciding if it is warm enough to take a
weekend trip B. Temperature
D. Checking wind direction before flying a C. Humidity
kite D. Precipitation

3118. True or False. If you live on the coast B. Tropical marine climates
where a hurricane is predicted to hit, it is C. Equatorial climates
best to leave before the hurricane is close.

D. Tropical marine and Equatorial cli-
mates
3122. What layer is the International Space

Station (ISS) found in?
A. ISS layer
A. True B. Mesposphere
B. False C. Exosphere
3119. What are formed when water vapor D. Thermosphere
condenses?
3123. The large winds that circle the Earth oc-
cur because the equator
A. has less energy than the sun
B. is warmer than the south and north
pole
C. is perpendicular to the sun’s rays
D. is where the Earth bulges slightly
3124. The winds blowing from the land to the

A. Clouds sea are known as
B. Mountains A. Temperate Breeze
C. Transpiration B. Land Breeze
D. Valleys C. Cold Breeze
D. Sea Breeze
3120. What type of instrument is used to mea-
sure air pressure? 3125. This instrument measures wind speed
A. Thermometer A. Thermometer
B. Wind vane B. Rain gauge
C. Rain gauge C. Weather vane
D. Barometer D. Anemometer
3121. The map shows 3126. What’s the weather like?
A. Tropical climates

A. It’s hot 3131. Your distance north or south of the equa-

B. It’s rainning tor is
C. It’s raining
D. It’s cold
3127. How would the climate of these two

biomes differ?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. Longitude
B. Latitude
C. Climate
D. Location
A. The tropical forest would be warmer.
3132. The Earth acts like a greenhouse that
B. The tropical forest would be colder catches and traps heat from the sun.
C. The tropical forest has different sea- A. true
sons.
B. false
D. The tropical forest will have much
more precipitation. 3133. Choose the best forecast for New York
on Saturday.
3128. It is the daily condition of the Earth’s at-
mosphere
A. climate
B. weather
C. humidity
D. none of above
A. sunny skies
3129. strong winds concentrated in a rela-
B. warmer temperatures
tively narrow stream in the upper atmo-
sphere of the earth C. snow
A. air mass D. sleet
B. humidity 3134. This is the warm ocean current that is al-
C. jet stream ways in the Atlantic Ocean that influences
weather along the east coast of the United
D. warm front States.
3130. The water droplets that form on the out-
side of a cold soda can are an example of
A. evaporation
B. condensation
C. air
D. precipitation A. Jet Stream

B. Gulf Stream B. Climate, because they are measuring

C. The boy the rainfall

D. The girl C. Weather, because they expect rainfall
to continue
3135. Factors that affect weather include: D. Weather, because they are tracking
A. Humidity changes to the environment
B. air pressure 3140. When the sun warms up the ground that
C. temperature is an example of:
D. precipitation A. Radiation
E. all the above B. Convection
C. Conduction
3136. Cold air exerts pressure than warm
air. D. Condensation
A. the same 3141. What are the factors influencing the cli-
B. less mate?
C. more A. Altitude
D. impossible to tell B. Gravity
C. Distance from the sea
3137. Chicago received more snow this decade
than in past decades. D. Humidity
E. Wind
3142. Which of the following natural events

would be most likely to contribute to the
cooling of Earth’s atmosphere?
A. Earthquake
B. Hurricane
A. Weather C. Volcanism
B. Climate D. Monsoon
3138. A portion of Earth’s surface with border. 3143. I am Super hot in the morning And Freez-
ing in night what am i
A. Range
A. a Desert
B. Region
B. a Grassland
C. Pattern
C. a Tundra
D. Season
D. a Ocean
3139. Scientist are studying water levels of a
lake for 30 years. What are they study- 3144. The day to day changing atmospheric
ing? conditions are
A. Climate, because they are measuring A. Weather

over a long period of time B. Climate

3145. What are high, feathery clouds? 3150. When water falls from the sky in differ-
A. stratus ent forms such as hail, sleet, snow, etc.
A. condensation
B. cirrus
B. runoff
C. cumulous
C. precipitation
D. cumulonimbus
D. evaporation
3146. Which one shows a warm front?
3151. Many cities get flooded because of
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. heavy rainfall during monsoon
A. WEATHER
B. B. CLIMATE
3152. When water condenses, the water va-
por in the air gets and changes back
C. into liquid.
D.
3147. Consequences of climate change include:

A. Stronger hurricanes
A. cold
B. Increased flooding
B. hot
C. Frequent droughts
C. warm
D. All of the above
D. solid
3148. Which of the following is a description
3153. What are the some factors that effects
of climate data?
the Climate
A. New York had a 2 inches of rainfall on
A. Ocean Current
Wednesday.
B. Natural Disaster
B. Lima, Peru had a low temperature last
night of 17◦ C. C. Shape of the land
C. Winds are currently from the south in D. Distance from the sea / Distance from
Ann Arbor, Michigan. the equator
E. Direction of wind
D. The coast of Antarctica has very short
summers. 3154. Some scientists measured and recorded
local rainfall amounts and water levels at
3149. Where are windsocks usually used
several local lakes over the summer. They
A. Airports compared their measurements with data
B. Railway stations from the past 30 years. The scientists con-
cluded that the area was drier this summer
C. Homes than in previous years. They plan to con-
D. Race tracks tinue recording these measurements each

summer for the next decade. What char- 3157. Which part of our planet receives the
acteristics of the area are the scientists most direct sunlight?
studying?

A. Climate, because they are making
more than one type of measurement
rainfall amounts over a long period of time
C. Weather, because they are tracking A. near the poles.
changes only to their local environment B. near the equator
D. Weather, because they expect rainfall C. the bottom half
amounts and water levels to continue to
D. the core
decrease
3158. An El Nino is when warm Pacific Ocean
3155. Where is the equator line on the world water flows east toward N. America.This
map? can change our typical West Coast climate
to be
A. Bottom
B. Bottom middle
C. Top
A. cooler drier
D. Middle
B. warmer drier
E. Top middle
C. cooler with more precipitation
3156. What type of front does this symbol in- D. warmer with more precipitation
dicate?
3159. Which one of the following is an accu-
rate relative humidity reading?
A. 32 degrees
B. 24 mL
C. 45%
D. 15 NW
A. Warm Front
3160. The higher you are above sea level, the
B. Cold Front the temperature.
C. Stationary Front A. lower
D. Occluded Front B. higher

3161. Our weather generally moves in this di- 3165. Temperature is part of
rection
A. precipitation
A. West to East
B. seasons
B. East to West
C. the weather
C. North to South
D. South to North D. the water cycle
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3162. Why do convection currents occur? 3166. Jisoo’s Age is
A. Cold air is more dense than warm air
B. Warm air is more dense than cold air
3163. The area of Earth that receives the most

solar radiation is the equator. Why?
A. 26
B. 25
C. 28
A. Sunlight reflects off water more pow-
D. none of the given options
erfully at the equator.
B. Near the equator, sunlight strikes 3167. Describes the condition of the air out-
Earth’s surface at a low angle. doors
C. In latitudes near the equator, sunlight A. climate
strikes Earth’s Surface at a nearly 90 de-
gree angle year round. B. weather
C. average temperature
Explanation: D. none of above
Sunlight hits the equator directly, so 3168. How is the climate in the North of the
that solar energy is concentrated into a UK different to the South of the UK?
smaller area. A. It is colder in the North and warmer in
D. none of above the South.
B. The North is wetter and the South is
3164. Climate or Weather? In Georgia, the
sunnier.
summer months are characterized by hot
temperatures, low rainfall, and high hu- C. The North is warmer than the South.
midity.
D. none of above
A. Climate
B. Weather 3169. What is a CRQ?

3174. This type of heat transfer is due to di-

rect contact.

A. Radiation
B. Transpiration
C. Conduction
D. Convection
3175. What are weather conditions in an area

A. A reference to a TV show over a long period of time called?
B. A constructed response A. Climate
C. Something imaginary B. Weather
D. None of the above C. Storms
3170. Weather or Climate?Miami typically D. Jet Streams
goes through a dry season every year
3176. What i the main source of heat energy
from October to April.
for weather on the earth?
A. Weather
A. Precipitation
B. Climate
B. Air
3171. air spirals inward toward the center C. Metals
and then upward; may cause clouds and
precipitation-thunder storms D. The sun
A. cold front 3177. Which instrument measures wind
B. stationary front speed?
3172. Places near the equator receive the
rays of the sun.
A. dim
B. slanting
C. direct
A. Wind vane
D. none of above
B. hygrometer
3173. A student reads the following descrip- C. Anemometer
tion of Phoenix:“It has hot summers, mild
winters, and not much rain.” What infor- D. Thermometer
mation does this description best provide?
3178. What happens to the temperature if
A. A forecast of the weather tomorrow. more greenhouse gases are released into
B. The general climate over many years. the atmosphere?
C. The climate change in the future. A. Temperature goes up
D. The weather on a specific day. B. Temperature goes down

3179. Select the THREE correct statements are the two main factors that determine
about greenhouse gases climate?
A. greenhouse gases come from activi- A. Precipitation and humidity
ties such as power plants, driving vehi-
B. Temperature and air pressure
cles, and heating homes
B. greenhouse gases mix globally no mat-
ter if one country produces more than an- D. Wind conditions and humidity
other
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3185. The release of water vapor into the air
C. carbon dioxide represents the largest by plants.
concentration of greenhouse gases
A. sublimation
D. greenhouse gases trap heat in the at-
mosphere and make the Earth colder B. deposition
C. transpiration
3180. What climate zone do we live in?
D. water cycle
A. Dry climate
B. Polar climate 3186. When you write down your findings,
what are you doing?
C. Temperate climate
A. analyzing data
D. Tropical climate
B. recording data
3181. The uneven heating of Earth by the sun
C. identifying patterns
is the cause of pressure belts.
D. forming a hypothesis
A. true
B. false 3187. What does it mean to have a moderate
climate?
3182. affects weather and climate because
it heats the Earth unevenly.
A. latitude
B. altitude
C. atmosphere
D. sunlight
A. Temperature extremes are common
3183. What does a barometer measure?
B. Calm, without sudden changes
A. measures high and low pressure in the
air C. Precipitation amount can change sud-
denly
B. measures humidity in the air
D. A dry, desert climate
C. measures speed of the wind
D. measures the amount of rain that has 3188. f. The oceanic climate has got more /
fallen less rainfall than the subtropical climate.
3184. Many factors are used to determine the A. more rainfall than
climate of an area. Which of the following B. less rainfall than

3189. Forms of precipitation are- A. measures the amount of rain

A. only sleet and snow B. measures the temperature

B. rain, sleet, hail, and snow
3192. During an El Niño year, tropical fish
C. only dew and rain
A. travel along the US west coast
D. only snow and rain
B. follow the warm ocean currents that
3190. What types of clouds are low, flat travel north
sheets of clouds that look like one huge
cloud covering the whole sky? C. travel along the US west coast to fol-
low the warm ocean currents that move
A. Cirrus north.
B. Stratus D. none of the above
C. Cumulus
D. Cumulonimbus 3193. How many types of climates are there?
A. 6
3191. What does this tool do?
B. 7
C. 5
D. 4
3194. In winter, the west coast is warmer

than the east coast
A. True
B. False
3195. i. Most of Galicia / Cataluña has got an

oceanic climate.
A. Galicia
B. Catalonia
3196. What is this weather instrument called?
A. A thermometer
B. An anemometer
C. A psychrometer
D. A rain gauge

3197. Which form of electromagnetic radiation B. warm water supplies energy to hurri-
is absorbed by carbon dioxide and water canes
vapor in our atmosphere? C. warm ocean water slows hurricane
A. infrared formation
B. radio D. cold ocean water supplies energy to
C. visible light hurricanes
D. ultraviolet 3201. A polar climate is?
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E. gamma rays tagsSC.910.P.10.4 A. warm and cool
3198. Norfolk, Virginia, is a seaport on the B. consistently moderate
James River, just off Chesapeake Bay and C. consistently cool
the Atlantic Ocean. Covington, Virginia,
D. consistently warm
is in the western part of the state near
West Virginia. Which city would you ex- 3202. Climate or Weather? There was a light
pect to have warmer average winter tem- drizzle this morning as I left for school, but
peratures? it cleared to sunny skies by lunchtime.
A. Climate
B. Weather
3203. Temperate climates are divided in
A. Norfolk, because it is nearer the ocean

B. Covington, because it is nearer the
ocean
C. Norfolk, because it is farther from the
ocean A. Oceanic, mediterranean and continen-
tal
D. Covington, because it is farther from
the ocean B. Oceanic, mountain and mediterranean
C. Mediterranean, tropical and desert
3199. How high something is compared to the
ground, or sea level, and it’s important be- D. Oceanic, continental and tropical
cause of how it can affect people
3204. What happens when the area in which
A. Meteorology you live tilts away from the sun?
B. Altitude
C. Mesosphere
D. Cirrus
3200. What role do oceans play in hurricane

formation?
A. they provide cool, dense water

A. It is summer. A. A
B. It is spring. B. B

C. It is winter. C. C
D. It is fall. D. D
3205. What is climate? 3210. This symbol represents

A. A pattern of weather over a long pe-
riod of time.
B. Weather changes day by day.
C. A concrete wall that holds back water A. a cold front
that could cause flooding.
B. an occluded front
D. none of above
C. a stationary front
3206. A rain shadow forms on the side of D. a warm front
a mountain as a result of rainfall there.
3211. What is the direct cause of rising sea
A. windward; more levels?
B. windward; less A. Melting Sea Ice
C. leeward; more B. Melting Land Ice
D. leeward; less C. Climate Change
3207. (True/False) There is permafrost in the D. none of above
tundra. 3212. ‘The amount of sky that is covered in
A. True clouds-categorised into types. This is mea-
B. False sured in eights called oktas. ‘
A. Cloud cover
3208. The atmosphere is divided info four lay-
B. Visibility
ers. Which layer constitutes most of the
total mass of the atmosphere? C. Precipitation
A. the mesosphere D. Cloud type
B. the stratosphere 3213. Heat of the sun which we receive on this
C. the thermosphere earth
D. . the troposphere A. Solar

B. Solar radiation
3209. Which tool is used to measure wind di-
C. radiation
rection?
D. solar light
3214. why floods happen
A. hail
B. sewer
C. snow
D. heavy rain

3215. Which factor is a major difference be- 3220. This is a cardinal direction, North, South,
tween weather and climate? East, or West from which it is expected to
A. location be blowing this day.
B. sustainability A. High and Low Temperatures

C. impact B. Precipitation
D. time C. Wind direction
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3216. What are the season(s) in the Polar D. Wind Speed
Zones? E. Air Pressure
A. light and dark
3221. Warm air , cold air
B. winter, spring, summer, and fall
C. light A. sinks, sinks
D. dark B. rises, sinks

C. rises, rises
3217. Identify the season
D. sinks, rises
3222. You hear someone say, “The average

temperature this week was 79 degrees.”
What does this statement describe?
A. tides
A. Spring B. weather
B. Summer C. current
C. Monsoon D. climate
D. None Of The Above
3223. Which human activity has caused cli-
3218. Which of these is a description of mate change?
weather?
A. Industry
A. Arizona gets very little rain.
B. Transportation
B. It is typically very cloudy in Half Moon
Bay. C. Farming
C. Sunnyvale has warm summers and D. Electricity
cool winters.
E. All of these
D. Yesterday, Redwood City had a wind
speed of 2 miles per hour. 3224. What happens next when water vapour
cools down?
3219. Climates are classified by
A. plants and animals A. It rains
B. altitude and latitude B. It snows

C. bodies of water and ocean currents C. It condenses into clouds
D. temperature and precipitation D. It evaporates

3225. The weather forecaster says there will C. precipitation

be rain over the next several days. This D. run off
indicates a(n):

3229. What happens when aerosol amounts
A. cold front
increase?
B. stationary front
A. Earth’s lower atmosphere warms.
C. warm front B. Precipitation increases.
D. occluded front C. Earth’s lower atmosphere cools.
3226. The seasons are caused by ? D. Ocean levels increase.
3230. is the average pattern for weather
over a long period of time.
A. The direction the Earth’s axis is tilted

toward the sun
B. Tropical Storms A. climate
C. Changes in the moon B. weather
D. The Earth’s rotation on its axis C. forecast
3227. climate D. sunlight
A. day-to-day changes in atmospheric 3231. This climate zone is the coldest.
conditions, including temperature, air A. Tropic
pressure, humidity, wind, cloud coverage,
B. Temperate
or precipitation
C. Polar
B. moisture in the air
D. none of above
C. measures air pressure
3232. Which of the following is NOT a type of
D. long-term average of temperature and
extreme weather?
precipitation in a large area
A. Tornado
3228. Which stage does the #3 show in the
B. Sleet
diagram?
C. Hurricane
D. Drought
3233. I get less than 10 inches of rain each
year.
A. Tropical zone
B. Polar zone
A. condensation C. Temperate zone
B. evaporation D. Desert zone

3234. James grabbed a rain coat before catch- 3239. Why do greenhouse gases absorb heat?
ing the school bus. It was already cloudy A. They consist of only one specific
and the TV news reported that there molecule and are rigid in structure all heat
would be rain all day long in Houston. to be absorbed
A. weather B. They consist of 2 or more molecules
B. climate which makes them rigid in structure allow-
ing heat to bounce off.
3235. The biggest factor in determining cli-
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C. They consist of one type of molecule
mate is? making it flexible allowing heat to be ab-
A. elevation sorbed.
B. ocean currents D. They consist of 2 or more molecules
making them flexible and allowing them to
C. latitude absorb heat.
D. mountains
3240. light rain or drizzle
3236. describes how much sunlight a sur- A. cold front
face reflects. B. warm front
A. The boy 3241. Places situated at higher altitudes expe-
B. Albedo rience a climate.
C. Surface Cover A. Moderate
D. Rainier B. Hot
C. Extremely Hot
3237. Does this picture show weather or cli-
D. Cold
mate?
3242. Sticky pads on feet is adaptation of
A. New world monkey
B. Red eyed frog
3243. Nevada usually receives very little rain-
fall is an example of
A. weather
A. Weather B. climate
B. Climate 3244. What is severe weather?
3238. Which wind is called the anti-trade

wind?
A. Westerlies
B. Polar easterlies A. Incontrollably weather
C. The easterlies B. Natural Disasters
D. Trade wind C. Environmental disasters
E. Polar wind D. Extreme weather

3245. As you move towards the poles, what 3250. What does the picture show?
happens to temperature?

A. temperature becomes hotter
B. temperature becomes colder
A. climate
B. weather
3251. The lowest average temperature that

occurs in this city is:
A. the 3 forms of water

B. the movement of water on, above, or
below the surface of the Earth
C. when water melts
D. when clouds form
3247. The liquid present in a thermometer is A. 0 Degrees

*
B. 5 Degrees
A. mercury
C. 10 Degrees
B. water
D. 15 Degrees
C. sulphuric acid
3252. This climate in Spain has mild tempera-
D. none of above
tures in summer and very low in winters.
3248. A polar air mass will have what kind of A. Mediterranean
air in it? B. Oceanic
A. Warm C. Mountain
B. Cold D. Subtropical
C. Humid
3253. As the water vapour cools, it condenses,
D. Dry forming tiny droplets around dust particles
in the atmosphere. These droplets gather
3249. It has got HOT AND WET climate together to form
A. Sahara desert A. gases
B. Antarctica B. smoke
C. Tropical desert C. clouds
D. none of above D. new land

3254. Biomes of the World:This one shows 3258. What type of front forms when a cold
wide diversity of temperatures, rainfall, front slows down and stops as warm air
and soil. Savannas are included; Fires are moves toward it?
a huge threat to this biome. A. cold front
B. warm front
C. stationary front
D. occluded front
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3259. Temperature drops quickly. Strong
winds, heavy precipitation.
A. Deciduous Forest
B. Desert
C. Grassland
D. Tundra
3255. When water vapor s cooled and forms
droplets- A. Cold Front
A. Condensation B. Warm Front
B. Evaporation C. Stationary Front
C. Transpiration D. Occluded Front
D. Run-off 3260. What is the weather like in this picture?
3256. What are the 3 major climate zones in
order from equator to the poles?
B. tropical, temperate, polar
C. temperate, polar, tropical
D. none of above
3257. Where is the equator line on the world A. Sunny and Warm
map? B. Rainy and Cool
C. Windy and Rainy
D. Cool and Sunny
3261. High pressure causes weather.
A. cloudy
A. Bottom B. clear
B. Bottom middle 3262. Climate types can be classified into
C. Top many different categories
D. Middle A. True
E. Top middle B. False

3263. This morning we didn’t have to go to 3268. Warm air masses typically have
school because it snowed! A. High pressure and clear weather

B. High pressure and rainy/stormy
weather
C. Low pressure and clear weather
D. Low pressure and rainy/stormy
weather
3269. This the

A. Weather
B. Climate
3264. The enhanced greenhouse effect leads to

global warming.
A. cloud
B. fog
C. rain
D. sun
A. True 3270. CLIMATE is

A. *The AVERAGE weather conditions of
B. False
a place over A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME
3265. What is Solar energy? B. *The AVERAGE weather conditions of
A. The sun is a star a place over A LONG PERIOD OF TIME
C. Climate AFFECT LIVING THINGS
B. Gas ball
D. it´s constantly CHANGING
C. Radiant light and heat
D. A bunny 3271. As ocean water evaporates, what effect
does this have on the surrounding air?
3266. There is a flash flood warning for our A. The temperature increases.
area.
B. The temperature and humidity in-
A. Weather crease.
B. Climate C. The temperature and humidity de-
crease.
3267. hot climate:equator::cold climate:
D. The temperature decreases.
A. equator
3272. It refers to the arrangement of the nat-
B. desert
ural andartificial physical features of the
C. poles area.
D. none of above A. Latitude

B. Altitude 3276. Precipitation is

C. Topography A. rain, sleet, snow or hail.
D. Ocean Current B. only snow, sleet, and hail.
3273. What is NOT a benefit of using a scien- C. only rain.
tific model? D. none of above
A. It can be used to visualize a complex 3277. What is a “Storm” in meteorology?
idea or concept.
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A. A light, gentle rain.
B. It can lose some accuracy in order to
make it simple enough to use. B. A calm and clear weather condition.
C. It can represent something too small C. A disturbance in the atmosphere char-
or large to manipulate. acterized by strong winds, rain, or snow.
D. It can be safer, quicker, and less ex- D. A sudden drop in temperature.
pensive for the scientist to work with. 3278. The doldrums are characterized by
3274. How does the temperature change as A. high pressure
you go up in elevation? B. cool temperatures
C. weak winds
D. heavy air
3279. What makes up 78% of gasses in our
atmosphere
A. oxygen
A. The temperature gets colder as you go
up B. carbon dioxide
B. The temperature gets warmer as you C. nitrogen
go up D. none of above
C. The temperature stays the same as 3280. Which of the following is not the season
you go up of India
D. none of above A. Climate
3275. What is climate? B. Rainy
C. Winter
D. Weather
3281. From where does the majority of the
precipitation that falls on land originate?
A. Weather conditions over a short pe- A. Evaporation from lakes and rivers.
riod of time B. Water that evaporates from plants and
B. The average temperature other living organisms.
C. Weather conditions over a long period C. Evaporation from the ocean.
of time D. Moisture that permanently resides in
D. The average rainfall amount the atmosphere.

3282. What weather element shows the pic- B. Warm

ture?
C. Stationary

D. Occluded

A. The daily changes in temperature
B. The long-term pattern of weather in an
A. Air temperature area
B. Precipitation C. The study of different types of clouds
C. Wind
D. none of above
D. none of above
3288. 90o North
3283. Which best describes weather?
A. Summers are usually hot and dry. A. North Pole
B. Yesterday it was cold and windy. B. South Pole
3284. What is a thermometer? 3289. Which climate has low temperatures?

A. . huge amounts of air that form over A. Tropical
parts of the earth
B. Polar
B. any form of water that falls to the earth
from the air C. Desert
C. shows weather conditions over a large D. none of above
area at a particular time
D. measures the temperature of the air 3290. what instrument measures humidity
3285. When snow and rain fall together is A. bantometer

called B. thermometer
A. Sleet C. hygrometer
B. Hail
D. none of above
C. Drizzle
D. none of above 3291. A tropical low-pressure system with
winds blowing at speeds of 74 mi/h or
3286. Which type of front is displayed? more.
A. lightning
B. thudnerstorm
C. tornado
D. hurricane
A. Cold E. storm surge

3292. When plants give off water vapor 3296. Water that falls to Earth as rain, snow,
through their stomata, it is called sleet, or hail is
A. measure
B. precipitation
C. pattern
D. data
3297. Read the following environmental con-
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ditions of tropical rainforests.(i) Hot and
A. perspiration humid climate(ii) Unequal lengths of day
and night(iii) Abundant rainfall(iv) Abun-
B. transpiration dant light and moistureIdentify the condi-
C. evaporation tions from the above list that are respon-
sible for the presence of large number of
D. run off
plants and animals in tropical rain forests.
3293. Which is a pattern that occurs in air? A. (i)and(ii)
A. Warm air rises and cool air sinks B. (i) and (iii)
B. Cool air rises and warm air sinks C. (i), (iii) and (iv)
C. Both warm and cool air rise together D. (ii) and (iv)
D. There is not a pattern with air move- 3298. Rain fall is measured by
ment A. Rainmeter
3294. Which shows a cirrus cloud? B. Rain guage
3299. What causes snowfall?
A.
A. Humidity causes snowfall
B. Distance from the forests cause snow-
fall
B. C. None of the above
D. none of above
3300. Warm ocean currents bring to the
nearby land.
C.
A. moisture and warmth
B. cool/cold
D. none of above
3301. Which is continent F?
3295. what are scales used for thermometer?
A. Celsius
B. Kelvin
C. Fahrenheit
D. none A. North America

B. Australasia A. Northeast
C. Europe B. Northwest

D. Africa C. Southeast
E. Antarctica
D. Southwest
3302. Why does low air pressure usually indi-
cate bad weather? 3307. Air in the atmosphere is 78%
A. It puts people in low spirits. A. Einsteinium
B. Storms form in low pressure. B. nitrogen
C. It means cold weather is coming. C. oxygen
D. The humidity is always low.
D. carbon dioxide
3303. A cold front
3308. What kind of weather will San Antonio
A. pushes cold air up causing the cold air
experience in the next couple of days?
mass to warm and form clouds
B. pushes warm air up causing the warm
air mass to cool and form clouds
C. pushes warm air up causing the warm
air mass to cool and form clear skies
D. pushes warm air up causing the warm
air mass to heat and form clear skies
3304. Cold ocean currents bring to the

nearby land. A. warm and sunny
A. warmth and moisture B. thunderstorms
B. cool/cold C. cloudy with mild precipitation
3305. The tropical rainforest has experienced D. dry and warm
50 to 260 inches of rainfall annually for
the last few decades. 3309. Under sea mountain ranges are called:
A. Weather
B. Climate
3306. What direction is the warm front mov-

ing?
A. deep sea trench

B. aquatic ranges
C. mid-ocean ridges
D. salty hills

3310. Evaporation happens when the sun 3314. Which temperature of air weighs more?
water and turns it into vapor.
A. warm
B. cold
3315. to find out how much there is

A. measure
B. temperature
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C. weather
D. climates
A. cools 3316. A boundary between two air masses
B. heats up A. Air mass
C. freezes B. Front
D. lights up C. Storm surge
3311. Where is it warmer in the winter? D. Fog
A. On the coast E. Jet Stream
B. Inland
3317. Climate includes the average over
3312. Weather Symbol:L represents many years. Check all that apply.
A. low air pressure A. precipitation
B. high air pressure B. temperature

C. humidity
3313. What is this weather instrument called?
It shows meteorlogist which way the wind D. none of above
is blowing.
3318. The map shows climates in Africa. A
rainforest is a place with a warm climate
that gets lots of rain. Where are the rain-
forests in Africa?
A. Anemometer A. In the middle on the west side.

B. Wind Vane B. At the very end of the tip in the south.
C. Barometer C. Almost everywhere on the east side.
D. Thermostat D. In the widest part to the north.

3319. What are the names of the six layers of 3322. How much rainfall does Anqing recieve
the atmosphere shown? in September?

A. 1. Thermosphere, 2. Exosphere, 3. A. 10 inches
Ionosphere, 4. Mesosphere, 5. Strato- B. 80 inches
sphere, 6. Troposphere
C. 4 inches
B. 1. Troposphere, 2. Thermosphere, 3.
Stratosphere, 4. Mesosphere, 5. exo- D. 1 inches
sphere, 6. Ionosphere 3323. What climate is extremely cold all year
C. 1. Troposphere, 2. Stratosphere, 3. round?
Mesosphere, 4. Ionosphere, 5. Exo-
A. Polar
sphere, 6. Thermosphere
B. Mild
D. 1. Exosphere, 2. Troposphere, 3.
Stratosphere, 4. Mesosphere, 5. Iono- C. Tropical
sphere, 6. Thermosphere D. Desert
3320. The weather is the same all over the
3324. The atmospheric pressure with an
world.
increase in altitude/height.
A. True
A. decreases
B. False
B. increases
3321. The weight of the air on the Earth’s sur-
C. remains same
face is
D. none of above
3325. When Andy talked to his cousin in Ohio,

she said it was raining. It was snowing
at Andy’s house in Pennsylvania. What is
the main reason for the difference in pre-
cipitation in the two locations?
A. Atmospheric pressure A. air pressure
B. Precipitation B. humidity
C. Temperature C. temperature
D. Wind D. wind speed

3326. TRUE or FALSE”The Sun’s rays are

stronger when they are closer to the
poles.”
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A. North Pole
A. TRUE B. Hong Kong
B. FALSE C. South Pole
D. Equator
Explanation:
3331. Which tool measures air pressure?
The Sun’s rays are stronger when they are A. Thermometer
closer to the EQUATOR. B. hygrometer
3327. What are the factors affecting Climate? C. Barometer
Tick all of the correct options.Then click D. Anemometer
submit.
A. Climate 3332. What changes daily?
B. Distance from Sea A. weather
C. Distance from Equator B. seasons
D. Winter Season 3333. Low to mid-level clouds. They are big,

white, puffy, and beautiful clouds. They
3328. Suppose you take a vacation to a place usually mean good weather unless they
located 10* North of the equator. Which grow really tall and turn into cumulonim-
activity would MOST likely be available in bus clouds
your location?
A. Cloud
A. Cross-country skiing
B. hygrometer
B. Snowboarding
C. Cumulus
C. Ice fishing
D. Thermometer
D. Scuba diving
3334. what is weather?
3329. It is cool tonight to wear a short pants
A. a hot front
A. climate
B. a cold front
B. weather
C. the same thing as climate
3330. Where receives the most sunlight and D. temperature over a short period of
heat? time

3335. What is step 4 on the picture of the wa- 3338. What happens when air reaches its dew
ter cycle? point?

A. More evaporation that condensation
occurs
B. More condensation that evaporation
occurs
C. Evaporation and condensation are
equal
D. The air is without moisture
A. Runoff and Collection 3339. The amount of water vapor in the air-
B. Condensation A. generalization
C. Evaporation B. humidity
D. Precipitation C. climate
3336. How do Ocean currents affect the cli- D. none of above

mate for a given area? 3340. What type of weather can you expect
A. Warm Ocean currents warm the cli- from a Low pressure system?
mate of land next to them A. warm weather
B. Warm Ocean currents warm the cli- B. sunny, clear weather
mate of land far away
C. stormy, cloudy weather
C. Trick question! Warm Ocean currents
D. cold weather
do NOT affect anything.
D. Warm Ocean currents mix with cold 3341. Which of the following is not a periodic
ocean currents:no effect wind
A. Monsoon Wind
3337. Which two are false?
B. Sea breeze
C. Westerlies
D. Land breeze
3342. What is a true fact about the meso-

sphere?
A. it is the hottest layer
B. meteors burn up here
A. Occluded fronts are the most common
C. the ozone layer is found here
front
D. Northern Lights happen here
B. Stationary fronts stay still
C. Weather is how it feels outside over a 3343. What is the effect of the flow of the
long period of time Gulf Stream Current on Clifden, Ireland
D. The symbol for a cold front is blue tri- A. It keeps the coastal area cool.
angles B. It makes the climate warmer.

C. It makes it rain less. 3349. What kind of front results in thunder-

D. It makes the climate colder. storms?
A. warm front
3344. A low pressure system usually causes
B. cold front
A. Clearing Weather
C. occluded front
B. Wet Weather
D. stationary front
C. Fair Weather
3350. Based on the data in the chart above, on
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D. No weather which day was there probably a storm?
3345. Which city has the LOWEST air pres-
sure?
A. September 1
B. September 5
C. September 3
D. September 2
A. Atlanta, Georgia 3351. Which of these statements can describe
B. Cheyenne, Wyoming the climate of an area?
C. Lansing, Michigan A. Warm and humid year round
D. Phoenix, Arizona B. Rainstorm coming on Tuesday
C. Hurricane happening in August
3346. Which of the following briefly describes
the desert climate? D. March snowfall of up to 6 inches
A. Hot and humid 3352. A High Pressure system generally
B. Dry and humid brings
C. Hot and dry A. Wet Weather

B. Clear Skies
D. Hot and wet
C. Thunderstorms
3347. Earth is unevenly heated due to its?
D. Tornadoes
A. oceans and moon
3353. During a sea breeze which way does the
B. tilt and shape wind blow?
C. gravity and clouds A. from the land to the sea
D. climate and weather B. from the sea to the land
3348. Mountains can affect weather; so it can 3354. If I have two locations in the same lati-
be raining on one side and sunny on the tude, they will always have the same type
other side. of climate.
A. True A. True
B. False B. False

3355. This occurs when the weather stays the A. Stationary

same for days or weeks at a time.
B. Warm

A. Stratosphere
C. Cold
B. Cloud
D. Occluded
C. Density
D. Weather pattern 3360. Which of the following causes a vortex
to form?
3356. Weather is the same as climate.
A. uneven heating
A. True
B. rotation of Earth
B. False
C. force of gravity
3357. What is a sea breeze, and why does it D. all of these
occur?
A. Sea breezes are winds that travel from 3361. The amount of water vapor in the atmo-
the sea over the shore. They occur be- sphere.
cause the air above the land is warmer A. Saturation
than the air above the ocean.
B. Vaporicity
B. Sea breezes are winds that travel from
shore towards the sea. They occur be- C. Absolute Humidity
cause the air above the sea is warmer D. Relative Humidity
than the air above the land.
C. Sea breezes are mid-ocean convection 3362. In what layer of Earth’s atmosphere
currents that form over relatively warm does weather occur?
waters like the Gulf Stream. They were A. mesosphere
important in navigation.
B. troposphere
D. Sea breezes are currents in the air just
over the ocean’s surface at the equator. C. thermosphere
They are formed by heat rising from the D. stratosphere
warm ocean and the earth’s rotation
3363. Heat reaches the sun through
3358. This form of heat transfer happens
when the warm ground touches the atmo- A. Convection
sphere. B. Conduction
A. radiation C. Radiation
B. conduction
D. none of above
C. convection
D. conservation 3364. Winds blowing In Sahara Desert are
A. Hot
3359. What type of front is depicted by this
symbol? B. cold
C. Humid
D. none of above

3365. Every few years, an event occurs A. Latitude

in which the water in the eastern Pa- B. Humidity
cific Ocean become warmer. This event
changes weather patterns worldwide, C. Cool Temperatures
causing droughts, floods, blizzards, hurri- D. none of above
canes and tornadoes. What is the name of
this event? 3370. What does this symbol represent on a
weather map?
A. The girl
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B. The boy
C. Neither of these
D. none of above
3366. In which layer of the atmosphere does

weather occur?
A. cold front
A. troposphere
B. warm front
B. stratosphere
C. occluded front
C. thermosphere
D. stationary front
D. none of above
3371. Hot air sinks, Cool air rises
3367. What areas have extremely cold win-
ters and very mild summers? A. True
A. polar zone B. False
B. temperate zone 3372. In order for air to release precipitation,

C. tropical zone the humidity level must reach
D. none of above A. 25%

B. 50%
3368. What kind of cloud most resembles a
feather in the sky? C. 100%
A. Cumulus D. 0%
B. Cumulonimbus 3373. True or False:Some greenhouse gases

C. Cirrus are naturally present in the Earth’s atmo-
sphere
D. Stratus
A. True
3369. A climate zone is determined by B. False
3374. Which affects a place’s climate the

most?
A. Amount of trees
B. Rocks
C. Amount of fish
D. Oceans and mountains

3375. Ocean currents follow regular patterns 3380. High speed winds that circle the Earth
related to and effect weather are

A. latitude
B. longitude
C. temperature
D. climate
3376. Identify a function of an anemometer:

A. Tells the direction of the wind A. Local Winds
B. Mercury expands in hot weather B. Jet Streams
C. Cups catch the wind and turn the dial C. Super Winds
D. Measures humidity D. Gulf Streams
3377. What is measured by a weather radar? 3381. What weather occurrence is described
as a rotating column of air which forms
A. Cloud size
over dry land?
B. Precipitation location
A. Hurricane
C. Wind direction
B. Thunderstorm
D. Temperature
C. Sand storm
3378. Identify the climate factors in each sen-
D. Tornado
tence below.”Hurricanes can cause dam-
age to our homes” 3382. What is this an image of?
A. Air temperature
B. Precipitation
C. Wind
D. none of above
3379. The 4 types of climate in Spain are

A. Mediterranean
B. Oceanic
C. Subtropical
A. Sling Psychrometer
D. Mountain
B. Anemometer
C. Thermometer
D. Rain gauge
3383. The model shows how the sun heats

Earth at different latitudes. How does this
affect climate at different latitudes?

A. 82%
B. 64%
C. 66%
D. 80%
3386. humidity
A. weather only
A. The sun heats all of Earth so climates
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are similar throughout the globe. B. climate only
B. The sun heats Earth’s atmosphere and C. weather and climate
oceans, causing all of the warm air to con- D. none of above
centrate at the equator.
C. The uneven heating of Earth by the sun 3387. Climate changes may be linked to
causes the climate to be warm and dry at changes in on the surface of the sun.
the equator and cold and wet toward the A. sunspots
poles.
B. amount of water
D. The angle of sunlight is different at dif-
C. the color
ferent latitudes, which causes the climate
to be warm at the equator and colder to- D. the temperature
ward the poles.
3388. Which type of weather most likely oc-
3384. Large bodies of water affect climate be- curs in a high pressure area?
cause A. clear
A. Water heats up and cools more slowly B. foggy
than land.
C. rainy
B. Water heats up and cools faster than
land. D. snowy
3385. If the dry bulb temperature is 20 de- 3389. Which symbol represents a warm front?
grees Celsius, and the wet bulb tempera- A.
ture is 16 degrees Celsius, what is the rel-
ative humidity?
B.
C.
D.
3390. “my home town is warm this season”

A. weather
B. climate
C. both
D. nether

3391. What is air pressure?

A. the weight of the air over a given point

B. all the gases and air that are around
the earth
C. used to measure air pressure
D. someone who studies and predicts the
weather
3392. What is this weather instrument?
A. Weather map
B. Meteorologists
C. Meteorite
D. Weather forecast
3395. When a gas turns into a liquid is which
part of the water cycle?
A. barometer
A. Condensation
B. rain gauge
B. Evaporation
C. thermometer
C. Precipitation
D. wind vane D. Transpiration
3393. Which type of air would you find at air 3396. The changing conditions of atmosphere
mass C? is called
A. Climate
B. Weather
C. Temperature
D. Tropical
in the future. To do this, we need to know
what the weather is like in the area right
now. To make the prediction, it would also
A. cold, dry be most helpful to know what else?
B. warm, humid A. If the area has many weather instru-
ments
C. warm, dry
B. How many people live in this area
D. cold, humid
C. The weather patterns in this area in
3394. The scientific data from the atmosphere the past
that predicts the weather is called D. The size of the biggest city in this area

3398. Are hurricanes, typhons, and cyclones B. Warm Front

tha names of the same type of storms? C. Stationary Front
A. Yes D. Occluded Front
B. No
3399. Describes the condition of the air out- A. Conduction
doors, such as temperature, cloud cover, B. Radiation
wind speed, and rainfall.
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C. Convection
A. weather
D. none of above
B. climate
3404. As altitude increases,
C. precipitation
A. humidity increases
D. humidity
B. humidity decreases
3400. What type of water do hurricanes form C. barometric pressure decreases
over? D. barometric pressure increases
A. Cold
3405. Which season is taking place in the
B. Warm Northern Hemisphere in Position 1?
C. Both
D. none of above
3401. Describes the condition of the air

outdoors-
A. climate
B. average temperature A. Winter
C. weather B. Spring
D. none of above C. Summer

D. Fall
3402. Name that symbol.
3406. True or False:In nature, water is always
changing state
A. True
B. False
3407. What is a wall along the banks of a river
or other body of water that serves to keep
water behind it?
A. Cold Front

A. flood 3411. Which Texas city will experience a drop

B. floodway in temperature first over the next few
days?

C. levee
D. reservoir A. Brownsville
3408. Scientists predict that global warming B. Corpus Christi

could cause C. Houston
A. milder temperatures overall.
D. dallas
B. an increase in hurricanes.
C. a decrease in droughts. 3412. Which climate zone is typically found be-
D. less intense heat waves. tween the tropics and the poles and usu-
ally has 4 seasons?
3409. How do latitude, altitude, and distance
from the sea affect climate? A. Tropical
A. They have no impact on climate B. Mediterranean
B. They influence temperature, precipita- C. Temperate
tion, and atmospheric pressure.
D. Arid
C. They cause earthquakes and volcanic
eruptions
3413. It was cloudy and rainy all weekend.
D. They only affect the color of the sky
A. Weather
3410. A student needs approximately 250 mL
of water for an experiment. Which letter B. Climate
in the illustrationbestrepresents this esti-
mate? 3414. Ocean currents influence weather.
Which ocean current directly affects the
weather along the southernmost coast of
the eastern United States?
A. Gulf Stream
B. Monsoon Current
C. North Atlantic Drift
D. South Pacific Equatorial Current
3415. What type of weather would a cP mass

from Canada bring?
A. Lots of snow and ice
A. W
B. Extremely cold weather
B. X
C. Y C. Warm, humid weather
D. Z D. Hot and dry weather

3416. affects weather and climate because A. 0o

it heats the Earth unevenly. B. 45o
C. 60o
D. Earth’s tilt does not offset the seasons.
3421. Jackson and Lincoln are both within the
Temperate climate zone. Jackson averages
25 inches of precipitation per year. Lin-
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coln averages 43 inches. Which of these
factors could account for the greater pre-
A. latitude
cipitation at Lincoln?
B. altitude
A. More trees
C. atmosphere
B. Fewer animals
D. sunlight C. Greater elevation
3417. Temperatures in this zone rarely rise D. Nearness to an ocean
above 50 degrees Fahrenheit in the
warmest month. 3422. A hot air balloon rising is an example of
A. polar zone
B. temperate zone
C. tropical zone
D. none of above
3418. How is fall different than summer?

A. fall is colder and days are shorter A. conduction
B. fall is warmer and plants are beginning B. convection
to bloom C. radiation
C. fall is cold and the days are the short- D. connection
est of the year
3423. When a warm air mass overtakes a cold
D. none of above
air mass it is called a
3419. What would be the effect on global
weather patterns if water stopped evap-
orating from oceans?
A. large-scale winds would not occur
B. tornadoes would not occur
C. ocean currents would not occur
D. precipitation would not occur A. Warm Front
B. Stationary Front
3420. What angle would Earth’s tilt need to
be in order for there to be NO seasons on C. Cold Front
Earth? D. none of above

3424. Compared to the base of a mountain, B. condensation

the peak will have C. precipitation

A. warmer temperatures and denser air D. atmosphere
B. warmer temperatures and less dense
air 3429. Dome Fuji (Antarctica) is always cold.
C. colder temperature and denser air
D. colder temperatures and less dense
air
3425. The following are albedo values for

three objects:Object 1 = 0.83Object 2 =
0.24Object 3 = 0.05Which of these objects
best absorbs incoming radiation? A. Weather.
A. Object 1 B. Climate.
B. Object 2
C. Object 3
A. Long term patterns over an area that
D. None of these objects absorb incoming changes slowly
radiation
B. day to day changes of temperature,
3426. What does symbol # 3 mean? precipitation, and air pressure.
C. Month to month changes of atmo-
spheric conditions
D. Long term patterns over an area that
changes quickly.
3431. Which atmospheric factor most defines

a very hot and muggy day?
A. stationary front A. Smog
B. occluded front B. Relative Humidity
C. warm front C. Fog
D. cold front D. Low Pressure
3427. Most of our atmosphere is made up of 3432. the state of the atmosphere at a partic-
this gas ular place and time as regards heat, cloudi-
A. Oxygen ness, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc
B. Nitrogen A. Weather
C. Carbon dioxide B. Climate
D. Argon 3433. What is weather?
3428. What is the layer of air that surrounds A. the weather a place has over a long
Earth? time.
A. water vapor B. the daily conditions outside.

C. the height of land above water, D. Scientific experiments cannot disprove

D. none of above the current model of the atom.
3434. Most weather takes place in the 3439. Many of the Earth’s weather patterns
are influenced by ocean currents. What
A. stratosphere causes ocean currents?
B. thermosphere A. Difference in water temperature
C. troposphere B. Differences in ocean salinity levels
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D. mesosphere C. Ocean currents are influenced by
3435. Which kind of wind blows across most winds, water temperature, and salinity dif-
of the United States? ferences.
A. Polar Easterlies D. Surface winds
B. Prevailing Westerlies 3440. What kind of weather would you expect

C. Trade Winds in a low pressure system?
D. Polar Windbacks A. Rain

B. Clear skies
3436. What is temperature?
3441. Show an increasing number of events
A. ocean currents
B. weather and climate
C. rain, sleet, hail, snow
D. the hotness or coldness of anything
3437. Water travels downhill and gathers in
rivers, lakes, and oceans
A. Evaporation
B. Run-off/Collection A. Data
C. Condensation B. Trend
D. Transpiration C. Typical
3438. Models of atoms have changed many D. calendar
times as scientists continued to study
3442. Which of these is an example of precip-
them. After many science experiments
itation?
throughout history, the model has been
changed to what we know today. Why A. snow
was the model of the atom changed? B. air
A. Scientists continue to discover new C. clouds
atomic elements but the model of the D. vapor
atom has not changed.
B. Scientists still cannot agree on a cor- 3443. During a land breeze which way does
rect model for an atom. the wind blow?
C. The atomic model was modified as new A. from the sea to the land
evidence was encountered. B. from the land to the sea

3444. Mountains can block the winds impact- A. Exosphere, thermosphere, meso-
ing an areas climate? sphere, stratosphere, troposhere

A. True B. Troposphere, stratosphere, meso-
sphere, thermosphere, exosphere
B. False
C. Troposphere, mesosphere, thermo-
3445. What type of clouds are pictured? sphere, stratosphere, exosphere
D. Stratosphere, mesosphere, exo-
sphere, thermosphere, tropospehere
3449. Which front is this?
A. Cumulous
B. Stratus
C. Cirrus
D. none of above
3446. Melting ice could be a model for which A. Warm front

part of the water cycle? B. Cold front
A. evaporation C. Occluded front
B. condensation D. Stationary front
C. precipitation 3450. This symbol represents a:
D. runoff
3447. What do hurricanes, tornadoes, and

dust storms have in common?
A. Hurricanes, tornadoes and dust
storms do not have anything in common
B. Hurricanes, tornadoes and dust A. cold front
storms only happen in the tropics B. stationary front
C. Hurricanes, tornadoes, and dust C. warm front
storms are all natural hazards with strong D. occluded front
winds. They can be dangerous for people
living in places where they happen 3451. The farther a place from the equator,
it gets
D. Hurricanes, tornadoes and dust
storms all happen at the equator A. Hotter
B. Colder
3448. Which correctly depicts the layers of the
atmosphere starting from the Earth’s sur- C. Mild climate
face? D. none of above

3452. Which of the following is used to mea- B. How much water vapor is in the air
sure temperature? C. How hot or cold something is
D. Rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls from
clouds in the sky
A.
E. THEY HAVE A FEVER
3455. Which continent is A?
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B.
A. North America
B. South America
C. Europe
D. Africa
E. Asia
3456. What is a wind vane used for?

C. A. Measure the temperature in degrees
Celcius
south, east, west
D. Measures the wind speed in mph
E. Measures the precipitation in mm
D.
3457. What are the types of Barometer
A. Mercury Barometer
B. Aneroid Barometer
C. Android Barometer
3453. what is latitdue? D. Mercury Thermometer
A. it is the worst factor
3458. The area with the coldest climate is
B. it is the most important factor known as the zone.
C. it is just latitude A. Polar
D. it is just a normal line B. Tropical
3454. What is Temperature C. Temperate
A. The current outdoor conditions D. Freezing

3459. How do winds behave in a cyclone? 3464. Gentle wind is called

A. They spiral toward the center. A. breeze

B. They spiral out toward low pressure B. storm
areas.
C. gale
C. They are very calm.
D. none of above
D. They travel in two different locations.
3460. This provides the power to keep the wa- 3465. In the continental United States, air
ter cycle running. masses are commonly moved by jet
streams and the
A. The Sun
A. prevailing westerlies
B. The Earth
B. stationary fronts
C. The wind
C. storm surges
D. living things
D. anticyclones
3461. Temperature is measured in
A. degrees 3466. The amount of rain in an area has de-
creased over the past 100 years
B. inches
A. Weather
C. centimeters
D. feet B. Climate
3462. What do the red line represent on a cli- 3467. (True or False) Longitude is a factor of
mate graph? climate.
A. True
B. False
3468. What is a wind vane?

A. A tool that measures wind direction
A. Months B. A tool that measures wind speed
B. Temperature C. A tool that measures wind strength
C. Precipitation D. A tool that measures wind tempera-

ture
D. Axis
3463. The blanket of gases that surrounds the 3469. Which of these countries doesn’t belong
Earth to polar regions
A. Lithosphere A. Alaska
B. Atmosphere B. Greenland
C. Hydrosphere C. Indonesia
D. Green House Effect D. Finland

3470. This photo represents a climate 3475. Tropical

A. warm, moist climate zone near the
equator
B. the process by which water molecules
ter vapor
C. any form of water that falls from
clouds and reaches Earth’s surface
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D. colder air, heavy rain, thunderstorms,
A. Tropical snow
B. Polar 3476. A hurricane that hits the coast of the
C. Temperate southeastern United states is most likely
formed in the
D. none of above
A. pacific ocean near hawaii
3471. Cloud cover is measured in B. in the arctic ocean north of canada
A. Vanes C. equatorial region of the atlantic ocean
B. Millibars D. atlantic ocean off the new england

coast
C. Octas
3477. what type of cloud is shown?
D. Miles
3472. An air mass gets temperature and hu-

midity from
A. the latitude in which it forms
B. the air masses that surround it
C. changes in the upper atmosphere
A. cumulus
D. the land or water over which it forms
B. cirrus
3473. Thin white sheets of clouds are termed C. stratus
as D. none of above
A. Stratus
3478. In convection, COOL air
B. Cumulus A. Rises
C. Cloud B. Sinks
D. none of above 3479. Central heating from buildings can
warm the surrounding area making it hot-
3474. Burning fossil fuels adds more green- ter near buildings than in an open space on
house gases to the air a cold day
A. TRUE A. True
B. FALSE B. False

3480. This weather tool is used to measure 3483. THE ANTARCTIC CIRCLE IS A
A. HOT ZONE

B. COLD ZONE
C. TEMPERATE ZONE
D. none of above
3484. The sun’s heat is distributed and circu-
lated throughout the world by
A. water and air
B. rain shadows
C. water cycles
D. global warming
3485. The city Antonio lives in is located at lat-
itude 33◦ N, longitude 92◦ W. The city Ale-
jandra lives in is located at latitude 43◦ N,
A. wind direction.
longitude 90◦ W. What would you expect
B. the wind direction. to be the main difference between their cli-
C. the temperature outside. mates?
D. wind speed.
3481. Distances east or west of the Prime

Meridian
A. latitude
B. longitude A. humidity
C. Tropic of Cancer B. precipitation
D. Tropic of Capricorn C. temperature
D. wind direction
3482. What type of air would be associated
with the air mass “B”? 3486. Choose which answer(s) are possible ef-
fects of rapid atmosphere warming:
A. Increased hurricanes and typhoons
B. Increased diseases
C. Disastrous forest fires
D. Starvation of the poorest populations
3487. What is an example of revolution?
A. cold with a lot of moisture
A. Earth traveling around the sun
B. warm with a lot of moisture B. Earth spinning on its axis
C. cold and dry C. The sun traveling around Earth
D. warm and dry D. The sun spinning on its axix

3488. The air cools 1◦ C for every 1-5 meters

in height.
A. True
B. False
3489. i am hot i have little animal but only a
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few plant what am i
A. desert
B. tundra
C. grasslands
D. Tropacol rain forest A. measures the direction of the wind

B. measures the speed of the wind
3490. The atmospheric pressure is lower in 3493. Climate is the average condition of a
low areas place for
A. True A. Weeks
B. Years
B. False
3494. The force of air molecules pushing on an
area
3491. what does a wind vane measure?
A. Air mass
B. Air pressure
C. Dew point
D. Fog
E. Jet Stream
3495. Trapping earths heat near or at the sur-

face of the earth is known as
A. Greenhouse Effect
A. wind direction B. Global Warming
B. wind speed C. Global Climate Change
D. none of above
C. wind pressure
3496. We wear cotton clothes during the sum-
D. humidity in the wind mer months
A. CLIMATE
3492. What does this tool do? B. WEATHER

3497. What is the ‘median’? 3502. If there was a chance of precipitation on

A. The average of a set of date Friday, what type would it most likely be?

B. The difference between the biggest A. rain
and smallest number B. sleet
C. The middle number of a set of date C. snow
D. The total of all of the data added to- D. hail
gether
3503. What are seasons?
3498. A sudden change in temperature can af-
A. A pattern of increasing temperature.
fect current weather conditions in a spe-
cific area. Changes in average weather B. Changes in weather from one week to
conditions over 30 years or more result in another.
the area’s- C. Rainy and warm periods that occur in
A. precipitation different locations.
B. climate D. A pattern of weather changes through-
C. air mass out a year.
D. forecast 3504. The amount of water that falls in a place

is
3499. Air that moves horizontally, or parallel
to the ground.
A. precipitation
B. visibility
C. wind
D. air pressure
A. Atmospheric pressure
weather:Is is raining in Rocky Mountain B. Precipitation
National Park. C. Temperature
A. climate D. Wind
B. weather
3505. The variation in the shapes of
3501. Ecosystem is snowflakes is a result of differences in
A. A group of LIVING THINGS In the same

territory A. humidity
B. Is a community of NON LIVING B. temperature
THINGS that INTERACT with EACH OTHER C. humidity and temperature
and THEIR ENVIRONMENT
D. neither humidity or temperature
C. Is a community of LIVING THINGS that
INTERACT with EACH OTHER and THEIR 3506. It is warmer at the equator because
ENVIRONMENT A. The equator is strongly magnetic and
D. none of above pull sunlight towards it

B. The ice at the poles cools down the A. stratus

rest of the planet
B. cirrus
C. The equator is closer to the sun and
gets sunlight more directly C. altonimbus
D. The equator spins faster than the D. cumulus
poles
3511. The following are the elements of
3507. Three types of climate zone weather.
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. Tropical
A. Temperature
B. Arctic
B. Humidity
C. Temperate
D. Polar C. rainfall
D. all of the above
3508. Which two points on the map most
likely have similar climates?
3512. An air mass that formed over the ocean
near the equator would probably be-
A. maritime polar
B. maritime tropical
C. continental polar
A. A and C
B. A and B 3513. The weather changes each
C. B and D A. climate
D. C and D
B. winter
3509. Equatorial (Tropical Climates): C. season
A. are located between 10◦ North and
South of the Equator D. temperature
B. has average temperatures of about 3514. What are the two types of local winds?
27◦ C.
C. Experiences about 1500mm of rainfall
per year.
D. All of the above
3510. This photo shows an example of which
type of cloud?
A. Trade and Doldrums

B. Trade and Seabreezes
C. Westerlies and Easterlies
D. Land Breezes and Sea breezes

3515. What is the lowest temperature ever 3519. A tornado’s vortex will form when
recorded on earth?
A. -49.2◦ C

B. -69.2◦ C
C. -89.2◦ C
D. -109.2◦ C
Explanation:Record Value:-89.2◦ C (-
128.6◦ F)Date of Record:21 / 7 [July] A. heavy rain forms.
/1983Length of Record:1912-present B. two different fronts meet.
3516. are made of ice and each has 6 sides C. two different air masses meet.
D. when warm moist air rises over water.
A. snowflakes
B. frost 3520. Assidha is a place belonging to
C. dew A. Hulhan�u Monsoon

B. These are monsoons
D. none of above
3521. What kind of front is shown?
3517. What is a ceilometer used to measure?
A. Rain
B. Clouds
C. Temperature A. stationary
D. Pressure B. warm
C. cold
3518. Plotted on the contour map below are
the locations of five schools. Match D. occluded
3522. Winds are caused by differences in
school.(1.) Point C on map
A. precipitation
B. humidity
C. air pressure
D. turbulence
3523. A pattern of temperature, humidity,

wind and precipitation is called a
A. 0 ft
B. 20 ft
C. 30 ft
D. 10-20 ft
E. 0-10 ft

A. Precipitation 3528. These climates are found on the

coast.They have hot summers and mild
B. Weather
winters.There isn’t much precipitation.
C. Climate
D. Temperature
B. Oceanic climates
3524. Another word for water vapor is- C. Continental Mediterranean climates
A. climate D. Mediterranean climates
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. weather E. Subtropical climates
C. high pressure 3529. This is the line between to masses of
D. humidity cold and warm air.
3525. Weather travels across the U.S. in what

direction?
A. north to south
B. west to east
C. south to north A. Mass
D. east to west B. Front
3526. The higher the specific heat of a mate- C. Stream
rial, the more energy is needed to change D. Boundary
the temperature.
3530. What is true of cirrus clouds?
A. the name means “tuft or curl of hair
B. they appear thin and feather-like
C. they appear puffy like cotton candy
D. they are located high in the sky
E. indicates a change in weather is com-
A. True ing soon
B. False 3531. Which of the following is a true fact

about Hurricanes?
A. The winds in a hurricane blow at a
Explanation: speed of at least 20 miles an hour. Their
speed is often much less than this.
B. North of the equator the winds blow in
a clockwise direction
3527. Puri has an extreme climate.
C. North of the equator the winds in a hur-
A. True ricane blow in an anticlockwise direction
B. False D. none of above

3532. when a warm, less dense air mass over- 3537. Which of the following could result from
takes a cold, dense air mass; brings rain heat being transferred to a substance?
and showers followed by warmer, more [hint:Think about ice, water and water va-

humid weather; moves slowly por]
A. cold front A. The substance changes from a gas to
B. warm front a liquid.
C. stationary front B. The substance changes from a liquid to
D. high pressure system a gas.
3533. What is the rain that freezes before it C. The substance changes from a liquid to
hits the ground? a solid.
A. hail D. The substance changes from a gas to
a solid.
B. rain
C. sleet 3538. Eliana measures the outdoor tempera-
D. snow tures each day for a week at exactly 3:00
pm. The temperatures she records are all
3534. The part of the water cycle where wa- between 25 �C and 30 �C. Eliana concludes
ter heats up, becomes water vapor, and that the climate of her area is tropical.
rises is called What is the most important reason why
A. Condensation her study and conclusion may not be cor-
B. Precipitation rect?
C. Runoff and Collection A. She recorded the temperature at only
D. Evaporation one time of day instead of more often.
B. She made her conclusion based only
3535. Which statements describe parts of the
on temperature and not also on precipita-
water cycle and how clouds form?(1) Wa-
tion.
ter evaporates from the earth’s surface as
it changes from a liquid to a gas.(2) Wa- C. She made her conclusion based on
ter vapor rises with rising, warm air.(3) only 1 week of data instead of over a long
At higher altitudes, where temperatures period of time.
are cool, vapor (along with dust parti-
D. She did not calculate the humidity, air
cles)condenses into drops of water that
pressure, and wind conditions when she
form clouds.(4) Low-pressure conditions
made her conclusion.
also help clouds form
A. All four statements are true 3539. Which of the following is the definition
B. 1, 2, and 4 of weather?
C. 1 and 3 A. the average weather conditions over a
D. 1 and 2 long period of time
3536. There were many flight delays caused B. glaciers

by the snowstorm in New York C. the local, short term state of the atmo-
A. climate sphere
B. weather D. troposphere

3540. snow, sleet, hail, are examples of A. 60 degrees Fahrenheit

A. precipitation B. 30 degrees Fahrenheit
B. condensation C. 100 degrees Fahrenheit
C. evaporation D. 10 degrees Fahrenheit
D. none of above E. 70 degrees Fahrenheit
3541. How do meteorologists predict the up- 3546. Hygrometer is used to
NARAYAN CHANGDER
coming weather of an area? A. rain fall
A. They look at climate patterns for that B. snow fall
area over time.
C. wind speed
B. They use special weather instruments
D. humidity
to measure wind, temperature, air pres-
sure, and precipitation. 3547. Warming of the Earth’s surface that re-
C. They look at what the clouds are doing sults when solar radiation is trapped by
and their water cycles. the atmosphere
D. All of the above A. Global warming
B. Greenhouse effect
3542. Puffy white clouds during nice weather
C. Ice age
A. Cloud
B. Stratus
E. Station model
C. Cumulus
D. Cirrus 3548. Water cycle

is called a
B. atmosphere
A. 1-Evaporation, 2-Precipitation, 3-
C. high pressure system Collection, 4-Condensation
D. front B. 1-Precipitation, 2-Collection, 3-
3544. In the tropical rainforest, it is very hu- Condensation, 4-Evaporation
mid and rains everyday. C. 1-Evaporation, 2-Condensation, 3-
A. Weather Precipitation, 4-Collection
D. none of above
B. Climate
3549. How can you define the wind?
3545. What is the temperature shown on the
first thermometer?

A. It is the movement of air on the sea D. Wind changing the formation of rocks
B. It is the movement of air on the atmo- over time

sphere
3554. What is WEATHER?
C. It is the movement of water on the at-
mosphere
D. none of above
3550. The Sahara Desert is an example of

what kind of climate?
A. Tropical (A)
B. Dry (B)
C. Humid mid-latitude with Mild winters
(C)
A. It’s the state of the Earth at a particu-
D. Continental (D) lar time and place.
3551. Abiotic factors en a ecosystem are NON- B. It’s the state of the atmosphere at a
LIVING THINGS particular time and place.
A. TRUE C. It’s the state of the Sun at a particular
B. FALSE time and place.
D. It’s the state of the Moon at a particu-
3552. What will the weather be in a couple of
lar time and place.
days in Minneapolis?
3555. What is the present weather for the fol-
lowing station model?
A. sunny and warmer

B. sunny and colder A. rain
C. rainy and warmer B. thunderstorms
D. rainy and colder C. drizzle
3553. Which of the following is a part of the D. fog
water cycle?
A. The earth rotating or spinning on its weather map?
axis every 24 hours
B. The heat of the sun causes water to
evaporate and rise in the air
C. The changes in the appearance of the
moon A. cold front

B. warm front C. Climate is just focused on certain ar-

C. stationary front eas and all other areas are focused on
weather.
D. occluded front
D. Climate happens day to day, weather
3557. Which of these is NOT a type of Precip- is the average temperature over a long
itation? time.
A. rain
3562. Which type of cloud is white and puffy?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. tornado
C. snow
D. hail
3558. Which atmospheric layer has the highest

air pressure?
A. Stratosphere
B. Troposphere
A. cumulus
C. Mesosphere
B. cirrus
D. Thermosphere
C. stratus
3559. This gas has increased the most and
D. cumulonimbus
traps heat
A. Ozone 3563. Types of periodic wind
B. Water Vapor A. Monsoon wind
C. Methane B. land breeze
D. Carbon Dioxide C. sea breeze
3560. Large clouds with vertical development D. none
that produce rain are
3564. Weather travels across the U.S. in what
A. Stratus clouds direction?
B. Cirrus clouds A. north to south
C. Altostratus clouds
B. south to north
D. Cumulonimbus clouds
C. west to east
3561. What is the difference between D. east to west
A. Weather is determined by tempera- 3565. is the weight of the Earth’s atmo-
ture, wind direction, and precipitation, sphere on its surface.
while climate only focuses on tempera- A. Humidity
ture.
B. Air pressure
B. Weather happens day to day, and cli-
C. Temperature
mate is the average weather over a long
time. D. Sunshine

3566. Tornadoes are dangerous weather 3571. Due to the jet stream, weather in North-
events formed during severe thunder- ern hemisphere blows to
storms. Which of these weather events is

A. north; south
MOST LIKELY to produce a tornado?
B. east; west
A. a decrease in evaporation due to a cold
front C. west; east
D. south; north
B. a decrease in humidity
C. a rapid increase in temperature 3572. What data do scientists use to classify
tornadoes on the Fujita Scale?
D. a passage of a warm front
A. Wind Speed
3567. Hot climates are located B. Rainfall and location
C. Amount of damage and wind speed
D. Location and wind speed
3573. The uneven heating of the atmosphere

by the sun’s energy creates pressure dif-
A. Between the Tropic of Cancer and the ferences which causes the
Tropic of Capricorn A. formation of clouds
B. Near the poles of the Earth B. generation of winds
C. East and west the Greenwich meridian C. occurrence of lightning
D. Between the tropics and the polar cir- D. increase in humidity
cles
3568. Cooler air and warmer air
A. rises, sinks
B. flies, drops
C. sinks, rises
D. goes up, goes down
A. Atlantic Ocean
3569. Calculate the temperature from Fahren- B. Indian Ocean
heit to Celsius:50 ◦
C. Arctic Ocean
A. 10
D. Pacific Ocean
B. 18
E. Southern Ocean
C. 45.6
3575. Which climate is the UK located in?
D. 82
A. Tropical
3570. Climate and weather are the same. B. Temperate
A. True C. Warm
B. False D. Cold

3576. Mountain climates have cold winter and B. rain

mild summers. There is a lot of precipita-
C. sleet
tion, often snow.
D. snow
3581. What kind of heat transfer happens

when the sun is heating your body?
A. Conduction
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. Radiation
C. Convection
A. True
D. Density
B. False
3577. When two or more airmasses collide, 3582. At the seashore late in the afternoon on
they form a(an) a hot, sunny day, a person often feels a
strong breeze coming in from the ocean.
A. front Which of the following is the reason for
B. boundary the breeze?
C. snow A. The pounding waves generate air cur-
D. severe weather rents.
B. The heavy, cool air over the ocean
3578. A is a boundary that forms between rushes in to replace the warm air that
air masses. rises over the land.
A. front
C. The warm air over the ocean rushes in
B. air mass to replace the cool air that rises over the
C. pressure system land.
D. precipitation D. There are no clouds to block the wind

coming in from the ocean.
3579. Which middle-latitude location has a cli-
mate that is cold and dry during long win- 3583. What are the characteristics of a tropi-
ters but warm and humid during the sum- cal climate zone?
mers? A. Moderate temperatures, low humidity,
A. a polar climate and light rainfall
B. an arid climate B. High temperatures, high humidity, and
C. a tropical climate heavy rainfall
D. a temperate climate C. High temperatures, low humidity, and

heavy snowfall
3580. Tony measures the outside temperature
D. Low temperatures, low humidity, and
as 16 degrees Celsius, 61 degrees Fahren-
heavy snowfall
heit. She observes solid precipitation
falling from the cloud. What type of pre- 3584. A visible mass of condensed water va-
cipitation is Jenny most likely observing? por floating in the atmosphere, typically
A. hail high above the ground.

3589. The degree of heat or cold in something

is called temperature.

A. True
B. False
3590. Processes that emit carbon into the at-

mosphere are said to be
A. land breeze
A. Carbon Sources
B. front
B. Carbon Sinks
C. precipitation
C. Carbon Dating
D. cloud
D. Carbon Rises
3585. These words describe what?Yesterday,
3591. Weather remains the same in all place.
Today, Last week, Daily Forecast, Short
periods of time A. True
A. Weather B. False
B. Climate 3592. A student was asked to describe the
C. Temperature climate of her home town in her journal.
Which of the following is a sentence that
D. Wind could describe the climate of her home
town?
3586. What is an image that represents
weather conditions? A. On average, the city gets about 185cm
of water per year and has an average high
A. Weather Map
temperature of 23◦ C.
B. Weather Front B. It rained for 13 ours straight last night
C. Weather Symbol C. It is expected the wind will blow at
D. Weather Balloon 15mph per hour from the west, and a late
afternoon storm could produce lightning
3587. In which type of storm does a storm
D. It was mostly cloudy everyday this
surge occur?
week. Temperatures ranged from 3◦ C to
A. hurricanes 15◦ C
B. flash floods 3593. A wet and hot air mass would be a
C. water spouts A. Maritime tropical
D. thunderstorms B. Maritime polar
3588. 1:high pressure is generally associated C. Continental polar
with. D. Continental tropical
A. rainy
3594. The conditions of the atmosphere over
B. clear sky long periods of time
C. cloudy sky A. Weather
D. none of above B. Climate

3595. Those climate zones are: C. The temperature reached the boiling
point
D. It got angry
3600. Earth’s atmosphere is mostly made up

of which 2 gases? CHOOSE 2!!!!!!
A. nitrogen
A. Cold, polar and cool.
B. oxygen
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. Cold, temperate and hot.
C. ozone
C. Cold, temperate and polar.
D. water vapor
D. none of above
3601. Visibility is distance of which light can
3596. What are the layers of the atmosphere
be seen
starting closest to Earth’s surface.
A. True
A. Troposphere, mesosphere, strato-
sphere, exosphere, thermosphere B. False
B. Troposphere, stratosphere, meso- 3602. As air sinks, it absorbs moisture and
sphere, thermosphere, exosphere forms rain clouds.
C. Mesosphere, thermosphere, strato- A. true
sphere, exosphere, troposphere
B. false
D. none of above
3603. What are the two main factors that af-
3597. Climate covers a area than weather fect an area’s low pressure?
A. Smaller
A. Mountains and Temperature
B. same
B. Plains and Trees
C. larger
C. Rain and Ocean
D. none of above
D. Prevailing winds and Mountains
3598. Which statement describes frontal rain-
3604. Which is a NATURAL cause of SUDDEN
fall?
changes in climate?
A. When a cold air mass and warm air
mass meet.
B. When the sun’s energy heats the
ground.
tains.
D. When it rains in front of you.
A. an ice age
3599. The soap bubble expanded outside of
the bottle when B. a volcanic eruption
A. It was placed in cold water C. burning fossil fuels
B. It was placed in hot water D. tectonic plate movement

3605. air is more dense and tends to sink 3611. The Instrument used to measure humid-
ity is called
A. cold

A. hygrometer
B. warm
B. barometer
C. moist
C. Celsius Scale
D. dry
D. Compass
3606. C = Continental= Dry
3612. This climate has warm temperatures all
A. True year and a lot of rainfall.
B. False A. Temperate
B. Tropical
3607. We use the hygrometer to measure
C. Desert
A. Precipitation
D. Mediterranean
B. Humidity
E. Polar
C. Rain
3613. When there is low air pressure, the sky
D. Wind
is because the temperature is cooler.
3608. Scientists who study weather and try to A. cloudy
predict it are called B. sunny
A. astronomers C. clear
B. climatologists D. none of above
C. weatherologists 3614. The greenhouse effect keeps us warm
D. meteorologists on Earth
A. True
3609. Sugar cane harvesting is done during the
Caribbean’s dry Season B. False
A. weather 3615. the set of weather conditions that pre-

vail in a region year after year
B. climate
A. weather
3610. What would most likely happen if it B. temperature
didn’t rain in a certain area for a long pe-
riod of time? C. climate
A. Animals and plants would live the D. precipitation

same way they always do. 3616. Why do land breezes occur at night?
B. Animals would drink all the water and A. Land cools off slower than water, so
leave none for the plants. the air above water is cooler.
C. Plants would die, and animals wouldn’t B. Water cools off faster than land, so the
receive nutrients from plants. air above land is warmer.
D. Nutrients would find a different way of C. Land heats up slower than water, so
getting to plants and animals. the air stays cooler during the day.

D. Water cools off slower than land, so 3621. What is a social effect of a hurricane?
the air above water is warmer. A. Peoples homes are destroyed.
3617. How do you measure wind speed? B. The government lose money.
A. Rain Gauge C. Animal habitats are destroyed.
B. Barometer D. none of above
C. Anemometer 3622. the amount of water vapor in the air
NARAYAN CHANGDER
D. Campbell Stokes recorder
3618. What’s a tornado’s favourite game?
A. humidity
B. air pressure
3623. This weather tool is used to measure
A. Monopoly
B. Twister
C. snakes and ladders
D. none of above
3619. Condensation occurs when

A. liquid turns to gas.
B. vapor heats up.
C. water vapor cools.
D. water vapor turns into liquid.
3620. Which weather tool measures wind

speed?
A. anemometer A. homework
B. therometer B. air
C. wind vane C. snow
D. barometer D. rain

3624. Wind speed is measured in 3629. At higher altitudes,

A. meter per second

B. Millibar
C. Millimeter
D. none of above
3625. Which of these are the adaptations of
polar bear?
A. Temperature decreases and precipita-
tion increases
B. Temperature decreases and precipita-
tion also decreases
C. Temperature increases and precipita-
tion also increases
A. They are always in group
D. Temperature increases and precipita-
B. They have a very strong sense of smell tion decreases
C. They can only swim for a short period
of time 3630. The amount of moisture in the air is
called
D. The paws are wide and large.
A. Humidity
3626. climate only lasts a day
B. Front
A. true
C. Atmosphere
B. false
D. Wind
3627. Lines of latitude run in which direction?
A. weather.
B. Hot, cold and rainy
C. rain, sleet, hail, and snow.
D. temperature
3632. What instrument measures air pres-

A. east and west sure?
B. north and south A. A Barometer
3628. Wastes produced by agriculture, house- B. A Precipitation gauge
holds, industry, mining, and other human C. A Wind sock
activities can end up in
D. A Thermometer
A. groundwater
B. streams and rivers 3633. At the equator the air is usually
C. oceans A. rising
D. All of these choices B. sinking

3634. Biomes of the World:This one is usually A. rain

hot and dry, with very little rainfall.
C. snow
D. sunny skies
3639. Which green house gas is used in refrig-

erator?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. Carbon dioxide
A. Deciduous Forest B. Freon

B. Desert C. Methane
C. Grassland D. Ammonia
D. Tundra
3640. Climate is
3635. When tiny droplets of water form in the A. What the air is like outside
air its called-
B. The temperature of a day
A. precipitation
B. evaporation C. Pattern of weather in a place over
MANY YEARS.
C. condensation
D. none of above
D. none of above
3636. Average atmospheric conditions over a 3641. What helps protect humans from high
large area is called wind and debris (like a tornado)?
A. Season A. Boarded up windows
B. Climate B. House on stilts
C. Weather C. Underground shelters
D. none of above D. Sandbags
3637. What climate does most of northern
3642. How hot or cold something is.
Africa have?
A. climate
A. Humid Subtropical
B. Tropical Savanna B. weather
C. Desert C. humidity
D. none of above D. temperature
3638. Choose the best forecast for Chicago on 3643. Average weather conditions of a region
Saturday. year after year.
A. weather
B. climate
C. precipitation
D. humidity

3644. What is the weather conditions in an 3648. Fluffy fair weather clouds
area over a long period of time (year af-
A. stratus
ter year)?

A. climate B. cirrus
B. temperature C. cumulus
C. elevation D. air mass

D. precipitation 3649. What are the global wind patterns?
3645. Select the answer that displays the pic- A. North winds, South, and East
ture of a thermometer.
B. Trade winds, polar easterlies and
westerlies
A.
3650. The ocean absorbs a majority of the
heat energy that reaches the Earth from
the sun. What happens to this heat?
A. The heat is distributed throughout the
world via underwater currents.
B. B. The heat remains in the waters that ab-
sorbed it, making coastal areas hotter.
C. The heat prevents evaporation of wa-
ter, making coastal areas drier.
D. The heat spreads evenly throughout
C. the ocean, keeping coastal areas colder.
3651. Today has been really cold and snowy.

Is this an example of weather or climate?
D. none of above
3646. water that falls to Earth’s surface as

rain, snow, sleet, or hail
A. humidity
B. temperature
C. equator
D. precipitation
A. weather
3647. Where would you find a tropical mar-
B. climate
itime air mass?
A. over the ocean, near the equator 3652. b. Parts of the Balearic / Canary Is-
B. over the ocean, near the poles lands have got a subtropical climate.
C. over a continent, near the equator A. Balearic Islands
D. over a continent, near the poles B. Canary Islands

3653. In late summer, a low pressure system by liquids and gases, such as carbon diox-
develops in the Atlantic Ocean near the ide.
equator. Wind speeds reach 80 miles per C. When you stand in a greenhouse and
hour. What severe storm develops? it feels warm.
A. Thunderstorm D. none of above
B. Blizzard
3659. A tropical climate is always
C. Tornado
A. consistently warm and humid
NARAYAN CHANGDER
D. Hurricane B. consistently cool
3654. The coldest region on earth is the C. consistently moderate
A. polar region D. warm and cool
B. tropical region 3660. Clouds form because of
C. temperate region
D. coastal region
3655. Scientists who study weather a called?

A. weatherologist
B. geologist
A. precipitation
C. meteorologists
B. condensation
D. astronaut
C. collection
3656. The seasons are: D. none of above
A. winter and fall
3661. The weather shown in the picture.
B. spring, summer, winter and fall
C. spring and summer
D. none of above
3657. Earth’s atmosphere is important to liv-

ing things because it
A. is very thin compared to the size of
Earth A. Windy
B. contains dust B. Dry
C. maintains a constant relative humidity C. Cloudy
D. provides all the gases needed D. Stormy

3662. Which type of front is created when
3658. What is the greenhouse effect?
cool, dense air pushes warm air up?
A. Natural cooling of the atmosphere as
A. Cold
ice given off from the earth is reflect back
to space. B. Warm
B. Natural warming of the atmosphere as C. Occluded
heat given off from the Earth is absorbed D. Stationary

3663. The average weather conditions in an B. sleet.

area over a long period of time C. snow.

A. Climate D. freezing rain.
B. Elevation
3669. The equator getting direct sunlight is an
C. Weather example of which FACTOR OF CLIMATE?
D. Humidity A. latitude
E. Meteorology B. altitude/elevation
3664. Long-distance winds that travel above C. large bodies of water
global winds for thousands of miles. D. ocean currents
A. gulf stream
3670. Using the diagram, how much of the
B. jet streams sun’s energy is absorbed by the surface of
C. river streams Earth?
D. hurricanes
3665. When water vapor condenses into tiny

water drops or tiny ice crystals in the at-
mosphere they form different types of
A. clouds
B. water vapor
C. air pressure A. 31%
D. density B. 11%
3666. What is the cause of clouds and rain? C. 34%
A. rising of warm, dry air D. 51%
B. rising of cool, humid air 3671. El Niño is an ocean current that is

C. rising of warm, humid air warmer than normal and recurs every few
years in the Pacific Ocean. What effect
D. rising of cool, dry air would warmer waters have on weather
along the Pacific Coast of the United
3667. If the sky is bright and clear with with
States?
thin and wispy clouds, what type of clouds
are they? A. El Niño is an ocean current that is
warmer than normal and recurs every few
A. Cirrus
B. Stratus would warmer waters have on weather
C. Cumulus along the Pacific Coast of the United
States?
D. Cumulonimbus
B. Less water would evaporate into the
3668. Round, solid pieces of ice more than 5 atmosphere and cause a drought.
millimeters in diameter fall as C. The air temperatures over land would
A. hail. decrease.

D. More water would evaporate into the A. decreases

atmosphere and lead to more rain. B. increases
3672. This is a C. stays the same
D. none of above
3676. What is the main difference between

the enhanced and natural greenhouse ef-
NARAYAN CHANGDER
fect?
A. natural-more heat escapes to space
enhanced-less heat escapes to space
B. natural-less heat escapes to space
enhanced-more heat escapes to space
A. Anemometer. 3677. The Frigid zone:
B. Rain gauge. A. Receives minimum insolation.
C. Thermometer. B. Is the coldest part if the earth
D. Weather vane.
C. Receives slanting sun ray throughout
3673. What two factors determine climate? the year.
A. temperature and pressure D. All of the above
B. temperature and evaporation 3678. This is an

C. weather and fronts
D. temperature and precipitation
3674. The amount of water vapor in the air
A. Anemometer.
B. Rain gauge.
A. warm
C. Thermometer.
B. precipitation
D. Weather vane.
C. humidity
D. air pressure 3679. Our way of life is influenced by
3675. As you climb up a mountain what hap- A. climate

pens to the air pressure? B. weather

3680. It measures the temperature of the at- B. hygrometer

mosphere C. thermometer

A. Thermometer
D. wind vane
B. Barometer
3686. At which latitude would you expect to
C. Anemometer
find the coldest air temperatures?
D. none of above
A. 66.5◦ N
3681. Average weather conditions over 30 B. 0◦
years
C. 23.5◦ S
A. Weather
D. 23.5◦ N
B. Climate
3682. Elevation, or how high up you are, is 3687. High pressure is air that
also called A. warm, rises
A. altitude B. cool, rises
B. atmosphere C. warm, sinks
C. height D. cool, sinks
D. decreasing
3688. Florida beaches are known for their
3683. HEAVY RAIN WITH THUNDER, LIGHT- white sand, clear ocean water, and palm
NING AND WIND. trees. Which elements would be adding
A. TORNADOES water vapor to the atmosphere?
B. HURRICANES A. Palm trees only

C. THUNDERSTORMS B. Ocean water only
D. BLIZZARDS C. Ocean water and sand
D. Palm trees and ocean water
3684. How are hurricanes, tornadoes, and
dust storms different? 3689. This is a gas produced from breathing,
A. Hurricanes happen at night and dust volcanic eruptions, and burning of fossil fu-
storms and tornadoes happen in the day- els
time
A. Water Vapor
B. Dust storms happen over the ocean
B. Methane
and Hurricanes and tornadoes happen
over land C. Ozone
C. Hurricanes start over the ocean, D. Carbon Dioxide
whereas tornadoes and dust storms hap-
pen over the land. 3690. Maritime Tropical means
D. none of above A. wet and cold
B. dry and warm
3685. Instrument to measure the direction of
the wind C. wet and warm
A. Anemometer D. day and cold

3691. Onshore Wind blow from to

A. land, sea
B. sea, land
3692. What human activity is the primary

source of acid rain?
A. Cars A. Tim because Chicago is the closest to
a low pressure system and they produce
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. deforestation
precipitation.
C. coal powerplants
B. Jennifer because high pressure sys-
D. volcanoes
tems produce precipitation
3693. It refers to a daily conditions of a SPE- C. Both students are correct because all
CIFIC place systems produce precipitation
A. Climate D. Neither of the students are correct be-
B. Weather cause the cities are not close enough to
the system.
3694. Hurricanes and tornadoes both occur in
a 3698. is the heat which we receive on the
A. Low Pressure System earth’s surface.
B. High Pressure System A. Solar eclipse
B. solar light
3695. The gases in the atmosphere are not
all stuck the ground because molecules hit C. solar radiation
each other and bounce off back up. This is
D. none
called , and is higher closer to the sur-
face and gets lower further from the sur- 3699. Within Earth’s atmosphere the ozone
face. layer is located:
A. Flatulence
A. in the mesosphere.
B. Impact
B. between the stratosphere and the
C. Pressure mesosphere.
D. Singularity C. in the troposphere.
3696. Climate descriptions include D. in the stratosphere.
A. cloud cover E. between the troposphere and the
B. average humidity stratosphere. tagsSC.912.E.7.7
C. average temperatures 3700. Pieces of information.
D. average precipitation amounts A. generalization
3697. Tim said that Chicago is most likely to B. typical
experience rainy weather. Jennifer thinks
C. trend
that Dallas is most likely to experience
rainy weather. Which student is correct? D. data

3701. What type of cloud looks like cotton and C. Glaciers and ice sheet melt
is in the lower altitudes? D. . Both A and D

3706. Why is precipitation important to peo-
ple.
A. It’s needed for ocean currents.
B. It cools Earth.
C. It provides life-giving water.
D. It changes the climate.
A. Cumulus
B. Stratus 3707. The GREENHOUSE EFFECT is
C. Cirrus A. A naturally process
D. none of above B. It is causing our planet´s climate to

change
3702. A warm air mass moving in over a cold C. Has negative impact on the planet
air mass describes a:
D. A process that helps keep the Earth
A. cold front warm.
B. stationary front
3708. What are the high and low tempera-
C. warm front
tures in Atlanta?
D. occluded front
3703. atmosphere
A. a sphere made out of glass
B. all the materials in the outer space
C. the envelope of gases that surrounds
Earth
D. the process by which molecules of wa- A. 72/53
ter vapor in the air become liquid water
B. 94/72
3704. What is the name of a scientist who C. 82/66
studies weather?
D. 90/71
A. A rain man
B. A Meteorologist 3709. Which season is taking place in the
Northern Hemisphere in Position 3?
C. Weatherologist
D. Mr Sunshine
3705. Sea level is expected to rise because of

warmer climate due to which of the follow-
ing?
A. Ocean retreat due to the tidal pull
B. Ocean expand as they are warmer A. Winter

B. Spring 3715. What kind of cloud is this?

C. Summer
D. Fall
3710. Sitting by a campfire
A. Conduction
B. Convection
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C. Radiation
D. none of above A. cumulus
3711. What are the three climate zones of B. cumulonimbus

Earth called? C. stratus
D. stratonimbus
3716. is a visible mass of water or ice

droplets above the ground.
A. Chilly, Hot, and Cold A. A cloud
B. Temperate, Tropical, and Polar
B. A front
C. Polar, South Polar, and North Polar
D. Tropical, Rain Climate, and Temperate C. A climate
3712. observed in a day D. Weather

A. weather only
3717. Measured over a period of 30 or more
B. climate only years.
A. Climate
D. none of above
B. Weather
3713. What is air circulation?
A. Airflow 3718. What instrument measures the amount
B. Movement of water of liquid that falls to the ground in a given
period of time.
C. heater
D. temperature A. hydrometer
3714. Which of the following instruments are B. rain gauge

used to measure atmospheric pressure
C. thermometer
A. Atmospheric thermometer
D. barometer
B. Aneroid barometer
C. Mercury barometer 3719. It snowed for three days last week.
D. Thermograph
A. Climate
E. Six’s minimum and maximum ther-
mometer B. Weather

3720. Which is represented in this pic- C. rain gauge

ture:weather or climate?
D. weather vane

3722. What is weather forecast?
A. A crystal ball
B. Devices that measure rainfall
C. Prediction of future weather
D. none of above
A. Weather
B. Climate 3723. Ocean Currents influence weather.
Which ocean current directly affects
3721. What is this weather tool called? weather in Florida?
A. Monsoon Current
B. Gulf Stream
C. North Atlantic Drift
D. South Pacific Equatorial Current

A. A description of the pattern of weather
over many years
B. The amount of rain a certain place gets
C. The weather on a certain day of the
year
D. The size of a hurricane
3725. what is climate

A. average weather condition over a long
period of time
B. state of atmosphere at a specific time,
at any one particular place.
A. thermometer C. none
B. barometer D. none of above

3726. What is the MAIN reason water from 3730. three types of planetary winds
the oceans turns to water vapor, and then A. trade winds
evaporates into the air?
B. the westerlies
C. the polar winds or polar easterlies
D. none
3731. what is weather?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. atmospheric conditions of a place for
a short period of time.
B. conditions of a place.
C. the atmospheric conditions of a large
area.
A. ocean breezes D. conditions of a place for a long time
B. changing tides 3732. What are two negative consequences of

C. heat from the sun climate change?
D. moon’s gravitational pull A. Decrease in crop yields.

B. Decrease in extreme weather events.
3727. The area lying between the tropic of can-
cer and the tropic of capricorn is the C. Increase in extreme weather events.
zone. D. Animal habitats are created.
A. Temperate zone 3733. What is weather?
B. Torrid zone A. The study of the atmosphere
C. Frigid zone B. The pattern of weather for a certain
D. none of above place
C. What is happening in the air around us
3728. What unit is used to measure air tem-
at any one time
perature?
D. The comparison of how heavy some-
thing is to the space that it occupies
sius 3734. is the average or typical weather
condition of a region year after year (or
C. Miles per Hour or Kilometers per Hour
at least a season).
D. Cardinal Directions
A. Weather
3729. The area between Antarctic circle and B. Climate
South Pole is
3735. Warm air rises and cools. Moisture in
A. Torrid Zone the air forms clouds that will bring rain.
B. Temperate Zone What pressure system is described?
C. Frigid Zone A. High pressure
D. none of above B. Low pressure

C. No pressure B. Cold front

D. Light pressure C. Occluded front

D. Stationary front
3736. When temperature, cloud cover, wind
speed, and precipitation are being mea- 3741. Which of the following refers to the pe-
sured over a short period of time, we are riodic warming of ocean waters in the cen-
describing the tral and eastern Pacific Ocean?
A. temperature A. Tornado
B. outside B. The boy
C. climate C. The girl
D. weather D. Cyclone
3737. The climate crisis is making it difficult to 3742. Lightning is caused by
grow food in some parts of the world. A. Thunder.
A. True B. High temperature air mass colliding
B. False with a low temperature air mass.
C. High pressure systems.
3738. The condition of Earth’s atmosphere at
a particular time and place. D. The separation of positive and nega-
tive charges within a large cloud.
A. Global warming
B. Weather 3743. What could the title of this table be?
C. Meteorology
E. Station model
3739. a boundary between two air masses

A. air mass
B. cold front
C. front
D. warm front A. Climate Report for Old Dime Box, TX
B. Average Temperatures for Old Dime
3740. What kind of front is here?
Box, TX
C. Weather Report for Old Dime Box, TX
D. Precipitation Report for Old Dime Box,
TX
3744. Too many greenhouse gasses in the at-

mosphere may block heat from escaping
into space and trap too much heat next to
the Earth’s surface causing:
A. Warm front A. Another ice age

B. Global warming
C. Earthquakes
D. Volcanic eruptions
3745. What is another word for ocean circula-

tion?
A. Rain
A. Movement of the sea
B. Humidity
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. Breaking waves
C. Precipitation
C. Ocean Current
D. Air Pressure
D. Water power
3749. Prevailing winds affect a region’s cli-
3746. The closer that you are to the equator mate by
the it is.
A. creating desert areas
A. warmer
B. causing more precipitation on one side
B. colder of a mountain
C. affecting how much precipitation it re-
3747. In areas of Florida during the sum-
ceives
mer, it is common for the weather to be
sunny in the morning, have an afternoon D. controlling the amount of solar enerty
rain shower, and be sunny again later it receives
in the day. Starting with the evapora-
tion of water from the ocean, which se- 3750. A low pressure system is located over
quence of evens BEST describes this sum- Georgia. What type of weather will they
mer weather pattern? have?
A. evaporation from ocean »clouds

form over water» clouds move over
land»precipitation from clouds»evaporation
and runoff of water from land
B. evaporation from ocean» clouds
move over land»precipitation from
clouds»evaporation and runoff of water
from land» clouds form over water A. clear, sunny skies
C. evaporation from ocean»evaporation B. cloudy and rainy
and runoff of water from land»clouds
form over water»clouds more over 3751. In some years there are more hurricanes
land»precipitation from clouds than usual. This is probably because
D. evaporation from ocean»clouds form A. The ozone layer is very thin

over water»evaporation and runoff of B. the ocean is warmer than usual
water from land»clouds move over
C. there are more windy days than usual
land»precipitation from clouds
D. the gravitational pull of the Moon is
3748. Water that falls from the sky is stronger

3752. Flooding conditions are actually occur- 3756. The average wind speed of Brenham,
ring in the warning area. This is called: Texas is 0 mph to 15 mph.

A. Flash flood warning A. Weather
B. Hail B. Climate
C. Flood warning
D. Sleet 3757. Low pressure is air that
3753. Here is a map of Atlantic Ocean Cur- A. warm, rises

rentsSurface currents in the ocean affect B. cool, rises
the climate of the lands nearby. Which
of the currents most affects the climate C. warm, sinks
of Massachusetts and its surrounding D. cool, sinks
states?
3758. How much rain fell in April in 2014?
A. Gulf Stream A. 45 mm
B. Labrador Current B. 60 mm
C. North Atlantic Drift C. 75 mm
D. North Equatorial Current
D. 30 mm
3754. How does latitude influence climate?
A. The closer you are to the equator the 3759. Sunburn is caused by It can’t be felt
higher the temp as heat.
B. Winds bring rain to the coast from the A. infrared radiation

seas B. visible light
C. The higher the altitude the colder the
C. spectrum radiation
temperature
D. Ocean Currents affect precipitation D. ultraviolet radiation
3755. The envelope of air that surrounds the 3760. rainfall

earth.
A. weather only
A. Climate
B. Weather B. climate only
C. Atmosphere C. weather and climate

D. Ozone D. none of above

3761. A high pressure system is located north B. Present his hypothesis so others can
of New York City. What type of weather develop a similar procedure
will be experienced there?
C. Write each step of the procedure in
the correct order and in detail
D. Explain his conclusion and what evi-
dence is needed to support it
3765. What type of pressure system produces
NARAYAN CHANGDER
clearer weather with a lot less rain?
A. Cold
A. clear, sunny skies B. Hot
B. cloudy and rainy
C. High
3762. Is the climate near the equator line the D. Low
?
3766. Which one is not a cause of deforesta-
tion?
A. Warmest
B. Coldest
A. urbanisation
C. Hottest
B. over population
D. none of above
C. pollution
3763. If you were at the north or south pole D. none of the above
and started traveling to the equator how
would the weather most likely change? 3767. Which US state has a tropical climate?
A. The air pressure would increase
B. The air pressure would decrease.
C. The temperature would increase
D. The temperature would decrease.
3764. Isaiah has designed an experiment to

test the effects of force on an object’s mo-
tion. He wants others to be able to repeat A. Virginia
his experiment. What must Isaiah do to
B. New York
make this possible?
C. California
A. Share his results so others can try to
match them D. Florida

3768. Weather moves in which direction C. Precipitation

across the United States?
D. none of above

A. north to south
B. east to west 3773. What makes global winds curve rather
than move in straight lines?
C. south to north
A. differences in air pressure
D. west to east
B. differences in density
3769. What information does a wind vane tell
you? C. differences in temperature
A. The speed of wind. D. the Coriolis effect

B. The direction of wind. 3774. What type of cloud is pictured?
C. The temperature of wind.
D. How cloudy it is outside.
3770. The words or symbols that show an H

or an L mean areas of
A. temperature
B. air pressure A. Cirrus
C. wind speed B. Stratus

D. none of above C. Cumulous
3771. Which type of clouds are thin and wispy, D. Cloud

forming high in the sky and made out of ice
3775. The closer you are to the equator the
crystals?
A. Cirrus
A. hotter it will be.
B. Cumulus
B. colder it will be.
C. Cumulonimbus
D. Stratus 3776. Visitors to Florida sometimes complain
about the high humidity. What does high
3772. Which of the following would most af- humidity indicate?
fect visibility?
A. A cool temperature
B. A high pressure system
C. An approaching cold front
D. A high amount of water vapor in the air
3777. In our science classroom, we measure

temperature in-
A. Air pressure A. Fahrenheit
B. Temperature B. Celsius

3778. As water vapor condenses into liquid, A. Temperature

which of the following can be formed?
B. Amount of rainfall
A. ice
C. Air pressure
B. steam
D. Wind speed
C. frost
D. clouds 3784. Conditions in the atmosphere over a
long period of time
NARAYAN CHANGDER
3779. It has got HOT and DRY climate
A. Sahara desert A. Weather
B. Tropical rainforest B. Climate
C. Antarctica
3785. The result of the weight of a column of
D. none of above air pushing down on an area is called
3780. What is wind? A. altitude
A. Air that moves horizontally, or parallel B. pressure
to the ground.
C. density
B. Air pressure
D. air pressure
C. Wind vane
D. A measure of the transparency of the 3786. Earth’s temperatures are stable because
atmosphere. we are surrounded by which allows
the right amount of sunlight in to warm
3781. IN the water cycle, water that becomes
the Earth.
water vapour forms the clouds
A. True A. A cloud layer
B. False B. Atmosphere
3782. Water exists in the air as a ? C. Gravity

A. Solid D. Water
B. Liquid
3787. Nicholas is teaching his little brother
C. Gas about the similarities and differences be-
D. Rain Drops tween weather and climate. How are the
concepts of weather and climate different?
3783. This tool is used to measure
the ground than climate does.
B. Climate is related to the amount of sun-
light; weather is not.
C. Weather conditions include precipita-
tion, but climate conditions do not.
D. Climate covers larger areas and longer
times than weather.

3788. What forms when two air masses 3793. What does these images show?
meet?

A. a front
B. a formation
C. to tornado
A. Weather patterns
D. warm air
B. Global warming
3789. Cool ocean currents originate from the
C. Cold climate
A. equator D. Typical weather

B. the polar regions
3794. A gradual increase in the average tem-
C. the coastline perature of Earth’s atmosphere:
D. none of above A. Global Warming
3790. What role does air pressure play in B. Greenhouse Gas
weather conditions?
C. The boy
A. Its force determines the strength of
wind. D. Climate
B. It creates downdrafts that blow from
the shore.
C. It is the primary cause of Trade Winds.
D. It determines how high or low the tide
is.
3791. St. Augustine and San Antonio are lo-

cated near the same latitude. However,
average winter temperatures are higher in
St. Augustine. Which MOST influences the
milder temperatures of St. Augustine, FL?
A. From east to west
A. Increased cloud cover
B. Reduced solar radiation B. From west to east
C. Distance north of the Equator C. From north to south

D. Nearness to ocean currents D. From south to north
3792. We can distinguish between the oceanic, 3796. What is the condition of the atmosphere
mediterranean, continental and temperate at a certain and place called?
desert climates in the
A. weather
A. Hot zone
B. Cold zone B. climate
C. Temperate zone C. humidity

D. Mountain zone D. evaporation

3797. One of the elements used to help predict A. Warm/ Cold front
weather includes measuring the amount of B. Mountains
water vapor in the air. What does this de-
scribe? C. Ridge
A. humidity D. Snow
B. wind speed 3803. A strong surface current that runs along
C. air pressure the east coast of the United States and car-
ries warm water to Europe.
NARAYAN CHANGDER
D. temperature
A. California Current
3798. A hurricane is a funnel shaped cloud that
touches the ground. B. Global Conveyor Belt
A. True C. Gulf Stream
B. False D. Surface Current
3799. M = Martime = wet 3804. What is the process in which water va-
por changes to liquid?
A. true
A. aviation
B. false
B. evaporation
3800. If it rained all day, but stopped and then
C. water runoff
cooled down a lot that night, which would
you most likely see in the morning? D. condensation
3805. The temperature of a tropical climate is?

A. consistently warm
B. consistently cool
C. consistently moderate
D. warm and cool
A. sunshine
3806. Dew also forms directly onto items, as
B. fog
water droplets. What part of the water
C. hail cycle is this?
D. sleet
3801. What do plants release in the car-

bon/oxygen cycle?
A. Carbon dioxide
B. Oxygen

map? A. run-off
B. condensation
C. evaporation
D. precipitation

3807. What is deforestation? 3812. It snowed 5 inches last night.

A. Weather

B. Climate
3813. falling water from the sky, such as rain,

sleet, and hail
A. temperature
A. the loss or continual degradation of B. weather
forest habitat due to natural or human re-
C. climate
lated causes
D. precipitation
B. the loss or continual degradation of an-
imals and plants due to natural or human 3814. Strong wind and rain together is called
related causes
3808. When the moon comes in between the A. gale

Earth and the Sun, a occurs. B. breeze
A. Winds C. storm
B. Lunar eclipse D. none of above
C. Solar eclipse
3815. The climate of a place can be described
D. none of above as its average weather conditions usually
over 30 years.
3809. what type of climate does the land at
the sea have A. False
A. cold climate B. True
B. hot climate 3816. Which instrument measures how fast
C. Moderate climate winds are moving?
D. none of above A. anemometer
B. weather satellite
3810. A front is
C. wind vane
A. where warm air is cooling at earth’s
surface D. weather balloon
B. a line where hot and cold air are sepa- 3817. Precipitation is measured with a
rating
A. thermometer
C. a line where two different air masses
meet B. wind vane
D. where cold air is rising and forming C. rain gauge

rain clouds D. barometer
3811. What kind of weather is a thunder- 3818. Which of the following describes an air
storm? mass with the symbol cT?
A. severe weather A. warm and dry
B. not severe weather B. warm and wet

C. cold and wet A. cP

D. cold and dry B. mP
3819. As Pressure Decreases, What Happens C. cT

To the Molecules D. mT
A. They move closer together
3824. what are the common effects of heavy
B. They move further apart rain?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
C. They stay the same A. Flood and Strong Typhoon
D. none of above B. Wildfire and Dried Land
3820. When the temperature increases the C. None of these
density of the air D. none of above
A. Increases
3825. How many basic elements does the
B. Decreases weather have?
3821. This tool measures the wind speed.
A. barometer
B. anemometer
C. thermometer
D. hygrometer A. 7
3822. Which type of Weather Front does this B. 2
symbol represent? C. 4
D. 3
3826. A continental climate has a greater dif-

ference in temperature between day and
A. Stationary Front night than a maritime climate.
B. Occluded Front A. True
C. Warm Front
B. False
D. Cold Front
3827. At 40 seconds, Ken combined Beaker
3823. Which abbreviation of an air mass can A and Beaker B. Which statement below
be identified as dry and hot? BEST describes what happened?
A. The temperatures even out at 50◦ C

and gradually transition to room temper-
ature.

B. The temperatures rise to 100◦ C be- 3832. Is hot air LESS dense or MORE dense
cause their thermal energy combines. than cold air?
C. The temperatures even out at 80◦ C

A. LESS dense
and gradually transition to room temper-
ature. B. MORE dense
D. The temperatures lower to 40◦ C be- C. EQUAL density

cause their thermal energy cancels out. D. none of above
3833. True or False:Land heats up faster than
weather map?
water.
A. True
B. False
A. stationary front 3834. Which is an example of weather?
B. occluded front
A. summers are hot in Yuma, Arizona
C. no front
B. London gets 25 inches of rain each
D. what even is a front? year
3829. The amount of mass in a given volume C. it is 31 degrees Celsius in Cancun, Mex-
of air is ico
A. density D. The sun sets at 7:55PMN today in San
B. pressure Diego
C. altitude
3835. As we move away from the Equator and
D. air pressure towards the poles, the rays become
3830. How long does it take for Earth to ro- and cover a larger area.
tate on it’s axis? A. Vertical
A. 1 week B. Straight
B. 1 year C. Slanting
C. 365 days
D. none of above
D. 24 hours
3836. Which statement is true about the cli-
3831. Which observation describes a change in
mate of the United States?
climate rather than a change in weather?
A. The northern and southern states have
A. The thunderstorm dropped about
the same climate.
three centimeters of rain today.
B. The average summer temperatures B. The southern states have a warmer cli-
have increased over the last ten years. mate than the northern states.
C. C. The snowfall in this area was more C. The northern states have a warmer cli-
this week than it was last week. mate than the southern states.
D. The average wind speed in April was D. The southern states have a colder cli-
less than it was in March. mate than the northern states.

3837. What determines an air mass’s temper- 3841. What layer do meteoroids burn up in?
ature and humidity?
A. Exosphere
A. the atmosphere
B. Troposphere
B. other air masses
C. Stratosphere
C. where it forms
D. Mesosphere
D. fronts
3842. Precipitation in the form of small balls
3838. In the west of the UK rainfall is
NARAYAN CHANGDER
of ice.
A. Fairly high all year
B. Fairly low all year
C. No rainfall
D. none of above
3839. Grace’s class measured the temperature

outside four times a day for four days in a
row. Their results are shown in the image.
A. Sleet
Which two days were most likely sunny
based on the results? B. Hail
C. Snow
D. Rain
3843. This instrument tells us which way the

wind is blowing
A. Thermometer
B. Rain gauge
C. Weather vane
A. Day1 Day 2
D. Anemometer
B. Day 2 Day 3
C. Day 3 Day 4 3844. Torrid zone is between
D. Day 4 Day 1 A. Temperate Zone and Frigid Zone
3840. Which change would result in the same B. Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capri-
s eason year round, everywhere on Earth? corn
A. Earth moving at least twice as fast in C. Arctic Circle and North Pole
its orbit as it does now D. none of above
B. enlarging the diameter of Earth’s orbit
until it is much farther from the Sun 3845. True or False-In the history of the Earth,
before humans were present, the climate
C. straightening the tilt of Earth’s axis to
changed.
be 90o to the plane of Earth’s orbit
A. True
D. changing Earth’s orbit so it would al-
ways be the same distance from the Sun B. False

3846. refers to the atmosferic conditions A. Closer to the equator is lower in eleva-
at a specific moment. tions.

B. Closer to the equator receive more so-
lar energy.
C. Closer to the equator are nearer to
ocean currents
D. Closer to the equator get more wind.
3851. As altitude increases, what happens to

temperature?
A. Climate
A. temperature increases
B. Weather
B. temperature decreases
3847. As altitude temperature
3852. Which of the following decreases with
A. decreases, decreases an increase in altitude?
B. increases, increases A. Air pressure
C. increases, decreases B. Visibility
D. decreases, increases C. Air temperature
3848. The shape of the land is shown by con- D. none of above
necting points of the same elevation to
form a 3853. A tornado begins as a cloud that
pokes through the bottom of a cumulonim-
A. relief line bus cloud.
B. slope A. cirrus
C. valley B. cumulus
D. contour line C. funnel
3849. Large clouds that often produce thunder- D. stratus
storms are called
3854. How many Climate Zones are There?
A. stratus clouds
A. 5
B. cumulonimbus clouds
B. 2
C. cirrus clouds
C. 6
D. nimbostratus clouds
D. 3
3850. Why do latitudes closer to the equator
have warmer climates? 3855. Instrument used for measuring the
cloudiness.
A. Anemometer
B. Barometer
C. Cloud cover
D. Wind vane

3856. If a substance reflects a lot of light, then B. tropical

it will absorb:
C. temperate
A. A lot of light
D. subtropical
B. A little bit of light
C. The same amount of light 3860. The closer we are to the equator, it
D. none of above gets.
A. Hotter
NARAYAN CHANGDER
3857. Which term describes a circulation of air
or water that is caused by uneven heat- B. Cold
ing?
C. Mild climate
A. convection current
D. none of above
C. radiation current 3861. Half of the Earth
D. emission current A. sphere
3858. Precipitation B. circle

C. hemisphere
D. poles
3862. When a warm air mass and a cold air

mass meet and neither can move the other,
the result is a(an)
A. The Sun heats water on the surface A. occluded front

and it turns into water vapour. B. warm front
B. Water vapour rises and turns into wa- C. stationary front
ter droplets.
D. cold front
C. Water droplets in clouds fall to the
earth as rain, snow, hail or sleet.
3863. Which of the following statements is
D. Precipitation falls into rivers, lakes, FALSE.
groundwater and the sea.
A. The tendency of the atmospheric pres-
3859. Most of the United States is in Earth’s sure increases with an increase in temper-
climate zone. ature.
B. The tendency of the atmospheric pres-
sure decreases with an increase in alti-
tude.
C. Moist air exerts less pressure than dry
air.
D. The earth’s rotation modifies its distri-
A. polar bution.

3864. What is Humidity? 3868. Which biome has the most variety of
plants and animals?
A. The amount of water vapour present in

air.
B. When moist air rises upward, it be-
comes cool and the water vapour changes
the water droplets.
C. When the atmosphere exerts its
weight as pressure on the earth’s surface.
D. When water droplets join together,
they grow in size until they are unable to A. Temperate Forest
float in air. B. Rainforest
3865. What type of weather data is collected C. Tundra
using an anemometer? D. Grasslands
A. temperature
3869. A warm air mass is caught between two
B. pressure cooler air masses is called a
C. precipitation A. warm front
D. wind speed B. cold front
3866. When someone refers to ‘dry air’, what C. stationary front

they really mean is D. occluded front
3870. What climate zone is located near the

equator where the sun is directly overhead
all year?
A. polar
B. tropical
C. desert
A. high humidity air
D. temperate
B. hot air
C. cold air 3871. What is the major cause of global winds
(convection cells) on Earth?
D. low humidity air
3867. The amount of the water vapor in the

air compared to the maximum it can hold
at a given temperature is called (a)
A. a relative humidity
B. humidity
C. condensation
D. dew A. the spinning of the Earth

B. the uneven heating of the Earth by the 3878. Something we use to measure the air
sun pressure.
C. cool water causing movement of hot
air
D. the jet stream
3872. Which factor is a major difference be-
tween weather and climate?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. Time.
B. Impact. A. Rain gauge
C. Location. B. Weather vane
D. Sustainability. C. Anemometer
D. Barometer
3873. Climate zone are areas on Earth that
have similar climate, temperature and pre- 3879. Condition of earth’s atmosphere at a
cipitation each year? particular time and place.
A. True A. Maritime
B. False B. Weather
3874. Run-off occurs when the ground C. Polar
A. is dry D. Warm Front
B. can soak up rain water 3880. The climate and the weather of a region
C. is cold impact the kind of houses people live in
and the clothes that they wear. True or
D. can’t soak up anymore rain water
False?
3875. Wind is caused by a collision of air pres- A. True
sure systems
B. False
A. True
3881. Which global winds have the greatest
B. False
impact on the weather in the US?
3876. What falls but never hits the ground? A. trade winds
A. the cold B. prevailing westerlies
B. the temperature C. doldrums
C. the snow D. polar easterlies
D. none of above
3882. Weather is the
3877. A tornado is dangerous mostly because A. day-to-day conditions of a particular
of its place
A. heavy rains B. average weather in a place over many
B. lightning years.
C. strong winds C. feeling of being hot
D. storm surge D. reason for seasons

3883. Earth’s atmosphere became oxygen rich 3889. Darjeeling is height above the sea
about 2.45 years ago. level.

A. billion A. 7, 236
B. trillion B. 8, 787
C. million C. 6, 982
D. thousand tagsSC.912.E.7.1 D. 6, 983
3884. The weather in the Tropical Zone 3890. What would you expect from a Conti-
nental Polar air mass?
A. is hot and humid
A. moist, warm air
B. is cold and dry
B. dry, cold air
C. varies depending on the season
C. dry, warm air
D. none of above
D. none of above
3885. Uneven heating of the Earth’s surface is 3891. is the undisturbed layer of Atmo-
caused by sphere
A. Cycles of the moon A. Stratosphere
B. Distance from the sun B. troposphere
C. Earth’s tilt on its axis C. mesosphere
D. Climate changes D. exosphere
3886. The average yearly rainfall in Hawaii is 3892. Which is a form of PRECIPITATION?
78 inches.
A. Weather
B. Climate
3887. Convert the following air pressure from

inches to Parcels:30.13 in (round to the
nearest whole number)
A. 103, 000
B. 102, 050
C. -1.04 A. avalanche
D. 48 B. rain
C. sunny day
3888. Which of the following will heat the
fastest? D. tornado
A. water 3893. Check all of the factors of climate.
B. land A. latitude
C. both heat at equal rates B. altitude/elevation
D. none of above C. large bodies of water

D. ocean currents 3898. What stage of the water cycle does

E. the number of snow days built into the number 1 in the picture show?
school calendar
3894. Which city is closest to a high pressure
system?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. condensation
A. New York
B. precipitation
B. Miami
C. evaporation
C. Minneapolis
D. Boise D. storage
3895. if you live in a grassland how do you 3899. Which type of cloud is most often ob-
escape carnovores served during a thunderstorm?
A. I make burrows
A. cirrus
B. i make houses
B. stratus
C. i hide in the grass
D. i fight back C. cumulus
3896. Places near the equator are because D. cumulonimbus

they receive direct light from the sun at all
times of the year. 3900. The southern tip of Florida has a cli-
mate because it is closer to the equator.
A. polar
B. temperate
C. semiarid
A. Warm D. tropical wet and dry
B. Cold
3901. What are the four seasons in many
3897. A year-by-year variation of the atmo- parts of the world?
sphere’s condition over a large area.
A. Spring, summer, fall, and winter
A. Temperature
B. Hot, warm, cool, and cold
B. Weather
C. Climate C. Rainy, snowy, windy, and sunny
D. Global warming D. none of above

3902. Which of the following averages for B. cold front

temperature would best reflect an area’s C. isobars
climate?

D. weather maps
A. Average temperature over 30 years.
3908. Two factors to determine climate are-
B. Average temperature over three
months. A. temperature and precipitation
C. Average temperature over three B. hurricanes and tornadoes

years. C. humidity and pressure
D. Average temperature over three days. D. none of above
3903. Places near a sea will experience high 3909. Which instrument measures the amount
of rain that occurs over a specific period of
time?
A. Humidity
A. weather vane
B. the lower the humidity the higher the
B. anemometer
air pressure because Temperature
C. rain gauge
C. Altitude
D. barometer
D. Latitude
3910. Weather is
3904. TRUE or FALSE”Climate zones are areas
A. what you get
on Earth that have similar climates, tem-
peratures and precipitation each year” B. what you expect
A. TRUE 3911. Snow, sleet, hail, and rain are all exam-
ples of
B. FALSE
A. evaporation
3905. What is considered the driving force for B. condensation
Earth’s climate
C. accumulation
A. Rain
D. precipitation
B. Moon phases
3912. water vapor in the air
C. Earth Rotation
A. precipitation
D. The Sun
B. humidity
3906. Where on Earth does the Sun’s energy C. atmosphere
heat up the ocean water the LEAST?
D. weather
A. at the Poles
B. at the equator
C. near the continents
D. the Sun’s energy heats up ocean water
the same all around the Earth
3907. Where cold air replaces warm air

A. jet stream A. A flag banner

B. Blue alligator teeth 3919. What was Alfred Wegener’s theory

C. Warm Front called?
D. Cold Front
3914. When a hurricane makes landfall, what
is the greatest danger to residents?
A. Excessive rain
B. The eye of the hurricane
NARAYAN CHANGDER
C. The temperature drop A. one earth
D. The storm surge B. jigsaw puzzle moves
3915. During which stage do clouds form? C. continental drift

3920. What is a violent rotating column of

air extending from a thunderstorm to the
ground called?
A. Hurricane
A. condensation B. Winter storm

B. evaporation C. Tornado
C. precipitation D. Flood
D. none of above
3921. When a moist air mass moves over a
3916. The Earth is divided into three Heat
range of mountains
Zones on the basis of the total annual rain-
fall. A. It slows down
A. True B. The air rises, cools, water vapor con-
B. False denses and falls as rain or snow
3917. In the United States, weather usually C. It creates a low pressure system
moves in which direction?
D. The air rises, causing it to warm so the
A. north to south air is clear and dry
B. east to west
C. south to north 3922. Differences in air temperature and air
pressure due to uneven heating of the
D. west to east
Earth creates?
3918. What causes changes in weather?
A. atmosphere
A. Air masses move and meet.
B. sunlight
B. The air gets more humid.
C. Water evaporates. C. gravity
D. Clouds form. D. wind

3923. What causes warm air to rise? or pattern over the five days can be ob-
A. the fact that it’s less dense than cold served in the collected data?

air
B. The fact that it weighs more than cold
air
C. The fact that it has higher pressure
than cold
A. There were fewer clouds on Thursday
D. the fact that its more dense than cold
than on Monday.
air
B. There was more rain on warm days
3924. The condition of the air outdoors is- than on cool days.
A. climate C. The temperature decreased as the
B. weather cloud cover increased.
C. average temperature D. The temperature increased over the
D. none of above course of the week.
3925. Layered clouds that often cover much of 3928. What can be measured in degrees Cel-
the sky and are a dull gray color are called sius?
A. stratus clouds A. Temperature
B. cumulonimbus clouds B. Precipitation
C. cirrus clouds C. Weight
D. cumulus clouds D. Wind Direction
3926. The climates zone on Earth are 3929. A weather vane is used to measure
A. Wind speed
B. Wind direction
C. Air pressure
A. Cold, hot, temperature
B. Hot, cold, temperate D. Amount of rainfall
C. Hot, cold, polar and warm 3930. High pressure brings similar weather in
D. Cold, hot, continental and polar summer and winter
A. True
3927. The table shows some weather data col-
lected over a five day period. What trend B. False

3931. Is this photo an example of weather or 3935. For the at least the last century, Florida
climate data? has experienced a hurricane season every
year, from June to November. Which of
the following describes this occurrence the
BEST?
A. Florida’s precipitation
B. Florida’s global pattern
NARAYAN CHANGDER
C. Florida’s climate
D. Florida’s weather
A. weather 3936. It helps us measure the

B. climate
3932. WEATHER is
A. *The AVERAGE weather conditions of
a place over A LONG PERIOD OF TIME
B. Conditions of the ATMOSPHERE in a
PARTICULAR PLACE at a PARTICULAR
TIME A. Precipitation.
C. depends on the TEMPERATURE and B. Temperature.
the PRECIPITATION C. Wind direction.
D. Iit´s a DYNAMIC SYSTEM because D. Wind speed.
it´s constantly CHANGING
3937. A dry climate in which temperatures are
3933. What happens to the temperature as high all year round, there is a big differ-
you go on the top of the mountain? ence between temperatures at night and
A. Nothing during the day and precipitationis scarce,
less than 200 mm annually, is
B. Increases
C. Decreases
D. none of above
3934. This is another term for vaporization,

the part of the water cycle in which wa-
ter changes from a liquid to a gas. Water
moves from bodies of water on Earth to A. Dry tropical
water vapor in the atmosphere. B. Hot desert
A. condensation C. Steppe
B. evaporation D. Mediterranean
C. precipitation
3938. places situated near the sea have mod-
D. run-off erate climate because of
E. transpiration A. land breeze and sea breeze.

B. only land breeze C. Orographic rainfall

C. only sea breeze D. Hydrological rainfall

D. none of above
3944. Weather can change very quickly (at
3939. When harmful substances build up in the least, here in NZ it can)
air to unhealthy levels, it is called
A. True
A. Smog
B. False
B. Primary pollutant
C. Secondary pollutant 3945. The general weather of an area over a
D. Air pollution long period of time is known as the
3940. The Easterlies, Westerlies, Polar,

Tradewinds are all what type of wind?
A. coriolis winds
B. prevailing winds
3941. Air always flows from:

A. High volume to low volume
B. Low density to high density
A. Climate
C. Low volume to high density
B. Weather
D. High pressure to low pressure
C. Atmospheric Conditions
3942. A(n) is a large volume of air in which
temperature and moisture are nearly the D. Season
same throughout.
3946. Which of the following devices mea-
A. front sures wind speed?
B. boundary
A. weather vane
C. air mass
B. thermometer
D. cloud
C. anemometer
3943. What type of rainfall can you see in this
diagram? D. seismograph
3947. Which of these options can affect the cli-

mate of a place?
A. elevation
B. the soil
C. bodies of water
A. Convectional rainfall D. wind

B. Frontal rainfall E. the animals

3948. Which layer of the atmosphere does 3953. Temperature, humidity, other factor are
weather occur (take place)? called
A. Elements
B. Climate
3954. Weather ClimateWhat is the weather of
a certain area over a long period of time?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. Mesosphere
B. Troposphere
C. Exosphere
D. none of above
A. climate zone
3949. what kind of weather would cumulonim-
bus clouds bring? B. moisture
A. clear and sunny C. climate
B. hurricane D. element
C. thunderstorm 3955. Weather in any area tends to follow a
D. none of above
A. pattern
3950. Climate only records temperatures
while weather records temperatures and B. map
precipitation. 3956. Because the Earth revolves around the
A. False Sun, we experience ?
B. True A. Rotation
3951. Identify the following type of front B. Seasons
C. Axial Tilt
D. Gravity
3957. You can use a stick to snow.
A. cold A. measure
B. stationary B. see
C. warm C. observe
D. occluded D. melt
3952. Which of the following is an example of 3958. What has happened to the global tem-
a cloud of vertical development? perature over the last 200 years?
A. nimbostratus cloud A. it has gone down
B. cumulonimbus cloud B. it has stayed the same
C. cirrus cloud C. it has gone up
D. stratus cloud D. Only some spots have gone up or down

3959. With hurricanes what happens when B. Storm

they go over land? C. Thunders

A. They Weaken D. Tornado
B. They strengthen
3964. What type of air mass would form over
C. They remain the same the warm waters of the southern Atlantic
D. none of above Ocean?
3960. Can climate change affect climate and

weather?
A. Maritime polar (mP)

B. Maritime tropical (mT)
C. Continental polar (cP)
D. Continental tropical (cT)
A. Yes 3965. Every year when Timmy goes to Col-
B. No orado for Christmas, there is plenty of
snow for skiing.
3961. What are clouds made from? A. Weather
A. dust B. Climate
B. water droplets 3966. How are the convection currents in the
C. air lava lamp different than convection cur-
D. cotton rents in the atmosphere?
3962. When air pressure is high, what type of

weather do we experience?
A. sunny and clear
B. rainy and cloudy
3963. What is this severe weather?
A. warm air in the atmosphere sinks in-

A. Hurricane stead of rises

B. The earth gets its heat from the sun 3972. Name that front.
and the lava lamp gets its heat from the
light bulb below.
C. Convection cells in the atmosphere
flow in the same direction instead of op-
posite
D. Cold air is less dense instead of being
A. Cold Front
more dense.
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. Warm Front
3967. What happens to air pressure as you
C. Stationary Front
move upward into the atmosphere?
D. Occluded Front
A. increases
B. decreases 3973. What tool is used to measure the
amount of rain at a location?
C. stays the same
A. Wind Sock
D. none of above
B. Anemometer
3968. The Sun gives us all of the following
C. Thermometer
except-
D. Rain Gauge
A. light
B. heat 3974. Surface currents occur
C. energy A. in the top 10% of ocean water
D. water B. In the top 20% of ocean water
C. in the deep ocean waters
3969. What height did Felix Baumgartner
jump from? D. only at the coast
A. 100’456 m 3975. Meteorologists analyse the information
B. 38’969 m they receive from the weather instru-
ments and satellites and make
C. 12’012 m
A. weather maps
D. 6’734 m
B. climate graphs
3970. Which of the following is not a type of
data that is used to make a weather fore- 3976. What sentence is false? The Oceanic cli-
cast? mate
A. gravity
B. wind speed
C. temperature
D. air pressure
3971. surfaces generally reflect a lot of
sunlight, so they have high albedos. A. is located in the South of the Iberian
A. Dark-colored Peninsula.
B. Light-colored B. has mild temperatures all year.

C. has high precipitation all year around. C. Weather is determined by tempera-

ture and precipitation.

D. none of above D. Weather is determined only by humid-
ity, air pressure, and wind conditions.
3977. the harmattan winds blows over the
north western part of 3982. weather patterns typical for an area
A. Australia over a long period of time.
B. Asia A. climate
C. Europe B. weather
D. Africa C. axis
D. revolution
3978. A small, very intense cyclonic storm
with exceedingly high winds, most often 3983. What clothes do we wear during wet
produced along cold fronts in conjunction seaon?
with severe thunderstorms
A. hurricane A.
B. tornado
C. air mass
D. cold front B.
3979. What conditions are necessary for a tor-
nado to form?
A. Rapidly sinking cold air
B. A stationary front C.
C. Rapidly rising warm air
D. none of above
3980. As we move away from the equator the

length of the latitude
D.
A. Decreases
B. Increases
C. Remains the same
D. none of above 3984. What two things are needed for a hurri-
cane to form?
3981. The area in which you live has a partic-
ular climate. It also has weather. What is A. warm water and a high pressure sys-
weather? tem
A. Weather is the condition of Earth’s at- B. cold water and a high pressure system
mosphere at a particular time and place. C. warm water and a low pressure sys-
B. Weather is the characteristic climate tem
in an area over a long period of time. D. cold water and a low pressure system

3985. More evaporation occurs C. Global warming

A. at night D. Weather and Climate
B. during the day
3992. Places located near the sea have cli-
3986. How many ocean currents are there? mate.
(Take a guess)
A. moderate
A. 15
B. cold
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. 4
C. hot
C. 2
D. 1 D. none of above
3987. Who record weather everyday 3993. What stage of the water cycle does
A. Meteorologist number 2 in the picture show?
B. Anthropologist
3988. In thermohaline circulation, what do the

root words “thermo” and “haline” mean?
A. thermo means cold and haline means
heat
B. thermo means temperature and haline
means salt content
A. condensation
3989. vertical movement of air is called
A. air current B. precipitation
B. wind C. storage
C. radiation D. evaporation
D. none
3994. The interaction of air, water, and
3990. Why do scientists measure changes in causes weather.
weather? A. the Sun
A. To change the weather.
B. humidity
B. To know exactly how much precipita-
tion there will be tomorrow. C. land
C. To determine when the summer will D. wind

start.
3995. Which narrow belts of high speed winds
D. To make predictions about what
control the movement of storms?
weather might happen next.
A. jet streams
3991. What’s the theme I have been talking
about? B. warm fronts
A. Environment C. tornadoes
B. Nature D. hurricanes

3996. Water on Earth moves through the wa- 4000. What are examples of extreme weather
ter cycle because of energy that comes events?
from the

A. Hurricane, Tornado, Blizzard, Vortex,
A. Earth’s core Black hole.
B. Sun’s heat B. Typhoon, tornado, earthquake, vol-
cano.
C. Moon’s gravity
C. Cyclone, tornado, tsunami, earth-
D. Wind’s movement
quake.
3997. Large bodies of water affecting the tem- D. Hurricane, blizzard, drought
perature of region in an example of which
climatic element? 4001. A mixture of gases that surrounds a
planet or moon
A. Influence of elevation
A. Atmosphere
B. Proximity to water
B. Cycle
C. Influence of ocean currents
C. Solar
D. Influence of latitudes
D. Paradise
3998. What is true about hail? Mark all that
apply. 4002. What is the geosphere?
A. Hail usually forms in large thunder-

storms.
B. Hail can be larger than your fists.
C. Hail forms when rain moves through
freezing air.
A. all the air and gases on the planet
D. Hail falls when it becomes to heavy for
wind to keep it in the clouds. B. all the frozen water on the Earth
E. Hail can only happen when it is cold. C. the non-living soil, rocks, and minerals
of the Earth
3999. All weather is caused by
A. rainfall. Earth
B. wind speed. 4003. the actual amount of water vapour
C. the sun heating the Earth. present in the air is called as
D. none of above A. relative humidity

B. absolute humidity
C. condensation C.
D. precipitation
4004. Lines of longitude measure and

from the Prime Meridian D. none of above
NARAYAN CHANGDER
is known as:
A. front
B. storm
C. climate
D. flood
A. east and west 4009. What is elevation?

B. north and south

by cloudy, rainy weather.
A. High
B. Low
A. Height above sea level
4006. Location of north Frigid zone?
B. Amount of water vapor
A. In Arctic circle
C. Average temperature
B. In North hemisphere
D. Distance from the equator
C. Above temperate zone
D. Between North Pole and Arctic circle 4010. Which of the following is a measure of
how fast atoms in a material are moving?
4007. Select the answer that displays the pic-
A. Pressure
ture of a barometer.
B. Albedo
C. Temperature
A.
D. Radiation
4011. What is term that refers to the height

of an area above sea level?
A. Topography
B. B. Elevation
C. Climate
D. Weather

4012. What is the name of the object in the 4016. Theory a] while Law b]
picture? A. a] describes b] explains

B. a] cannot be proven b] can be proven
C. a] explains b] describes
D. a] can be proven b] cannot be proven
4017. When water seeps into the ground.
A. runoff
B. infiltration
A. Anemometer C. ice flow

D. ocean circulation
B. Thermometer
C. Wind Vane 4018. What do ocean currents do for Earth’s
climate?
D. Rain Gauge
4013. Uncontrollable fire that occurs in wild

land areas
A. Epidemic
B. Flood
C. Wildfire A. They cause earthquakes
D. Volcanic Eruption B. They cause tectonic plates to shift
4014. Weather is always changing. C. They redistribute Earth’s heat

D. They carry trash from Africa to South
A. True
America
B. False
4019. What shape do Tornadoes take?
4015. What is the temperature shown on the A. Circle
fifth thermometer? B. Eye
C. Funnel
D. Square
4020. Which best describes the Coriolis Effect?
A. As cool air warms up, it rises, and as
warm air cools down, it sinks, creating a
A. 60 degrees Fahrenheit breeze.
B. 30 degrees Fahrenheit B. As the sun rises and sets, the path of
the wind all over Earth changes direction.
C. 100 degrees Fahrenheit
C. As it spins on its axis, the Earth pulls
D. 10 degrees Fahrenheit
the wind and causes it to blow in a curved
E. 70 degrees Fahrenheit path.

D. As air pressure on the Earth’s poles B. The chilled onshore winds cause snow
change, the wind at the Equator becomes on the west side of the mountains and rain
stronger. on the east side.
4021. A scientist who studies the weather and C. The high pressure forces the clouds
tries to predict it. into the Pacific Ocean causing rain on the
east side of the mountains.
D. The cold current pushes the clouds
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over the mountain, and the rain falls on
the east side of the mountains.
4025. Latitude
A. geologist A. The distance in degrees north or south

of the equator
B. paleontologist
B. The amount of thermal energy re-
C. physicist quired to increase the temp of 1 kg of ma-
D. meteorologist terial 1 degree Celsius.
4022. small balls of ice that fall like rain C. The transfer of thermal energy be-
tween materials by the collisions of par-
A. ice storm ticles. (Transfer of energy through direct
B. icying contact)
C. hail D. The transfer of thermal energy by elec-
D. freeze tromagnetic waves.
4023. Tick the various factors that are influ- Explanation:

enced by climate. (Select three correct an-
swers).
Latitude
A. culture and civilizations
B. food and clothing 4026. True or false:Global warming will lead
to mass human migration.
C. smartphones and laptops
A. True
D. houses we live in
B. False
4024. The Atacama Desert in Chile is one of
the driest places on Earth. The Atacama 4027. How are greenhouse gasses harming
Desert has an average precipitation of less our environment?
than 0.1 millimeter (mm) per year. On the
other side of the Andes Mountains, Salta, A. They aren’t
Argentina has an average precipitation of B. Less heat is able to escape causing the
700 mm per year. Why does it rain in Earth to cool down
Salta and not the neighboring desert?
C. Less heat is able to escape causing the
A. The chilled onshore winds carry water
Earth to warm up
to the east side of the mountains where it
rains D. More heat is able to escape

4028. The act of turning from a gas into a liq- 4032. Roger wants to eat his lunch outside in
uid the park with his friends. They hope it
does not rain. Roger’s mom looks through

the window at the clouds outside. Which
type of clouds indicate that they may lead
to a rainstorm?
A. clouds that cover the sky in a layer
A. Condensation B. clouds that are very tall with a dark
B. Evaporation base
C. Transpiration C. clouds that are thin and wispy like
feathers
D. Precipitation
D. clouds that have puffy tops and white
4029. If a person is describing the daily bottoms
they are referring to an area’s 4033. The tropical rain forest has had lots of
rain over the past century
A. weather
A. Weather
B. climate
B. Climate
C. geography
D. geology 4034. A dropping barometer indicates which
type of weather?
4030. warm, less dense air will A. Rain
A. sink B. Sunny
B. create clear weather C. Windy
C. rise D. Cloudy
D. not move at all
4035. Which describes air circulation patterns
4031. The picture shows the water cycle. In in the atmosphere?
which part of the water cycle is water A. Cold air rises and warms as it does.
changing from a liquid to a gas? Warm air sinks and cools at it does.
B. Warm air rises and cools as it rises.
Cold air sinks and warms as it sinks.
4036. The average winter temperature is 30

degrees F.
A. weather
B. climate
A. part 1 4037. The influences the rainfall in the re-
B. part 2 gion.
C. part 3 A. Relief
D. part 4 B. Atmosphere

4038. Which is not a factor that influences

daily weather?
A. heat
B. air pressure
C. elevation A. Conduction
D. moisture B. The Greenhouse Effect
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4039. Depending on its force, it can be a soft C. Radiation
breeze, a gale or a hurricane D. none of above
A. Precipitation 4044. Why do scientists measure changes in
B. Wind weather?
C. Climate A. to determine when summer will start
D. High altitude B. to be able to change the weather

C. to know exactly how much precipita-
4040. Yesterday it was sunny, but today it is tion there will be tomorrow
rainy is an example of:
D. to predict what kind of weather might
A. weather happen next
B. climate 4045. What do we Experience everyday?
A. Climate
A. Stationary Front
B. Weather
B. Occluded Front
4046. After condensation, the droplets of wa-
C. Cold Front
ter in the clouds fall to the earth in differ-
D. Warm Front ent forms
A. precipitation
4042. Type of ecosystem
B. condensation
A. Terrestrial
C. evaporation
B. Aquatic
D. ground water
C. Big
4047. What type of weather does a Low Pres-
D. Small
sure system bring?
4043. The energy transfer by contact is A. happy, sunny clear weather

B. lousy, cold, rainy weather

C. lightning
C.

D. rainbows and unicorns
4048. Which two factors identify the climate

of a region?
A. longitude and latitude
B. temperature and precipitation D.
C. latitude and temperature
D. layers in the atmosphere
4049. The average low temperature for 4053. The diagram show the water cy-
Austin, Texas, is 56◦ F. cle.Which of these would most likely be
seen at Stage 2?
A. Weather
B. Climate
4050. Winds blow from

A. low to high pressure
B. high to low pressure
C. North to South
D. East to West
A. clouds forming in the sky
Explanation: B. water accumulating in a puddle
C. snow falling from the sky
4051. The daily changes we see outside is
D. a pond’s water level decreasing
called
A. climate. 4054. A Nor’easter is a mild storm producing
a bit of rain.
B. precipitation
A. True
C. weather.
B. False
D. temperature.
4052. Wind peed measuring device 4055. This is measured and recorded daily-
A. weather
A. B. climate
4056. Why doesn’t cloud formation take

place until the dew-point temperature is
reached?
B. A. because dew-point is the temperature
at which water vapor condenses into wa-
ter droplets

B. cloud formation can take place at any B. The higher the latitude, the lower the
temperature, and does not depend on the temperature.
dew-point temerature C. The higher the latitude, the more pre-
C. because water sublimates at the dew- cipitation.
point temperature D. The higher the latitude the less precip-
D. the dew-point temperature only ap- itation.
plies on Earth’s surface, not in the atmo-
sphere 4062. What does this image represent?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
4057. What layer is the Ozone in?
A. Ozone Layer
B. Startosphere
C. Troposphere
D. It’s not in one, it has its own
A. Mountain winds
4058. Precipitation is-
B. jet stream
A. rain, sleet, snow, or hail
C. Mountain rain shadow effect
B. only rain
D. none of above
C. only snow, sleet, or hail
D. none of above 4063. We use an anemometer to measure
A. Wind direction
4059. bricks
B. Wind speed
A. renewable
C. Temperature
B. non-renewable
D. Precipitation
4060. Which of these does a barometer mea-
sure? 4064. The amount of water vapor in the air
A. temperature A. Precipitation
B. pressure B. Wind
C. wind speed C. Thunderstorm
D. precipitation D. Humidity
4061. How does latitude affect the climate of E. Surface Currents

an area?
4065. An air mass forms over the Gulf of Mex-
ico and moves northeast across Georgia.
What weather conditions are likely to pre-
vail in Georgia?
A. cool and dry
B. cool and humid
A. The higher the latitude, the warmer C. warm and dry

the temperature. D. warm and humid

4066. If every year on this day is has been B. evaporation

43 degrees for hundreds of years, what
C. weather
do you think we can say about our climate

for this time of year? D. water vapor
A. It’s mildly cold and breezy
4072. THE UNIT WE USE TO MEASURE THE
B. It’s extremely cold and snowy SPEED OF WIND IS
C. It’s mildly hot and sunny A. MILLIMETRESm.m.
D. It’s extremely hot and dry B. CENTIMETREScm.
4067. A hurricane in the Pacific Ocean. C. DEGREES CELSIUS◦ C
A. hurricane D. KILOMETRES PER HOURkm/h
B. vegetation
4073. The frozen dew is called
C. typhoon
D. Monsoon A. frost
B. hailstone
4068. Which climate zone has moderate tem-
peratures and rainfall year round? C. fog
A. tropical D. none of above
B. temperate
4074. moisture that falls from the sky as rain,
C. polar snow, sleet, or hail
D. none of above A. blizzard
4069. What is an air mass? B. hurricane
A. a place where weather always C. water
changes in an extreme way
D. precipitation
B. a large body of air with the same tem-
perature and moisture 4075. What is the year-by-year variation of
C. any cloud that produces rain, sleet, the atmosphere’s condition over a large
snow or hail area called?
D. any kind of air, as long as it is always A. climate
wet and freezing
B. weather
4070. How many pressure belts are there C. temperature
A. two D. humidity
B. three
4076. What gives wind its mass?
C. seven
D. four A. barometric pressure
B. air molecules
4071. when water vapor comes together to
make drops of water C. air pressure
A. condensation D. the convection cell

4077. Which one of the following statements

about Earth’s atmosphere is TRUE?
A. The temperature in the atmosphere in-
creases as it gets closer to the Sun.
B. The air pressure increases as you go
up in the atmosphere.
C. The atmosphere has different temper-
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atures and pressures at different alti-
tudes.
D. The atmosphere has the same temper-
ature and pressure at all altitudes.
4078. “The clothes for a day.”

A. weather
B. climate
4079. Warm air moving upwards from the

Gulf of Mexico is:
A. warm front
A. continental tropical B. cold front
B. continental polar C. stationary front
C. maritime tropical D. occluded front
D. maritime polar 4082. The layers of the atmosphere. The
layer in which aurora borealis and shoot-
4080. In spring, the axis of the earth is ing stars happen is the
pointed away or toward the sun?
A. Troposphere
A. Towards B. Stratosphere
C. Mesosphere
B. Neither away or toward
D. Thermosphere
C. Away
E. Exosphere
D. none of above
4083. This weather tool measures wind speed
4081. name this front A. thermometer

B. barometer 4088. Air always blows from

C. anemometer A. High pressure to low pressure

D. psychrometer B. Hot air to cold air
C. low pressure to high pressure
4084. The average low temperature for D. East to west
Austin, TX is 560 F.
4089. Which most likely produces clear, cool
A. Weather
weather?
B. Climate A. zero air pressure
4085. What is the reason for the seasons? B. stable air pressure
C. a low pressure system
A. the tilt of the sun’s axis
D. a high pressure system
B. the tilt of the earth’s axis
4090. Hailstorms are usually located
C. the sun moving away from the earth
A. In the southern hemisphere
D. the sun moving toward the earth
B. West of the Rocky Mountains
4086. Why does the troposphere experience C. In the midwest region
the greatest amount of atmospheric pres- D. Only around Kansas
sure compared to the other atmospheric
layers? 4091. This landscape could belong to a
A. It produces the ozone layer.
B. It has the highest temperatures.
C. It contains the highest concentration
of gas particles.
D. It is the region in which weather oc-
curs.
A. Cold climate zone.
4087. clouds appear fibrous or curly B. Temperate climate zone.
C. Hot climate zone.
D. none of above
4092. Tarmac reflects the heat making the sur-
rounding area cooler
A. True
B. False
4093. Most South Asians consume this crop:*
A. stratus
A. rice
B. cumulus B. wheat
C. cirrus C. c) corn

4094. If we describe the air feeling cold or hot, 4099. Does this statement describe weather
we use the word: or climate? “It’s raining today”
A. Weather A. Weather
B. Temperature B. Climate
C. Climate
4100. Weather conditions can change very
D. none of above suddenly
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4095. Sea breeze takes place during the A. True
A. day B. False
B. night
4101. A student recorded the data below one
4096. An is a large body of air that has December afternoon. What is the best con-
similar temperature and moisture proper- clusion he can draw from his data?
ties throughout.
A. A warm front passed over the area.

A. Cold Front
B. A cold front passed over the area.
B. Air Mass
C. The wind speed increased.
C. Warm Front
D. The direction of the wind changed.
D. Land Breeze
4102. If weather becomes stormy for a short
4097. global warming time and then becomes colder, which type
A. when the Earth gets really hot in the of front has most likely passed?
summer
A. Cold Front
B. a gradual increase in the average tem-
B. Warm Front
perature of Earth’s atmosphere
C. the pressure caused by the weight of C. High Pressure
a column of air pushing down on an area D. Lukewarm Front
D. warmer air; light and steady precipita-
tion; move southwest to northeast 4103. Which is an example of precipitation?
A. Hurricane
4098. What kind of weather is usually associ-
ated with a high pressure system? B. Tornado
A. Sunny weather C. Sleet
B. Precipitation (rain, snow, etc.) D. Sand

4104. Breeze that blows from the land to- 4109. These words describe what?Averages,
wards the ocean. Decade, Century, Typically, Usually, PAT-
TERNS, long period of time

A. Weather
B. Climate
C. Temperature
D. Wind
A. Sea Breeze 4110. When a warm air mass gently slides on
B. Land Breeze top of a cold air mass, and you have drizzly
rain followed by beautiful sunny weather,
C. Continental Breeze
what front is it?
D. Convection cell
A. Warm front
4105. In the stratosphere. which important B. Cold front
feature blocks harmful rays from the sun? C. Occluded front
A. the Aurora Borealis D. Stationary front
B. the ozone layer
4111. The global movement of air occurs in
C. the sunray shield convection cells. In general, how does air
move?
D. all of the above
4106. Maria looked out her window and no-

ticed it was a cloudy day.
A. Weather
B. Climate
4107. What weather follows a cold front?

A. Cool temperatures and clear, sunny
skies
B. Cool temperatures and cloudy skies A. From areas of higher temperature to
C. Warmer temperatures and cloudy areas of lower temperature.
skies B. From areas of lower temperature to ar-
D. Warmer temperatures and clear, eas of higher temperature.
sunny skies C. From areas of higher pressure to ar-
eas of lower pressure
4108. Penguins are found in regions
D. From areas of lower pressure to areas
A. Tropical of higher pressure.
B. Polar
4112. The lowest layer of Earth’s atmosphere
C. Sub Tropical which contains all weather.
D. Desert A. thermosphere

B. mesosphere 4118. Which group of terms most belongs to-

C. stratosphere gether?
D. Troposphere A. low pressure, falling temperature, low

humidity
4113. A severe storm which involves a funnel B. low pressure, rising temperature, high
cloud forming over land is: humidity
A. hurricane C. high pressure, rising temperature, low
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. tornado humidity
C. thunderstorm D. high pressure, falling temperature,
high humidity
D. blizzard
4119. The weight of the air pressing on every-
4114. Which layer of Earth’s atmosphere is
thing in the environment is called
the one farthest from the surface of Earth?
A. air pressure
A. mesosphere
B. air mass
B. thermosphere
C. cloud
C. troposphere
D. humidity
D. stratosphere
4120. What type of severe weather forms on
4115. A boundary that forms between the a
land and can destroy anything in its path?
warm air mass and and a cool air mass.
A. Hurricane
A. front
B. Thunderstorm
B. air mass
C. Tornado
C. precipitation
D. Flood
D. humidity
4121. THE WEATHER CONDITIONS THAT PRE-
4116. What is the name of the scale that mea- VAIL OVER A LARGE AREA FOR A LONG
sures Tornado Strength as of 2007? PERIOD OF TIME IS CALLED
A. Saffir-Simpson Scale A. WEATHER
B. Richter Scale B. CLIMATE
C. Enhanced Fujita Scale C. MONSOON
D. none of above D. HUMIDITY
4117. drought 4122. Antarctica always has frigid tempera-
A. seasonably variable climate zone be- tures.
tween 40 and 60 degrees latitude, north
or south of the equator
B. a long period of unusually dry weather
C. long-term average of weather in an
area
D. measures air pressure

A. Weather C. Temperate Zone

B. Climate D. Climate

4123. A severe storm that develops over 4128. Violently rotating column of air in con-
warm waters and strong winds. It will tact with the ground crossing land in a nar-
leave behind coastal damage. To stay safe, row path
board of windows and move inland.
A. Tornado
B. Hurricane
C. Thunderstorm
D. none of above
4124. The places which are far away from the

A. hurricane
sea do not get sea breeze. This makes the
climate of these places B. tornado
A. Moderate C. blizzard
B. Extreme D. thunderstorm
4125. There are several different climate 4129. Extent

zones in the world that vary based on tem-
perature and latitude. In general, what is
the relationship between temperature and
latitude?
A. Temperature stays the same for all lat-
itudes.
B. Temperature increases as latitude in-
creases.
C. Temperature decreases as latitude in- A. The amount of something
creases.
B. A design or sequence that is repeated
D. Temperature and latitude decrease at
the same rate. C. A statement about what you think will
happen, based on what you know
4126. What weather factor does a hygrome- D. The difference between the largest
ter measure? and smallest values in a set of values
A. Air Pressure
4130. A funnel-shaped cloud that touches
B. Air Temperature Earth’s surface is called a hurricane.
C. Wind Speed A. True
D. Humidity B. False
4127. The cold climate zone near both poles: 4131. What latitude will have the highest an-
A. Tropical Zone gle of insolation?
B. Polar Zone A. 90 N

B. 0 (Equator) B. Prevailing winds blowing across land

C. 15 S or water
C. The tilt of the Earth’s axis
D. 15 N
D. The rotation of the Earth
4132. Weather
4136. What do you think will happen to a wa-
ter puddle when the sun comes out and the
temperature is warmer?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. The water will turn into a gas.
B. The water will turn into a solid.
C. The water will turn into a liquid.
D. none of above
A. The amount of something
B. The four natural divisions of the year that forms over land?
A. Dry
C. The current outdoor conditions
B. Wet
D. The difference between the largest
and smallest values in a set of values C. Cold
D. Warm
4133. Lines of longitude run in which direc-
tion? 4138. Zone is neither too hot nor too cold.
A. Torrid
B. Temperate
C. Frigid
D. none of above
4139. What does this diagram show?
A. east and west

B. north and south
4134. Weather is based on the average cli-

mate experienced in a location overa long
period of time-30 years or more.
A. true
A. Cold and warm water currents.
B. false
B. The earth
4135. Which of the following is the cause of C. Uneven heating of the earth’s surface.
the change of season? Explanation:The diagram shows that the
A. The distance of a place from the equa- equator is heated more than the poles.
tor D. none of above

4140. Visitors to the Southeastern United

States sometimes complain about the high
humidity. What does high humidity indi-

cate?
A. cool temperatures
B. a high-pressure system
C. an approaching cold front A. Run off
D. high amount of water vapor in the air B. Precipitation
C. Condensation
4141. Where does the earth have the climate
D. none of above
with 4 seasons
A. in the temperate zones 4146. Prevailing winds that travel to a region
across a large body of water would prob-
B. in the polar zones ably make the region’s climate
C. in the mild zones A. Warmer
D. in the tropics B. Wetter
C. Cooler
4142. Bad weather, high humidity, many
D. Drier
clouds, cyclones are probable
A. high pressure system 4147. What does a rain gauge measure?
B. low pressure system

C. cold front
D. occluded front
4143. What does a thermometer measure?

A. wind speed
A. It measures speed
B. temperature B. It measures light
C. amount of precipitation C. It measures distance
D. air pressure D. It measures the amount of rainfall
4144. Conditions that vary from day to day as 4148. Analyze the map.Why is it warmer in
temperature and precipitation Charleston than it is in San Diego even
though they are the same distance from
A. Prevailing winds the Equator?
B. Climate
C. Surface Current
D. Weather
4145. Water that flows to join rivers, lakes,

and oceans (gravity helps)

A. San Diego is affected by the Gulf 4152. The Area between the tropic of Cancer
Stream and the Tropic of Capricorn is the
B. Charleston is affected by the California A. Torrid Zone
current B. Frigid Zone
C. Charleston is affected by the Gulf C. Temperate Zone
Stream
D. Heat Zone
D. none of above
4153. Last Wednesday was really windy!
NARAYAN CHANGDER
4149. Summer for us is because the northern
hemisphere during the summer months is
towards the sun.
A. Moved
B. Tilted
C. Rocked
D. Bulged A. Weather
B. Climate
4150. What temperatures can you expect dur-
ing Summer? 4154. What is this?
A. Pluviometer
A. 30 degrees celsius B. Anemometer
B. 5 Degrees celsius C. Thermometer
C. 0 degrees celsius D. Barometer
D. none of above 4155. What climate would this most likely be?
4151. What is the leading edge of an air mass

called?
A. The Edge
B. The Black
C. The Front
D. The Side A. Desert

B. Tropical
C. Temperate

D. Mediterranean
4156. Climate in the Desert is very hot be-

cause the receive
A. Little or No Rainfall A. radiation
B. A lot of Rainfall B. convection
C. Moderate Rainfall C. conduction
D. none of above D. condensation
4157. The clouds have hair like appearance 4162. TRUE or FALSE”The weather is the state
A. Cirrus clouds of the atmosphere in a specific place at a
specific moment”
B. Stratus clouds
A. TRUE
C. Cumulus clouds
B. FALSE
D. none of above
4163. The state of the atmosphere in a specific
4158. What is the major cause of ozone deple- place at a specific time is called
tion?
A. weather
A. greenhouse gases
B. a front
B. chlorofluorcarbons (CFC’s)
C. the Coriolis effect
C. carbon dioxide
D. a dew point
D. oxygen
4164. Which tool is used to measure precipita-
4159. A climate zone is tion?
A. Something on the air conditioner in my A. thermometer
house B. compass
B. An area/region that shares the same C. rain gauge
climate features
D. wind vane
C. A special defense in basketball
D. Something I should have learned in 4165. How much Nitrogen is in the atmo-
class, but I was too busy updating my sta- sphere?
tus on Instagram! A. 21%
B. 78%
4160. Weather is
C. 1%
A. what is happening in an area now
D. 42%
B. what we expect an area to be like
4166. Weather and climate are not the same
4161. The top floor of your house always thing.
seem to have a higher temperature than
the 1st floor. What heat transfer method A. True
is responsible for this process? B. False

4167. Can it rain fish? A. high pressure

B. low pressure
C. hurricane
D. weather system
4171. “Its usually really hot in Texas”
A. True A. weather
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B. False B. climate
4168. On the basis of the difference in their C. both

temperature, the Earth can be divided into D. nether
heat zones.
4172. Which factor does not influence climate
A. 3
B. 4 A. Ocean currents
C. 5 B. Vegetation
D. none of above C. Cloud cover
D. Precipitation
4169. Look at the picture. This shows
4173. Which climate has temperatures that de-
crease with altitude and has many high
peaks covered in snow? This climate is
usually windy and wet.
A. Mediterranean
B. mountain
C. polar
D. desert
A. when the seasons begin 4174. The moment-to-moment changes in the

B. when the seasons end atmosphere in our area is the
C. What the weather is like in each sea- A. weather
son B. climate
D. how far Earth is from the sun C. water cycle
4170. Which system results in rainy or stormy D. wind
weather?
4175. The amount of moisture in the air is
A. barometric pressure.
B. wind.
C. temperature.
D. humidity.

4176. Jim’s town recieved 90 cm of snowfall C. C D

last winter. What can you conclude from D. C G
that data?

A. Next year it is unlikely to snow there. 4181. How are weather and climate different?
B. A lot of rain probably fell in the spring.

C. His town has a climate with cold win-
ters.
D. none of above
4177. This weather instrument measures air

pressure.
A. Weather is about air pressure, temper-
A. Anemometer ature, winds, humidity and climate is only
B. Thermometer about temperature
C. Barometer B. Climate is for a large area, like North
D. Weather Balloon America, and weather is for a small area,
like a city.
4178. The degree of hotness or coolness of a C. Climate is the weather over a long pe-
substance or the environment is riod of time, like 30 or more years.
A. Temperature D. Weather is the temperature for one
B. Precipitation day in a large area, climate is for a longer
C. Humidity period of time.
D. Wind 4182. The main forms of precipitation are:
4179. is a solid precipitation that some- A. Snow and Thunder

times happens during a thunderstorm. B. Humidity & Moisture
A. sleet C. Rain & Hail
B. rain D. Drizzle & Lightning
C. snow 4183. An air mass takes on the characteristics
D. hail of the water or land below it.
4180. Which airmasses would bring warm, A. true

moist air? B. false
4184. What type of cloud is shown?
A. A F
B. C F A. cumulus

B. cirrus A. Boise
C. stratus B. New York
D. none of above C. Atlanta
4185. What causes wind on top of hills and D. dallas
mountains?
4189. The Sahara Desert is hot and dry all
year.
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. Weather
A. cool air rising while hot air sinks B. Climate
B. cool air and hot air hitting each other
4190. oil
C. hot air rising while cool air sinks
A. renewable
D. cool air and rain clouds
B. non-renewable
4186. In the Midwest United States, torna-
does are very common. To protect hu- 4191. A thunderstorm is a severe storm with
man life from severe weather like this, we lightning, thunder, heavy rain, and strong
would expect to see many winds.
A. churches.
A. True
B. tin roofs.
B. False
C. storm cellars.
D. barns and other outbuildings 4192. Which air mass is forced upward at a
front?
4187. Over large distances eg whole of UK
A. cold air mass
A. Weather
B. warm air mass
B. Climate
4188. Which city has partly cloudy skies? 4193. air sinks/falls because it
is dense.
A. Cold, More
B. Warm, Less
C. Cold, Less
D. Warm, More

4194. The Coriolis effect is the curving of the A. Polar

path of a moving object. How does theCo-
B. Temperate
riolis effectinfluence wind?

C. Tropical
D. none of above
4198. Millibar is the unit of measurement of
A. Atmospheric temperature
B. Precipitation
C. Atmospheric pressure
A. It causes the wind to move in straight D. none of above

paths.
4199. Cold air:
B. It changes the height at which winds
travels. A. Is less dense and rises.
C. It changes the direction of the wind to B. Is more dense and rises.
curve depending on the hemisphere. C. Is more dense and rises.
D. It causes the air to move. D. Is more dense and falls.
4195. As you go to the top of a mountain,
what happens to temperature? 4200. Which must be present for a hurricane
to develop?
A. Nothing
A. a warm front
B. It increases
B. warm, moist air
C. It decreases
C. cool, turbulent air
D. It goes up and down
D. a high pressure cell
4196. sheep
A. renewable 4201. What vegetation is there in hot cli-
mates?
B. non-renewable
4197. Which Climate Zone is the arrow point-

ing to?
A. Grassland
B. Forest
C. Desert
D. Savannah

4202. Describes the condition of the air B. between 25◦ and 40◦ latitude on the
outdoors- eastern sides of the continents.
C. on either side of the equator.
D. halfway between the equator and the
poles.
4207. What is piled along the banks of a rising
river to keep water out of buildings?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. climate
B. weather
C. average temperature A. sandbags
D. none of above B. trees
4203. What causes winds to form on Earth? C. rocks
A. solar energy D. none of above
B. ocean currents 4208. Increasing quantities of CO2 (Carbon

Dioxide) in the atmosphere will cause air
C. elevation differences temperatures to be
D. uneven heating of the Earth by the sun
4204. An air mass can be considered a high or

low pressure. What causes this?
A. differences in size
B. differences in location
C. differences in humidity
D. differences in density

that forms over the ocean? A. Cooler
B. Warmer
A. Dry
B. Wet 4209. What is a hurricane?
C. Cold A. A violent disturbance in the atmo-
sphere
D. Warm
B. A long lasting storm that begins over
4206. Humid tropical climate regions are lo- warm surfaces and has winds of 119 km
cated per hour or higher
A. between 25◦ and 40◦ latitude on the C. Average rain in a year
western sides of the continents. D. none of above

4210. What part of the water cycle does this C. 10 inches

picture show? D. 12 inches

4214. What does a high-pressure system do?
A. it causes low temperatures
B. it causes cheeseburgers to fall from
the sky
C. it causes high temperatures.
A. condensation D. It makes you become a pineapple for
B. precipitation 2 minutes
C. evaporation 4215. Which of the following are used to
D. transpiration study and forecast most weather-related
events?
4211. Something we observe to be similar A. doppler radar
over and over again.
B. satellites and satellite images
A. evidence
C. weather maps
B. pattern
D. all of the above
C. argument
D. graph 4216. This is a
4212. Annul rainfall for the Equatorial Climate

commonly occur between
A. 1000-1500 mm
B. 1500-2000 mm
C. 2000-4000 mm
D. 4000-5000mm A. sun
4213. Approximately how many inches of rain B. wind
did Anqing receive in June? C. cloud
D. storm
4217. Visibility is a measure of
A. How clear the atmosphere is

B. Air Pressure
A. 5 inches C. Humidity
B. 7 inches D. Temperature

4218. The latitude of a place affects its climate, 4222. Where will there be a greater tempera-
in particular its temperature. Which sen- ture difference?
tence best describes how latitude and air A. Inland city
temperature are related.
B. Coastal city
4223. Do we need greenhouse gases on Earth?

A. Yes-they keep the Earth warm
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B. Yes-they keep all the gases on our
planet
C. No-they only cause terrible climate
change
D. No-they only block some of the Sun’s
A. The lower the latitude, the lower the rays
air temperature 4224. Hailstorms usually happen
B. The lower the latitude, the colder the A. In the morning
air temperature
B. In the afternoon
C. The higher the latitude, the colder the
air temperature. C. During the night
D. The higher the latitude the warmer the D. When Mr. Wall gets mad
air temperature 4225. We average 200 inches of snow each
4219. Describe the climate for the polar zone. year.
A. Very cold A. climate
B. Very hot B. weather
C. Different seasons (hot, cold, warm, 4226. What effect does vegetation have on
cool) the climate?
D. none of above A. The amount of wind an area receives
B. The amount of precipitation an area re-
4220. What two characteristics do we use to
ceives
define an air mass (what are the two
things we looked at when naming an air C. The amount of energy an area receives
mass)? D. The amount of wind an area receives
A. temperature and altitude
4227. Which diagram shows the formation of
B. temperature and moisture (humidity) a land breeze?
C. moisture (humidity) and altitude
D. density and volume
4221. The conditions in an area over a long pe-

riod of time?
A. Climate
B. Weather A. Diagram Y

B. Diagram X D. Range
C. Neither E. Prediction

D. Both 4232. The consequences of climate change are
4228. Raul is designing an experiment. He
will put ice cubes in a glass of water and
measure the water level in millimeters. Af-
ter the ice cubes melt, he will measure the
water level again. He thinks that the wa-
ter level will be lower. Which of the fol-
lowing steps in the scientific process best
describes what Raul is doing?
A. Predict the results of an experiment
B. Interpret the data from an experiment A. Higher sea level
C. Build a model to analyze relationships B. Extreme weather
D. Repeat an experiment to check the re- C. Drought
sults
D. Go to your house
4229. A scientific instrument used to measure E. Extinction
air pressure.
A. Thermosphere 4233. The current outdoor conditions.
B. Air pressure A. Pattern
C. Barometer B. Range
D. Stratus C. Climate
D. Weather
4230. What type of Weather Front does this
symbol represent? 4234. There are only cirrus clouds in the sky
today.
A. climate
B. weather
A. Cold Front
4235. What’s this climate zone?
B. Warm Front
C. Occluded Front
D. Stationary Front
4231. A statement about what you think will

happen based on what you know is called
a A. Tropical
A. Climate B. Dry
B. Weather C. Polar
C. Season D. Continental

4236. is the weather that a place has over 4243. Jorge looked out the window at the
a long period. thermometer. He recorded the information
A. weather shown. Which conclusion below can Jorge
make based on information from his read-
B. climate ing?
4237. A situation in which the surface position
of a front does not move
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A. cold front
B. warm front
C. stationary front
D. eye wall
4238. Where is it warmer in the summer?

A. On the coast
B. Inland
4239. Atmospheric circulation is

A. movement of air above the Earth
B. movement of water in the ocean
C. the formation of clouds over the poles
D. both the movement of air and water on
Earth
4240. Areas near the sea are cooler in summer

and warmer in winter.
A. The current climate indicates that a
A. True puddle of water is likely to freeze.
B. False B. The current weather indicates that a
puddle of water is likely to freeze.
4241. What is going on with the atmosphere
at any particular time. C. The current climate indicates that a
A. Weather puddle of water is not likely to freeze.
B. Climate D. The current weather indicates that a

puddle of water is not likely to freeze.
4242. A zone with warm humid summers and
mild winters. A 4 season zone with win- 4244. The air is dry and fair weather occurs.
ter, spring, summer and fall. What pressure system causes this?
A. Continental Zone A. Light pressure
B. Temperate Zone B. Low pressure
C. Dry Zone C. High pressure
D. none of above D. No pressure

4245. What is the force of air molecules push- C. hot

ing on an area? D. none of above

A. Elevation
4251. If you would start on the equator and
B. Jet stream walk to the North Pole, you would cross
C. Air mass over many of these invisible lines.
D. Air pressure
4246. The temperature’s decreased (became

colder) due to the
A. climate
B. weather
A. Latitude Lines
C. cold front B. Longitude Lines
D. warm front
4252. Which type of weather often accompa-
4247. A body of air that has the same temper- nies a cold front?
ature and moisture is called a(n) A. fog and warmer temperatures
A. Tornado B. rain and colder temperatures
B. Air Mass C. tornadoes and warmer temperatures
C. Cold Front D. hurricanes and colder temperatures
D. Atmosphere 4253. Thermometer
4248. Climate change causes extreme weather
conditions such as:
A. excessive heat
B. drought
C. extreme storms
D. all of these
4249. Apparent curving of the path of an ob-

ject moving above the Earth due to Earth’s
rotation
A. doppler effect
B. coriolis effect
C. wilson effect
D. none of above
4250. Polar bears only live where the weather

is:
A. cold
B. sunny

A. We use it to measure temperature. 4258. The picture shows an anemometer. An

The unit is degrees Celsius. anemometer measures wind speed. Which
B. We use it to measure precipitation. BEST describes how this tool works?
unit is km/h.
NARAYAN CHANGDER
unit is percent (%)
4254. Which of the following is a way to save

water?
A. Water the lawn at high noon A. Wind pushes against the cups causing
B. washing half loads of dishes them to spin. The frequency of the spin-
ning cups are measured and used to de-
C. taking shorter showers
termine wind speed.
D. running the water while brushing your
teeth B. Wind pushes against the cups causing
them to spin. If the cups move there is no
4255. A student writes the following state- measurable wind speed.
ment in a journal:“it was 84◦ at 3 p.m.
C. Wind pushes against the cups causing
on Tuesday in the schoolyard.” This state-
them to spin. The spinning cups are used
ment BEST describes which system?
to determine the direction of the wind.
A. Local weather
D. Wind pushes against the cups causing
B. Local climate them to spin. The spinning cups are used
C. Regional weather to determine the likelihood of precipita-
tion.
D. Regional climate
4256. Are weather and climate the same 4259. What is a meteorologists?
thing? A. a professional that studies fossils and
A. Yes how the past environment used to be
B. No B. a professional that studies weather
and climate using a satellite and computer
4257. What is the definition of weather? to analyze data
A. a period of abnormally dry weather
C. a professional that studies all living
that lasts at least 2 years
things
B. the specific condition of the atmo-
sphere at a particular place and time D. a professional that teaches students
about rain and snow
C. a complex community of organisms
and the community’s environment 4260. What INSTRUMENT measures wind
D. a release of toxic gas speed in kilometres per hour?

4264. How does air move?

A. Warm air rises and cool air sinks

B. Warm air sinks and cool air rises
4265. This thermometer shows a temperature

A. Thermometer of 50 degrees Farenheit
B. Weather vane
C. Rain gauge
D. Anemometer
4261. What does a barometer measure?

A. wind speed
B. air pressure
C. temperature
D. wind direction A. True
B. False
4262. Lines on a weather map that connect
points that have the same air temperature
4266. What is the Coriolis Effect and how does
are called
it effect global winds?
A. millibars.
A. Curving of winds due to rotation of
B. isobars. earth curves wind counterclockwise in
C. isotherms. Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in
the Southern Hemisphere
D. front lines.
B. Movement of ocean currents caused
4263. Which weather condition was seen the by earth rotation’ counterclockwise in
most days? Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in
Southern Hemisphere
C. curve of global winds caused by global
rotation clockwise in Northern Hemi-
sphere and counterclockwise in Southern
Hemisphere
D. none of above
4267. What type of air mass forms over E?
A. Sunny A. cold, dry

B. Cloudy B. warm, humid
C. Rainy C. cold, humid
D. Snowy D. warm, dry

4268. What is this weather tool called? D. Mountains are too windy because they
are tall.
4270. This climate in Spain has high tempera-

tures in the summer and mild winters.
A. Mediterranean
B. Oceanic
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C. Mountain
D. Subtropical
4271. The average winter temperature is 45

F.
A. weather
B. climate
4272. What does the letter H on a weather

map show?
A. High front
B. High pressure
C. High mountains
D. High temperatures
4273. When one piece of crust gets pushed un-

der another one, it called:
A. satellite
B. thermometer
C. rain gauge
D. anemometer A. radial fracture
B. lingering
4269. Why are most swamps, humid, but most
mountains are NOT? C. subduction
A. Mountains are too dry because they D. leverage
have a lot of trees.
4274. The marine west coast has mild winters
B. Mountains are too cool because they
and cool summers.
have a high elevation.
A. Weather
C. Mountains are too hot because their
soil holds heat. B. Climate

4275. The earth is a tilted planet. What is the 4279. what kind of weather will cumulonim-
degree of tilt? bus clouds bring?

A. rainy
B. sunny
C. thunderstorms
D. none of above
4280. Winds blowing inland from oceans tend

to have greater moisture than winds blow-
A. Approximately 25 degrees ing over land. How does the high moisture
B. Exactly 25 degrees content affect the coastal area climate?
C. 23.5 degrees A. There is less condensation
D. 90 degrees with respect to the sun B. There are fewer hurricanes
4276. At what sustained wind speed does a C. There is greater precipitation

tropical storm become a hurricane? D. There are more smog-filled areas
A. 200 mph
4281. During winter, snow reflects sun-
B. 50 mph light than soil, rock, and vegetation that
C. 114 mph are exposed in summer. Therefore the
albedo is during winter.
D. 74 mph
A. more, higher
4277. The California Current (west coast) car-
B. less, higher
ries water from canada
C. more, lower
A. Cold
D. less, lower
B. Warm
C. Freezing 4282. an imaginary line that circles Earth
D. Fresh halfway between the North and South
Poles
4278. How can you describe the Polar climate A. typical
region?
B. atmosphere
C. equator
D. climate
4283. What is another name for the Oceanic

Conveyor Belt?
A. Sunny all year A. Thermohaline Circulation
B. Hot in the summer, Cold in the Winter B. Thermospheric Circulation
C. Cold all year C. Oceanic Escalator
D. Hot in the winter, Cold in the summer D. Deepsea Currents

4284. Stratonimbus storms usually cause rain 4289. What type of solid precipitation can be
all day long because common during intense thunderstorms?
A. the clouds are very wide so they spend A. sleet
a long time over one area.
B. hail
B. there is no hail in stratonimbus
C. snow
storms.
D. rain.
C. they turn into cumulus clouds.
NARAYAN CHANGDER
D. they turn into stratus clouds. 4290. A snowstorm is an example of:
A. evaporation
4285. What type of front forms where a polar
air mass pushes toward a tropical air mass, B. condensation
which is forced to rise and move away?
C. precipitation
A. stationary
D. a day off of school
B. occluded
4291. How are fronts formed?
C. warm
A. When two air masses meet
D. cold
B. when two winds meet
4286. Which of the following are fronts with
C. when two clouds meet
heavy rain or snow, thunder, and light-
ning? D. none of above
A. cold front
4292. A rotating funnel-shaped cloud with
B. warm front winds that blow up to 500 km/h is called
C. stationary front a tornado.
D. occluded A. True
B. False
4287. Wind speed is measured with a
A. thermometer 4293. Meteorologists are scientists who study
weather. Which of the following should
B. barometer meteorologists know about?
C. hygrometer
D. anemometer
4288. Swampy areas can be found in many

Florida locations. What weather condi-
tions are most frequently found in this en-
vironment?
A. high temperature, low humidity A. Types of fronts
B. low temperature, low humidity B. Types of fossils
C. high temperature, high humidity C. Types of circuits
D. low temperature, high humidity D. Types of conductors and insulators

4294. A represents where air changes tem- 4299. The typical weather in the rain forest is
perature. warm and rainy.

A. weather
B. climate
4300. Thin air exerts pressure.

A. Low
B. High
A. Weather forecast
B. Front 4301. Which type of weather instrument is
this?
C. Climate
D. Weather
4295. What tool is used to measure the

amount of rain that has fallen?
A. Rain Gauge
B. Barometer
C. Wind Vane
D. Precipitation
4296. Which MOST likely contributes to the ro-

tational patter of a hurricane that devel- A. thermometer
ops in the Atlantic Ocean? B. wind vane
A. Gulf Stream C. anemometer
B. Coriolis effect D. rain gauge
C. Low relative humidity 4302. A is the lines between air masses.
D. High-pressure systems A. low pressure system
4297. Type of climate experiencing by the B. high pressure system
places close to the sea? C. front
A. Continental D. none of above
B. Extreme
4303. what is climate?
C. Equable
A. climate is the same thing as weather
D. none of above
B. weather over a long period of time
4298. what describes an altocumulus clouds C. a cold front
A. high, feathery cloud D. a warm front
B. puffy mid level cloud
4304. The condition of the atmosphere, such
C. low storm cloud as temperature, cloud cover, wind speed
D. high cloud made of ice crystals and rainfall over a period of time

A. climate A. Oceanic climate.

B. weather B. Continental climate.
C. trend C. Mountain climate.
D. season D. Subtropical climate.
4305. which of the following increases air’s E. Mediterranean climate.

ability to hold water vapor? 4310. How do we name air masses?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. increase in wimd speed A. Water and temperature
B. increase in temperature B. Air pressure
C. decrease in temperature
C. Humidity and temperature
D. decrease in air pressure
D. Cold and warm
4306. This zone is characterized by warm tem-
4311. El Niño events:
peratures all year.
A. occur when ocean temperatures get
A. polar zone
high.
B. temperate zone
B. cause the trade winds to reverse direc-
C. tropical zone tion or stop.
D. none of above C. stops cooler water upwelling off of
western South America.
4307. Does the following statement represent
weather or climate? The meteorologist D. all of these
said that it will be hot and sunny this
4312. The amount of water vapour or mois-
weekend.
ture in the air is related to
A. weather
A. water
B. climate
B. salt in the sea
4308. Where does most weather happen? C. humidity
A. Stratosphere D. none of above
B. Thermosphere
4313. What does a high-pressure system do?
C. Troposphere
A. it has a low temperature
D. Exosphere
B. it causes hamburgers to fall from the
E. Mesosphere sky
4309. This landscape could belong to a C. it causes high temperatures.
D. It makes you become a banana for 2
minutes
4314. This morning is so hot but last night it

was cool
A. Weather
B. Climate

4315. This is the typical weather in a place D. shape of the land

over a long period of time. E. distance from the earth

A. Climate
4320. Select the best answer-What is
B. Weather weather?
4316. Earth has fluctuated between green- A. Weather is what is happening in the at-
house and icehouse climates. In a green- mosphere in a certain place at a certain
house climate, all of the on Earth has time.
melted. B. Weather is the atmosphere.
A. Wax C. Weather is precipitation.
B. Ice D. Weather is wind.
C. Rock
4321. Which type of precipitation is likely at
D. Butter location 2?
4317. What is heat transfer? Choose the best
answer.
A. Always moves from a warmer sub-
stance to a cooler substance.
B. Always moves from a cooler substance
to a warmer substance.
C. The gravitational potential energy.
A. warm drizzle
D. None of the above.
B. no precipitation
4318. Which two states most likely have a C. moving snowstorm
similar climate?
D. continuous cool rain
E. continuous snowstorm
4322. On which kind of day would you expect

the most evaporation from the surface of
a pond?
A. cold, rainy
A. Oregon and Arizona B. cold, sunny
B. Virginia and North Dakota C. warm, rainy
C. Ohio and Florida D. warm, sunny
D. Kansas and Missouri 4323. What cloud is shown?
4319. factors affecting climate

A. ocean current
B. natural disaster
C. direction of wind

A. Cirrus B. Cumulus
B. Stratus C. Cloudy
C. Cumulus D. Cumulonimbus
D. Cumulonimbus
4327. the condition of atmosphere at a partic-
4324. What does this tool do? ular place and time.
A. weather
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. climate
4328. El Niño is an ocean current that is

warmer than normal and recurs every few
would warmer waters have on weather
States?
A. Less water would evaporate intothe at-
mosphere and cause a drought.
B. The wind speeds over water would de-
crease.
A. Tells how hot it is
C. The air temperatures over land would
B. Measures wind direction decrease.
C. Measures wind speed D. More water would evaporate into the
D. Measures rain atmosphere and lead to more rain.*
4325. What is a meteorologist? 4329. The ozone is in the stratosphere layer of

A. A person who studies meteors the atmosphere. The purpose of the ozone
is
B. A person who studies water
A. To generate heat for the earth
C. A person who studies weather
B. To protect earth from the harmful solar
D. A person who studies natural hazards radiation
4326. This kind of cloud is tall and wide. Thun- C. To produce weather
derstorms happen when these clouds are
D. To allow satellites to circle the earth
in the sky. What kind of cloud is this?
4330. Why is there debate to develop scien-
tific knowledge within the scientific com-
munity?
A. Scientific debate is the only way to
prove previous scientific findings were in-
correct and should be ignored.
B. Scientists debate because scientist be-
lieve their evidence is stronger than other
A. Cirrus scientist’s evidence.

C. Scientists try to disprove each others D. Rain or snow accompanied by thunder

work to reduce conflict within the scien- & lightning
tific community.

4335. The layer of the atmosphere where you
D. Scientific debate is a necessary part of find the Ozone
scientific evidence and plays an important
role in confirming scientific findings. A. Troposphere
B. mesosphere
4331. Conditions can change from day to day.
C. stratosphere
A. Weather
D. none of above
B. Climate
4336. The northern hemisphere is tilted away
C. none of the above
form the sun during what season in Texas?
D. none of above A. fall
4332. Several months during the year that B. winter
have similar temperature. C. spring
D. summer
4337. The heating of the Earth’s surface and
atmosphere from solar radiation being ab-
sorbed and emitted by the atmosphere,
mainly by water vapor and carbon dioxide
A. warm front
B. tropical zone
C. greenhouse effect
D. global warming
A. Summer
4338. a windsock does NOT
B. Season
A. consist of a cone shaped bag
C. Climate
B. measure wind speed
D. Weather
C. measure wind direction
4333. is the result of the weight of a col- D. allow wind to pass through it
umn of air pushing on an area.
A. air pressure 4339. Which is TRUE about the movement of
air masses?
B. density
A. They move from high altitude to low al-
C. volume titude.
D. none of the above B. They move from low humidity to high
humidity.
4334. Stratus clouds are associated with:
C. They move from high pressure to low
A. Fair weather pressure.
B. Hair-like appearance D. They move from low temperature to
C. Dry weather high temperature

4340. How much is the earth tilted on its axis? B. The amount of pressure is the air.
A. 33.3 degrees C. The amount of moisture (water vapor)
B. 23.5 degrees in the air.
D. The phase of the moon
C. 45.5 degrees
D. none of above 4346. Human activities and burning fossil fu-
els have released excessive amounts of
4341. What is Global Warming? greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. Increasing temperature in Earth’s at- This has increased Global Warming. THESE
mosphere ACTIONS HAVE CHANGED THE
B. Decreasing temperature in a city A. Climate
B. Weather
C. Increasing rain rates in Earth
D. Decreasing temperature rates 4347. Definition:the state of the atmosphere
at a particular place and time
4342. A climate graph measures: A. climate
A. Temperature (A) B. weather
B. Precipitation (B)
4348. What is condensation?
C. Landforms
A. melting
D. A and B B. the climate of a region
4343. Water Cycle C. water vapor in the air that turns back
A. The process of water seeping into the into a liquid
ground. D. none of above
B. A process of water moving down a 4349. Many animals hibernate in winter and
river. come out in the spring
C. Rain A. temperate
D. The continuous process by which wa- B. polar
ter moves from Earth’s surface to the at- C. tropical
mosphere and back
D. mild
4344. A student writes the following state- E. desert
ment in a journal:“It was 84◦ F at 3 p.m.
on Tuesday in the schoolyard.” This state- 4350. The amount of precipitation measured
ment best describes which system? over the course of a year.
A. local weather
B. local climate
C. regional weather
D. regional climate
4345. Which of the following does NOT affect

the weather? A. Climate
A. The temperature of the air B. Weather

4351. A front is
A. where warm air is cooling at earth’s C.

surface
B. a line where hot and cold air are sepa-
rating
C. a line where two different air masses D.
meet
D. where cold air is rising and forming
rain clouds
4352. what type of atmosphere we live in. weather and climate?
A. Thermosphere A. Weather can be predicted, climate can-
not
B. Mesosphere
C. Troposphere B. Weather can change, climate cannot
D. Stratosphere C. Weather is short-term, climate is long-

term
4353. Which shows a stratus cloud? D. Weather is long-term, climate is short-
term
A.
4356. The major source of energy and the driv-
ing energy source of the water cycle
A. moon
B.
B. ocean
C. Sun
D. atmosphere
C.
4357. Suppose you are swimming in a lake
when a thunderstorm approaches. Which
D. none of above of the following would be the best way to
protect yourself from lightning?
4354. Which is used to measure wind speed
A. diving underwater
B. going fishing instead of swimming
A. C. taking shelter in an automobile
D. taking shelter under a tree
4358. Wind is moving over the Earth’s sur-

face.
A. fire
B.
B. Saharan dust
C. water
D. air

4359. What kind of observation are you mak- B. stratonimbus

ing if you are measuring the mass of a cell C. cumulonimbus
phone?
D. cumulus
A. independent observation
B. dependent observation 4364. This tool is
C. qualitative variable
D. quantitative variable
NARAYAN CHANGDER
4360. Which is continent C?
A. used to measure air temperature.

A. Asia B. used to measure wind speed.
B. Africa C. used to collect and measure precipita-
C. Antarctica tion.
D. Australasia D. used to measure wind direction.
4361. Which tool would Mrs. Wilson use to E. used to measure the atmospheric pres-
measure the air pressure during a hurri- sure.
cane? 4365. This weather instrument looks a lot like
A. Barometer a graduated cylinder. You may have one
B. Anemometer out in your garden. It keeps track of the
precipitation, particularly rain. What is
C. Wind vane this instrument called?
D. hygrometer
4362. What does the prefix “cirro” mean?

A. high
B. low
C. produce precipitation
D. puffy
4363. clouds, cover the whole sky but

don’t produce rain. Also, some clouds,
like cumulonimbus clouds, produce rain but
don’t cover the whole sky. Certain types
of clouds cause rain, not just the widest
clouds.
A. stratus

A. barometer 4371. Ozone depletion is caused by human-

B. rainometer made compounds called chlorofluorocar-
bons (CFCs) and halons.

C. rain gauge
A. True
D. thermometer
B. False
4366. It was 85 degrees yesterday in Odessa.
4372. When a warm air mass gently slides on
A. Climate top of a cold air mass, and you have driz-
B. Weather zly rain and then warmer weather, what
type of front is it?
4367. What cause winds to form on Earth?
A. warm front
A. solar energy
B. cold front
B. elevation differences
C. occluded front
C. ocean currents
D. stationary front
D. uneven heating of the Earth by the sun
4373. An important piece of information for
4368. Brings some clouds and gentle rains. weather scientists is the ratio of the
amount of water vapor in the air to the
amount of water vapor needed to reach
saturation at a given temperature. These
data allow meteorologists to better pre-
dict the weather. What piece of informa-
tion is being described?
A. Cold Front A. Wind Speed
B. Warm Front B. Relative Humidity
C. Stationary Front C. Air Pressure
D. Occluded Front D. Wind Direction
4369. A occurs when a spinning cloud 4374. Visible light reaches Earth’s surface
reaches the ground in a funnel-shape and while infrared light is trapped as heat.
can cause massive damage in one area but Which characteristic of Earth’s atmosphere
leave neighbors untouched. causes this to happen?
A. Tornado A. the hole in the ozone
B. Hurricane B. the greenhouse effect
C. Blizzard C. atmospheric pressure
D. Drought D. the inversion layer
4370. subtropical high pressure belt is termed 4375. Which of these is not an instrument to
as measure weather conditions?
A. horse latitude A. Kilometre
B. latitude B. Barometer
C. none C. Thermometer
D. none of above D. Anemometer

4376. Which is the warmest climate zone? C. June 12 and June 13.
A. Polar D. June 13 and June 14.
B. Temperate 4381. Which of the following is true as it re-
C. Tropical lates to sea and land breeze?
D. Intermediate A. Water takes a longer time to heat and
cool than land does.
4377. Which answer choice best explains how
B. Water and land heat and cool at the
NARAYAN CHANGDER
the Sun and the ocean interact in the water
cycle? same rate.
C. Water cools and heats at a much faster
A. The Sun heats the ocean and creates a
rate than Land.
warm climate for marine life.
D. Water cools faster, but heats slower
B. The Sun heats the ocean and evapo-
than land.
rates the water but leaves the salt behind.
C. The Sun heats the ocean and evapo- 4382. Vertical movement of air is called
rates the water and the salt. A. wind current
D. The Sun heats the ocean and creates B. air current
tidal waves.
C. vertical movement of air
4378. T= Tropical = warm D. none
A. true
4383. Tornadoes happen in which states?
B. false
4379. Wind is caused mainly by air pressure

differences that result from
A. uneven heating of the Earth’s atmo-
sphere.
B. absorption of ultraviolet radiation by
Earth’s land masses.
A. Iowa
C. radiation of heat from Earth’s land
B. Florida
masses to water bodies.
C. Oklahoma
D. rotation of Earth on its axis.
D. All of the above
4380. Students measured the rainfall outside
their classroom for five days and recorded 4384. Seattle, Washington is a highly popu-
their observations. They recorded what lated city surrounded by the Pacific coast
they observed. There was an increase in in the Northwestern United States. Bis-
the amount of rainfall between- marck, North Dakota is a highly populated
city in the North Central United States.
They are both located at about the same
latitude. Why does Seattle experience
much less severe winters than Bismarck?
A. June 10 and June 11. A. Cold air masses do not form near bod-
B. June 11 and June 12. ies of water.

B. It is warmer in the central part of the the other MAIN factor used to determine
United States. climate.
A. Humidity

C. Seattle is slightly closer to the sun dur-
ing the winter months. B. Air Pressure
D. The Pacific Ocean releases heat and C. Wind Conditions
keeps Seattle warmer.
D. Precipitation
4385. Which is an example of conserving?
4389. Temperate Zones have season(s).
A. Taking a shorter shower A. 1
B. Running the water while brushing your B. 2
teeth
C. 3
C. Leaving the lights on while you’re gone
D. 4
D. Leaving chargers plugged into the wall
4390. This forms forms when warm air moves
4386. Which number illustrates Condensa- collides with slow moving cold air.
tion?
A. Weather
B. Maritime
C. Warm Front
D. Polar
4391. What is the role of the sun in the water

cycle?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
4387. Some of the consequences of climate

change are:
A. Rising temperatures A. provide heat energy for evaporation
B. Extreme droughts and wildfires B. provide heat energy for condensation
C. Rise of sea levels C. dry out the soil for runoff to occur
D. Loss of sea ice D. provide thermal energy for accumula-
E. All of the above tion
4388. One of the main factors used to deter- 4392. Which of these statements explains con-
mine climate is temperature. For example, vection best?
a tropical climate has generally warm tem- A. Air molecules touch the ground and get
peratures throughout the year. What is heated.

B. Warm air rises and takes heat with it, B. in Burgos

later it cools back down and sinks
C. in Palma
C. Heat travels through space
D. in Madrid
D. Heat particles move in a circular pat-
tern 4396. What area has very little variation in
4393. Which biome is home to cacti, scorpions, temperature throughout the year?
coyotes, kangaroo rats, and lizards? A. polar zone
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. temperate zone
C. tropical zone
D. none of above
4397. Which is the following statements de-

scribes an anticyclone?
A. Desert A. It is an area of low pressure.
B. Grasslands B. It is an area of high pressure.
C. Temperate Forest
C. It has air masses that meet and rise.
D. Taiga
D. It moves in the direction of the Earth’s
4394. Choose the correct option rotation.
4398. When nearly vertical rays of solar en-

ergy strike a region of Earth, that area has
warm temperatures. What region of Earth
gets nearly vertical rays of solar energy
year round?
A. Equator
A. It’s hot B. Australia
B. It’s winddy C. United States
C. It’s widy
D. North and South Poles
D. It’s windy
4399. A temperate climate in which there is
4395. Where is going to be cloudy, with south a marked contrast between warm, rainy
strong wind? summers and dry, cold winters and precipi-
tation varies between 300 and 1, 000 mm.
is
A. Oceanic
B. Steppe
C. Continental
A. in Sevilla D. Mediterranean

4400. Cool air tends to 4405. what is loo?

A. be less dense and flow over warm air A. a strong, dusty, gusty, hot and dry sum-

B. be lifted up by more dense warm air mer wind
C. be more dense and flow under warm B. air
air C. atmospheric pressure
D. mix easily with warm air masses D. none
4401. Large bodies of water tend to have a 4406. Which factor does NOT affect tempera-
moderating effect on the land that is near ture:
it. The winters tend to be colder and the
summers warmer near these bodies of wa-
ter.
A. True
B. False
4402. Which tool measures wind speed?
A. Anemometer
B. hygrometer
C. Barometer
A. Latitude.
D. Wind Vane
B. Distance from the sea.
4403. Condensation
C. Longitude.
D. Altitude.
4407. Which of the following describes an air
mass with the symbol CT?
A. Cold and wet
A. The Sun heats water on the surface
and it turns into water vapour. B. Cold and dry
B. Water vapour rises and turns into wa- C. Warm and wet
ter droplets. D. Warm and dry
C. Water droplets in clouds fall to the
4408. What do ocean currents do?
A. Change the amount of people in a cer-
D. Precipitation falls into rivers, lakes,
tain location of the world
groundwater and the sea.
B. Influence the temperature of the re-
4404. If the sky is bright and clear with with gions through which they travel
white puffy clouds, what type of clouds
are they? 4409. Humidity is the measure of
A. Cirrus A. Temperature
B. Stratus B. Pressure
C. Cumulus C. Moisture
D. Cumulonimbus D. Wind

4410. Pieces of information- 4414. True or False-it is very dry at the equa-
tor?
A. True
B. False
4415. The weather balloon data was evidence

of:
A. Humidity is present in warm air
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. Air is constantly changing because of
the clouds
C. Air gets warmer as it gets higher into
the atmosphere
D. Air gets colder as it gets higher into
A. data the atmosphere
B. hypothesis 4416. Weather describes the state (condition)
C. investigation of the atmosphere.It might be sunny, hot,
raining, etc.
D. none of above
A. True
4411. What is a barometer?
B. False
A. . used to measure air pressure
4417. Which kind of severe weather always
B. low level clouds usually associated
starts over warm water?
with rain
A. Hurricane.
C. shows weather conditions over a large
area at a particular time B. Blizzard.
D. all the gases and air that are around C. Thunderstorm.
the earth D. Tornado.
4412. What type of air mass begins over 4418. During the spring the move towards
warm water? the sun.
A. mT A. Ground
B. cT B. Poles
C. cP C. Clouds
D. cT D. none of above
4413. The normal weather in a region over a 4419. The degree of heat and cold in the atmo-
long period of time. sphere is known as
A. weather A. Humidity
B. climate B. Temperature
C. climate change C. Rainfall
D. global warming D. Wind speed

4420. The layer of the atmosphere in which A. Weather

weather occurs is called the B. Climate

A. Troposphere
4425. starts
B. Stratosphere
A. begins
C. Exosphere
B. cycle
D. Thermosphere
C. types
4421. About how much of the solar energy D. observe
that reaches Earth passes through the at-
mosphere and is absorbed by the surface 4426. Differences in air pressure cause wind
of Earth? A. True
A. 20 percent B. False
B. 30 percent
4427. More clouds can form in air.
C. 50 percent
A. humid
D. 80 percent
B. dry
4422. What type of climate does India has?
4428. How do winds in a hurricane blow?
A. Equatorial
A. From west to east
B. Moderate
B. They blow round in a circle.
C. Monsoon
C. From north to south
D. Tundra
D. none of above
4423. Condensation is part of the water cy-
cle and also plays a role in the weather. 4429. Using the graphic provided, which of the
Which description defines condensation? following best describes the weather in El
Paso?
A. water turning from a vapor into rain
droplets
B. water turning into water vapor in an
ocean or lake
C. water turning from a liquid into ice on
a winter road
D. water turning from ice to liquid as salt
is applied to a road A. Partly cloudy skies, winds coming from
the Southeast, and the temperature is 27
4424. Daily temperature, daily rainfall, daily
degrees Celsius.
amount of sunshine
B. Cloudy skies, winds coming from the
Southeast, and temperature is-3 degrees
Celsius
C. Clear skies, winds heading North, and
the temperature is 50 degrees Celsisus
D. Partly cloudy skies

4430. Which term is used to describe the re-

gion of Earth near the equator with consis-
tently warm temperatures?
A. Polar region
B. Temperate zone
C. Tropics
NARAYAN CHANGDER
D. Subarctic zone
4431. Biomes are characterized primarily by A. Polar

? B. Tropical
C. Temperate
A. Their latitude
D. none of above
B. Their Longitude
4435. Temperature in the stratosphere warms
C. Their temp and precip as altitude increases.
A. True
D. Their plant and animal life
B. False
4432. How do oceans influence seashore cli- 4436. Which month has the coldest tempera-
mates? ture?
A. They tend to make them warmer
B. They tend to make them colder
C. They tend to increase temperature

ranges
A. January
D. They tend to reduce temperature B. April
ranges
C. September
D. March
4433. is the ratio of the amount of water
vapor in the air to the amount of water va- 4437. Which of the following explains why
por needed to reach saturation at a given one side of a mountain usually has more
temperature. precipitation that the other side?
A. Humidity A. Mountains force air to rise, and air
cools and releases moisture as it rises.
B. Precipitation B. The atmosphere gets denser as eleva-
tion increases.
C. Temperature
C. Temperatures are higher on one side
D. Air pressure of a mountain than on the other.
D. The land on one side is more green and
4434. Which climate zone is yellow? lush than the other.

4438. Warm and Wet Weather is What C. ozone

Pressure Gets.
D. carbon dioxide

4443. How hurricanes are form?
A. form over warm ocean waters near
the equator
B. form at the equator and initially move
west
C. form using warm, moist air as fuel
D. all of the statements
A. High
B. Up 4444. How do currents such as the Gulf
Stream affect regional climates?
C. Low
A. Currents absorb heat as they move
D. Down
from low latitudes to high latitudes.
4439. I had to put on a sweater today because B. Currents distribute heat from offshore
it is cold. regions to coastal regions.
A. Weather
C. Currents distribute heat from the
B. Climate equator to higher latitudes.
4440. Which type of forest is found in equato- D. Currents remove heat from higher lat-
rial climate? itudes and distribute it at the equator.
tagsSC.912.E.7.4
A. Rain forests
B. Thorn forests 4445. What is the name of a scientist who
C. Evergreen forests studies the weather?
D. Deciduous forests
4441. What is a rain gauge used for?

Celcius
south, east, west
D. Measures the wind speed in mph
E. Measures the precipitation in mm
A. Weatherologist
4442. This gas makes up 78% of the atmo-
sphere B. Seismologist
A. oxygen C. Meteorologist
B. nitrogen D. Rainologist

4446. The amount of rain or snow that falls in A. Cold Front

a place is known as
B. Warm Front
A. humidity
B. precipitation 4450. The higher the altitude
C. temperature A. The hotter it gets
D. climate
B. The colder it gets
4447. When water turns into a gas
NARAYAN CHANGDER
C. doesn’t affect the climate
A. condensation
D. none of above
B. evaporation
C. precipitation 4451. the climate of a region can be deter-
D. none of above mined by observing, recording, and analyz-
ing the weather for at least
4448. Which climatic condition best describes
where cacao trees grow? A. one hour
B. one day
C. one week
D. one season
4452. Which are the three main features of cli-

mate?
A. Air pressure, latitude and altitude

A. Tropical climates
B. Temperature, precipitation and wind
B. Windy climates
C. Air pressure, altitude and temperature
C. Cold climates
D. none of above D. Temperature, precipitation and lati-
tude
4449. What type of front passed through Den-
ver? 4453. Why is the Sahara Desert dry?
A. Because it is a desert
B. Because of all the sand
C. Because it is in a high pressure belt
D. Because the wells are empty

4454. When the temperature of water is 0 de- C. A type of natural disaster caused by ex-
grees Celsius, the water is cessive rainfall and flooding.

A. gas D. The permanent climatic conditions of a
B. a liquid region.
C. a solid 4459. The Hawaiian Islands receive most

of their precipitation during the winter
D. a vapor
months.
4455. Where are polar climates located? A. Weather
A. Along the equator B. Climate
B. Along the poles 4460. The migratory bird seen in Bharatpur in
4456. Average weather conditions of a region Rajasthan is
year after year A. Arctic tern
B. Toucan
C. Siberian crane
D. Penguin
4461. In The Bahamas the temperature is said
in Celsius.
A. weather
B. season A. true
C. cold B. false
D. climate
4457. renewable resource
A. can be replaced
B. limited amounts
C. is being used up too quickly
D. none of above

the term “Weather”?
A. rain
A. The long-term average of temperature
and precipitation in an area. B. snow
B. The unpredictable changes in air that C. sunny
take place over a short period of time. D. partly cloudy

4463. What is a rapidly spinning column of air C. 172 months

that has high winds, low pressure, and D. 182 months
touches the ground?
A. Thunderstorm 4468. Snow forms when the air is at or below
0 degrees celsius.
B. Hurricane
C. Tornado
D. Cyclone
NARAYAN CHANGDER
4464. Some of the Earth’s most fragile ecosys-
tems that could be greatly impacted by cli-
mate change live in the
A. tropical rainforest A. True
B. tundra B. False
C. oceans C. Snow cannot be formed in the atmo-
sphere
D. African Sahara desert
D. Its always snowing throughout the
4465. What is the name of the weather instru- year
ment pictured here?
4469. In this layer of the atmosphere, Polar
Auroras are created
A. Exosphere
B. Thermosphere
C. Mesosphere
D. Stratosphere
E. Mesosphere
4470. Within a given region, the mean air

temperature over a forested area is sig-
A. Wind Vane
nificantly cooler than the mean air tem-
B. Anemometer perature over a land area without trees.
C. Rain Gauge What would be the MOST LIKELY cause for
the difference in mean air temperature be-
D. none of above tween the forested and non-forested ar-
4466. What is happening in the atmosphere eas?
outside right now is called: A. The humidity in the air decreased the
A. Weather surface temperature.
B. Climate B. The shading from the trees increased
the surface temperature.
4467. Chile had the longest dry period C. The humidity in the air increased the
recorded. How many months did it last? surface temperatures.
A. 152 months D. The shading from the trees decreased
B. 162 months the surface temperature.

4471. Weather can change from morning to af- B. False

ternoon. C. Maybe

A. True D. none of above
B. False
4478. What kind of weather does a stationary
4472. When a warm air mass and a cold air front bring?
mass meet and neither can move the other, A. drizzly rain followed by clear weather
the result is a B. severe storms
A. occluded front C. many days of cloudy, wet weather
B. cold front D. cold, dry weather
C. stationary front
4479. What causes thunder?
D. warm front
A. Lightning is caused by thunder.
4473. Where can we go to find out about the B. Thunder is caused by lightning
weather? Click all that apply. C. Thunder is caused by rain.
A. radio D. none of above
B. television
4480. The boiling point of water in Fahrenheit
C. newspaper is
D. internet A. 212f
4474. Texas has long, hot summers. B. 43f
A. Climate C. 220F
D. 12F
B. Weather
4481. When a rapidly moving cold air mass
4475. Between the Antarctic Circle and the
runs into a slowly moving warm air mass,
South Pole is the Zone.
the denser cold air slides underneath form-
A. Tropical ing this type of front.
B. Temperate A. Cold Front
C. Polar B. Occluded
D. none of above C. Exosphere
D. Troposphere
4476. If a tornado is sighted, a weather
will be issued. 4482. Climate is
A. Advisory A. what you expect
B. Warning B. what you get
C. Watch 4483. This symbol means
D. none of above A. Thunder storm
4477. Places away from the Equator receive B. snow
slanting rays of the sun. C. Tornado
A. True D. clear skies

4484. What is the difference between C. Temperature

weather and climate? D. Front
A. Weather is the atmospheric conditions
at a particular time and place. Climate is 4489. When clouds become saturated, this
the average weather over a long period of step of the water cycle happens next
time. A. Condensation
B. Climate is the atmospheric conditions B. Evaporation
at a particular time and place. Weather is
NARAYAN CHANGDER
C. Transpiration
the average weather over a long period of
time. D. Precipitation
C. Weather is precipitation. Climate is 4490. One rotation of Earth is equal to

clouds. A. a day.
D. Climate is what happens whena an B. a year.
earthquake occurs. Weather is a tornado.
4491. Clouds form during this phase of the wa-
4485. The sun’s rays are least direct ter cycle because water vapor cools and
A. near the poles. changes back to water droplets.
B. near the equator. A. Evaporation
B. Precipitation
4486. A hygrometer measures
C. Condensation
A. humidity
D. Run Off
B. pressure
C. cloud coverage 4492. Low pressure brings
D. wind speed A. cool, wet air.
B. hot, dry air.
4487. In diagram Y, which way does the wind
blow? C. sunny with no clouds.
D. none of above
4493. Between the Tropic of Capricorn and the

Antarctic Circle is the Zone.
A. Temperate
B. Tropical
A. land to sea C. Polar
B. the wind isn’t blowing D. none of above
C. sea to land 4494. Trade winds generally blow in this direc-
D. none of above tion
4488. What is it called with two air masses A. West to East
meet? B. East to West
A. Isobar C. North to South
B. Pressure D. South to North

4495. Which weather instrument is used to 4500. A sea breeze moving across the central
measure humidity? Florida peninsula.

A. A wet and dry (bulb) thermome- A. Weather
ter/hygrometer B. Climate
B. six’s thermometer
4501. The Coriolis effect causes
C. sunshine recorder
A. the Earth to rotate on its axis
D. anemometer
B. earthquakes
4496. Condensation occurs when C. global winds to move in a curved path
A. there is no water vapor. instead of a straight line
D. the Earth to revolve around the sun
B. water vapor heats up.
C. water vapor cools. 4502. periodic winds are also called
D. none of above A. trade winds
B. seasonal winds
4497. The greater the air pressure difference
is between two places, the the air C. none
moves and the the wind is. D. none of above
A. slower, stronger 4503. A description of surface features of the
B. slower, weaker land in a certain area.
C. faster, stronger A. Global warming
D. faster, weaker B. Topography
C. Meteorology
4498. What are the Everglades?
E. Station model
4504. Can lichen grow in the tundra?
A. wetlands in Georgia
B. wetlands in Florida
C. wetlands in California
D. wetlands in Idaho
4499. In what part of the process does liquid A. Yes

water change to water vapor? B. No
A. precipitation
4505. the temperature of my water is
B. evaporation weather
C. transpiration A. true
D. condensation B. false

4506. Decide if the statement relates to 4511. Which zones are polar zones?
weather or climate:North Dakota has
colder winters than Illinois.
A. weather
B. climate
4507. What Biome are you

A. Tundra
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. Zones A and B
B. Grassland
B. Zones A and E
C. Dessert
C. Zones E and D
D. Oean
D. Zones A, E, and C
4508. All of the following apply to warm air
EXCEPT: 4512. I get high when there is a lot of water
A. It rises in atmosphere. vapor in the air. Who am I?
B. It has low pressure.

C. It has low density.
D. It has high pressure.
4509. We use a thermometer to measure

A. Precipitation
B. Wind speed
C. Temperature
D. Humidity
A. Precipitation
4510. An instrument used to measure wind B. Humidity
speed.
C. Wind
D. none of above
4513. When 2 air masses meet, the boundary

between them is a
A. hygrometer A. Front
B. weather vane B. Cold Air Mass
C. anemometer C. Warm Air Mass
D. barometer D. Jet Stream

4514. The amount of moisture (water vapor) B. runoff

in the air C. precipitation

A. Barometer D. evaporation
B. Humidity
4519. The biggest factor in determining cli-
C. Rain gauge mate is?
D. Evaporation A. elevation
4515. Torrid zone location B. an ocean
A. In equatorial region C. latitude
B. between arctic circle and north pole D. mountain
C. between temperate zone 4520. What is weather?
D. Between South pole and Antarctic A. The measure of transparency of the at-
mosphere.
4516. Earth’s atmosphere pushes on Earth’s
surface. Which of the following is a mea- B. The condition of Earth’s atmosphere at
sure of the force with which air molecules a certain time and place.
push on a surface? C. Cumulus clouds
A. Air pressure D. Stratus clouds
B. Temperature 4521. Which climate zone gets the most sun-
C. Precipitation light and is the warmest?
D. Relative humidity A. tropical
B. temperate
4517. The average, year-after-year condi-
tions of temperature, precipitation, winds, C. polar
and clouds in an area are known as its D. none of above
A. climate 4522. Water vapor in the atmosphere that con-
B. weather denses and falls to Earth is measured with
C. global warming a psychrometer.
D. seasons A. True
B. False
4518. When water vapor in the air cools down
and turns back into liquid water 4523. What do close contour lines represent
on a map?
A. condensation A. waterfall

B. steep area A. Warmer

C. gradual area B. Wetter
D. river C. Cooler
4524. Which statement best describes heating D. More dense
by radiation?
A. Air molecules touch the warm ground, 4529. It lies between Tropic of Cancer in the
heating them up. north and Tropic of Capricorn in the south.
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B. Warm air rises and takes heat with it; A. Polar region
eventually it cools and sinks. B. Hot region
C. Sunlight travels through space without
C. Torrid zone
the aid of fluids or solids.
D. Air at the equator rises and sinks at D. none of above
the poles.
4530. What factors can effect visibility?
4525. What is a meteorologist?
A. A type of cloud.
B. A weather instrument.
C. A scientist who predicts weather.
D. A person who likes weather.
4526. What tool measures the amount of rain-
fall in an area?
A. Pollution
A. thermometer
B. Fog
B. rain gauge
C. The weather
C. wind vane
D. All of these
D. anemometer
4527. If you start at the equator and head 4531. Surface Ocean currents are primarily
north, on average the climates will get caused by
A. drier A. temperature and salinity
B. cooler B. wind
C. wetter C. convection
D. warmer D. continental drift
4528. Air at higher elevations tends to be
4532. common
A. climate
B. typical
C. weather
D. temperature

4533. what weather instrument measures

wind speed?

A. Barometer
B. anemometer
C. thermometer
D. rain gauge
4534. Greece is always hot in the summer. Is A. cold, dry

this an example of weather or climate?
B. warm, humid
C. warm, dry
D. cold, humid
4537. Analyze the map.Why is it colder in San

Diego than it is in Charleston even though
they are the same distance from the Equa-
tor?
A. weather
B. climate
A. San Diego is affected by the Gulf
4535. Clouds and precipitation are produced Stream
by the
B. Charleston is affected by the California
current
C. San Diego is affected by the California
Current
D. none of above
4538. An anemometer is used to measure

what?
A. Rivers
B. Clouds
C. Water cycle
D. Sea
4536. Which type of air would you find at air

mass B?

A. wind direction A. When a cold air mass and warm air

B. relative humidity mass meet.
B. When the sun’s energy heats the
C. wind speed
ground.
D. temperature
4539. Plotted on the contour map below are tains.
the locations of five schools. Match D. When it rains in front of you.
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school.(1.) Point E on map 4543. Which instrument is used to determine
air pressure?
A. barometer
B. anemometer
C. psychrometer
D. thermometer
4544. What kind of weather happens during a

cold front?
A. 0 ft
B. 20 ft
C. 30 ft C. Clear skies, temp. warms
D. 10-20 ft D. Clear skies, temp. cools
E. 0-10 ft
4545. Which climate zone has cold winters,
4540. ich statement describes a similarity be- warm summers, and four noticeable sea-
tween the formation of fossil fuels and sons?
theformation of sedimentary rock? A. cold climates
A. Both were formed at the surface of B. temperate climates
Earth.
C. hot climates
B. Both require pressure and a long time D. none of above
to form.
C. Both were formed when melted rock 4546. areas on the map that are shaded pink
cooled.
D. Both were formed through the process
of weathering.
4541. Weather can change in a short period of

time but climate can not.
A. True A. Tropical Zones
B. False B. Temperate Zones
4542. Which statement describes relief rain- C. Subtropical Zones

fall? D. Polar Zones

4547. Monsoons 4552. What is true of stratus clouds?

A. A line on a weather map that joins A. stratus clouds are the same thing as

places that have the same air pressure fog
B. seasonal wind patterns that cause wet B. low in the sky and cover a large portion
and dry seasons of the sky
C. A period of extremely cold tempera- C. the name means “spread out”
D. layered clouds that cover the sky like
a blanket
D. none of above
E. span from low-level altitude to high-
4548. What instrument measures the temper- level altitude
ature of objects?
4553. I can change quickly:the same day, it can
A. Thermometer
rain for anhour and then it can be sunny
B. Barometer and clear. Who am I?
C. Anemometer
D. Wind Sock
A. Weather
B. Climate
4554. what is the 1 image

gion year after year (Long-Term)
B. The current outdoor conditions (Short-
Term)
A. sea breeze
4550. Direct effect of change. When some-
B. climate
thing has an influence on another object.
C. weather
A. Design Solution
B. Natural Processes D. none of above
C. Impact 4555. Average annual rainfall for Tropical Ma-

D. Merit rine Climates are between
A. 500-1000 mm
4551. The more water vapor there is in the air,
the the humidity of the air is. B. 1000-1500 mm
A. higher C. 1200-2000 mm
B. lower D. 2000-3500 mm

4556. Thin and wispy that form high in the sky, 4561. Which layer of the atmosphere protects
often before a change in the weather Earth’s surface from being hit by most ma-
A. Cirrus Clouds terials?
A. thermosphere
B. Cumulus Clouds
B. mesosphere
C. Stratus Clouds
C. stratosphere
D. Fog
D. troposphere
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E. Storm Surge
4562. Climate is daily weather that is
4557. Ocean currents, prevailing wind pat- recorded over a long time!
terns, and other atmospheric disturbances
A. True
are initially caused by which of these?
B. False
A. Differences in the phases of the moon
B. Gravitational pull of the Sun 4563. On a Full Moon night, the Earth comes
in between the Sun and the Moon.
C. Incoming solar radiation
A. Solar Eclipse
D. Ozone layer depletion
B. Breeze
4558. What are the effects of a drought on the C. Lunar Eclipse
environment and society?
D. none of above
A. Drought can lead to crop failure, water
shortages, and increased risk of wildfires. 4564. What is the climate usually like in
Alaska?
B. Drought has no impact on agriculture
or water supply
C. Drought leads to excessive rainfall and
flooding
D. Drought causes a decrease in the risk
of wildfires
4559. The solar energy that warms the Earth

includes visible light, infrared and com- A. Hot and Sunny
ing from the sun. B. Cloudy and Windy
A. Sunspots C. Snowy and Cold
B. Gamma waves D. Sunny and Warm
C. Ultraviolet radiation 4565. If the air pressure reading is falling
D. microwaves A. a storm is approaching
4560. Decide if the statement relates to B. the weather is improving
weather or climate:There will be high
4566. For the past years, Earth has
winds tomorrow.
warmed about degree Fahrenheit ev-
A. weather ery year.
B. climate A. 1, 100

B. 100, 100 4572. Why do the paths of global winds

curve?
C. 100, 1

A. Differences in air temperature
D. 1, 1
B. Differences in air pressure
4567. Which term describes a circulation of air C. Earth’s revolution around the sun
or water that is caused by uneven heat-
D. Earth’s rotation on its axis
ing?
A. Convection current 4573. Which term best describes the aver-
age of atmospheric conditions over many
B. Conduction current years?
C. Radiation current A. climate
D. Emission current B. weather
C. temperature
4568. A scale measuring temperature
D. forecast
A. Celsius
4574. climate
B. sleet
A. day-to-day changes in atmospheric
C. block conditions, including temperature, air
D. solar pressure, humidity, wind, cloud coverage,
or precipitation
4569. Wind speed is measured by a(n) B. moisture in the air
A. barometer C. measures air pressure
B. anemometer D. long-term average of weather in an
C. thermometer area
D. hygrometer 4575. How do differences in air pressure af-

fect the movement of air?
4570. The greater the pressure difference be- A. Air always moves from areas of high
tween high and low pressure, the the pressure to areas of low pressure.
force of wind.
B. Air always moves from areas of low al-
A. greater titudes to high altitudes.
B. less C. Air always moves from areas of low
pressure to areas of high pressure.
4571. Local winds differ from global winds be-
D. Air always moves from east to west.
cause they
A. are caused by unequal heating within 4576. What is going on with the atmosphere
a small area at any particular time.
B. are caused by differences in cloud

cover
C. are due to unequal rainfall
D. are not influenced by air masses

A. Weather D. All of the above

B. Climate 4582. What are thunderstorms?
4577. ” Canada is quite cold” is an example A. a storm with thunder and lighting and
of: typically also heavy rain or hail
A. Weather B. a storm that can be the same as thun-
derstorms, but even more dangerous
B. Climate
C. a mobile, destructive vortex of vio-
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4578. The highest recorded temperature for lently rotating winds having the appear-
Austin, Texas, is 112◦ F. ance of a funnel shaped cloud and advanc-
A. Weather ing beneath a large storm system.
B. Climate D. a huge storm with strong winds and
storm surges
4579. Which of the following is a TRUE state-
ment. 4583. The weather is the state of the atmo-
sphere at a particular time and place.
A. Sub-polar low pressure belts extend
between 60 degree and 80 degree lati- A. True.
tudes in the northern and southern hemi- B. False.
sphere
4584. All of the following are types of
B. Subtropical high pressure belts extend weather disasters EXCEPT:
between 30 degree and 35 degree lat-
itudes in the northern southern hemi- A. to tornado
spheres. B. A car accident
C. Equatorial low pressure belt extends C. A severe snow storm
between 15 degree N and 15 degree S lat- D. A hurricane
itudes.
4585. The sun’s energy influences climate in
D. none of above
different ways. For example, the latitudes
4580. How are climate and weather-related? at the equator receive more energy from
the sun and therefore have warmer tem-
A. Weather is climate over a long period
peratures. How does the sun’s energy
of time.
most directly influence precipitation in a cli-
B. Climate is the trend in weather of an mate?
area over time.
A. The sun’s energy drives the water cy-
C. Weather occurs because the climate is cle, which determines precipitation
constantly changing. B. The Sun’s energy creates wind pat-
D. Climate happens because of periodic terns that bring precipitation to different
weather. areas
4581. How are humans making greenhouse C. The sun’s energy controls the amount
gases of our own? of condensation and therefore precipita-
tion
A. Burning fossil fuels in our car
D. The sun’s energy starts the water cy-
B. Deforestation cle by causing percolation, which leads to
C. With large scale agriculture precipitation

4586. What weather instrument measures air 4590. Describe a polar climate.
pressure? A. dry and cold year round

A. hygrometer B. warm year round, high humidity and
B. rain gauge rainfall
C. barometer C. variety of climate patterns, seasons,
moderate precipitation
D. wind vane
D. none of above
4587. When Andy talked to his cousin, who
4591. An instrument used to measure the
lives in Ohio, he said it was raining. It
amount of precipitation in called a
was snowing at Andy’s house in Pennsyl-
vania. What is the MAIN difference in the
weather in the two locations?
A. air pressure
B. temperature
C. humidity
D. wind speed
4588. The freezing point of water in Fahren-

heit is
A. 100 degrees
B. 32 degrees
A. barometer
C. 75 degrees
B. thermometer
D. 212 degrees
C. rain guage
4589. Gogo:What’s the weather like?Hayri:It’s D. wind sock

A. What it is like outside at a certain time
and place.
B. Sunny and hot.
C. The temperature and precipitation
over a LONG period of time.
D. none of above
4593. What are the 2 most abundant gases in

A. sunny A. Oxygen and Carbon
B. warm B. Oxygen and Hydrogen
C. hot C. Oxygen and Nitrogen
D. cold D. Oxygen and Argon

4594. The two most abundant gases in the at- 4599. What type of air mass forms over land
mosphere are near the equator?
A. Nitrogen and Hydrogen A. tropical continental
B. Carbon dioxide and Oxygen B. tropical maritime
C. Carbon dioxide and Nitrogen C. polar continental
D. Nitrogen and Oxygen D. polar maritime
4595. Low clouds, that are formed in layers.
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4600. When there is not enough wind for ei-
ther air mass to keep moving, so the two
air masses stay in one place.
A. stationary front
B. air mass
C. cold front
A. Stratus D. warm front
B. Cumulus
4601. Water droplets combine with dust in the
C. Cirrus atmosphere to form
D. none of above
4596. What are fronts?
A. The boundary where two air masses
meet
B. The part of an air mass that is full of
sparkles
4597. True/False:Warm air can hold more
moisture. A. precipitation
A. True B. transpiration
B. False
C. hurricanes
4598. What would this climate most likely be? D. clouds
4602. Which instrument below is sent into the

atmosphere to collect weather data?
A.
A. Tropical
B. Desert
C. Mountains B.
D. Temperate

C.

D.
4603. What type of clouds are large, rounded,

fluffy, cottony-looking clouds.
A. Cirrus A. trade winds
B. Stratus B. prevailing westerlies
C. polar easterlies
C. Cumulus
D. doldrums
D. Cumulonimbus
4608. What are the two main factors that de-
4604. A scientist who studies and predicts termine the climate of an area?
weather.
A. Engineer B. temperature and air pressure
B. Biologist C. wind conditions and humidity
C. Meteorologist D. temperature and precipitation
D. Botanist 4609. Which barometer contains large amount
of mercury?
4605. As Pressure Increases What Happens To A. Aneroid barometer
the Molecules
B. Fortin’s barometer
A. They move closer together
4610. Evaporation
B. They move further apart
C. They stay the same
D. none of above
4606. If you see a large “H” on the weather

map, what type of weather can you expect
there?
A. The Sun heats water on the surface
A. high pressure
and it turns into water vapour.
B. high temperature B. Water vapour rises and turns into wa-
C. horrible weather ter droplets.
D. hurricanes C. Water droplets in clouds fall to the

4607. Winds that blow from the North and D. Precipitation falls into rivers, lakes,
South pole toward 600 latitude are called: groundwater and the sea.

4611. Earth’s atmosphere is heated mainly by D. As the air pressure on the Earth’s
A. heat that travels directly from the sun. poles changes, the wind at the Equator be-
comes stronger.
B. visible light as it passes through the
air. 4616. An instrument used to measure the
C. reflected sunlight. speed of wind is
D. energy reradiated by Earth’s surface. A. rain guage
B. Thermometer
4612. What causes the differences in the air
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masses that permit hurricanes to form C. barometer
over oceans? D. anemometer
A. Ocean water is cool and cools the air 4617. The mass/weight of all the air above
above it you that is pressing down on you.
B. Ocean water is warm and heats the air A. weather
above it
B. air pressure
C. Ocean water contains salt that reacts
with air, changing the pressure C. clouds
D. Ocean water contains algae that D. density
makes oxygen, changing the air’s com- 4618. How much precipitation does this loca-
position tion get in August?
4613. Mercury expands when heated and con-
tracts when cooled.
A. true
B. false
4614. What is condensation?
A. When water vapour is cooled and turns A. 30 mm
back into steam.
B. 200 mm
B. when water vapour turns into fire.
C. 375 mm
C. when water vapour is cooled and turns
back into water droplets. D. 37 mm
D. water vapour is warmed and turns into 4619. The layer of gases that surround the
ice. Earth.
4615. Which best describes the Coriolis Effect? A. Continental
A. As cool air warms up, it rises, and as B. Atmosphere
warm air cools down, it sinks, creating a C. Air Mass
breeze. D. Convection
B. As the Sun rises and sets, the path of
the wind all over Earth changes directions. 4620. Opposite Hemispheres (Northern and
Southern) have opposite seasons.
C. As it spins on its axis, the Earth pulls
the wind and causes it to blow in a curved A. True
path. B. False

4621. The average or general weather for a 4626. In our classroom, we measure tempera-
location over a very long period of time is ture in
called

A. Fahrenheit
A. Climate B. Celsius
B. Weather
4627. Which instrument is used to measure air
C. Season pressure?
D. Range A. thermometer
E. Prediction B. anemometer
C. barometer
4622. What’s the difference between Satur-
day’s high temperature and Thursday’s D. weather vane
high temperature? 4628. Grass doesn’t absorb as much heat as
A. 3 degrees tarmac and stays cooler on a hot day mean-
ing the temperature is lower around fields
B. 5 degrees
than on tennis courts
C. 7 degrees
A. True
D. there is no difference
B. False
4623. What type of front forms when a cold 4629. What is the name of a person who fore-
air mass wedges beneath a warm air casts weather?
mass?
A. hygrologist
A. cold front
B. geologist
B. warm front C. meteorologist
C. stationary front D. scientist
D. occluded front
4630. Which of the following is an example of
4624. What is the definition of climate? weather data?
A. The long term day to day changes in A. The average high temperature in May
the atmosphere. is 21◦ C in the Midwest of the United
States.
B. The short term day to day changes in
atmospheric conditions. B. Central Australia usually receives less
than 110 mm of rainfall all year.
C. Global warming.
C. The relative humidity was 24% at noon
D. The average long term weather condi- on July 23 in Tempe, Arizona.
tions over a long period of time.
D. On average, there is 88 mm of rain in
4625. Wind speed is measured with which in- the Gulf Coast region in July.
strument? 4631. Name the three types of rain
A. thermometer A. orographic rainfall
B. anemometer B. cyclonic rainfall
C. wind vane C. convectional rainfall
D. rain gauge D. none

4632. What is the main DIFFERENCEbetween 4636. What is precipitation

climate and weather?
A. the variations in atmospheric pressure
result in the movement of air
B. the vertical movement of air
C. hot, dry and dusty wind which blows in
northern India
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D. when water droplets join together they
grow in size until they are unable to float
in the air
A. Climate describes the short-term con- E. none of the above

ditions and weather describes the long-
term conditions 4637. They are SUPER HIGH. Thin, wispy
streams.
B. Climate describes the long-term con-
ditions and weather describes the short- A. Cumulus
term conditions
B. Cloud
C. Climate can change but weather can
not C. Stratus
D. Weather can change but climate can D. Cirrus
not
4638. how many elements of weather are
4633. Wind is caused by
there?
A. rain and clouds
A. 9
B. the unequal heating of Earth by the sun
C. cold water at the poles B. 6
D. salt water in the ocean C. 3
4634. is a lump of ice that falls out of a D. 7

storm cloud
A. snowflakes 4639. While visiting the beach during summer
vacation, a sea breeze keeps you cool and
B. dew comfortable during the hottest part of the
C. Hailstones day. Which BEST explains why this hap-
D. none of above pens?
4635. When a cold air mass is followed by a A. warm air rising over land allows cooler
warm air mass and both of those are fol- air from the ocean to blow inland
lowed by a cold air mass. B. cool air rising over land allows warm
A. cold front air from the ocean to blow inland
B. warm front C. there are similarities in temperature
C. occluded front between the land and the water
D. stationary front D. a storm is approaching

4640. Which of the following is a qualitative 4645. Distances north or south of the equator
observation about the weather?
A. latitude

A. The wind is blowing 15 mph.
B. longitude
B. It is raining hard.
C. First Meridian
C. The temperature is 76◦ F.
D. North
D. It rained.6 inches more on Monday
night than Wednesday night. 4646. The flow of air from land to a body of
4641. How far a place is from the equator is water.
know as
A. Altitude
B. Prevailling winds
C. Ocean currents
D. Latitude
4642. types of heat zones in earth.(choose

that apply) A. land breeze
A. temperature zone
B. sea breeze
B. torrid zone
C. jet stream
C. temperate zone
D. atmosphere
D. frigid zone
4647. The impact on the planet due to global
warming is called
A. climate change
B. the seasons
C. the weather
D. natural change
A. Cold front 4648. Land closer to the equator is

B. Warm front A. colder
C. Occluded front B. warmer
D. Stationary front
4649. what are the four major pressure belts.
4644. Nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide, methane,
and water vapour are examples of A. equatorial low pressure belt
A. farming systems B. subtropical high pressure belt,

B. greenhouse gases C. subpolar low pressure belt
C. fossil fuels D. polar high pressure belt
D. petroleum E. none

4650. This is a rainfall. 4654. What is fog?
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A. Orographic
A. A magical substance
B. cyclonic
B. A cloud that is by the surface of the
C. convectional Earth
D. none of above C. Something that doesn’t exist
4651. i am a biome but i am super cold and dry D. A scientist who studies weather
which one am i
4655. It is
A. Dessert
B. Tundra
C. Grassland
D. Taiga Forest
4652. Some scientists measured and recorded
local rainfall amounts and water levels at
several local lakes over the summer. They A. Rainy
compared their measurements with data
from the past 30 years. What characteris- B. Sunny
tic of the area are the scientists studying? C. Windy
A. Climate, because they are making D. none of above
more than one type of measurement
4656. The Gobi Desert receives an average of
7.6” of rain each year.
rainfall amounts over a long period of time
A. Climate
C. Weather, because they are tracking
changes only to their local environment B. Weather
D. Weather, because they expect rainfall 4657. This climate is usually very cold with
amounts and water levels to continue to temperatures below freezing.
decrease
4653. The earth turning on its axis is called
?
A. rotation
B. revolution
C. somersaulting
D. twirling A. Cold or Polar

B. Warm B. geologist
C. Temperate C. astronomer

D. Tropical D. meteorologist
4658. Climate is 4662. The average kinetic energy of the parti-

cles in a substance is its:
A. Thermal Energy
B. Motion
C. Temperature
D. Radiation
4663. This climate has high rainfall and humid-

ity. It is often hot too.
A. the average weather conditions in a
certain place or during a certain season
B. The conditions of the air at a particular
time and place
4659. Which climate has warm temperatures

throughout the year and large amounts of
rainfall? A. Cold or Polar
A. temperate B. Warm
B. polar C. Temperate
C. mountain D. Tropical
D. tropical 4664. T or F:On January 1, 1996, CFCs were
banned all over the world.
4660. Lack of water in the desert.
A. T
A. drought
B. F
B. blizzard
C. flood 4665. On a July day at the beach in Florida,
D. heatwave A. the sand heats up faster than the wa-
ter.
4661. A person that studies, reports and fore-
B. the sand and water remain the same
cast weather conditions is a
temperature.
C. the sand and water absorb heat at the
same rate
D. the water heats up faster than the
sand.
4666. instrument used to measure humidity

A. hygrometer
A. radiologist B. hydrometer

C. barometer C. California
D. millimeter D. Florida
4667. Hot and Dry winds called the 4673. The daily breezes that occur in a city
that is located near a large body of water
A. Loo
are examples of
B. South-West Monsoons
A. local winds.
4668. On a hot summer day, you observe wa- B. monsoons.
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ter droplets forming on the outside of a C. global winds.
glass that holds your cold drink. Which
of Earth’s systems are interac!ng to form D. westerlies.
these water droplets? 4674. Quite hot, but not too hot, is
A. biosphere and atmosphere
B. atmosphere and hydrosphere
C. geosphere and biosphere
D. atmosphere and geosphere
4669. fronts are associated with more vi-

olent weather
A. hot
A. cold
B. cold
B. warm
C. warm
C. stationary
D. wet
D. none of above
4675. Which describes WEATHER data?
4670. The average weather conditions of a re- A. Less than 3 inches of rain annually
gion
B. 50% humidity at 4pm today
C. Monsoon rains during the summer
B. weather
D. none of above
C. climate
4676. Which of the following climate changes
D. none of above
may be affected by human activities?
4671. boundary where two air masses meet. A. ice age
A. wind B. The boy
B. air masses C. global warming
C. front D. Monsoon
D. climate 4677. As latitude temperature
4672. Which of these would be a tropical cli- A. increases, decreases
mate in the US? B. decreases, increases
A. Virginia C. increases, increases
B. New York D. decreases, decreases

4678. Indicate a thunderstorm is going to hap- 4682. Imagine you hear the following weather
pen report:“Florida is sweltering in summer-
like heat and humidity. Ahead is a cold

A. Cirrus
front that promises to bring down polar
B. Cloud air from Canada and cool down the state
C. Stratus next week.” What is a front?
D. cumulus

the tilt of the earth when it is summer in
the southern hemisphere?
A. The northern hemisphere is tilted to-
ward the sun A. a region where there are severe thun-
derstorms
B. The northern hemisphere is tilted
away from the sun B. an area where a tropical storm is likely
to form
C. The norther hemisphere is tilted nei-
ther toward or away from the sun C. a boundary between two air masses
with the same temperature
D. Why are you talking about the north-
ern hemisphere when you asked about the D. a boundary between two air masses
southern hemisphere? with different densities and usually differ-
ent temperatures
4680. air rises because it is dense.
4683. This is a weather instrument that tells
A. Cool, Less the temperature of the surrounding atmo-
B. Warm, Less sphere of a small area.
C. Cold, More A. barometer
D. Warm, More B. anemometer
C. rain gauge
4681. This instrument is used to measure tem-
perature. D. thermometer
4684. The weather map below shows the lo-
cations of a high-pressure center (H) and
a low-pressure center (L), air masses cP
and mT, and city A. Explain why city A has
clear sky conditions.
A. Rain gauge
B. Barometer
C. Thermometer A. City A is near a high pressure system
D. Wind vane B. City A is near a low pressure system

4685. The air temperature of a place is directly

dependent on the amount of received
by that place.
A. Solar radiation
B. Insolation
NARAYAN CHANGDER
C. Terrestrial Radiation
D. none of above
4686. IN WHICH CLIMATE DO YOU USE THIS
A. Barometer
B. hygrometer
C. Thermometer
D. Ruler
A. Hot climate 4689. The weather in the Polar Zones

A. is hot
B. Cold climate
B. is cold
4687. Which instrument is used to measure hu-
midity D. none of above
A. Rain gauge 4690. THE CONDITION OF THE ATMOSPHERE

AT A GIVEN TIME IS CALLED
B. Barometer
A. SEASON
C. Hygrometer B. CLIMATE
C. ALTITUDE
D. Barograph
D. WEATHER
4688. Name this tool. 4691. Which biome has 4 seasons?

4695. Contour lines that are very close to-

gether indicate the land is

A. gentle/gradual
B. a forest
C. steep
D. a swamp
4696. Millions of years ago their were also cli-

matic periods. What was it caled?
A. Taiga
A. Weather
B. Tundra
C. Grasslands B. Ice Age
D. Temperate Forest C. Old age

D. none of above
4692. We use an anemometer to measure
A. temperature 4697. Which of these problems can be caused
B. humidity by air pollution?
C. precipitation A. Respiratory problems
D. wind B. Reduced food sources for humans
4693. What instrument measures air pres- C. Increased disease for humans
sure? D. Decrease in global temperatures
A. barometer
4698. As the altitude increases, the tempera-
B. rain gauge ture
C. thermometer
A. increases
D. wind vane
B. decreases
4694. Which type of precipitation is likely at C. changes
location 3?
D. stable
4699. Our warmest month is August.

A. climate
B. weather
4700. Water in Earth’s atmosphere comes

mainly from
A. warm drizzle
B. no precipitation A. glaciers
C. moving snowstorm B. oceans
D. continuous cool rain C. tropical rainforests
E. continuous snowstorm D. underground rivers

4701. The average weather condition over a A. evaporation

long period of time. B. condensation
A. climate C. precipitation
B. weather D. runoff (collection)
C. forecast
4705. This picture shows a place where air cur-
D. sunlight rents will form due to the uneven heating
4702. Eliana measures the outdoor tempera- of Earth.In which direction will air currents
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ture each day for a week at exactly 3:00 MOST LIKELY move?
p.m. The temperatures she records are
all between 25 C and 30 C. Eliana con-
cludes that the climate of her area is trop-
ical. What is the most important reason
why her study and conclusion may not be
correct?
A. She recorded the temperature at only
one time a day instead of more often.
A. straight down over land
B. She made her conclusion based only
B. from the land toward the sea
on temperature and not also on precipita-
tion. C. straight up above the sea
C. She made her conclusion based on D. from the sea toward the land
only 1 week of data instead of over a long 4706. What are two ways that sea levels
period of time rise?
D. She did not calculate the humidity, air A. Thermal expansion when water gets
pressure, and wind conditions when she warmer.
made her conclusion
B. People swimming in the water in-
4703. A set of symbols used on a weather map crease the volume of the sea.
to indicate weather conditions at a specific C. Glaciers and ice sheets melting
location
D. Lots of rivers flow into the oceans.
A. Global warming
B. Topography 4707. Which type of air mass is warm and hu-
mid?
C. Meteorology
E. Station model
4704. Which stage of the water cycle is illus-
trated?
A. Continental polar
B. Continental tropical
C. Maritime polar
D. Maritime tropical

4708. An overnight freeze that damages or- A. cold front

ange crops in central Florida. B. stationary front

A. Weather
C. warm front
B. Climate
D. occluded front
4709. Which option below is an insturment
used to collect information for Earth’s sur- 4714. When a warm front follows a retreating
face? cold air mass.
A. Satellite A. stationary front
B. Weather Balloon B. air mass
C. Buoy C. cold front
D. Air Plane D. warm front
4710. What is a funnel shaped cloud that 4715. The map shows the location of a cate-
forms over land and touches the Earth’s gory 3 hurricane. The black line shows the
surface? limits of where the hurricane may be lo-
A. hurricane cated over the next several days. Why
B. cyclone does the area inside the black lines get
larger as each day passes?
C. thunderstorm
D. tornado
4711. Fronts often form around areas of
pressure.
A. high
B. low
4712. On the coast, strong sea breezes move A. The hurricane is forecast to grow in
cool air into the land to replace warm, ris- size.
ing air. This often causes B. Winds in the hurricane are expected to
A. hurricanes become stronger.
B. cyclones C. The hurricane is forecast to begin to
C. thunderstorms move faster as each day passes.
D. tornadoes D. It is difficult to predict the exact track
of a hurricane for more than a day.
4713. Which type of front is pictured in the di- tagsSC.912.E.7.5
agram?
A. weather
B. climate
C. precipitation
D. a bad day

4717. The main climatic zones in the world are 4720. Which of the following is one way
that the subtropical jet stream can impact
weather in Florida?
A. The jet stream does not have an impact
on Florida’s weather.
B. The jet stream stops fronts from mov-
ing.
C. The jet stream can increase the sever-
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ity of thunderstorms in its path
D. The jet stream can decrease the sever-
ity of a thunderstorms in its path.
A. Hot zone, warm zone, cold zone
4721. Places closer to sea have climate.
B. Ice zone, temperate zone, hot zone
A. Continental
C. Temperate zone, hot zone, cold zone
B. Mediterranean
D. Danger zone, cold zone, hot zone, tem-
C. Oceanic
perate zone
D. none of above
4718. Which climate zone receives the least
4722. Where is the ozone layer located?
amount of direct sunlight?
A. Thermosphere
A. polar zone
B. Troposphere
B. tropical zone
C. Stratosphere
C. intermediate zone
D. Mesosphere
D. temperate zone
4719. Which pictures shows the correct
“Global Conveyor Belt”?
A.
B.
A. tundra
B. forest
C.
C. desert
D. grassland
4724. People live in the Thermosphere.
D.
A. True
B. False

4725. Rain, drizzle and hail are a form of C. Dry

A. Condensation D. Polar

B. Precipitation 4730. Which season is represented by C?
C. Evaporation
D. none of above
4726. What type of climate do you live in?

A. Temperate
B. Subtropical
C. Arctic
D. Polar Vortex A. winter
B. spring
4727. If the temperature is high, it is
C. summer
D. autumn
4731. A metal spoon heating up in a bowl of

hot soup
A. Conduction
B. Convection
C. Radiation
A. cold
D. none of above
B. hot
C. warm 4732. Experts who predict weather are
known as:
D. dry
A. Weather man
4728. State whether the given statement is
B. Meteorology
true or false Pressure and temperature
have direct relation C. Meteorologists
A. True D. None of these
B. False 4733. A strong thunderstorm cloud is
shown.Select the three situations that a
4729. What’s this climate zone?
thunderstorm will MOST LIKELY develop.
A. Temperate
B. Tropical A. warm air that is rising

B. moist air condensing in the tropo- C. interactions of the fronts

sphere D. locations of the high-and low-pressure
C. a front moving into heated humid air systems
D. cool air rising in the troposphere 4738. This weather tool is used to measure
4734. What does it mean flood?
A. a period of dry weather, particularly a
long, crop-damaging period.
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B. a prediction of future weather condi-
tions.
C. a heavy rain
D. a large runoff or overflow of water.
4735. what is climate definition

A. A weather of a something
B. Is a type is a climate that takes time
C. is a weather condition that dose stuff
to change
D. is a weather condition for a long period
time A. air pressure
4736. What occurs in a stationary front? B. air
A. Two air masses combine C. snow
D. rain
B. Two air masses are not strong enough
to replace each other 4739. What is an ecosystem?
C. One air mass takes over another air A. the living and nonliving things that in-
mass teract.
D. Two air masses disappear B. only the living things that interact.
C. the kind of animals and plants that
4737. Which data represented on a weather
grow.
map can be used to predict the weather
with 100% accuracy? D. the daily conditions.
4740. Cold air is denser than warm air, so it
sinks. What kind of pressure area does
this create?
A. none of the data

B. isobar pressure lines

A. Dense pressure 4746. Where are deserts located?

B. High pressure A. Along the equator

C. Low pressure B. Along the poles
D. No pressure 4747. Which type of cloud and front is associ-
4741. How does the jet stream affect the ated with a thunderstorm?
weather? A. cumulonimbus clouds
A. The jet stream transports weather sys- B. cumulus clouds
tems that affect us. C. cirrocumulus clouds
B. The jet stream does not affect the
D. Altocumulus clouds
weather.
C. The jet stream releases oxygen so we 4748. Average pattern of weather for a par-
can breathe. ticular region
D. The jet stream brings only bad A. Climate
weather. B. Weather
4742. Consistent barometer readings through- 4749. What is weather?
out the day most likely means the weather
A. Weather is what happens in the atmo-
will be
sphere everyday.
A. hot
B. Weather is what happens in the sky ev-
B. cold eryday.
C. fair C. Weather is what happens in the cli-
D. windy mate everyday.
D. none of above
4743. Sunny, partly cloudy, rain are examples
of 4750. Usual, average.
A. Climate A. data
B. Weather B. generalization
4744. Stevenson Screen, which holds C. trend
A. a chair D. typical
B. the thermometers. 4751. It is the long-term pattern of the
C. an anemometer weather conditions.
D. the weather A. Climate
4745. What is weather? B. Weather
A. rain and snow C. Weather and Climate
B. the daily condition of the atmosphere D. none of above
C. the average weather in a place over a 4752. The leeward side of the mountain has
long time this type of climate.
D. how hot it is A. dry climate

B. wet climate 4758. To avoid being hit by lightning you

C. cold climate should not be near water, on a phone with
a land line, stand near the window during
D. average climate a storm, or walk outside with/near ob-
jects that might attract lightning.
4753. What causes the push that you feel
when you are in the ocean?
A. currents
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B. waves
C. winds
D. coriolis
4754. What is the climate? A. True

A. The average of the weather measured B. False
over 30 years
4759. The long term conditions of temperature
B. The rate of global warming and precipitation for an area is called the
C. Rain, snow and sleet A. atmosphere
D. How it feels in a room B. latitude
C. weather
4755. areas near the equator, get the most di-
rect sunlight and are the warmest D. climate
A. tropical zones 4760. Why doesn’t the equator experience
B. polar zones seasons?
A. landforms
C. temperate zones
B. ocean currents
D. subtropical zones
C. the sun’s rays hit the equator more di-
4756. What is Ms. Sabrina’s favorite thing in rectly than anywhere else
the whole world? D. the rotation of the Earth
A. Minecraft
4761. This type of wind helped blow trader’s
B. The beach ships from Europe to the Americas. It
C. Sushi blows winds from EAST to WEST.
D. Unicorns A. Polar Easterlies
B. Trade Winds
4757. is the atmospheric conditions over a
short period of time, reported as a fore- C. Prevailing Westerlies
cast. D. Horse Latitudes
A. Weather 4762. If the weather outside changes from
B. Climate warm and sunny to the wind getting
stronger, the temperature is dropping, and
C. Temperature the air pressure is dropping, what kind of
D. Humidity weather is about to happen?

A. Sunny weather 4766. Look at the graph.In which months were

B. Rainy Weather the temperatures the Highest?

C. Snowy weather
D. Foggy Weather
4763. A is bad weather for boats, with
thunder and lightning.
A. JanuaryFebruary
B. MarchApril
C. JulyAugust
D. none of above
4767. front
A. storm
A. where two different air masses meet
B. rain
B. temperate
C. fog
C. dry, cold climate zone above 60 degree
D. cloud latitude
4764. In what month does the autumnal (fall) D. day-to-day changes in atmospheric
equinox occur? conditions, including temperature, air
A. March pressure, humidity, wind, cloud coverage,
or precipitation
B. September
C. December 4768. Which is a cause of climate change?
A. melting of sea ice
D. none of above
B. cutting down trees
4765. This weather tool is a(n)
C. severe storms
D. changes in plant life
4769. How many Climate Zones did we study
in class?
A. barometer A. 4
B. wind vane B. 3
C. thermometer C. 1
D. anemometer D. 5

4770. A rain gauge is used to measure
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. winter
B. spring
C. summer
D. fall
4772. The Great Lakes modify the local

weather and climate in the surrounding
states, such as Michigan. Because wa-
ter temperatures change more slowly than
land temperatures, lake waters gain heat
in summer and release heat during cooler
months. Comparing coastal regions of the
state to inland regions, this results in all
but one of the following weather situa-
tions on the coast
A. Delayed frosts
B. Lake effect snow
C. More sunny days per year
D. Cooler summers and warmer winters
4773. What do water droplets form?

A. clouds
A. Wind direction B. condensation

C. nutrients
B. Wind speed
D. humidity
C. Humidity 4774. The type of winds responsible for our
weather in the United States.
D. Amount of precipitation
A. Polar Easterlies
B. Prevailing Westerlies
4771. What season is it in the Southern Hemi-
C. Trade Winds
sphere when it is fall in the Northern Hemi-
sphere? D. Prevailing Easterlies

4775. The measure of how hot or cold some- 4780. coastal areas are more humid because
thing is

A. temperature A. winds blowing over these areas origi-
nate from sea.
B. climate
B. winds blowing over these areas origi-
C. humidity
nate from land
D. precipitation
C. winds blowing over these areas origi-
nate from both land and sea
4776. The arrow in the wind vane points to
the direction where the wind is going. D. none of above
A. True
4781. What happens to a moist air mass as it
B. False moves upward in the atmosphere?
A. It becomes warmer and forms clouds
4777. What is the major cause for air pollu-
tion? B. It becomes cooler and forms clouds
C. Its temperature remains the same
D. Its temperature varies greatly
4782. What is one of the most important

gases in the Earth’s atmosphere which is
also the source of all condensation and pre-
A. factories and cars cipitation?
B. cigarettes A. oxygen
C. deforestation B. hydrogen
D. oil spills C. nitrogen

D. water vapor
4778. Which of the following is not a factor
that affects climate? 4783. This zone has high temperatures all year
A. latitude round.
B. oceans A. Cold climate
C. longitude B. Temperate climate
D. global winds C. Hot climate

D. none of above
4779. Water vapor changing into tiny droplets
of water 4784. What Measures Temperture
A. condensation A. Thermometer
B. warm front B. hygrometer
C. cumulus C. Rain gauge
D. jet stream D. Barometer

4785. This is an example of a 4788. blizzard

A. A climate zone characterized by very
little precipitation and extremely cold tem-
peratures.
B. A violent winter storm characterized
by freezing temperatures, strong winds,
and blowing snow
NARAYAN CHANGDER
C. indicates weather conditions at a spe-
cific location, using a combination of sym-
bols on a map
D. none of above
4789. Where is north temperate zone is lo-

cated?
A. wind vane
B. barometer A. Tropic of Capricorn and Antarctic circle
C. rain gauge B. Tropic of cancer and Antarctic circle
D. anemone C. Tropic of cancer and Arctic circle
4786. What does a barometer do? D. Tropic of Capricorn and Arctic circle
4790. What city will experience decreasing

temperatures in the next day?
A. measures air pressure

B. measures temperature
A. Denver
C. measures humidity
D. measures length B. Step
4787. The process of the water cycle where C. Memphis

water heats and changes into water va- D. The Angels
por.
A. evaporation 4791. In Florida there is a rainy season from
B. condensation May to October. In October the dry season
sets and lasts until late April in most years.
C. precipitation Temperatures are mild in winter and hot in
D. none of above summer. What are we talking about?

4795. Do sea breezes typically happen during

the day or night?

A. Day
B. Night
4796. Cold air is more dense than warm air

and sinks.
A. True
B. False
4797. Under which of the following conditions

A. Meteorological conditions is a hurricane most likely to form?
B. Weather A. When high and low pressure zones
C. Climate meet over warm land
D. Precipitation B. When thunderstorms develop and be-

gin to spin over cool ocean
4792. Climates are influenced by (check all C. When thunderstorms develop and be-
that apply) gin to spin over cool ocean water
A. latitude D. When warm and cold fronts meet over
B. bodies of water warm water
C. ocean currents 4798. Which hemisphere is California located
D. elevation in?
A. Northern
4793. What temperature of air falls
B. Southern
A. cooler
4799. What does the graph show?
B. wamer
4794. This type of climate is warm and wet

most of the year; along the equator.
A. Weather records are showing no

change in the climate.
B. Weather records are showing a warm-
ing trend.
A. Tropical
C. Climate records are showing no
B. Temperate
change in the weather.
C. Polar
D. Climate records are showing a warm-
D. North ing trend.

4800. Where do hurricanes form? 4805. What is the temperature in December?

A. Over Land
B. Over the Ocean
C. Over Mountains
D. Over Islands
4801. Which one is measured YEARLY?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. Climate
B. Weather A. 400 degrees Celsius
4802. What is the pattern of weather over a B. 14 degrees Celsius
long period of time?
C. 2 degrees Celsius
D. 14 degrees Fahrenheit
4806. CO� concentration in the atmosphere has

shown an increasing trend over the past
several decades.
A. Weather
B. Climate
A. temperature
B. weather 4807. What affects climate?
C. climate A. The distance from the equator.

D. air pressure B. The distance from the planets.
C. The distance from the moon.
4803. Which type of pressure system produces
stormy weather? D. none of above
A. low 4808. What kind of weather does a cold front
B. high usually bring?
A. Warm
4804. Which of the following does NOT have
an effect on a region’s climate? B. Stormy
C. sunny
D. tropical
4809. Which BEST describes why latitudes

closest to the equator have warmer cli-
mates?
A. they are at lower elevations
A. Large bodies of water B. they receive more solar energy
B. Latitude C. they are nearer to ocean currents
C. Mountains D. they get more winds that carry energy
D. Longitude in the form of heat

4810. High Pressure is associated with this 4816. When there is a lot of moisture in the
type of weather air it feels sticky and

A. Cloudy/Overcast Weather A. temperature
B. Cold Weather B. cold
C. Warm Weather C. precipitation
D. Fair Weather
D. humid
4811. It takes the Earth 365 days to travel or
revolve around the sun once. This is called 4817. A tornado is dangerous mostly because
a of its
A. month A. Heavy rains
B. year B. Lightning
C. day C. Strong winds
D. none of above D. Storm surge
4812. water that falls to the earth’s surface is
4818. At the beach on a hot day, you notice
dark clouds moving in from over the ocean.
A. Precipitation What most likely caused this to happen?
B. Equinox A. precipitation and evaporation
C. Atmosphere B. water is wet
D. Climate
C. transpiration & evaporation
4813. Climate refers to trends in precipitation D. evaporation & condensation
and temperature over time
A. True 4819. What is a meteorologist?
B. False A. A type of cloud.
4814. Alexandra in the South Island experi- B. A weather instrument.

ences a C. A person who likes weather.
A. maritime climate D. A scientist who studies weather.
B. temperate climate
C. continental climate 4820. The days are longer. The air is dry and
there is hardly any rain in
D. tropical climate
A. Spring
4815. The climate zone that is on the equator.
B. Summer
A. Polar
C. Autumn
B. Tropical
D. Winter
C. Temperate
D. none of above 4821. What does this represent?

C. Full moon
D. First quarter
4824. The sea has a higher heat capacity than

land.
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A. rain
B. sunny
C. cloudy A. true
D. thunderstorms B. false
4822. When a river current erodes the banks 4825. The Köppen climate classification sys-
of the river, the interaction is between the tem is used to classify
and the
A. regions according to the type of vege-
tation.
B. regions according to mean annual pre-
cipitation.
C. climates according to mean tempera-
ture.
D. climates according to mean monthly
and annual temperature and precipitation
4826. This is a measurement in inches of how

A. atmosphere and hydrosphere
much rain or snow is predicted to be falling
B. biosphere and geosphere this day.
C. hydrosphere and geosphere A. High and Low Temperatures
D. atmosphere and biosphere B. Precipitation
4823. What phase of the moon is shown C. Wind direction
above?
D. Wind Speed
E. Air Pressure
4827. What are tectonic plates?

A. Pieces of the Earth’s crust
B. A type of boundary
C. Pieces of the Earth’s inner and outer
A. New moon core
B. Waxing crescent D. Pieces of the mantle that are solid

4828. When a cold front and warm front col- B. transpiration

lide it can cause
C. run-off

A. thunderstorms
D. precipitation
B. low pressure
C. tornados 4833. Climate is
D. all of the above A. the further you get from the equator
4829. Which of the following is NOT a state- B. the higher you go, the colder it gets
ment the meteorologist would make about C. the conditions of the atmosphere at a
the weather? certain place and time.
A. The high temperature will be 55◦ F and
D. the average weather conditions of an
the low will be 37◦ F.
area over a long period of time.
B. A cold front is bringing in colder
weather. 4834. Rainfall is usually measured in
C. The wind speed will increase to 25 A. millimeters
mph in the afternoon.
B. centimeters
D. The average weather condition of the
area is rainy. C. foot
4830. Which of the following reasons BEST D. meter

explains why thunderstorms are likely to
form on a hot day? 4835. Decide if this describes climate or
weather:The Mojave Desert is dry and hot.
A. warm, humid air rises quickly and then
condenses into rain clouds. A. climate
B. as air rises, it loses temperature and B. weather
causes rain.
C. the air is usually calm and allows the 4836. “Clothes in a closet.”
clouds to form A. weather
D. the air drops quickly and forms low B. climate
level cloud layers.
4837. A system forms where warm, less
4831. A person who studies the weather pat-
dense air rises from Earth’s surface.
terns of large areas over time around the
world are called A. high-pressure
A. Climatologists B. low-pressure
B. Meteorologists
4838. What is a Tundra?
C. Scientists
A. cold&dry
D. Weather Forecasters
B. Warn&wet
4832. The draining away of water from the
surface of an area of land. C. wet&cold
A. weathering D. cold&warm

4839. Armand is explaining to his neighbor 4843. Does evaporation happen before or af-
why it is important to have an emergency ter condensation?
family plan. Which is the best reason?
A. to stop severe weather conditions
B. to be able to avoid severe weather
warnings
C. to keep the family safe during severe
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weather
D. to help neighbors protect their homes
in severe weather
A. before
4840. Sea breezes take place during the day B. after
because warmer land temperature results
C. during
in a warmer air mass above the land com-
pared to the cooler air mass over the sur- D. none of above
face of water.
4844. This weather instrument measures hu-
midity.
A. true
B. false
4841. Which one of the following are not used A. Barometer

to measure or describe the weather?
B. Anemometer
A. Temperature
C. Wind vane
B. Wind Direction and Speed
D. hygrometer
C. Mountain
4845. How would you write a pressure read-
D. Precipitation ing of 1013.8 mb on a weather station
4842. The layers of the atmosphere in order model?
from bottom to top are A. 013
A. troposphere, stratosphere, meso- B. 13
sphere, thermosphere, exosphere C. 138
B. troposphere, mesosphere, atmo- D. 101
sphere, thermosphere
C. mesosphere, thermosphere, tropo- 4846. Why are always penguins huddled to-
sphere, stratosphere, exosphere gether or in groups
D. thermosphere, stratosphere, meso- A. To not be alone

sphere, troposphere, exosphere B. To get warmness

C. To protect from predators 4851. Tropical climates are found

D. They like being in groups A. Near the Equator

4847. A cold front usually brings what kind of B. Near the North and South Pole
weather? C. In the desert
A. snow D. In Antarctica
B. sunny and fair
4852. Which of the following units is used to
C. heavy rain and/or thunderstorms measure barometric pressure?
D. cool and dry A. Millibars
4848. Which best describes climate? B. Inches of Mercury
A. Summers are usually hot and dry. C. both a and b
B. It rained last week. D. neither a or b
C. Yesterday it was cold and windy. 4853. What is the average weather in an area
D. none of above over a long period of time called?
4849. How does Elevation affect the climate A. weather
of the land? B. front
A. The higher the elevation, the cooler C. key
the climate.
D. climate
B. The higher the elevation, the warmer
the climate. 4854. climate with limited precipitation, cool
C. The lower the elevation, the cooler the summers, and very cold winters
climate A. dry-summer subtropical climate
D. Elevation doesn’t affect climate. B. subarctic climate
4850. The table shows some weather data col- C. tropical wet and dry climate
lected over a five-day period. What pat- D. wet tropical climate
tern over the five days can be observed in
the collected data? 4855. What is an anemometer?
A. No clue
B. Measures wind speed
C. dont care
D. measures the wind direction
A. There was more rain on the warmer
4856. This is a violent weather event accom-
days.
panied by lightning, thunder, strong winds,
B. Rain came along with lower tempera- and rain.
tures.
A. Monsoon
C. There were fewer clouds as the week
went on. B. shower
D. Temperature increased during the C. tornado

week. D. thunderstorm

4857. What is the ATMOSPHERE? 4862. Air pressure differences cause to

form.
A. tides
B. salinity
C. wind
D. none of the others
NARAYAN CHANGDER
4863. Hurricanes usually form over water.
A. The layer of air surrounding the Moon. A. cold
B. The layer of air surrounding the Earth. B. warm
C. The layer of air surrounding the Sun C. freezing
D. The layer of air surrounding all the D. no
planets.
4858. Areas closer to the equator receive an area?
more direct energy from the Sun and have
warmer temperatures.
A. True
B. False
4859. WHAT WEATHER INSTRUMENT IS

THIS?
A. HYGROMETER
A. Information about the rivers in the
B. THERMOMETER area.
C. RAIN GAUGE B. Information about local plants and an-
D. ANEMOMETER imals.
C. Information about the weather for
4860. An instrument that measures the wind
many years.
speed.
D. Information about the tallest moun-
A. anemometer
tain.
B. rain gauge
4865. Which of the following directly results
C. thermometer from condensation? (Picture the water cy-
D. barometer cle in your mind.)
4861. If it only rains one month out of a year

the climate would be described as
A. mostly wet.
B. neither wet nor dry.
C. mostly dry.
D. none of above

A. ice forms B. The equator is an imaginary line half

B. clouds form way between the North and South Poles

C. dew evaporates C. Longitude and latitude are real lines on
Earth’s surface that we use to find a loca-
D. strong winds form tion
4866. Identify the type of breeze in the given D. Locations are measured as east or
picture. west of the equator
4871. Cold fronts bring temperatures and

conditions.
A. Sea breeze
B. Land breeze
4867. Weather is A. warm; fair

B. cool; fair
C. warm; stormy
D. cool; stormy
4872. Which atmospheric factor most defines

a very hot and muggy day?
A. Low pressure.
A. the average weather conditions in a B. Smog.
certain place or during a certain season
C. Humidity.
B. The conditions of the air at a particular
time and place D. Fog.
4868. freezing point of Fahrenheit scale 4873. The phase change from water vapor to
liquid water is known as
A. 45
B. 32
C. 20
D. none of above
4869. Climate from weather.

A. is the same
B. differs A. evaporation
B. precipitation
4870. Which statement is true?
A. Lines of latitude are parallel to the C. condensation
Prime Meridian D. sublimation

4874. When water becomes very hot the rate

of evaporation
A. increases
B. decreases
C. stays the same
D. stops
NARAYAN CHANGDER
4875. What is the longest day of the year?
A. winter solstice
A. barometer
B. summer solstice
B. thermometer
C. fall equinox
C. rain guage
D. spring equinox D. wind sock
4876. what kind of pressure predicts good 4880. Climatic conditions stay for a period
weather? of time.
A. Long
A. high
B. Short
B. low
4881. what is weather definition
C. cold
A. just lots of rain and other stuff.
D. stationary B. what the sky and air outside is
C. the sky is making weather
in a high atmospheric pressure system? D. sky air and rain and more is weather.
A. Rain 4882. Since the Gulf stream is warm water

current, what does it easily release into
B. Clear skies the atmosphere in the cold areas of the
North Atlantic Ocean?
4878. In which climate do trees lose their
A. carbon dioxide
leaves?
B. oxygen
A. Desert
C. heat
B. Tropical D. nitrogen
C. Temperate
4883. Identify the following type of front
D. Polar
4879. An instrument used to measure the

amount of rainfall

A. cold 4888. What forms when warm air rises into

B. stationary the atmosphere and cools causing water
vapor to condense?

C. warm
A. clouds
D. occluded
B. sunsets
4884. On a cold morning, Pierre observed that
the grass looked wet. What term best de- C. hurricanes
scribes what Pierre observed? D. tornadoes
4889. what are rain-laden winds known as

A. monsoon winds
B. sea breeze
C. land breeze
D. none
A. Dew
B. Fog 4890. A is a large, swirling, low-pressure
system that forms over the Atlantic
C. Mist Ocean.
D. Snow
4885. a climate with high temperatures and
high annual precipitation
A. wet tropical climate
B. tropical wet and dry climate
D. dry-summer subtropical climate
A. blizzard
4886. How does sleet form?
B. cold front
A. rain freezes as it passes through cold
air. C. tornado
B. Hail melts to rain then refreezes. D. hurricane
C. snow falls through warm air, partially 4891. Arizona is dry most of the time.
melts, the goes through cold air and re-
A. Weather
freezes.
D. sleet isn’t made, it is bought from Ama- B. Climate
zon. 4892. What type of precipitation does this
4887. Which of the following factors has a symbol represent in a weather station
strong influence on an area’s climate? model?
A. Soil moisture. A. Thunderstorm
B. Diversity of flora and fauna. B. Fog
C. Nearby ocean currents. C. Drizzle
D. Amount of fog. D. Snow

4893. What factors affect weather? (Mark all whereas weather is the characteristic cli-
that apply) mate in an area over a long period of time.
A. Air pressure D. Weather is the condition of Earth’s
B. Precipitation atmosphere at a particular time and
place, whereas climate is the characteris-
C. Humidity
tic weather in an area over a long period
D. Temperature of time.
NARAYAN CHANGDER
E. Wind
4897. The collecting of weather data in the
4894. weather last 40 years has been improved mostly
A. measures wind speed by
B. the pressure caused by the weight of A. balloons and satellites
a column of air pushing down on an area
B. more people who study clouds
C. day-to-day changes in atmospheric
conditions, including temperature, air C. military aircraft
pressure, humidity, wind, cloud coverage,
or precipitation D. astronaut observations
D. the process by which molecules of wa-
ter vapor in the air become liquid water 4898. Weather refers to (a) changes over
days, hours, or even (b) . Climate, on
4895. The polar climate region is theother hand, refers to the typical condi-
A. closest to the poles above latitude tions over (c), centuries, and longer.
66.5 N and S A. a short-term
B. closest to the equator between
B. b minutes
C. In between C. c decades
D. none of above D. weather
4896. The area in which you live has a partic- E. climate
ular climate. It also has weather. What
is the difference between climate and F. warm air
weather?
A. Climate is determined by temperature 4899. Any form of water that falls to Earth’s
and precipitation, whereas weather is de- surface from the clouds.
termined only by humidity, air pressure, A. precipitation
and wind conditions.
B. Weather is determined by tempera- B. visibility
ture and precipitation, whereas climate is C. humidity
determined only by humidity, air pressure,
and wind conditions. D. air pressure
C. Climate is the condition of Earth’s at-
mosphere at a particular time and place, 4900. What is this an image of?

4903. the unit in which atmospheric pressure

is measured?

A. MILLILITER
B. MILLIMETER
C. MIDDLE BAR
D. MILLIGRAM
4904. How do measured values of weather

and climate differ?
A. Barometer A. Weather values and climate values re-
quire different instruments.
B. Sling Psychrometer
B. Weather values are discarded, while
C. Wind Vane
climate values are recorded.
D. Anemometer
C. Weather values are less reliable than
4901. How does ocean water eventually end climate values.
up in Lake Okeechobee? D. Weather values are ranges, while cli-
mate values are averages.
4905. A layer of air that surrounds the Earth

is called
A. Gale
B. Breeze
C. Atmosphere
D. Storm
4906. What is Deforestation?

A. groundwater from the lake mixing with A. A forest in which there are too many
infiltrating ocean water. deers.
B. evaporation from the ocean con- B. A forest party where deers hang out
denses into the lake.
C. The adding of trees in a forest.
C. evaporation from the ocean ends up in
the lake from precipitation and runoff. D. The clearing of trees; transforming of
a forest into cleared land.
D. Waves from the ocean travel up
through rivers and into the lake. 4907. Yvette was looking at a map that
showed where hurricanes had formed. She
4902. Images (pictures) of weather systems noticed that more hurricanes formed over
on television come from tropical oceans than over colder ocean ar-
A. station models eas. Which of these BEST explains why
more hurricanes form over tropical oceans
B. weather satellites
than cold oceans?
C. weather balloons A. Air has less moisture over tropical
D. barometric pressure oceans than over cold oceans.

B. Air has more moisture over tropical 4912. How do bodies of water affect the tem-
oceans than over cold oceans. perature of an area?
C. Water has more waves in tropical A. Makes temperatures less extreme.
oceans than in colder oceans. B. Makes summers hotter and winters
D. Water has fewer currents in tropical colder.
oceans than in colder oceans. C. Makes summers colder and winters
colder.
4908. Omaha, Nebraska has warm and dry
NARAYAN CHANGDER
D. none of above
summers.
A. Climate 4913. condensation
A. the process by which water molecules
B. Weather
4909. What heats up faster ter vapor
B. moisture in the air
A. Land
C. large body of air with the same tem-
B. Water perature and humidity
4910. How are desert climates and tropical cli- D. the process by which molecules of wa-
mates different ter vapor in the air become liquid water
A. Desert climates have more rain 4914. Which weather instrument is used to
measure wind direction?
B. Tropical climates have more rain
A. Six’s thermometer
C. Tropical climates are colder
B. Wind vane
D. All desert climates are cold
C. Dry bulb and wet bulb thermometer
4911. An instrument used to measure air pres- D. Anemometer
sure. High air pressure generally means
4915. Which of these would help create high
good weather, while storms thrive in low
pressure?
pressure.
A. high temperatures
B. fast wind speeds
C. being on the top of a mountain
D. lots of humidity
4916. Which of the following is a anemome-
ter?
A.
A. weather vane
B. hygrometer
C. anemometer B.
D. barometer

B. Rainy
C. Foggy

C. D. none of above
4920. What is causing all the warm tempera-

tures in the southeast?
D.
4917. Low Pressure is associated with this

type of weather
A. Cloudy/Overcast Weather
B. Cold Weather
A. Summertime
C. Warm Weather
B. Precipitation
D. Fair Weather
C. Cold front
4918. During the winter of 2017, massive tor-
D. Warm front
nadoes occurred in the states of Alabama
and Georgia, two states that ARE NOT in 4921. State whether the following sentence is
tornado alley. If the conditions for a tor- true or false.Weather is what happens in
nado are predictable, how could these tor- the atmosphere everyday.
nadoes have formed in these two states?
A. True
A. Warm, moist Pacific coast air meets
cold, Atlantic coast air. B. False
B. Arctic, Canadian air meets west mov- C. Don’t know
ing air from the cold Atlantic coast.
D. It could be both
C. Warm, moist Gulf coast air meets cold,
dry continental air moving down from 4922. June, July, and August are the months
Canada. in this season.
D. A northeastern air mass drops down A. Winter
into the southern states bringing precipi-
tation. B. Spring
C. Summer
4919. It is
D. Autumn
4923. Weather can be described by-

A. outside temperature
B. amount of precipitation
C. cloud cover
A. Cloudy D. all of the answers are correct

4924. During the winter, because the days are 4928. What climate does a desert have?
shorter it prevents the Earth from warm-
ing up causing the days to be cooler.
A. True
B. False
4925. What is the correct order of earth’s at-

mospheric layers from bottom to top? A. Tropical
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. Polar
C. Arid/Dry
D. Temperate
4929. when water vapor in the atmosphere
forms drops of water and fall to Earth
A. snow
B. weather
C. sleet
A. Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Tropo- D. rain
sphere, Thermosphere, Exosphere.
4930. Which of the following is not an element
B. Troposphere, Mesosphere, Strato- of weather
A. Temperature
C. Stratosphere, Troposphere, Thermo- B. Humidity
sphere, Mesosphere, Exosphere.
C. Latitude
D. Troposphere, Stratosphere, Meso-
D. Wind Speed
4931. Name the instrument
4926. A liquid changes into a gas during
A. condensation
B. precipitation
C. evaporation
D. none of above
A. Barometer
4927. As the Temperature of the Air Increases B. Altimeter
on a Warm Day, What Happens to the Den-
C. Anemometer
sity of the Air?
D. none of above
A. Increase
B. Decrease 4932. Why do sea breezes occur during the
day?
C. Stays the Same
A. Water heats up faster than land, so the
D. none of above air above water is warmer.

B. Water cools off faster than land, so the

air above land is cooler.

C. Land heats up slower than water, so
the air stays cooler during the day.
D. Land heats up faster than water, so the
air above land is warmer.
4933. A warm front will bring severe storms

(thunderstorms, snow storms, hail, etc.)
A. true
B. false
Explanation:severe storms are associated
with a cold front Hint:Remember the video A. Thermometer
when the snowball (cold front) smashed
into the other boy (warm front). B. Rain Gauge
4934. What type of air mass comes from the C. Barometer

land and either the North or South Pole?
D. none of above
A. Maritime Polar
B. Maritime Tropical
4939. Dangerous events caused by weather
C. Continental Polar
(flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes, etc.)
D. Continental Tropical
A. Impact
4935. Which climate zone is near the equator
and warm all year round? B. Merit
A. cold climates
C. Design Solution
B. temperate climates
D. Weather-Related Hazards
C. hot climates
D. none of above
4940. Oceans heat up and cool down
4936. The tundra is extremely
A. Much more quickly than land
A. hot
B. cold B. Much more slowly than land
4937. The atmospheric conditions typical of a C. About the same as land

given place near Earth’s surface
D. They don’t change temperature, they
A. Weather
stay the same
B. Climate
4938. Identify this intrument 4941. name this front

A. Record the climate everyday because

climate chnages daily
B. Record the climate during fall because
spring is the same
C. Record temperatures and weather
conditions each spring over a period of
many years
D. Take the temperature one day during
NARAYAN CHANGDER
springtime and record it on a chart.
4945. What is the current outdoor conditions?
A. temperature
B. hot and humid
C. weather
D. none of above
4946. Which factor is most important to the
decrease in a hurricane’s strength as it
moves from the ocean onto land?
A. The uneven land surface
A. warm front
B. The lack of warm, moist air over land
B. cold front
C. Rising hot air from the land
C. stationary front
D. Sinking cool air over land
D. occluded front
4947. It has got COLD and DRY climate
4942. What is precipitation? A. Tropical rainforest
A. the sweat from our bodies on a hot day B. Antarctica
B. the gas that we use in furnaces and C. Sahara desert
ovens
D. none of above
C. any form of water that falls from the
sky 4948. Which of the following is an example of
weather?
D. warm rain, not frozen rain or sleet
A. The changing seasons
4943. What kind of air mass do you expect to B. The average rainfall in a year
form over a rainforest near the equator?
C. Sunny and cloudy days
A. warm and dry
D. none of above
B. warm and humid
4949. Near the end of both March and Septem-
C. cool and dry
ber,
D. cool and humid A. the sun’s rays strike Earth with the
4944. What is necessary in order to have an same intensity everywhere.
accurate description of the climate during B. neither end of Earth’s axis is tilted to-
springtime in Texas? ward the sun

C. spring begins in both hemispheres A. hail, wind, sleet, and snow

D. the axis is tilted toward the sun B. snow, ice, rain, and humidity

4950. What is the water cycle? C. snow, ice, rain, and sleet
A. the process through which water evap- D. sleet, ice, snow, fog
orates 4955. Which best describes the Greenhouse ef-
B. the path water takes from Earth to the fect?
clouds and back again A. trapping of heat in the troposphere
C. the path water takes from the moun- which causes global warming
tain top to the soil B. too many greenhouse gases which lim-
D. the process of water falling from the its the heat leaving
clouds C. too many greenhouses are being used
to grow plants
4951. A cold air mass that forms north of 50◦
north latitude or south of 50◦ south lati- D. none of above
tude and has high air pressure.
4956. When Bryar arrived at school, the flag
A. Maritime was waving in a 12-mile per hour wind.
B. Warm Front What was making the wind blow?
C. Polar A. air moving from an area of high humid-
ityto an area of low humidity
D. Weather
B. air moving from an area of high cloud
4952. The normal habitat of Siberian Crane is coverto an area of low cloud cover
C. air moving from an area of high air
A. Bharatpur pressureto an area of low air pressure
B. Sultanpur D. air moving from an area of high tem-
C. Siberia peratureto an area of low temperature
D. none of these 4957. Which form of weather will this instru-

ment measure?
4953. Where should you seek shelter during a
tornado?
A. attic
B. in the kitchen
C. in the basement
D. outside
4954. These are all examples of precipitation
A. wind direction

B. wind speed 4961. What are the main components of the

C. air temperature water cycle?
D. humidity A. runoff
4958. What type of scientist studies weather? B. transpiration

C. evaporation
D. condensation
NARAYAN CHANGDER
E. precipitation
4962. North
A. Tropic of Cancer
B. Tropic of Capricorn
C. Arctic Circle
A. Geologist D. Antarctic Circle

B. Meteorologist
4963. Which of these can be used to describe
C. Biologist the condition of the atmosphere
D. Chemist A. temperature
4959. The amount of water vapor in the air is B. cloud cover
called
C. wind speed
A. Water Vapor
D. All of these
B. Humidity
C. Temperature 4964. When cold air that quickly pushes into a
D. Relative Humidity warm air mass.
4960. What is this weather tool called? A. stationary front

B. air mass
C. cold front
D. warm front
4965. Which is true?

A. Cool air produces low air pressure and
warm air produces high air pressure
B. Cool air produces high air pressure
A. satellite and warm air produces low air pressure
B. rain gauge C. Air pressure and temperature are not
C. thermometer related
D. anemometer D. none of above

4966. Which type of weather event listed has C. These climates are located between
the STRONGEST winds? the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of

is warm all year round.
D. none of above
4970. thunderstorm
A. Latitudes between the tropics and the
Arctic Circle in the north and the Antarc-
A. Blizzard
B. Lines joining places that have the same
B. Hurricane temperature
C. Storm surge C. A small storm often accompanied by
D. Thunderstorm heavy precipitation and frequent thunder
and lightning, formed from large cumu-
4967. What happens to the sun’s energy at the lonimbus clouds
equator?
D. none of above
A. There is more heat so there is more
ship wrecks 4971. Choose the best forecast for Boise on
B. There is more heat so there is more Saturday.
evaporation
C. There is less heat so there are less
ship wrecks
D. There is less heat so there is less evap-
oration
4968. What is the movement of deep, cold,

and nutrient-rich water to the surface A. cloudy
known as?
B. cooler temperatures
A. Upwelling
C. snow
B. Ocean currents
D. rain
C. Surface currents
D. Coriolis Effect 4972. The sun warms a large area of an ocean.
This causes a large amount of water to
4969. Choose the correct description of hot cli- evaporate into the air. Which weather
mates. event might occur?
A. They have low temperatures all year A. tornado
B. hurricane
C. tidal wave
mers. The four seasons of the year are
more noticeable in these areas. D. freezing rain

4973. Which would most likely be responsible 4977. The higher the elevation of an area, the
for winter storms with large amounts of the climate.
snow fall? A. warmer
A. A low pressure system moving into the B. cooler
area
4978. What is wind direction?
B. The wind changing directions.
A. wind direction is the direction the wind
C. The temperature increasing and then is coming from.
NARAYAN CHANGDER
dropping sharply.
B. wind direction is directions to where
D. Cloud cover increasing and tempera- you go
ture decreasing.
C. wind direction is wind you can see
4974. The closer a place to poles the is it’s D. none of above
climate, the closer a place to the Equator
is it’s climate. 4979. Typical
A. Hotter, Colder A. no dip

B. common
B. Temperate, Temperate
C. obvious
C. Colder, Hotter
D. :]
D. Temperate, Hotter
E. boom
4980. The process that traps heat in our atmo-
sphere is
A. condensation.
B. the Greenhouse Effect.
C. Global Energy Systems.
D. evaporation.
4981. What layer of the atmosphere is the far-
thest from the surface of the Earth? (500-
2000 km)
A. monitors the weather and climate on

Earth
B. measures the directions of the wind
4976. During what season is the sun at its

highest point in the sky? A. Troposphere
A. fall B. Stratosphere
B. winter C. Mesosphere
C. spring D. Thermosphere
D. summer E. Exosphere

4982. The graph shows temperature read- C. carbon dioxide

ings taken in a classroom over four days. D. all of the above
Based on the table, the temperature at

noon on Day 5 will most likely be- 4986. It has been raining for three days
straight in Valerie’s town. Which type of
front is most likely over her town?
A. Cold Front
B. Stationary Front
C. Warm Front
D. Occluded Front
A. 17 degrees 4987. This layer of the atmosphere contains
B. 18 degrees most of the ozone.
C. 20 degrees A. troposphere
D. 21 degrees B. thermosphere
4983. motion in a gas (as air) or a liquid in C. mesosphere

which the warmer portions rise and the D. stratosphere
colder portions sink.
4988. How do you measure precipitation?
A. Radiation
A. Rain Gauge
B. Thermal Energy
B. Barometer
C. Weather
C. Anemometer
D. Convection
4984. When lake water evaporates, the inter-
action is between the and the 4989. Cloudy, sunny, partly cloudy, frosty are
all examples of
A. atmosphere and hydrosphere

B. biosphere and geosphere
A. season
C. hydrosphere and geosphere
B. weather
D. atmosphere and biosphere
4990. the boundary between a mass of cold air
4985. Thermohaline circulation distributes and a mass of warm air where the cold air
which of the following? is pushing the warm air upward, creating
A. heat a storm.
B. nutrients A. warm front

B. high pressure system C. mesosphere

C. low pressure system D. exosphere
D. cold front 4997. We got three inches of rain yesterday.
4991. Weather refers to long term atmo-
spheric conditions while climate is the
weather of a specific region averaged over
a short period of time.
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A. True
B. False
4992. All changes in weather are coused due

A. Weather
to moon.
B. Climate
A. True
B. False 4998. The usual weather in a place (over a
long period of time).
4993. Respiration is the process by which ani- A. meteorologist
mals take in and release
B. weather
A. photosynthesis, air
C. climate
B. carbon, oxygen
D. precipitation
C. oxygen
D. oxygen, carbon dioxide 4999. This type of climates is wet and hot
most of the year.
4994. A polar climate in the US? A. arctic
A. Virginia B. desert
B. New York C. temperate
C. Maine D. tropical
D. Alaska 5000. The height of an object or point in rela-
4995. In which type of climate Reptiles, scor- tion to sea level or ground level.
pions, foxes, kangaroos, wallabies and � A. Attitude
are found? B. Altitude
A. Maritime C. Longitude
B. Tundra D. Latitude
C. Tropical
5001. If you observe stratus clouds, how
D. Desert would you describe them?
4996. Weather happens in the layer of the at- A. puffy
mosphere called the B. spread out like a blanket
A. troposphere C. wispy and high in the sky
B. stratosphere D. low to the ground

5002. describes what is happening in our 5006. the air that surrounds the earth
atmosphere over a period of time.
A. equator

B. humidity
C. temperature
D. atmosphere
A. weather
B. front
C. climate
D. zone
5003. What makes global winds curve rather
than move in straight lines?
A. the spinning of Earth A. measures the direction of the wind
B. changes in air pressure B. measures the speed of the wind
C. changes in temperature
5008. Which cloud is this?
D. differences in latitudes
5004. Climate
A. cumulus
gion year after yea B. cumulonimbus
B. Information that has been collected C. cirrus

C. The amount of something D. stratus
5009. Where have some of strongest and ear-
5005. Tundra and ice caps are examples of liest impacts of global warming occurred?
which climate?
A. In the tropics
A. Tropical
B. In the northern latitudes
B. Polar
C. Continental C. America
D. Desert D. Equally all over the planet

5010. Climate is how it feels outside over a

long period of time and weather is how it
feels outside for one day in one part of the
world.
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. Spring MarchSummerWinter
A. True B. SpringSummerDecemberJanuary
B. False C. AprilMayAutumnWinter
D. SpringSummerAutumnWinter
5011. What is the THIRD layer of the atmo-
sphere 5015. Your height above sea level is
A. Thermosphere
B. Mesosphere
C. Stratosphere
D. Exosphere
5012. Which type of air mass is cold and dry? A. Latitude

B. Humidity
C. Temperature
D. Elevation
5016. If you see a large “H” on the weather
map, what type of weather can you expect
there?
A. Continental polar A. Nice, sunny weather
B. Continental tropical B. Cold weather
C. Maritime polar C. Rainy weather
D. Maritime tropical D. Stormy weather
5017. Every year when he goes home for the
5013. Areas with more humidity tend to be lo-
holidays, it is snowing.
cated near
A. the Poles
B. the Tropic of Capricorn
C. the equator
D. the desert
A. weather
5014. Name the four seasons. B. climate

5018. Without the Greenhouse Effect the 5023. Weather data is different than climate
Earth would be data. Which of the following is an exam-
ple of weather data?

A. warm
A. The average high temperature in May
B. cold
is 21◦ C in the Midwest of the United
C. dead States
D. none of above B. Central Australia usually receives less
than 110 mm of rainfall all year
5019. The principal greenhouse gases in our
C. The relative humidity was 24% at noon
present atmosphere are:
on July 23 in Tempe, Arizona
A. water vapor and carbon dioxide.
D. On average, there is 88mm of rain in
B. hydrogen sulfide and carbon disulfide. the Gulf Coast region in July
C. hydrogen and helium. 5024. Snow, hail, and rain are all examples of
D. methane and ammonia.
E. sulfuric acid vapor and carbon dioxide.
tagsSC.912.E.7.7
5020. Atmospheric condition for a short period

of time
A. Climate
B. Weather A. evaporation
C. Season B. condensation
D. none of above C. accumulation

D. precipitation
5021. What is a precipitation gauge?
5025. This type of severe weather involves
A. A funnel that holds water
winds over 119mph, and forms over wa-
B. Measures air pressure ter.
C. Measures Wind A. Tornado
D. none of above B. Hurricane
C. Blizzard
5022. This is the movement of landwater to
the oceans, mainly from rivers, lakes, and D. Thunderstorm
streams.
5026. What happens hot and cold air masses
A. condensation meet?
B. evaporation A. Relief rainfall
C. precipitation B. The cold air mass is forced to rise
D. run-off C. They merge together
E. transpiration D. The hot air mass is forced to rise

5027. The amount of solar radiation received 5031. things in a category

on earth surface is called A. cycle
A. Terrestrial radiation B. types
B. Insolation C. usual
5028. What does this weather map symbol D. almost
represent, and what is its meaning?
5032. The main human activity that releases
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. Occluded front:the area between two greenhouse gases is
air masses where it’s constantly in motion
A. riding bicycles
B. Stationary front:the boundary be-
tween two air masses where no air is B. burning fossil fuels
moving C. texting on cellphones
C. Cold front:the leading edge of a cold D. eating meat
air mass is pushing against a warm air
mass 5033. this zone lies in between the north pole
and arctic circle and the south pole and the
D. Warm front:the leading edge of a antarctic circle.
warm air mass is pushing in to replace a
cold air mass A. torrid
B. temperate
5029. The cloud and air temperatures outside
of Liam’s house is 10 ◦ C (50 ◦ F). What C. frigid
form of precipitation is MOST LIKELYto oc- D. none of above
cur?
5034. Scientists have discovered a new
A. Rain
species of dog. It has very large ears and
B. Hail a small mouth, and it doesn’t pant with
C. Snow its mouth open like other dogs. What cli-
mate do you think this dog could be from?
D. Sleet Explain.
5030. Low flat clouds are called A. The dog is from a mild climate. Mild cli-
mate animals look weirder than other ani-
mals.
B. The dog is probably from a desert cli-
mate. Desert climates have very dry air
and little rainfall. Normally, panting can
help dogs cool off if they get too hot, but
in a desert, panting would make dogs lose
too much water due to evaporation. In-
A. Cirrus Clouds stead, they let out heat through their very
large ears!
B. Stratus Clouds
C. The large ears on the dog help them
C. Cumulus clouds
with keeping warm in very cold climates
D. none of above by keeping the heat close to them.

D. The dog lives in a tropical climate. It C. Humidity

does not pant because it does not want D. Altitude
other dogs to think it looks funny.

5035. The average temperature in Atlanta in in the future. To do this, we need to know
June is 25o C, but the average tempera- what the weather is like in the area right
ture in December is 7o C. Why is the aver- now. To make the prediction, it would also
age temperature in Atlanta higher in June be most helpful to know what else?
than in December?
A. The Sun is hotter during June than it is
during December.
B. Earth is closer to the Sun in June than
it is during December.
C. Earth’s axis is tilted so that Atlanta
gets more direct sunlight in June than in
December. A. The weather patterns in this area in
D. The atmosphere in Atlanta absorbs the past.
more heat from sunlight in June than in B. How many people live in this area.
December.
C. The size of the biggest city in this area.
5036. True or FalseYou should use sunscreen D. If the area has many weather instru-
every timeyou are out in the sun. ments.
5040. A cold front forms when a cold air mass

A. collides with a warm air mass and
pushes the warm air up.
B. collides with a warm air mass and
slides over the warm air.
C. collides with another cold air mass.
D. stops moving over a particular area.
A. True
B. False 5041. Scientists who study weather are called
5037. How is air pressure measured?

A. geologists
A. Thermometer
B. Forecasters
B. Barometer C. meteorologists
C. Psychrometer D. none of above
D. Wind vane
5042. Our climate in NC, with its hot summers
5038. The Amount of Water Vapour in the air and cool winters, is an example of what
is called? kind of climate?
A. Climate A. Polar (E)
B. Breeze B. Dry (B)

C. Humid mid-latitude with Mild winters 5047. In a high pressure systems

(C)
D. Continental (D)
5043. A front is
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. there are few clouds because the air
in moving downward
B. there are many clouds because the air
is very humid
A. where warm air is cooling at earth’s C. there are few clouds because the air
surface is moving outward
B. a line where hot and cold air are sepa- D. there are many clouds because the air
rating is moving upward
C. a line where two different air masses
meet 5048. Check out the map showing tornado al-
ley in the U.S. During the winter of 2017,
D. where cold air is rising and forming massive tornadoes occurred in the states
rain clouds of Alabama and Georgia, two states that
ARE NOT in tornado alley. If the conditions
5044. Which climate has high precipitation?
for a tornado are predictable, how could
A. Tropical these tornadoes have formed in these two
B. Polar states?
C. Desert
D. none of above
5045. Earth’s hot zone is between the Equator

and the Antarctic Circle.
A. True
B. False A. Warm, moist Pacific coast air meets
cold, Atlantic coast air.
5046. Earth’s current atmosphere is
B. Arctic, Canadian air meets west mov-
A. 78% nitrogen, 21% oxygen, 0.9% ar- ing air from the cold Atlantic coast.
gon and 0.037% carbon dioxide
C. Warm, moist Gulf coast air meets cold,
B. 78% oxygen, 21%nitrogen, 0.9% argon, dry continental air moving down from
0.037% carbon dioxide Canada.
C. 78% nitrogen, 21% argon, 1% oxygen D. A northeastern air mass drops down
D. 78% oxygen, 21% nitrogen, 1% carbon into the southern states bringing precipi-
dioxide tation.

5049. What is a person who studies weather 5052. In pressure systems, air sinks:
patterns in an attempt to predict weather? A. high

B. low
C. medium
D. none
5053. The Northern Lights occur in which

layer?
A. mesosphere
B. exosphere
C. thermosphere
A. climologist
D. stratosphere
B. seismologist
C. astronomer 5054. (a) is the state of the atmosphere in a
D. meteorologist given place and time.
A. a Weather
B. Climate
C. Meteorologist
D. none of above
5055. Factors that affect climate are

A. global and local winds.
A. Arctic Ocean
B. topography and ocean currents.
B. Pacific Ocean
C. latitude and altitude.
C. Southern Ocean
D. all of the above.
D. Indian Ocean
E. Atlantic Ocean 5056. When a cold air mass crashed into a
warm air mass, which kind of front is
5051. What does this symbol on a weather formed?
map indicate?
A. cold front
B. warm front
C. hot front
D. polar front
5057. Which of these BEST describe how a

scientific explanation becomes widely ac-
A. High pressure system
cepted?
B. Low pressure system
A. A hypothesis is tested repeatedly and
C. Cold front the results are confirmed and debated by
D. Warm front the scientific community.

B. It is debated by the scientific commu-

nity.
C. A hypothesis is tested repeatedly and
the results of the tests are debated.
D. A hypothesis is tested repeatedly and
the results are mostly supported by the A. Stratus
scientific investigations.
B. Cumulus
NARAYAN CHANGDER
5058. The amount of water vapor in the air is C. Cirrus
known as
D. none of above
A. Temperature
B. Climate 5063. what kind of weather does a cold front
usually bring?
C. Precipitation
A. warm
D. Humidity
B. stormy
C. sunny
A. The wind speed
D. windy
B. Average, year after year conditions
of temperature, precipitation, winds and 5064. Which abbreviation of an air mass can
clouds be identified as cold and moist?
C. How much rain in a week.
D. The temperature outside
5060. When the sun is directly overhead, it

is between the Tropic of Cancer and
Tropic of Capricorn.
A. freezing
B. mild
C. cold A. cP
D. hot B. mP
C. cT
5061. Which of the following an example of a
global wind? D. mT
A. westerlies 5065. In what layer would you find the ozone

B. trade winds layer?
C. polar easterlies A. troposphere
D. all of the above B. stratosphere
C. mesosphere
5062. White, thin, feathery clouds, usually
made of ice crystals are D. thermosphere

5066. The process by which energy is trans- C. Rain

ferred from a warmer object to a cooler D. Weather Journal
object by means of physical contact

A. Thermal Energy 5072. We use a hygrometer to measure
B. Convection A. temperature
C. Radiation B. humidity
D. Conduction C. precipitation
D. wind
5067. The actual amount of water vapor in the
air is called 5073. A scientist who studies weather patters
A. air pressure in an attempt to predict weather?
B. humidity A. climatologist
C. relative humidity B. seismologist
D. dew point C. hydrologist

D. meteorologist
5068. How long does it take for the moon to
complete one cycle? 5074. The amount of water vapor present in
A. about 1 year(365 days) the air is called
B. about one month (29 days)

C. about 1 day(24 hours)
D. none of above
5069. The flow of air from land to a body of

water at night is called
A. sea breeze A. weather
B. land breeze B. humidity
C. coriolis effect C. air mass
D. humidity D. dew point
5070. Wind will generally carry the most mois- 5075. What should the people of Houston
ture when it comes from start to prepare for?
A. warm grasslands
B. warm tropical seas
C. polar icecaps
D. mountainous regions
5071. Is the pattern of weather that a place

usually has over a year
A. Climate
B. Weather A. a day trip to the beach

B. a hurricane D. Doldrums
C. a concert in the park
D. a movie night Explanation:
5076. Which of the following has a long colour-

ful beak Most of United States falls between 30◦ N
A. Arctic Tern and 60◦ N, this means that the Prevailing
Westerlies are the winds that bring our
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. Toucan weather.
C. Penguin
5080. zone has a climate that is neither
D. Siberian Crane too hot nor too cold.
5077. Conditions that exist from day to day in A. Temperate
a given location is called B. Torrid
A. weather C. Frigid
5078. Which of these images detects precipita- 5081. The two main factors that determine the
tion? climate of a region are
A. Pressure and temperature
A. B. Altitude and temperature
D. Altitude and pressure
B. 5082. This can change from minute to minute,

hour to hour, or day to day
A. Weather
C. B. Climate
5083. A wind sock measures

A. Wind direction
B. air moisture (humidity)
D.
C. wind speed
D. speed and wind direction
5079. The name of the global winds that move 5084. Why is wind and water important to
from west to east across the United States Earth
is called A. Earth would overheat without it.
A. Trade Winds B. The sun would never set.
B. Prevailing Westerlies C. There would be no climates.
C. Polar Easterlies D. Earth would not rotate properly.

5085. What process brings the deep cold ocean B. Temperature.

currents up to the surface? C. Wind direction.

A. Conduction D. Wind speed.
B. Global Wind Patterns
5090. The factor that contributes most of the
C. Convection Currents seasonal temperature changes during one
D. Temperature and salinity year is the changing
A. speed at which the Earth travels in its
5086. What does the yellow bead represent
orbit around the Sun
on our water cycle bracelet?
B. angle at which the Sun’s rays strike the
A. yellow
Earth’s surface
B. the sun C. distance between the Earth and the
C. wind Sun
D. rain D. energy given off by the Sun
5087. The distance you can see you’re your 5091. Climates are classified according to two
eyes due to possible fog. This is measured major factors:
using a trundle wheel or measuring tape in A. elevation and precipitation
km.
B. latitude and temperature
A. Cloud cover
C. elevation and latitude
B. Visibility
D. precipitation and temperature
C. Precipitation
5092. What do we call the air and gasses that
D. Cloud type
surround the earth?
5088. The process of water changing to a gas A. Atmosphere
is called B. Troposphere
A. life cycle C. Mesosphere
B. evaporation D. Thermosphere
C. condensation
5093. The northern and southern hemisphere
D. molecular fusion experience
5089. It helps us measure the A. the same seasons.
B. opposite seasons.
C. all different seasons.
D. none of above
5094. Which of the following is not a weather
measuring instrument?
A. Stevenson’s screen
B. Rain gauge
C. Barometer
A. Precipitation. D. barograph

5095. The boundary between two air masses 5099. 78% of the Earth’s atmosphere is
is called and 21% of the Earth’s atmosphere is
A. a front A. Oxygen, Nitrogen
B. precipitation B. Nitrogen, Oxygen
C. relative humidity C. Nitrogen, Carbon Dioxide
D. none of above D. Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide
5100. What does the ozone layer do?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
5096. This tool photographs clouds and sends
data to meteorologists. A. It gives us oxygen
A. camera B. It produces pollution
B. iPhone 5 C. It protects us from the sun radiation
C. satellite D. It kills animals
D. radar 5101. Other factors that are important to de-
termining the climate of a region:
5097. What type of climate is it?
A. seasons, animal life, plant life,
B. seasons, humidity, people
5102. The Weather is Cold and Dry when the
air pressure is
A. Continental
B. Oceanic
C. Mountain
D. Mediterranean
5098. What is the climate usually like in Mex-

ico
A. high
B. low
C. up
D. down
5103. Which of these is a description of cli-
mate?
A. The wind speed right now is 5 miles
A. Rainy per hour.
B. Sunny B. Last week we had 1 inch of rain.
C. Windy C. San Jose has cool winters.
D. Cloudy D. It was 98 degrees outside yesterday.

5104. Where is ocean water the densest. A. Hydration

A. The surface B. filtration

B. The middle C. collection
C. The bottom D. evaporation
D. A hair road cancer
5109. water gas in the air
5105. What air masses are maritime tropical?
A. precipitation
B. water vapor
C. weather
D. sleet
5110. A force applied by the weight of air

A. F and D A. cold front
B. D B. air pressure
C. A and C C. barometer
D. B D. humidity
5106. Pollution hanging over urban areas that
causes reduced visibility is called 5111. To make a wind prediction, meteorolo-
gists could use data.
A. Air pollution
A. rainfall
B. Temperature inversion
B. air pressure
C. Light pollution
D. Smog C. temperature
D. relative humidity
5107. The amount of something.
A. Pattern 5112. How do winds affect the climate of a
B. Prediction place?
C. Range A. Winds gave a cold feeling
D. Extent B. Winds play a major role in formation of
clouds that rain.
5108. In the past canals in Cape Coral FL have
had problems with algae, what part of the C. Wind does not affect Climate
water cycle could turn this water to drink- D. Wind is so hot
able water?
5113. very nearly
A. usual
B. almost
C. observe
D. types

5114. Rain, snow, sleet, and hail are all forms A. Isotherms
of B. Isohyets
A. precipitation C. Isobars
B. condensation D. Isotops
C. evaporation
5119. Humans cannot fully eliminate the natu-
D. climate ral hazards which many areas.
A. target
NARAYAN CHANGDER
5115. Decide if the statement relates to
weather or climate:Hawaii would be a B. impact
great place to go surfing during Christmas
C. causes
break.
D. processes
A. weather
B. climate 5120. A valley could have a different microcli-
mate from a hillside because cold air sinks.
5116. If the sky is blanketed and it looks like A. True
it might drizzle, what clouds are outside?
B. False
A. Cirrus
5121. Belarus has a climate with four dis-
B. Stratus
tinct seasons
C. Cumulous
A. humid subtropical
D. Cumulonimbus
B. marine
5117. Which type of weather does this cloud C. humid continental
produce?
D. none of above
5122. Which of these instruments measures
the wind speed?
A. Kilometre
B. Barometer
A. Thunderstorms C. Thermometer
B. Drizzle D. Anemometer
C. Sunny, fair weather 5123. You look at a map of Pangaea and see
D. Cold and clear that the area you live in used to be much
closer to the equator millions of years ago.
5118. Lines that connect places with the same What is a likely effect this would have had
precipitation are on the climate at that time?
A. The area used to cold and dry year-
round.
B. The area used to be consistently cold
year-round.
C. The area used to have much colder
winters.

D. The area used to be consistently warm

year-round.

5124. Ice Crystals which are in clouds that join
together and fall to the earth are called
A. rain
B. snow A. jet stream
C. dew B. surface current

C. a front
D. sleet
D. none of above
5125. What is the name of this equipment?
5128. The moisture or water vapour present
in the air is known as
A. snow fall
B. rainfall
C. humidity
D. none of above
5129. Antarctica has been freezing cold, even

in summertime, for tens of thousands of
years.
A. Thermometer A. Weather
B. Anemometer B. Climate
C. Rain Gauge 5130. types of periodic winds

D. Wind vane A. monsoon winds
B. sea breeze
5126. This is a measurement that is usually in
Hg, or milligrams of Mercury, that gives C. land breeze
some information about what the atmo- D. none
sphere is doing. If this measure is high, it
will often be a nice day. If it is low, there 5131. Describe a tropical climate.
may be inclement weather. A. dry and cold year round
A. High and Low Temperatures B. warm year round, high humidity and
rainfall
B. Precipitation
C. variety of climate patterns, seasons,
C. Wind direction moderate precipitation
D. Wind Speed D. none of above
E. Air Pressure 5132. Land closer to the equator is
5127. What do we call the boundary between A. colder.

two air masses? B. warmer.

C. dry. 5138. This line is the

D. none of above
5133. is more or less a permanent feature.

A. Weather
B. Climate
NARAYAN CHANGDER
Weather and Climate? Tick all the correct
options.Then click submit. A. Equator
A. Weather is Temporary.Climate is Per- B. Tropic of Cancer
manent. C. Tropic of Capricorn
B. Weather changes frequently in a small D. Tropic of Scorpio
area.Climate-Longer weather conditions (
30 to 35 years ) in a large area. 5139. Which of these tells you the weather
might change soon?
C. Seasone are Temoraray
A. calm air
D. none of above
B. dark clouds
5135. is what usually happens from year C. a warm temperature
to year
D. none of above
A. A tropical cyclone
5140. One type of weather event develops
B. Hurricanes
when some of the warm air in a thunder-
C. Climate storm rises into high-altitude, horizontal
D. Precipitation winds. This causes the rising air to rotate.
What type of weather event is being de-
5136. Which type of rainfall occurs when scribed?
warm moist air from the Atlantic Ocean A. Hurricane
rises up over mountains. When the warm
air rises, it cools and condenses to form B. Lightning
clouds, which bring rain. Once the air has C. Thunder
passed over the mountains, it descends D. Tornado
and warms. This creates drier conditions
known as a rain shadow. 5141. The temperature is measured in units of
A. Convectional rainfall A. degree Celsius
B. Relief rainfall B. degree Fahrenheit
C. Frontal rainfall C. Percentage
D. none of above D. Both degree Celsius and degree
Fahrenheit
5137. High or low albedo:snow
5142. Which area has high temperatures due
A. high to the fact that the sun’s rays hit at a 90◦
B. low angle?

A. North and South Poles C. Photosynthesis removes oxygen from

B. Latitude 45 the atmosphere, and cellular respiration
puts it back.

C. Bethel
D. Photosynthesis consumes glucose,
D. Equator and cellular respiration produces glucose.
tagsSC.912.E.7.1
5143. What is the only layer of the atmo-
sphere that contains water vapor, there- 5147. What are clouds made of?
fore being the only layer that experiences A. dry air
weather?
B. water
A. Thermosphere
5148. We can expect rain on Tuesday.
B. Troposphere
A. Weather
C. Stratosphere
B. Climate
D. Mesosphere
5149. Without the greenhouse effect, Earth’s
5144. Which type of image is this? atmosphere would be to support life.
A. Radar
B. Satellite A. too hot
C. Isotherm B. too wet
D. Isobar C. too dry
D. too cold
5145. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf
Coast. 5150. Which of the following brings warm wa-
A. Weather ter from the South near the Equator?
B. Climate A. California Current

B. Gulf Stream
5146. Which of the following is one of the C. neither
ways that cellular respiration and photo-
synthesis are opposite processes? D. none of above
A. Which of the following is one of the 5151. What would explain the change in the
ways that cellular respiration and photo- direction of air movement from daytime to
synthesis are opposite processes? night?
B. Photosynthesis removes carbon diox- A. Water is always cooler than land.
ide from the atmosphere, and cellular res- B. Land temperature changes more
piration puts it back. quickly than water temperature.

C. Cool air rises more quickly than warm 5157. What does the prefix “strato” mean?
air. A. produce precipitation
D. The sun warms the most ocean air B. layer
more than the dry land air.
C. wispy
5152. Land closer to the equator is typically- D. high
A. colder 5158. The sky is clear without a cloud in
sight. What type of air pressure system
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. warmer
is present?
5153. The Earth can make new water, we just A. low pressure system
have to wait long enough for the cycle to B. high pressure system
be over.
5159. A storm that gets its energy from humid
A. True
air at the ocean’s surface is called a
B. False A. cyclone
5154. HIGH air pressure brings GOOD B. hurricane
weather; LOW air pressure brings BAD C. thunderstorm
weather. According to the map, which D. tornado
state is most likely to have a clear, nice
day? 5160. There is a 15 mile per hour wind from
the north today.
A. South Carolina
A. Climate
B. North Carolina
B. Weather
C. Arkansas
5161. This is the average conditions in a cer-
D. Alabama
tain place over a long period of time.
5155. What type of front is formed where A. Weather
a warm air mass moves over a cold air B. Climate
mass?
C. none of the above
A. stationary D. none of above
B. occluded
5162. THE METEOROLOGISTS STUDY THE
C. warm A. CLIMATE
D. cold B. WEATHER
5156. Weather includes the (a) conditions in C. AIR POLLUTION
the (b), such as precipitation, windspeed, D. DEFORESTATION
and cloud cover.
5163. Temperature as elevation rises.
A. a Temporary A. rises
B. b Atmosphere B. falls
C. Climate C. stays the same
D. minutes D. There is no correlation

5164. What do we call the measure of the 5169. Which clouds have the highest eleva-
amount of water vapor in the air? tion?

A. dew point
A. Cumulus
B. humidity
C. temperature B. Cirrus
D. clouds
C. Stratus
5165. It is raining in Denver, Colorado
A. Climate D. Cumulonimbus
B. Weather
5166. in what months do wet seasons hap- 5170. Subtropical high pressure belt is termed
pen? as
A. From April to June
A. Horse latitude
B. From June to November
C. From December to May B. Millibar
D. none of above
C. North pole
5167. Which of the following is the best con-
clusion that can be made from this graph? D. none of above
5171. The blue bars in a climate graph repre-

sent what?
A. atmospheric carbon dioxide levels

have been decreasing since 1960
B. Hawaii has a lot of carbon dioxide
C. humans have been working hard to de-
crease carbon dioxide levels
D. atmospheric carbon dioxide levels A. Temperature
have increased steadily since 1960
B. Precipitation
5168. Which instrument is in space and takes
photos of large scale air movements? C. Wind Direction
A. Weather Radar
D. none of above
B. Weather Balloon
C. Weather Satellite
D. Weather Front 5172. What weather instrument is shown?

5176. what colour is Stevenson’s screen?

A. black
B. pink
C. white
D. green
5177. How are the movements of tectonic
NARAYAN CHANGDER
plates related to natural climate change?
A. It moves continents which changes

A. Rain Gauge ocean behavior
B. Barometer B. It increases greenhouse gases
C. Weather Vane
C. It causes cyclical (cycle over and over)
D. Thermometer changes
E. Anemometer
D. It causes no change.
5173. Weather maps show local weather con-
ditions using what 5178. At higher altitudes, where tempera-
tures are cool, water vapor (along with
A. Fronts
dust particles) condenses into drops of wa-
B. areas of high pressure ter that form clouds.
C. Various symbols
A. true
D. none of above
B. false
5174. Continental climate is
A. Rainy 5179. What are the daily conditions of temper-
ature, humidity and precipitation?
B. Dry
C. Cold A. weather
D. Moderate B. climate
5175. Typhoons and cyclones are also known 5180. A dry, cold air mass would be called
as
A. Continental tropical
A. Tornadoes
B. Hurricanes B. Continental polar
C. Tsunamis C. Maritime tropical

D. Thunderstorms D. Maritime polar

5181. The greenhouse effect is A. Season

A. the process by which gases hold heat

in the atmosphere. B. climate
B. the reflection of solar energy into the
atmosphere.
C. weather
C. a gradual increase in the temperature
of the atmosphere.
D. the absorption of energy by clouds. D. Summer
5182. Which storm forms over warm, tropi-

cal waters and most commonly occurs from
June to November? 5186. What is weather?
A. thunderstorm
B. blizzard A. How much rain is falling
C. tornado
D. hurricane B. The amount of wind on a particular day
5183. Cold fronts bring
A. Clear skies C. Long term climate changes
B. Clouds and precipitation
D. The day to day condition of the atmo-
5184. Study the diagram. What is it? sphere
5187. which statement about hail is correct
A. Sea Breeze A. it’s rain that falls through a layer of

freezing air
B. Land Breeze
5185. Several months during the year that B. it may be sent up into the clouds many
have similar temperatures times
C. it forms in winter in low stratus clouds
D. it’s a liquid form of precipitation
5188. How is the temperature measured?

5190. Why does cutting down trees increase

global warming?
A. trees soak up carbon dioxide
B. trees provide shade which counteracts
global warming
C. trees absorbs the sun’s energy with-
out radiating back into the atmosphere
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D. trees drain greenhouse gases like
methane from soil
5191. What part of the water cycle does this

picture show?
A. condensation
B. precipitation
C. evaporation
D. none of above
5192. Winds that pass over cold current

A. Milimetres (mm)
the temperature of that region
B. Percentage %
A. decrease
C. Degrees Celsius (C◦ )
B. increase
D. Cardinal points
5193. How are latitude and air temperature
5189. When discussing the theory of atoms, a related? (picture walking either N or S
model is the only option. Why is this true? from equator)
A. An atom is too small to be observed in
detail with current technology.
B. Atoms are too expensive to collect for
scientific use.
C. An atom is too dangerous to handle in
a lab setting.
D. An atomic model is easier to manipu- A. lower latitude = lower temperature
late than a real atom. B. lower latitude = cold temperature

C. higher latitude = cold temperature C. topography

D. higher latitude = warmer tempera- D. wind pattern
ture

5198. What kind of precipitation can you see
5194. All of the following are causes of Global in the picture?
Warming except
A. Rain
B. Snow
A. Rotation of the Earth C. Hail
B. Deforestation D. none of above
C. Increases in Greenhouse Gases
5199. All weather is caused by-
D. Burning Fossil Fuels
A. wind speed
5195. Series or groups of events that happen B. rainfall
naturally
C. the sun heating the Earth
A. Impact
D. none of above
B. Weather-Related Hazards
C. Merit 5200. Evaporation of water from the leaves of
a plant
D. Natural Processes
A. Precipitation
5196. What are the hottest temperatures in B. Condensation
this climate graph:
C. Transpiration
D. Evaporation
5201. What two factors determine climate?

A. Precipitation and locations of moun-
tains
A. June, July and August B. Temperature and precipitation
B. January, February, and March C. Temperature and wind patterns
C. October, November, and December D. Latitude and Longitude
D. April, May, and June 5202. what dose altitude
5197. Distance north or south of the Equator A. the south east wind
is called B. when the soil is polluted
A. latitude C. the height above the sea level
B. elevation D. none of above

5203. What imaginary latitude line divides our B. Reflecting all of the sun’s radiation and
world into the northern and southern hemi- maintaining the right temperature range
spheres? for life
A. equator C. Absorbing or reflecting harmful radia-
tion from the sun and trapping all heat to
B. international date line
keep the Earth warm
5204. What states have a warm front? D. Absorbing or reflecting harmful radi-
ation from the sun and maintaining the
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right temperature range for life
5207. This weather instrument measures wind
speed
A. New York and Minnesota

B. Michigan and Denver
C. Florida and Georgia
D. Texas and New Mexico
A. Barometer
5205. What question could students answer B. Anemometer
after reading this map? C. Wind vane
D. hygrometer
5208. It has not rained this weekend.
A. Weather
B. Climate
5209. What are the two factors that deter-
mine an areas climate?
A. What is the temperature in Alaska?
A. elevation and precipitation
B. What is the climate for the majority of
the U.S.? B. precipitation and temperature
C. latitude and topography
C. What is the difference in population of
the Northern hemisphere compared to the D. topography and temperature
Southern hemisphere?
5210. As altitude increases,
D. Which city has the most rainfall for the A. air pressure decreases, and density in-
month of September? creases.
5206. What are TWO ways the atmosphere B. air pressure increases, and density de-
protects life on Earth? creases.
A. Reflecting all of the sun’s radiation and C. air pressure and density increase.
trapping all heat to keep the Earth warm. D. air pressure and density decrease.

5211. When cloud cover increases, tempera- 5216. A measure of the amount of water va-
ture decreases. por in the air is called what?

A. True A. Rigidity
B. False B. Moisture
C. Humidity
5212. Tropical, temperate, and polar climate
zones occur because of D. Fog
A. the jet stream. 5217. (a) is the average weather condition

over a long period of time.
B. unequal heating of the Earth.
A. a Climate
C. altitude.
B. Meteorologist
D. the Coriolis Effect.
C. Weather
5213. A hot climate in which temperatures are D. none of above
very high (over25 ◦ C) and abundant rain-
fall all year round, over 1, 500 mm. is 5218. In geography, what does “Pattern” re-
fer to?
A. A decorative design on a weather map.
B. A regular and repeating sequence or
arrangement of weather condiitons.
C. The shape of clouds,
D. The temperature at which water boils.
A. Dry tropical
5219. How are climatographs helpful in under-
B. Humid tropical standing biomes
C. Hot desert A. They provide average temp and precip
D. Equatorial data
B. They show the daily precip
5214. It is hot and humid throughout the year
C. They show the daily temp
in the
D. They show the relative humidity
A. Temperate Zone
B. Torrid Zone 5220. Temperature in the Arctic region is cold.
This statement is an example of
C. Frigid Zone
A. Weather
D. none of above
B. Climate
5215. What stage of the water cycle creates 5221. These clouds are fat and fluffy and are
clouds? a sign of good weather.
A. Evaporation A. Cirrus
B. Precipitation B. Cumulus
C. Condensation C. Stratus
D. Percolation D. none of above

5222. The amount of water vapor in the atmo- 5225. Scientists use averages of weather data
sphere, is called: over at least (a) to determine the climate.
A. a 30 years
B. Atmosphere
C. warm air
D. High humidity
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E. climate
5226. What is the it called when water flows

down a hill into a body of water?
A. Condensation
A. Precipitation
B. Precipitation
B. Humidity
C. Evaporation
C. Wind
D. none of above D. Run Off
E. Transpiration
5223. Does deforestation contribute to global
warming? 5227. What does the ocean do with the sun’s
A. No, trees aren’t that important energy?
B. Sometimes because only the cutting A. uses it to allow sea life
down of Maple trees contributes to global B. uses it to cause ship wrecks
warming
C. allows it to sink to the bottom
C. No, deforestation adds methane to
the atmosphere, which makes the Earth D. stores it
cooler
5228. These clouds can produce thunderstorms
D. Yes; less trees means less CO2 is
turned into oxygen.
5224. This line is the
A. cirrus
B. cumulus
C. cumulonimbus
A. Equator D. stratus
B. Tropic of Cancer 5229. What is a temperate zone?
C. Tropic of Capricorn A. Characterized by a seasonal climate,
D. Tropic of Scorpio wide range of temperatures, hot and cold.

B. A climate zone near the equator char- C. Cloudy

acterized by warm temperatures due to di- D. Stormy
rect sunlight year-round

C. Area near both poles that have cold cli- 5234. Which of these is used to measure the
mates and has little direct sunlight amount of rainfall?
A. rain gauge
D. none of above
B. weather vane
5230. When plants use their roots to get wa-
C. thermometer
ter from the ground, which 2 spheres are
interacting? (choose 2) D. anemometer
5235. Which statement best describes an
area’s climate?
A. The predicted low temperature for the
day
B. The lowest temperature on record for
the day
C. The average low temperature for the
day
D. The current low temperature in a
A. Geosphere nearby city
B. Hydrosphere 5236. Climate or Weather? The average tem-
C. Atmosphere perature in Hawaii during the winter is be-
D. Biosphere tween 72 and 82 degrees. This doesn’t
change from year to year.
5231. When it rains I might carry an A. Climate
A. newspaper to over my head. B. Weather
B. umbrella.
C. coat.
D. none of above
5232. What is precipitation? Check all that ap-

ply.
A. Rain
B. Snow
C. Hail
D. Frost
E. Sleet A. anemometer
5233. Stormy B. barometer
A. Storm C. wind vane
B. Rainy D. thermometer

5238. What is the temperature in August in B. no

Vancouver? C. the other way around
D. none of above
5243. How do Winds affect the climate of a
given area of land?
A. Winds bring weather from afar.
Maybe different than normal
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A. 15 B. Winds bring the same weather it
B. 20 would have had anyways.
C. Winds don’t change the weather, they
C. 175
are the weather.
D. 200
D. Winds don’t affect the weather.
5239. Global warming is caused by Weather affects the winds.
A. tropical fish traveling to the US 5244. Dark coloured buildings absorb the suns
heat and warm the air around them mak-
B. natural landforms
ing it cooler
C. The boy
A. True
D. human activities
B. False
5240. True or false:The original method used 5245. In this layer of the atmosphere, Methe-
by Amnesty International to fight against orological Phenomena happens
human rights injustices was to write let-
A. Exosphere
ters to national leaders.
B. Thermosphere
A. True
C. Troposphere
B. False
D. Stratosphere
5241. When cold air REPLACES warm air, this E. Mesosphere
happens?
5246. In a tropical rain forest it is very humid
and rains almost every day.
A. Weather
B. Climate
5247. What layer of the atmosphere is the
third nearest the surface of the Earth, it
A. sea breeze is in the middle of the five layers? (60-80
km)
B. land breeze
C. warm front
D. cold front
5242. is cold air lighter than warm air

A. yes

A. Troposphere A. the atmospheric conditions in an area

B. Stratosphere over a long period of time

C. Mesosphere B. the atmospheric conditions in an area
D. Thermosphere at specific moment
E. Exosphere C. important to people
5248. Under the right conditions, what storm D. Precipitation

could form when warm moist air meets
cold dry air head on? 5253. Delhi is far away from the coast
A. Tornado
B. Hurricane
C. Thunderstorm
D. All of these
5249. What are the correect CLIMATE key
words?
A. Forcast
B. Generally
C. Current
D. Record HIGH and LOWS
A.
5250. is what is happening outside with
the air and sky, including precipitation,
temperature, and wind.
A. visualize
B. weather
C. seasons B.
D. range
5251. What is wind?
A. The amount of matter in an object 5254. Which best describes the conditions in a
B. The horizontal movement of air and is hurricane’s eye?
driven by the energy from the Sun
A. The winds are strong, and there is
5252. Weather refers to heavy rain.
B. The winds are strong, and there is no
rain.
C. The winds gentle, and there is heavy
rain.
D. The winds are gentle, and there is no
rain.

5255. What is the long-term trend of weather 5259. Weather ClimateWhat forms when
conditions for a given region? moisture evaporates into the air, and then
A. Wind cools?
B. Temperature
C. Climate
D. Weather
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5256. What factor is most often used to de- A. a climate
scribe the climate of a region? B. a cloud
C. altitude
D. wind
5260. How many pressure belts on the earth?
A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 7
5261. It is the state of the atmosphere at a
A. Average temperature place and time as regards heat, dryness,
B. Amount of precipitation (rain) sunshine, wind, rain, etc.
C. The living things found in the area A. Climate
D. Both a and bBoth temperature and pre- B. Weather
cipitation C. Storm
5257. How does the latitude of a region affect D. None of the choices
its climate? 5262. What type of weather does a low pres-
A. By increasing the length of days sure system bring?
throughout the year A. Rain, wind and clear skies
B. By increasing the amount of energy B. Rain, wind and clouds
the land can absorb C. Sunshine, clear skies and thunder-
C. By determining the angle of sunlight storms
throughout the year D. Sunshine, clouds and thunderstorms
D. By determining the rate that tectonic 5263. Lines of latitude are also known as:
plates can move
5258. What type of air mass forms over D?

A. cold, dry
B. warm, humid
C. cold, humid
D. warm, dry

A. parallels 5268. Which of these is a description of cli-

mate?
B. perpendicular

C. longitude A. It was 98 degrees outside yesterday.
D. rungs B. San Jose has cool winters.
5264. Climate is C. Last week we had 1 inch of rain.

A. the day-to-day conditions in a specific D. The wind speed right now is 5 miles
place per hour.
B. what the weather is like in a particular
place over a long period of time 5269. A student climbs the stairs in her house
on a summer day and notices that it
5265. What are the temperate zones of the is much hotter upstairs than downstairs.
earth What is the best explanation for this?
A. The Torrid zone
A. Warm air moves upward in convection
B. The Frigid zone currents.
C. The Temperate zone B. The Coriolis Effect heats air that is
D. All of the above higher.
5266. What climate zone is most North Amer- C. The upstairs is closer to the sun.
ica in? D. Warm air sinks in convection currents.
5270. Global winds generally
A. are not influenced by heating of Earth’s

surface
B. are unpredictable
C. change directions from day to day

A. Temperate
D. blow from specific directions over long
B. Tropical distances
C. Warm
D. Cold (Arctic) 5271. Earth’s spherical shapes causes places
near the to be closer to the sun, thus
5267. Which area is neither very hot or neither warmer.
very cold?
A. poles
A. Temperate zone
B. equator
B. Frigid zone
C. Torrid zone
5272. Which of the following describes what
D. none of above is happening in a low pressure system?

C. Oceanic climate.
D. Mountain climate.
5276. clouds are not very wide. They can
cause a storm underneath them, but when
the wind blows them, the storm travels to
a different location. Stratus clouds cover
the whole sky, so when they are blown by
the wind, it will take them a long time to
NARAYAN CHANGDER
pass
A. stratonimbus
A. cold air sinking B. stratus
B. cold air rising C. cumulonimbus
C. warm air rising D. cumulus
D. none of above 5277. What layer are satellites found in?
A. Exosphere
5273. As temperature increases, it takes
water vapor to reach 100% relative hu- B. Mesosphere
midity. C. Troposphere
A. less D. Stratosphere
B. more 5278. Things you can do to help decrease
5274. How is temperature measured? global warming include:
A. Wind vane A. Eat more ice cream.

B. Keep your freezer door open.
B. Thermometer
C. Keep your air conditioner on high.
C. Barometer
D. Turn off your lights when you’re not us-
D. Rain guage
ing them.
5275. Changes from munute-to-minute, hour- 5279. What can change entire ecosystems and
to-hour, day-to-day create extinctions in species?
A. Climate
B. Weather
5280. State the range of temperature based
on the given data.
A. 52◦ C
B. 4◦ C
A. Weather C. 26◦ C

5281. As the elevation increases the tempera- A. It’s cloudy today.(weather)

ture
B. It’s cloudy today.(climate)

A. decreases
C. There’s a long dry season.(weather)
B. increases
D. There’s a long dry season.(climate)
C. stays the same
D. none of the above 5286. In this cold climate, temperatures are
5282. Which word means:falling water, such low and drop as altitude increases. Precip-
as, rain, sleet, hail or snow? itation increases at higher altitudes, pro-
ducing snowcaps.
A. Precipitation
B. Temperature
C. Celsius
D. Fahrenheit
5283. factors affecting Atmospheric pressure

A. temperature
A. Continental
B. alltitude
B. Steppe
C. water vapour
D. none C. Mountain
D. Polar
5284. What type of weather is associated
with a cold front?
5287. The Tropic of Cancer line is below the
A. gentle rain Tropic of Capricorn line?
B. fair weather, clear skies
C. thunderstorms
D. humid
5285. it’s weather or climate
A. True
B. False

that forms over near the equator?
A. Dry
B. Wet
C. Cold
D. Warm

5289. Earth’s atmosphere pushes on Earth’s A. A location close to the poles and near
surface. Which of the following is a mea- a body of water
sure of the force with which air molecules B. A location close to the poles, near a
push on a surface? body of water, and at a high elevation
C. A location near the equator and at a
high elevation
D. A location close to the poles, away
NARAYAN CHANGDER
from a body of water, and at a higher ele-
vation
5293. Which type of front is displayed?
A. Air pressure
B. Temperature
C. Precipitation
D. Relative humidity
5290. This changes on a daily basis- A. Cold
A. weather B. Warm
B. climate C. Stationary
C. seasons D. Occluded
D. none of above 5294. THE CONDITIONS OUTSIDE AT A SPE-
CIFIC TIME IN ONE MOMENT IS
5291. Different types of winds form in cer-
tain locations at different times of the day. A. CLIMATE
Which breezes form during the day when B. WEATHER
land heats up faster than water?
C. CLIMATIC ZONE
D. none of above
5295. A wet and cold air mass would be a

A. Maritime polar
B. Continental polar
C. Maritime tropical
A. Mountain breezes
D. Continental tropical
B. Valley breezes
5296. of the place keep changing every-
C. Land breezes
day.
D. Sea breezes
A. Climate
5292. If you wanted to experience the great- B. Weather
est temperature extremes in the winter
(the lowest low temperatures), which lo- C. Season
cation would be your best choice? D. none of above

5297. The diagram shows wind flow from an 5302. Tropic of Cancer is
ocean over a mountain range. Which re-
A. 66 1/2 ◦ N Latitude
gion is most likely to have a dry, desert-

like climate? B. 23 1/2 ◦ S Latitude
C. 66 1/2 ◦ S Latitude
D. 23 1/2 ◦ N Latitude
5303. wood
A. renewable
B. non-renewable
A. R 5304. Thunder, lightning, rain! These may all
B. S occur during
C. T
D. W
5298. Two Factors that affect climate

A. Humidity and Altitude
B. Hurricanes and Tornadoes
C. Pressure and Gravity
D. none of above
A. floods.
5299. What describes the average weather B. showers.
patterns for a specific region?
C. snowstorms.
A. Weather
D. thunderstorms.
B. Climate
5305. Things you can do to help decrease
5300. Which layer of the atmosphere has
global warming include:
weather?
A. Eat more pizza
A. troposphere
B. Keep your freezer door open
B. stratosphere
C. mesosphere C. Keep you air conditioner on high
D. thermosphere D. Turn off your lights when you’re not us-

ing them
5301. The changes to water when it cycles the
earth is called 5306. precipitation
A. the moon cycle A. weather only
B. the sun cycle B. climate only
C. the water cycle C. weather and climate
D. the wind cycle D. none of above

5307. doppler radar C. stays the same

A. intense tropical storm with winds ex- D. none of above
ceeding 119 km/h
5311. Winds that come mainly from one direc-
B. Lines joining places that have the same tion
temperature
A. Latitude
tect precipitation as well as the movement B. Weather
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of small particles, which can be used to ap- C. Prevailing winds
proximate wind speed
D. Surface Currents
D. none of above
5308. Climate refers to
A. a place where weather always
changes
B. a large body of air like a bubble with
the same temperature and moisture
C. big clouds
D. layers in the atmosphere
5313. Cumulonimbus clouds are known for

A. the meteorological conditions in a spe-
which type of weather?
cific place at any time
A. light rain
B. the meteorological conditions in a
place at a specific time B. sunny skies
C. the usual state of the atmosphere over C. thunderstorms
a long period of time D. tornados
D. the usual state of the atmosphere over
a short period of time 5314. Which will hold more water, warm air
or cold air?
5309. England has cold and wet winters. A. Warm Air
B. Cold AIr
5315. Cold, dense air sinks in what kind of

pressure system?
A. Weather
B. Climate A. High Pressure
5310. As you climb a mountain air pressure B. Low Pressure
A. Increases C. Cold Pressure
B. decreases D. Hot Pressure

5316. What is an example of a fossil fuel A. Mrs. Hawkins knocked a cup over, re-
A. coal sulting in an empty cup.

B. The window cup got more Sun expo-
B. solar
sure, so the water condensed.
C. wind
C. The window cup got more heat from
D. rocks the Sun, resulting in more evaporation
5317. Acid rain can damage D. The cabinet cup water turned from a
gas to a liquid, resulting in more water
A. Drinking water sources
B. Aquatic life 5321. The average daytime high for Mexico
City is 30 degrees Celsius is an example
C. Architecture/buildings of
D. All options are correct A. weather
5318. Which is a sign of global warming? B. climate
A. leaves falling off trees 5322. The gases in the atmosphere are held
B. ocean levels rising close to the Earth because of
C. Nasa space shuttle falling A. Magnetism

B. Gravity
D. C. Tethers
D. The Moon
5319. Which city has the lowest rainfall in
July? 5323. Convectional rainfall
A. Forms when air is forced to rise over
a hill or a mountain
B. Forms when the ground heats up dur-
ing a warm sunny day
C. Occurs when the two air masses meet
D. none of above
A. Iquitos ( Graph on Left)
B. Monrovia ( Middle Graph) 5324. Winters here are nice and warm but not
hot
C. Normanton (Graph on Right)
A. temperate
B. polar
5320. Mrs. Wilson leaves a cup of water by C. tropical
the window and another cup of water in
D. mild
a cabinet. A week later, she notices that
the cup of water by the window is gone, E. desert
but the cup in the cabinet still has some
water. What is the BEST explanation of 5325. Coastal areas has climate
what happened? A. Mild climate

B. Colder C. the higher the humidity the higher the

C. Hotter pressure because it is so hot.
D. none of above D. humidity does not affect air pressure.
5326. Temperatures in the Artic are usually be- 5330. Which answer choice correctly lists en-
low freezing year round. vironments from most dry to least dry?
A. weather A. desert, tundra, grassland, rainforest

B. grassland, rainforest, desert, tundra
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. climate
C. tundra, rainforest, grassland, desert
5327. What is global warming?
D. rainforest, grassland, tundra, desert
A. variations in weather patterns over a
long period of time (caused by humans) 5331. Found on all continents except Antarc-
B. an increase in the earth’s average tem- tica
perature (caused by nature) A. Desert
C. an increase in the earth’s average tem- B. Grassland
perature (caused by humans)
C. Rainforest
D. variations in weather patterns over a
D. Taiga
long period of time (caused by nature)
5332. According to the weather map, which
5328. The weather of a place changes
city is expecting rain?
A. Daily
B. Every month
C. Every year
D. Every week
5329. How does humidity affect air pressure?
A. dallas
B. Boston
C. Chicago
D. Washington
5333. The weight of the column of air on a sur-

A. the higher the humidity the lower the face is
air pressure since the vapor is spreading A. Humidity
out and taking up more space.
B. Air pressure
B. the lower the humidity the higher the
air pressure because vapor and air are C. Temperature
taking up the same space. D. Density

5334. What does this symbol represent on a 5339. Which climate zone is located between
weather map? the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn. This
climate zone also has high rainfall and hu-

A. occluded front
midity.
B. stationary front
A. Tropical
C. yes.
B. Mediterranean
D. what even is a front? I wasn’t paying
attention. C. Temperate
5335. What kind of weather would cumulonim- D. Arid

bus clouds likely bring? 5340. Which statement describes why the
A. Clear and sunny Earth has seasons?
B. Hurricane A. The Earth’s axis is titled as it revolves
C. Light rain around the sun.
D. Thunderstorm B. The Earth’s distance changes as it re-
volves around the sun.
5336. When a hurricane makes landfall, what
is the greatest danger to residents? C. The moon revolves around the Earth.
A. Excessive rain D. The sun’s axis is tilted.

B. The storm surge 5341. What is climate?
C. The temperature drop A. weather
D. The eye of the hurricane B. rain, sleet, snow, or hail
5337. is the air that moves horizontally or C. average weather in a region over a
parallel to the ground. long period of time
A. Air pressure D. the amount of ice cream available in a
B. Precipitation city
C. Wind 5342. How is weather different from climate?
D. Visibility A. Weather is long term
5338. What type of clothes will you wear in B. Weather is short term
snowy weather?
5343. SPAIN IS IN THE
A. A. COLD ZONE OF EARTH
B. HOT ZONE OF EARTH
C. TEMPERATE ZONE OF EARTH
B. D. none of above
5344. “Bangalore is a pleasant city to stay in

as it is not very hot or cold there.” This is
C. an example of
A. Weather
D. none of above B. Climate

5345. IF WE SAY “YESTERDAY WAS RAIN- 5350. What is a High Pressure System?
ING”, THAT IS
A. CLIMATE
B. WEATHER
5346. Meteorology is the study of

A. Clouds
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B. Storms
D. rain
A. A pressure system that brings clear
5347. Which is an example of condensation? skies and calm weather
A. water boiling in a pot B. A pressure system that brings hot and
B. water being absorbed by plants humid weather
C. salt being removed from water C. A pressure system that brings clouds
and precipitation
D. moisture on mirror after hot shower
D. A pressure system that brings torna-
5348. This image represents what? does and hail
5351. What is formed when warm air rising,
and then begins to cool and condense?
A. climate
B. clouds
C. wind
D. pressure
5352. The condition of the atmosphere in a cer-
A. The balance of Carbon dioxide and Oxy- tain place at a certain time is known as
gen on our planet
B. The balance of plants, people, and ani-
mals on our planet
C. That Mrs. Sprague has a german shep-
herd who likes tulips
D. none of above
5349. What is the main thing does WEATHER

describes?
A. rain A. Climate
B. clouds B. Season
C. temperature C. Weather
D. sun D. Precipitation

5353. Which front is located near San Diego? 5357. In the water cycle, water from oceans
gets hotter and become water vapour.

A. True
B. False
5358. What is the day to day changes in the
air?
A. Weather
A. a cold front B. Climate
B. a warm front C. Storms
C. an occluded front D. Earth’s Rotation
D. a stationary front 5359. A region is an area that shares some-
5354. A statement about what you think will thing:
happen based on what you know. A. because it is nice to share.
A. Pattern B. alike.
B. Extent C. different.
C. Prediction D. none of above
D. Range 5360. The high temperature today will be near
75 degrees F.
5355. How does air flow in a high pressure
system? A. weather
A. South to North B. climate
B. North to South 5361. Which statement correctly explains a
C. Pulling in; same direction of Earth’s ro- difference between weather and climate?
tation A. Climate is averaged data, while the
D. Pushing out; opposite directions of weather is not averaged data.
Earth’s rotation B. Weather is measurable, while climate
is not measurable.
5356. Temperatures on the Earth are These
higher temperatures are several C. Weather is predictable, while climate
is not predictable.
D. Climate is changeable, while weather
is not changeable.
5362. What do you call a person who studies
weather patterns to try to predict future
weather?
A. A teacher
B. Meteorologist
A. Increasing-consequences C. Scientist
B. Decreasing-consequences D. Meteorology

5363. How do winds behave in a cyclone? A. fair skies

A. they spiral toward the center B. hot, sunny weather
B. they spiral out toward low pressure ar- C. windy weather
eas
D. rainy weather
C. they are very calm
5368. Global Warming is MAINLY caused by
D. they travel in two different directions
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5364. In tropical region in the coldest month
the temperature is higher than degree
celcius
A. 13◦ C
B. 18◦ C
C. 20◦ C
D. 15◦ C
A. the Sun
5365. averages B. the Greenhouse Effect.
A. weather only
5369. What does the term “Climate” refer to?
B. climate only
A. Short-term changes in atmospheric
C. weather and climate conditions.
D. none of above B. Daily variations in temperature and
5366. Which statement describes weather, precipitation.
rather than climate? C. Long-term patterns of weather in a
A. The weather is usually hot and humid specific region.
year around D. Seasonal fluctuations in humidity.
B. The destination has hot summers and
5370. Which of Spain’s five climates is found
cold winters
in southern and eastern coasts of Spain?
C. The summer temperatures average It is hot in summer and winters are ocol.
between 29 and 35 degrees It does not rain very often.
D. The humidity level on Tuesday was A. Oceanic climate
30%
B. Subtropical climate
5367. Nimbostratus and cumulonimbus clouds C. Continental-Mediterranean climate
can signal what type of upcoming
weather?
E. Mountain climate
5371. Why do coastal regions have warmer

winters and cooler summers that regions
inland?
A. There is more direct sunlight near the
coast.

B. Mountain ranges usually form along A. The amount of rain water will increase
coasts. due to condensation.

C. The motion of the waves creates wind. B. The amount of rain water will increase
D. Oceans warm up and cool down slowly due to moisture from the sky.
C. The amount of rain water will de-
5372. What type of climate would you find in crease due to evaporation.
a desert?
D. The amount of rain water will stay the
same.
5377. This is the symbol for which type of

front?
A. day
B. hot
C. cold A. cold front
D. wet B. warm front
5373. The element used to measure how cold C. occluded front
or hot the weather is D. stationary front
A. Temperature
5378. The closer a place is to the , the
B. Humidity
warmer it will be
C. Wind
A. Body of Water
D. None of these
B. North and South Pole
5374. Tomorrow we will have a low of 480 C. Equator
and a high of 730.
D. Valley
A. Weather
B. Climate 5379. What two factors are primarily used to
describe climate?
5375. Of the six factors of LOWERN, which A. temperature and density
has the biggest effect on climate?
A. Latitude
C. precipitation and density
B. Ocean currents
D. winds and humidity
C. Near water
D. Elevation 5380. The average rainfall in that state is 80
inches.
5376. What will most likely happen to the wa-
ter in the rain gauge if it does not rain A. weather
again within the week? B. climate

5381. What is a person who studies weather C. hygrometer

patterns in an attempt to predict weather?
D. none of above
A. climologist
5387. What are the elements of weather?
B. seismologist
C. astronomer A. Wind Speed
D. meteorologist B. Wind Direction

C. Sunshine
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5382. Maritime means
D. Rain
A. wet
E. Clouds
B. dry
C. cold 5388. Wind speed is changing as the Hurricane
D. warm moves over land.
A. Weather
5383. How does the air move in a land
breeze? B. Climate
A. From east to west 5389. What is the main cause of water evap-
B. From west to east oration from the ocean?
C. From the land to the ocean A. Heat energy from the Sun
D. From the ocean to the land B. Wind and wave action along the shore
5384. Deserts and rainforests both have high C. Heat energy from the ocean floor
temperatures during the day. What is the D. Currents in the ocean
MAIN difference between the two environ-
ments? 5390. Cut off, as the warm air is cut off from
A. Amount of precipitation the ground by cooler air beneath it.
B. Amount of wind A. Cold front

C. Temperature B. Occluded
D. Elevation C. Troposphere
5385. What protects Earth from ultraviolet D. Exosphere

rays from the sun?
5391. Conduction is heat transfer by-
A. ozone layer
A. Touch
B. mesosphere
B. Circles
C. air pressure
C. Waves
D. troposphere
D. none of above
5386. Instrument to measure the speed of the
wind 5392. steam
A. wind vane A. renewable
B. Anemometer B. non-renewable

5393. Because cool air in dense, it form re- A. LOWER latitude = COLDER air temper-
gions of pressure ature
A. low B. HIGHER latitude = COLDER air tem-

perature
B. medium
C. HIGHER latitude = WARMER temper-
C. high
atures
D. ultra
D. none of above
5394. What does the Gulf Stream do? 5398. Earth is unevenly heated due to its
A. brings warmer temperatures to the A. oceans and moon
east coast of the U.S.
B. tilt of the axis and shape
B. brings cooler temperatures to the east
C. gravity and clouds
coast of the U.S.
D. climate and weather
C. makes the east coast and the west
coast of the U.S. the same temperature 5399. Explain distance from the sea?
D. brings cool water to canada A. above the sea
B. away from the equator
5395. What type of cloud is shown?
C. below the sea
D. amount of water vapour in the area
5400. the air that surrounds Earth
A. atmosphere
B. evaporation
C. accumulation
D. water vapor
A. cumulus
B. stratus 5401. T or F:During the La Niña season, water
gets hotter in the Pacific.
C. cirrus
A. T
D. none of above
B. F
5396. Which of the following statement is cor- 5402. Weather is the average weather pat-
rect? terns over a long period of time
A. Higher latitudes are generally warmer A. True
B. Higher the altitude, lower the temper- B. False
ature
5403. Which statement correctly describes the
C. Places close to the sea experiences ex-
properties of cold air?
tremes of temperature
A. less dense and less pressure than
D. none of above
warm air
5397. Which sentence best describes how lati- B. more dense and more pressure than
tude and temperature are related? warm air

C. more dense and less pressure than C. water

warm air D. the moon
D. less dense and more pressure than
warm air 5408. What type of front forms when a fast-
moving cold front catches up to a warm
5404. What is this instrument used to mea- front where the warm air mass has risen
sure? over a cool air mass?
A. cold front
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B. warm front
C. stationary front
D. occluded front
5409. Once the sun’s energy reaches the

earth’s atmosphere through radiation, it
is circulated within the atmosphere and
oceans through
A. conduction
B. convection
A. temperature C. radiation
B. wind speed D. translocation
C. wind direction
5410. Take a look at the weather map. Thun-
D. air pressure derstorms can be expected! We know this
because a cold front is pushing into
5405. places situated at lower altitudes are
A. hotter
B. colder
C. has moderate climate
D. none of above
5406. Weather predictions are 100% ac-

curate.
A. always A. another cold front
B. never B. the south
C. rarely C. sunny weather
D. none of above D. a warm front
5407. What is the energy source for the water 5411. Our city has never had temperatures
cycle? above 100 F during the month of May.
A. the sun A. Weather
B. the earth B. Climate

5412. The weather is C. China

D. U.S.

5415. Equatorial Climates occur between
A. 0◦ ◦
B. 0◦ ◦
C. 10◦ ◦
D. 10◦ ◦
5416. Which option below is not a type of per-

A. The typical state of the atmosphere in cipitation?
a long period of time. A. Rain
B. The state of the atmosphere at a par- B. Sleet
ticular time on a particular place.
C. Slush
5413. Collection D. Hail
5417. Which heats more quickly?

A. land
B. large body of water
5418. Climate changes from day to day and

A. The Sun heats water on the surface season to season.
and it turns into water vapour. A. True
B. Water vapour rises and turns into wa- B. False
ter droplets.
C. Water droplets in clouds fall to the 5419. An important piece of information for
earth as rain, snow, hail or sleet. meteorologists is the ratio of the amount
of water vapor in the air to the amount of
D. Precipitation falls into rivers, lakes, water vapor needed to reach saturation at
groundwater and the sea. a given temperature. The information en-
5414. Based on the graph, which country re- ables meteorologists to better predict the
leases the most Greenhouse Gases? weather. What is this piece of information
called?
A. Russia
B. Brazil

A. Wind Speed 5424. Which city is experiencing cloudy skies

B. Air Pressure and rain?
C. Wind Direction
D. Relative Humidity
5420. A psychrometer is used to determine

which weather variables?
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A. wind speed and direction
B. % of cloud cover and could height A. New York
C. air pressure and air temperature B. Seattle
D. relative humidity and dew point C. dallas

D. Boise
5421. What factors affect the global pattern
of climate? 5425. What is the main difference between
A. Latitude, altitude and attitude. hurricanes and tornadoes?
B. Latitude, altitude and distance from A. Hurricanes rotate counterclockwise,

the sea. and tornadoes rotate clockwise.
C. Longitude, attitude and distance from B. Tornadoes form only over warm water,
the sea. and hurricanes form only over cold water.
D. none of above C. Tornadoes happen during the winter,

and hurricanes happen during the sum-
5422. What type of air mass will have dry, mer.
warm air? D. Tornadoes can form over land, but hur-
A. mP ricanes only form over the ocean.
B. mT 5426. The equator is warmer because it re-
C. cP ceives
D. cT A. sunlight at an angle
B. more direct sunlight
5423. Which area of the U.S. is going to be
experiencing high winds? 5427. Which best describes climate
A. North West A. Yesterday, it was rainy

B. North East B. Summers are always hot and dry
C. South West C. It rained last week
D. South East D. none of above

5428. Put if it’s weather or climate 5432. The Frigid Zone receives rays of the
sun.

A. Direct
B. Slanting
C. Extremely Slanting
D. none of above
5433. Which weather factor makes a tornado

dangerous?
A. Amount of rain.
B. Amount of snow.
C. Speed of wind.
A. If’s raining outside.(weather) D. Speed of lightning.

B. If’s raining outside.(climate) 5434. What are clouds made of?
C. There’s low precipitation all A. Dust particles
year.(weather)
B. Ice crystals
D. There’s low precipitation all
year.(climate) C. Water droplets
D. Air molecules
5429. If its in the Northern hemisphere,
then its fall in the Southern hemisphere. 5435. what is wind?
A. spring A. moving air
B. summer B. a horizontal movement of air from high
C. fall pressure area to low pressure area
D. winter C. moving ice
D. all of these
5430. This type of front results in the same
weather for several days 5436. The air mass that is usually present
A. warm over Florida is called a maritime tropical
air mass. This air mass is warm and
B. cold
moist. What happens as this air mass
C. stationary moves northward?
D. occluded A. The air mass gets even warmer.
5431. What is moderate climate B. The air mass will hold even more mois-
ture.
A. neither hot nor cold
C. The air mass will stay warm and moist
B. very hot as it moves north.
C. very cold D. The air mass will bring its temperature
D. normal and moisture to its new location.

5437. occluded front

A. A violent winter storm characterized
and blowing snow
B. A period of extremely cold tempera-
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C. a front where a warm air mass is
caught between two colder air masses A. 23
and brings cool temperatures and large B. 24
amounts of rain and snow
C. 26
D. none of above
D. 25
5438. The atmospheric condition of a place on 5441. Raindrops become large enough and
a day to day basis is called come spilling out clouds as rain, snow,
sleet or hail
A. Weather
A. Precipitation
B. Climate
B. Condensation
C. Temperate
C. Transpiration
D. Humidity D. Evaporation
5439. This weather tool is used to measure 5442. The graph shows the rainfall in Florida
Which season gets the most rain?
A. Spring
B. Summer
C. Fall
D. Winter
A. Rainfall
B. Wind Direction 5443. We see evidence of the Coriolis Effect
when:
C. Wind Speed A. the winds turn toward the right in the
D. Temperature Northern Hemisphere.
B. the doldrums are weak winds blowing
5440. Lisa’s age is in the United States.

C. you can paint with all the colors of the C. Air temperature
wind.
D. Air pressure

D. you follow your heart.
5448. Two factors that determine climate are
5444. Earth is tilted 23.5 degrees on its axis.
What angle would Earth’s tile need to be in A. precipitation and temperature.
order for there to be no seasons on Earth?
B. hurricanes and tornadoes.
A. 0 degrees
C. humidity and pressure.
B. 45 degrees
C. 60 degrees D. none of above
D. Earth’s tile doe not offset the seasons
5449. a weather pattern created by the warm-
5445. The fourth graders found the aver- ing of the waters off the west coast of
age air temperatures for Greenville from South America
September to May and put them in this A. continentality
chart. Based on the chart, what is the best
estimate of the average air temperature B. The boy
for Greenville in December? C. hurricane
D. rain shadow
5450. An increase in the average tempera-

ture of the earth’s atmosphere (especially
a sustained increase that causes climatic
changes)
A. global warming
B. greenhouse effect
A. 94 degrees
C. warm front
B. 22 degrees
D. air mass
C. 50 degrees
D. 102 degrees 5451. The lifestyle of the people depend on the
of the place one lives in
5446. When a warm air mass overtakes a cold
air mass, it forms a (an) A. weather
A. Occluded front B. climate
B. Stationary front
5452. Where does weather occur?
C. Cold front
D. Warm front A. Stratosphere
5447. A sling psychrometer measures: B. Troposphere
A. Humidity C. Thermosphere
B. Wind Direction D. Mesosphere

5453. Is this claim true that climate can change B. Fishing

but only over a long period of time.
C. Forecasting
D. Checking
5458. What are ways that we can stay safe

in a storm?
A. Go inside
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B. stay away from glass and windows
A. True C. get low if outside
B. False D. all of the above
5454. A cloud of vertical development would
look 5459. Low pressure causes weather.
A. cloudy
B. clear
5460. The temperature decreases as the

increases.
A. Longitude
A. like it extends across the sky
B. like it extends upward from low to high B. Humidity
altitude C. Precipitation
5455. The Greenhouse Effect: D. Altitude
A. Results in the decrease in the surface
temperature of Earth 5461. When the sun’s rays pass through our
atmosphere and then heat is trapped by
B. Results in the rise in the surface tem-
the atmosphere it is called
perature on Earth
C. Is caused by a shortage of oxygen
D. none of above
5456. What effect do large bodies of water

have on the temperature of nearby land?
A. make temperatures less extreme
B. no effect
C. make temperatures more extreme
A. Global Warming
D. none of above
B. Greenland Effect
5457. Trying to predict the weather is known
as weather C. Greenhouse Effect
A. Guessing D. Ice Age

5462. A is a person who studies the 5466. Rain that occurs on a certain day of the
weather. week is describing

A. weather.
B. climate.
C. seasons.
D. none of above
5467. Very few species can adapt to
A. warm weather conditions
B. extreme cold, as found in the polar re-
A. meteorologist gions
B. geologist C. summer
C. weatherologist D. none of above
D. hydrologist 5468. There are major climate regions of
5463. Most of our weather occurs in the the world
A.
A. Exosphere.
B. Thermosphere.
C. Mesosphere.
D. Stratosphere. B.
E. Troposphere.
5464. What are the three types of solar en-
ergy?
A. Reflection
B. Radiation
C. Conduction
D. The Greenhouse Effect
E. Convection C.
5465. Define the purpose of a Rain Gauge:
A. Measures rainfall
B. Measures wind speed
D.
C. Measures air pressure
D. Measures humidity

5469. Where is the place in the world with the 5475. During a find a safe place away from
most rain per year? a window. If you are outside and can not
A. Mawsynram, north-east India find a shelter, lie flat in a ditch or other
low place; do not stay in your car.
B. He cried, Colombia
A. thunderstorm
C. Commerson, Réunion, Indian Ocean
B. tornado
D. Holt, Missouri, USA
C. hurricane
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5470. What are atmospheric currents?
D. rain storm
A. The large-scale movement of air and
together with ocean circulation is the 5476. Which of the following is contributing to
means by which thermal energy is redis- an increase in carbon dioxide in the atmo-
tributed on the surface of the Earth sphere?
B. The state of the atmosphere with re- A. deforestation
spect to wind, temperature, cloudiness,
moisture, pressure, etc. B. photosynthesis
5471. Weather is the current conditions out- C. oceans

side. D. all of the above
A. True
5477. Which instrument measures air pres-
B. False sure?
5472. Earth’s primordial atmosphere most A. anemometer
likely included
B. barometer
A. hydrogen, helium, and oxygen
C. thermometer
B. hydrogen, carbon dioxide, water va-
por, and hydrogen sulfide D. sling psychrometer
C. ammonia, oxygen, carbon dioxide, and
5478. Constant, predictable winds that move
water vapor
over long distances are called:
D. nitrogen, ozone, and sulfur dioxide
A. land breezes
tagsSC.912.E.7.7
B. mountain breezes
5473. Mediterranean climate:
C. global winds
A. In the interior, it is hot in winter and
cold in summer. D. sea breezes
B. On the coast, temperatures are mild
5479. This biome has open, flat area of grass.
all year and there is little rainfall.
A. Forest
5474. The strong wind of Hurricane Ivan dev-
astated Grenada B. Tundra
A. weather C. Desert
B. climate D. Grasslands

5480. Which water cycle process is at letter 5485. Differences in water temperature create
C? movement in the Ocean because

A. bodies of water at different tempera-
ture have different densities.
B. warm water is pulled more by the
force of gravity then cold water is.
C. warm and cold water mix until they
reach the same temperature.
D. The ocean just likes to “move-it move-
A. Precipitation it”.
B. Condensation 5486. We are expecting a cold front to move
C. Runoff into the area later today.
D. Evaporation A. weather
5481. Air pressure is measured with a B. climate
A. altimeter 5487. Sari is making a model of a treeless area

B. barometer that usually gets less than 10 inches of
precipitation each year and the soil below
C. thermometer the surface is frozen. Which climate zone
D. hydrometer does Sari’s model show?
5482. Does the C on a thermometer mean Cel- A. equatorial

sius? B. tropical
A. True C. temperate
B. False D. polar
5483. Which weather tools allow Matthew 5488. Dew, Mist, Frost are examples of
to make this observation, “This morning,
A. evaporation
winds are blowing at 25mph toward the
North.” B. precipitation
A. Rain Gauge and Anemometer C. condensation
B. Wind Vane and Thermometer D. none of above
C. Anemometer and Wind Vane 5489. temperature
D. Compass and Rain Gague A. weather only
5484. It is cold in December and in June B. climate only
A. temperate C. weather and climate
B. polar D. none of above
C. tropical 5490. A sudden change in the weather at a cer-
D. mild tain location is most likely caused by
E. desert A. arrival of an air mass

B. a high ocean tide A. cool, cloudy, with a 85% chance of pre-

C. an eclipse of the moon cipitation
D. none of above B. warm, sunny, with clear skiesz

C. cool, breezy, with winds gusting 30
5491. Which of these factors most influences mph out of the North
climate?
D. clear, sunny, with temperatures in the
A. Time zone mid 30s
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B. Hours of daylight Hours of daylight
5496. Jennifer measured the temperature dif-
C. Longitude ference between two areas located next
D. Latitude to each other. She did this a four locations.
Which location is MOST LIKELY to have the
5492. This instrument measures air tempera- strongest winds?
ture A. lake and river
A. Thermometer B. forest and field
B. Rain gauge C. pond and stream
C. Weather vane D. ocean and beach
D. Anemometer
5497. What type of information can usually be
5493. Polar climates are found found on a weather map?
A. In the rain forest A. Fronts
B. Near the Equator B. Precipitation
C. Near the North and South Pole C. Areas of high and low pressure
D. In the United States D. All of the answers are correct
5494. Choose the best weather forecast for 5498. Which of the following human activities
Seattle on Friday. contribute to an increased green house ef-
fect?
A. Harvesting energy from the sun.
B. Deforestation
C. Walking to work.
D. Switching to geothermal powered elec-
tricity
A. rain 5499. What is the name of this equipment?
B. sunny skies
C. warmer temperatures
D. snow
5495. Which weather description indicates

you should wear short sleeve shirt and
shorts that day? A. Thermometer

B. Parheliometer or a Campbell stokes B. Last night Cypress received two inches

recorder of rain.
C. Hurricane season in Texas typically

C. Rain Gauge
lasts from June to November.
D. Wind vane
D. Summers in Texas are hot and humid.
5500. What is the most abundant gas in
Earth’s atmosphere? 5505. The weather is monitored in the area
pictured in the weather map over several
A. oxygen days. Rain and lightning in what city
B. nitrogen would support the claim that the passage
C. carbon dioxide of a cold front is associated with a poten-
tial for thunderstorms?
D. methane
5501. If a person is describing the daily

they are referring to an area’s
A. weather
B. climate
A. Nashville
5502. Which type of rainfall is caused by air
rising over mountains? B. San Diego
A. Relief C. Bismarck
B. Frontal D. Albany
C. Convectional 5506. Based on the data above, what would

be a good prediction of the temperature
D. none of above
on September 8?
5503. The image above shows which type of
sunlight?
A. 71 degrees
B. 31 degrees
C. 62 degrees
D. 90 degrees
5507. What is the name given to the one “Su-
A. direct sunlight per continent”?
B. indirect sunlight
5504. Which statement best describes

weather?
A. The average temperature for Houston
is 25 degrees Celsius.

A. Wonder 5511. On a surface weather map, what shape

is a station model, and what does that
B. of spelling
shape represent?
C. one World
D. Derozan
5508. Which one is not a climate factor?

A. Rain gauge
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B. Latitude
C. Altitude A. triangle = high temperatures
D. Distance from the sea B. oval = wind speed direction
C. square = weather balloon location
5509. what is this?
D. circle = weather station location
5512. Which is a measure of the force with

which air molecules push on a surface?
A. Air pressure
B. Temperature
5513. Lightning can be very dangerous. It can

even cause death if it strikes a person or
animal. What is lightning?
A. hygrometer
B. barometer
C. thermometer
D. anemometer
5510. This is a
A. a type of tornado
B. an expansion of air
C. a mixture of warm air and cold air
D. a sudden discharge of static electricity
5514. The condition of the atmosphere at a cer-

tain time and place is referred to as
A. Anemometer. A. weather
B. Rain gauge. B. climate
C. Thermometer. C. relative humidity
D. Weather vane. D. dew point

5515. When a gas changes to a liquid it is B. Low Pressure

called
C. Cold Pressure
A. evaporation

D. Hot Pressure
B. condensation
C. precipitation 5520. Which statement describes why the
Earth has seasons?
D. collection
A. Its axis is titled as it revolves around
5516. What is precipitation? the sun.
A. Any form of water that falls from the B. The distance changes as it revolves
sky (rain, snow, sleet, hail). around the sun.
B. When it rains. C. The moon revolves around it.
C. When it rains it pours. D. The sun’s axis is tilted.
D. Any form of fire that falls from the sky.
5521. Higher the temperature, the atmo-
5517. The name for heat transfer between spheric pressure.
two solids which are in direct contact or
touching one another is A. Higher
A. conduction B. Lower
B. convection 5522. The map shows climates in Africa. A
C. insulation rain forest is a place with a warm climate
that gets lots of rain. Where are the rain
D. radiation
forests in Africa?
5518. Why does a warm front usually bring a A. In the widest part to the north
light and steady rain?
B. Almost everywhere on the east side
A. They bring extremely low air pressure.
C. At the very end of the tip in the south
B. Non-intense weather always happens
in any kind of a front. D. In the middle on the west side
C. A warm air mass violently crashes
5523. Which of these substances is a liquid
against a cold air mass, so the weather
from of precipitation?
is wet.
D. A warm air mass slowly climbs over a
cold air mass so the weather is less in-
tense.
5519. Warm air rises in what kind of pressure

system?
A. Hail
B. Rain
C. Sleet
A. High Pressure D. Snow

5524. An area of high pressure will most likely 5528. Ozone is

experience what types of weather?
A. a form of nitrogen with two nitrogen
A. sunny atoms in each molecule.
B. storms B. a form of oxygen with two oxygen
C. heavy rain atoms in each molecule.
D. clear skies C. a form of nitrogen with three nitrogen
atoms in each molecule.
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5525. How do ocean currents affect the cli-
mate of an area? Choose all that apply. D. a form of oxygen with three oxygen
atoms in each molecule.
5529. station model

A. indicates weather conditions at a spe-
cific location, using a combination of sym-
bols on a map
A. Cold ocean currents have a cooling ef- B. a front where a warm air mass is
fect on nearby land. caught between two colder air masses
B. Cold ocean currents have a warming and brings cool temperatures and large
effect on nearby land. amounts of rain and snow
C. Warm ocean currents make nearby C. when a warm air mass and a cold air
land warmer. mass meet and no movement occurs
D. Warm ocean currents make nearby
D. none of above
land colder.
5526. Is Chennai a coastal area? 5530. If the air is very cold, the water droplet
may fall as
A. snow
B. snow, sleet, hailstones
C. fog
D. rainstorm
A. Yes 5531. Warm evaporated moisture from an

B. No ocean moved inland over a city. The city is
blocked on one side by a mountain range.
5527. zone receives slanting rays of the Which type of weather characteristic is
Sun and remain very cold throughout the MOST LIKELY to occur?
year.
A. rain
A. Torrid
B. Temperate B. snow
C. Frigid C. clear skys

D. none of above D. low humidity

5532. The of a mountain range is the side A. 1

that receives a lot of precipitation. B. 2

A. dry side C. 3
B. leeward/dry side
D. 4
C. windward/wet side
5536. Which zone has the highest tempera-
D. cloudy side
tures and humidity year round?
5533. Which front is there little movement? A. Polar
A. warm front B. Temperate
B. cold front C. Tropical
C. occluded front D. none of above
D. stationary front
5537. Some greenhouse gases are naturally
5534. A student states the weather is the present in the Earth’s atmosphere
same as the climate. Which response BEST A. True
tells the student the difference between
weather and climate? B. False
A. Weather is about the wind and the rain, 5538. Polar air masses tend to bring
but climate is about the clouds.
A. Mixed temperatures
B. Weather is measured with tools like
B. Warmer temperatures
thermometers, but climate is measured
with tools like forecasts. C. Colder temperatures
C. Weather is the conditions in one day, D. Tropical weather
but climate is the conditions over a long
time. 5539. Today is really sunny in the Maldives. Is
this an example of weather or climate?
D. Weather is recorded on charts, but cli-
mate is recorded on world maps.
5535. The rate of evaporation depends on four

main factors:water body size, heat energy,
atmospheric pressure and air movement.
Warm waters and high winds often result
in the development of hurricanes over the
world’s oceans because of increased evap-
oration. Where, on this map, is the LEAST A. Weather
likely location for a hurricane to form? B. Climate
5540. Does the following statement refer to

climate or weather? In Antarctica, the av-
erage yearly temperature is below freez-
ing.
A. Climate
B. Weather

5541. Definition:weather conditions prevail-

ing in an area in general or over a long
period
A. climate
B. weather
5542. Which of these statements describes A. sea breeze

how heat is moved around in the Earth’s
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B. land breeze
oceans?
C. water cycle
A. ocean water along the shore rises and D. prevailing winds
falls two times a day, washing heat from
the sand into the oceans 5546. What is cold air mass that bumps up
B. warm winds blow over the oceans against a warm air mass?
from land, causing the ocean water to
warm up
C. waves are created by wind, which
warms the water by friction and pushes
water around in the oceans
A. Cold Front
D. warmer ocean water from the Equator
flows toward Earth’s poles, where the wa- B. Warm Front
ter cools and sinks C. High Pressure
D. Low Pressure
5543. The most powerful storms on Earth are
A. Tornadoes 5547. Which of the following are examples of
weather
B. Thunderstorms
A. Temperature
C. Hurricanes
B. Polar
D. Hailstorms
C. Fog
5544. What is precipitation? D. Tropical
A. Any form of water that falls to Earth’s E. Precipitation
surface from the clouds.
5548. Which of these geographic features
B. Amount of water vapor in the air. MOST directly influences the climate of
C. Force of air molecules pushing on an Nevada by limiting the amount of water
area. vapor that can reach the state and fall as
rain?
D. Wind speed
A. Pacific Ocean
5545. At night the land cools down and when B. Colorado River
it is cooler than the sea, the hot air rises
from the sea surface and it pulls in air from C. Sierra Nevada Mountains
the land. This is called a D. Columbia River Basin

5549. Air masses interact to form hurricanes A. The Loo is a hot dry and humid wind
and cyclones. Why do storm spins? which flows in the planes of northern In-
dia.

A. moon’s gravity
B. ocean currents B. The Foehn is a warm and dry wind
which blows across the Alps in Europe dur-
C. low pressure rises ing winter.
D. Earth’s rotation(Coriolis effect) C. The Chinook is a warm and dusky wind
which is known on the eastern side of the
5550. What is the difference between sleet Rocky Mountains in North America.
and hail?
D. The Harmattan is a warm and dry wind
A. Sleet is formed during calm weather, which blows over north-east Africa.
while hail is formed during blizzards.
B. Sleet is formed from strong thunder- 5553. Clouds are made up of tiny drops of
storms with powerful updrafts, while hail or ice. The moisture in the cloud affects
is a mixture of rain and snow. the weather.
C. Sleet is a mixture of rain and snow, A. dust
while hail is formed from strong thunder- B. oxygen
storms with powerful updrafts.
C. water
D. Sleet is formed in warm weather,
while hail is formed in cold weather. D. cotton
5551. What is the name of the weather instru- 5554. Night on Earth is when the side of the
ment pictured here? Earth we are on faces from the sun.
A. Towards
B. Away
C. Neither
D. none of above
5555. is two most common temperature

scales
A. Celsius
B. humidity
C. kelvin
D. Fahrenheit
A. Ananometer
B. Barometer 5556. Cloudy
C. Rain Gauge A. Stormy
D. none of above B. Rainy
C. Cloudy
5552. Which of the following statements is
TRUE. D. Sunny

5557. What is the relative humidity when the 5563. Almost all scientists believe that an in-
dry-bulb temperature is 16◦ C and the wet- crease in is the main cause of Global
bulb temperature is 14◦ C? Warming.
A. 90% A. H2O (water vapor)
B. 81% B. CH4 (methane)
C. 14% C. CO2 (carbon dioxide)
D. 63% D. N2 (nitrogen)
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5558. The number one factor influencing cli- 5564. Weather forecasting has improved re-
mate is the equator cently in part because of
A. True A. fewer weather changes from year to
B. False year
B. more experienced weather forecast-
5559. What is it called when water falls to the ers
earth as rain, sleet, snow, or ice?
C. improved data gathering and better
A. Condensation computer technology
B. Precipitation D. widespread television reporting
C. Evaporation
5565. Several factors have an effect on cli-
D. Run Off mate of a place.
E. Transpiration A. False
5560. What type of clouds will bring thunder- B. True
storms?
5566. Which term describes the average
A. Stratus weather conditions during a season over
B. Cirrus many years?
C. Cumulonimbus A. Climate
D. cloud B. Weather
5561. When winds blow over the side, C. Rainfall

they have already lost most of their mois- D. Temperature
ture, and hence do not bring much rainfall.
5567. Sansthita went to a wildlife sanctuary
A. Windward
where she saw dense vegetation of trees,
B. Leeward shrubs, herbs and also a variety of animals
like monkeys, birds, elephants, snakes,
5562. It is NOT a layer of the atmosphere frogs, etc. The most likely location of this
A. Exosphere sanctuary is in the
B. Thermosphere A. temperate region
C. Mesosphere B. tropical region
D. Stratosphere C. polar region
E. Lithosphere D. coastal region.

5568. Which of these is the most important C. Tropical sea air sweeps in to replace
function of the ocean? the rising air, causing condensation.

A. generating electricity D. None of the above
B. supplying people with chemicals 5573. You are working for WBOC and Dan
C. warming up large nearby landmasses Satterfield has asked you to calculate the
mean temperature of a few days in Decem-
D. giving off water vapor into the atmo-
ber. The following are the high tempera-
sphere
tures he needs calculated. They are in Cel-
5569. lighter, rising air sius. 7.2; 10.6; 13.9; 18.9; 17.2
A. 33.4
B. 18.9
C. 13.56
D. 12.5
5574. Low pressure is an indication of

weather.
A. high pressure
A. clear and sunny weather
B. low pressure
B. stormy weather
5570. what are the four major pressure belts.
5575. Which statement refers to convection?
A. equatorial low pressure belt
A. Some of this energy is reflected off
B. subtropical high pressure belt Earth’s atmosphere.
C. subpolar low pressure belt B. Warm air rises and takes heat with it;
D. polar high pressure belt eventually it cools and sinks.
E. polar low pressure belt C. Sunlight travels through space without
the aid of fluids or solids.
5571. which one of the following statements
D. Land and ocean absorb and re-emit
describes an anticyclone?
heat from the sun.
A. it’s an area of low pressure
5576. The horizontal movement of air is called
B. it’s an area of high pressure
C. it has air masses that meet and rise
A. currents
D. it moves in the direction of the Earth’s B. wind
rotations
C. breeze
5572. Which statement describes the main D. none of above
cause of tornadoes?
A. Air in a low-pressure system rises 5577. THE AREAS LYING BETWEEN THE TOR-
above warm water. RID ZONE AND FRIGID ZONE IN BOT
HEMISPHERES ARE CALLED THE ZONE
B. Tornadoes form when two air masses
of sharply different temperature and hu- A. TORRID
midity meet, normally over land. B. TEMPERATE

C. FRIGID C. 100 degrees Fahrenheit

D. TROPICAL D. 10 degrees Fahrenheit
5578. What is the dewpoint for the following E. 70 degrees Fahrenheit

station model?
5582. What tool is used to measure wind
speed?
A. Wind Vane
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B. Anemometer
C. Thermometer
D. Barometer
5583. A natural reservoir that stores carbon-

containing compounds over a period of
time is called a
A. 10◦ F
B. 23◦ F A. carbon sink
C. 65◦ F B. nitrogen sink
D. 75◦ F C. CFC sink

D. kitchen sink
5579. Which of the following affect precipita-
tion? 5584. Land and sea breezes are common in
A. prevailing winds Florida because it is a peninsula. How do
they form?
B. seasonal winds
C. mountain ranges
D. all of these
5580. The average of mean temperatures for

twelve months give us the mean annual
temperature.
A. True
B. False A. Land breezes form during the day be-
cause the hotter land heats up the air
5581. What is the temperature shown on the above it, causing it to rise, pulling air from
second thermometer? above the cooler ocean water.
B. Sea breezes form during the day be-
above it, causing it to rise, pulling air from
above the cooler ocean water.
C. Land breezes form during the night be-
A. 60 degrees Fahrenheit above it, causing it to rise, pulling air from
B. 30 degrees Fahrenheit above the cooler ocean water.

D. Sea breezes form during the night be- A. Barometer

B. Anemometer
above it, causing it to rise, pulling air from

above the cooler ocean water. C. Weather vane
5585. � It’s raining outside D. Thermometer
A. WEATHER
5590. Water vapor (gas) cools to liquid
B. CLIMATE (clouds).
5586. An air mass
A. contains different temperatures and
moisture throughout
B. contains uniform temperature and
moisture throughout
C. is a blanket of air that surrounds the
Earth
D. contains mostly water vapor A. Condensation
5587. This is the ratio of the amount of water B. Transpiration
vapor in the air to the amount needed to
saturate the air. C. Infiltration
D. none of above
5591. Tornados and hurricanes are both types

of
A. storms.
B. weather.
C. wind.
A. Humidity
B. Relative Humidity D. none of above
5588. Climate or Weather? It is usually mild 5592. Meteorologists study changes in clouds
during the winter in the southern states of and weather data to help them make
the United States. weather predictions.
A. Climate
B. Weather
5589. We measure wind velocity with a
A. True
B. False

5593. Which water cycle process is at letter 5597. How do ocean currents influence the cli-
A? mate of Florida?
A. The cool water currents that flow next
to Florida keep the temperatures below
normal in the summer and winter.
B. The warm water currents flowing next
to Florida keep Florida’s temperatures
milder in the winter and keep the air hu-
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mid.
C. The warm water currents that flow
A. Precipitation next to Florida keep the temperatures
B. Runoff above normal in the summer and below
C. Condensation normal in the winter.
D. The cooler water currents that flow
D. Evaporation
next to Florida keep the temperatures
5594. People who study weather and try to above normal in the summer and below
predict it are called normal in the winter.
A. Astronomers 5598. Hail usually falls during cold weather
B. Weather Forecasters A. True
C. Climatologists B. False
D. Meteorologists 5599. The kinds of data that reflect climate are
different from the conditions described in
5595. The weather is the same on all the is-
weather data. Which of the following is
lands of The Bahamas?
not a description of climate?
A. Annual rainfall is close to 42 inches in
Portland, Oregon.
B. Summers are usually mild in Lansing,
Michigan.
C. Last week it rained every day in San
Antonio, Texas.
D. Winters are usually overcast in Seat-
A. true tle, Washington.
B. false 5600. Which of the following is a description
of weather data?
5596. what types of clouds are high, thin,
wispy, and feathery? A. The Sahara desert gets very little rain-
fall.
A. Cirrus
B. The average daytime high in the Ama-
B. Stratus
zon is 25◦ C.
C. Cumulus C. Temperatures in the Arctic are usually
D. Cumulonimbus below freezing.

D. It rained two inches in Miami, Florida 5604. What factors influence climate?
on May 5th. A. prevailing winds and ocean currents

5601. In what city is there rain? B. large bodies of water
C. landforms
D. elevation
5605. What creates a tsunami?
A. A thunderstorm
B. Strong winds
C. An underwater earthquake
A. Detroit D. A shipwreck
B. Denver
5606. Over the last decade we have had an
C. Houston increase in the amount of rain in our area.
D. St. Louis A. weather
5602. Aurora records the following observa- B. climate
tions:It rained on Monday. It was sunny 5607. If two objects have different tempera-
on Tuesday. It rained again on Wednesday. tures, heat will flow from the warmer ob-
What is Aurora recording? ject to the cooler one UNTIL
A. weather A. one reaches a temperature of zero
B. climate B. they both have an equal temperature
C. both weather and climate C. one runs out of energy
D. neither weather or climate D. none of above
5603. Plotted on the contour map below are 5608. Areas on Earth that receive indirect sun-
the locations of five schools. Match the light and have cold temperatures
elevations with the letter for each school. A. equator
(1.) Point A on map
B. Tropic of Cancer
C. poles
D. oceans
5609. Why do seasons happen?
A. 0 ft
B. 20 ft
C. 30 ft
D. 10-20 ft
E. 0-10 ft

A. Winds blow in the same direction C. anemometer

B. Warm air carries moisture D. a compass and a wind vane
C. The Earth is tilted on its axis at a 23.5 5614. Polar Easterlies
degree angle
A. bands of high and low pressure found
D. none of above about every 30 degrees of latitude
5610. Which Variables are used to determine B. the curving of a path of a moving ob-
the weather? ject from an otherwise straight path due
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to Earth’s rotation
A. Temperature, moisture, wind, air pres-
sure C. winds that blow from east to west be-
tween 60 and 90 degrees latitude
B. Thermometer, moisture, wind, air
pressure D. narrow belts of strong winds that blow
in the upper troposphere
C. Temperature, heat, doldrums, water
pressure 5615. The 3 major climate zones are:
D. none of above
5611. Which climate has hot, dry summers and

cool, wet winters? Being close to a large
body of water affects this climate greatly.
A. temperate
B. Mediterranean A. rainforest, polar, and oceanic
C. polar B. land, sea, and sky
D. mountain C. temperate, tropical, and polar
5612. Heating a kettle on a hot stove (burner) D. none of above
5616. Humidity in the air will when water

evaporates from land.
A. decrease
B. increase
5617. The falling from the sky changed

from rain to sleet as the temperatures
A. convection dropped drastically.
B. conduction
C. radiation
D. connection
5613. Which instrument tells you the direction

from which the wind is blowing?
A. compass A. climate
B. wind vane B. weather

C. rocks 5622. The climatic effect shown in this photo

D. precipitation where one side of the mountains receives
less precipitation is known as:

5618. Students noticed thin, wispy clouds
known as cirrus clouds. What kind of
weather will be coming tomorrow where
they live?
A. Sunny
B. Light rain
C. Fair
D. Stormy A. rainshadow
5619. This type of cloud is thick and puffy B. Monsoon

on top, and generally flat on the bottom. C. rain cycle
It has well-defined edges and can change
D. wind convection
shape rapidly.
5623. An instrument that measures the
amount of rain that has fallen over a pe-
riod of time.
A. anemometer
B. rain gauge
C. thermometer
D. barometer
A. cumulus cloud
5624. Winds that blow in from the ocean
B. stratus cloud
C. cirrus cloud A. have lots of moisture and make a lot of
precipitation
D. cloud 9
B. have lots of salt from the ocean that
5620. In what direction do winds always damages cars
blow?
C. have lots of seagulls and they get lost
A. From areas of high pressure to areas over land
of low pressure
D. have lots of flying fish and that’s how
B. From areas of low pressure to areas we get fish & chips
of high pressure
5625. In oceanography, what is the term “Cur-
5621. What is meteorology?
rent” typically used to describe?
A. The study of weather and Earth’s atmo-
sphere A. The movement of air masses.
B. The study of clouds B. The flow of water in a river.

C. The study of life C. The shifting of tectonic plates.
D. The study of biomes D. The movement of ocean water.

5626. An instrument used to show the direc- B. Precipitation

tion of the wind is unknown as C. Run Off
D. none of above
5630. The weather is very
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A. Rain gauge
A. cold
B. Thermometer
B. wet
C. Barometer
D. Wind sock C. hot
D. snowy
5627. Which of these locations is furthest
North? 5631. The higher you go, the air becomes
A. The Tropic of Cancer A. More dense
B. The Tropic of Capricorn B. Less dense
C. The Equator
5632. This zone is between the Tropic of Can-
D. New Zealand cer and the Tropic of Capricorn
5628. The average weather conditions of a A. Hot zone
region- B. Canary Islands
A. daily temperature C. Tropical zone
B. climate D. Temperate zone
C. weather
5633. Land breeze takes place during the
D. none of above
A. day
5629. Water in solid or liquid form that falls B. night
from the sky.
5634. How is climate different to weather?
A. Climate is a long term average of
weather. Weather is short-term day to
day changes in the atmosphere.
B. Weather is long term of climate. Cli-
mate is short term day to day changes in
A. Evaporation the atmosphere.

C. Climate is climate. Weather is 5640. Is this TRUE or FALSE?(Look at the

weather. photo)

D. Climate is global warming. Weather is
an average of climate.

an area?
A. Information about the weather for
many years
A. True
B. Information about the tallest mountain
B. -
C. Information about the rivers in the
area C. -
D. Information about local plants and an- D. False
imals
5641. What could she have done to prevent a
5636. Which of these is not an example of pre- sunburn?
cipitation?
A. rain
B. clouds
C. sleet
D. snow
5637. Which type of front is created when

warm air replaces cold air?
A. Go get ice cream
A. Cold
B. Went swimming
B. Occluded
C. Stationary C. Worn sunscreen
D. Warm D. none of above
5638. solar 5642. This layer keeps us “not too hot in the
summer” and “not too cold in the winter.”
A. renewable Scientists call this the effect.
B. non-renewable A. Greenhouse Effect
5639. Air pressure is measured in B. Seasonal Effect

A. pounds C. Ocean Effect
B. millibars D. Lake Effect
C. isobars
5643. A mT airmass would most likely origi-
D. milligrams nate over which type of Earth surface?

5648. As temperature decreases, relative hu-

midity decreases.
A. True
B. False
5649. Winters in Maine can reach tempera-
tures below zero.
A. warm and moist A. Climate
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B. Weather
B. cold and dry
C. cold and moist 5650. Winds can be characterized by their lo-
cation and speed. Which winds are nar-
D. warm and dry row bands of high-speed winds that blow
in the upper troposphere?
5644. What type of cloud is white, feathery
and at high altitude.
A. cirrus
B. cloud
C. stratus
D. cumulus A. The doldrums
5645. The area between the tropical and the B. Easterlies
polar zones with seasonal climate: C. Westerlies
A. Tropical Zone D. Jet streams
B. Polar Zone 5651. What does a rain gauge measure?
C. Temperate Zone A. The wind speed
D. Climate B. The air pressure
5646. Each school year for 30 years, the D. The temperature
amount of rain that fell at a school was
measured and recorded. Tracking rainfall E. The amount of precipitation
over a long period provides is called 5652. Grasslands have a rainy and dry sea-
A. Climate son.
B. Temperature of one day
C. Weather
D. Type of soil
5647. It refers to conditions in a place over a

LONG place
A. Climate A. Weather
B. Weather B. Climate

5653. Which term describes a circulation of air C. When the earth is tilted away from the
or water that is caused by uneven heat- sun we have night
ing?

D. When the earth is tilted away from the
A. convection current sun we have day
5657. The layers of the atmosphere. This
C. radiation current layer is before outer space. Meteorite dis-
D. emission current integration takes place there.
A. Troposphere
B. Stratosphere
C. Mesosphere
D. Thermosphere
A. An area’s short-term weather pattern E. Exosphere
B. An area’s long-term weather pattern
5658. rain or drizzle is a result of a
C. The types of organisms that live in an
A. Cold front
area
B. Warm front
D. The temperature of an area during the
summer C. Stationary Front
D. Occluded front
5655. What are four factors that affect cli-
mate? 5659. What type of cloud is this? Middle alti-
A. latitude tude, flat layer
B. proximity (closeness) to large body of
water
C. earthquakes
D. ocean currents
E. elevation
5656. What effect does the tilt of the earth

have?
A. Altostratus
A. It changes the angle that the sun
B. Cumulonimbus
strikes the earth in different land areas
C. Altocumulus
B. It causes the earth to be farther away
from the sun at different times of the year D. Stratocumulus

5660. What does “latitude” refer to? 5665. Lisa’s science class is recording weather
patterns in the Miami area during the
month of November. Each day, they write
down the temperature at 10 a.m. and
the current weather. At the end of the
first week, the class wants to check their
findings against an official record. Which
of these reference materials would be the
best source for recent weather events in
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A. the distance away from the Equator Miami?
B. how much rain a place gets A. A daily newspaper
C. how high up a mountain a place is
B. A Miami-Dade travel guide
D. the number of seasons a place gets
C. U.S. rainfall data printed in an almanac
5661. Precipitation type depends on air tem-
D. The entry about climate in an encyclo-
perature.
pedia
A. true
B. false 5666. What is the name of this severe
weather?
5662. How does an anemometer work?
A. Small cups spin in the wind, and it mea-
sures how fast they go.
B. It determines how heavy the air is, and
then it predicts storms.
C. Rain or snow falls onto it, and it mea-
sures how much there is.
D. It catches the wind and points in the A. Storm
direction the wind is blowing. B. Blizzard
5663. What causes some areas of Earth to re- C. Thunderstorm
ceive less intense solar energy than oth-
ers? D. Lightning
A. the mass of earth
5667. A measure of the transparency of the
B. the curve of earth atmosphere
C. the density of earth A. Elevation
D. the elevation of earth
B. Meteorology
5664. The amount of water vapor in the air- C. Visibility
A. humidity
D. Topography
B. climate
E. Latitude
C. generalization
D. none of above 5668. Condensation occurs when a-

5673. What is the difference between El Nino

and La Nina?

A. La Nina brings cold temperatures to
the Pacific Ocean, El Nino brings warmer
temperatures to the Pacific Ocean
B. El Nino brings cold temperatures to
the Pacific Ocean, La Nina brings warmer
A. liquid changes to a gas temperatures to the Pacific Ocean
B. solid changes to a liquid C. El Nino is masculine and La Nina is fem-
C. gas changes to a liquid inine
5669. The two most abundant gases in the at- 5674. What is the climate region where we
mosphere are live?
A. carbon dioxide and oxygen. A. Temperate
B. carbon dioxide and nitrogen. B. Tropical
C. nitrogen and oxygen. C. Desert
D. nitrogen and hydrogen. D. Subarctic
5670. Positive and negative charges build up 5675. The east coast is the wettest park of the
in what during a thunderstorm? UK.
A. Clouds A. True
B. The ground B. False
C. Trees 5676. Which biome can be found in continents
D. none of above such as Europe, Asia, and North Amer-
ica along the Arctic Circle in the Northern
5671. Which of these is the most important Hemisphere?
function of the ocean? A. Aquatic
A. giving off water vapor into the atmo- B. Tundra
sphere
C. Desert
B. supplying people with chemicals
D. Grasslands
C. warming up large nearby landmasses
D. generating electricity 5677. Which of the following factors or ele-
ments DO NOT affect weather?
weather happens.
A. Cold front
B. Occluded
C. Trosposphere
D. Exosphere

A. Temperature 5683. 2:eg; of seasonal wind

B. Humidity A. loo
C. Precipitation B. foeh
D. Wind Vane C. Monsoon
5678. A hurricane is dangerous mostly be- D. none of above
cause of its
5684. How does the greenhouse effect con-
A. tsunami
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tribute to climate change?
B. lightning
A. It only affects the temperature in cer-
C. undertow tain regions, not globally.
D. storm surge B. It traps heat in the Earth’s atmo-
5679. Which one is Rainy weather? sphere, leading to an increase in global
temperatures.
A. C. It decreases global temperatures by
releasing excess heat into space.
D. It has no impact on global tempera-
tures.
B.
5685. Where is the most secure location dur-
ing a Tornado?
5680. water that falls to Earth A. Inside a car
A. weather B. By the window
B. precipitation C. In an open area
C. climates D. Flat in a ditch
D. seasons
5686. What is one difference between
5681. What is the minimum wind speed re- weather and climate?
quired for a hurricane?
A. Weather describes conditions near the
A. 74 mph ground, but climate does not
B. 30 mph B. Climate describes energy from the
C. 50 mph Sun, but weather does not
D. 65 mph C. Weather includes precipitation, but cli-
mate does not
5682. When the amount of energy received
from the sun and the amount of energy D. Climate describes long-term condi-
returned to space are about equal, it is tions over an entire region, but weather
called: does not
A. seasonal equality. 5687. Wind occurs when high pressure flows
B. radiation balance. towards low pressure.
C. solar reradiation. A. true
D. global warming. B. false

5688. High mountains have this climate even 5692. Low pressure has
if they are near the Equator because of the
altitude. A. Cool, wet air

A. Cold climate B. Hot, dry air
B. Temperate climate C. Sunny with no clouds
C. Hot climate
D. none of above
D. none of above
5689. Which of the following winds are caused 5693. A hydrometer measure humidity
due to unequal heating and cooling of the A. in degrees celsius (◦ C)
earth’s surface.
A. Periodic winds B. in millimetres (mm)
B. Local winds C. as a percentage (%)

C. Planetary winds D. in miles per hour (mph)
D. none of above
5694. Cool air mass typically have
5690. Air in a high pressure system moves
A. High pressure and clear weather
B. High pressure and rainy/stormy
weather
C. Low pressure and clear weather
D. Low pressure and rainy/stormy
weather
5695. A hot climate in which temperatures are

high (over20 ◦ C) and there is abundant
A. clockwise rainfall which mainly falls during the rainy
season. is
B. counterclockwise
A. Humid tropical
A. convection currents
B. Steppe
B. conduction currents
C. radiation currents C. Oceanic
D. tropical currents D. Equatorial

5696. Name that symbol. D. Climate refers to conditions over short

periods of time; weather refers to condi-
tions over long periods of time.
5700. A tornado warning was issued for Texas

this morning.
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. Cold Front
B. Warm Front
C. Stationary Front
D. Occluded Front
5697. The temperate climate region is

A. closest to the poles above latitude
66.5 N and S A. Weather
B. closest to the equator between B. Climate
5701. Dew is a form of
C. In between
A. Evaporation
D. none of above
B. Condensation
5698. Select the “Climate Factor”
C. Transpiration
A. Precipitation D. none of above
B. Latitude
5702. What is the meaning of weather in short
C. Four seasons
A. It is the temperature
D. Anemometer
B. the climate at a certain place and time,
5699. The Sun is the key driving force of how much wind, rain, sun, etc. there is
weather and climate. Which of the follow- and how hot or cold it is
ing is true regarding how weather and cli-
5703. Which best describes climate?
mate compare?
A. Summers are usually hot and dry.
the ground; climate refers to conditions in B. It rained this week.
the atmosphere. C. Yesterday it was cold and windy.
B. Climate refers to conditions over long D. It’s 45 degrees outside.
periods of time; weather refers to condi-
tions over short periods of time. 5704. The unit of measurement to measure
rainfall is
C. Weather refers to conditions in the at-
mosphere; climate refers to conditions A. degree Fahrenheit
nearer to the ground. B. degree Celsius

C. percentage D. none of above

D. Millimeter or inches
5708. Equinox means-

5705. A meteorologist predicts that a warm A. Equal light
air mass and a cold air mass will meet and
stop moving over your vacation destina- B. Longest day
tion. What weather should you expect and C. Shortest day
how will this impact your plans?
D. Tilt
A. An occluded front that will cause
clouds and precipitation means packing 5709. The part of the water cycle where wa-
rain gear and trying to avoid the precipi- ter falls from the sky in the form of rain,
tation. snow, sleet, or hail is called
B. A cold front that will bring quick rain, A. Condensation
snow, or hail means packing rain gear
but hoping not to need it after the front B. Precipitation
passes. C. Runoff and Collection
C. A stationary front that will cause an
D. Evaporation
extended period of clouds or precipitation
means packing rain gear and planning for 5710. Which statement is related to climate?
precipitation during your trip.
A. The temperature has never dropped
D. A warm front that may cause a few
below 0◦ C in April.
days of clouds and rain, followed by clear
weather means packing rain gear and B. The barometric pressure is high today
planning outdoor activities for later in the C. The sky is dark and cloudy.
trip.
D. There is a severe thunderstorm warn-
5706. What cloud type is pictured? ing for the Dallas area.
5711. What is the weather of a certain area

over a long period of time?
A. climate zone
B. moisture
C. climate
A. cumulus D. element
B. stratocirrus
5712. The cooling of warm, humid air will
C. cumulonimbus most likely bring what type of precipita-
D. nimbocirrus tion?
5707. Equator is a line A. hail
A. Latitudinal B. rain
B. Longitudinal C. sleet
C. None of these D. snow

5713. What does the graph tell us about the 5717. Which zone has the the coldest place on
humidity in any given location on Earth? earth?
A. Tropical
B. Temperate
C. Polar
D. none of above
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5718. What is precipitation?
A. Falling air pressure
A. The warmer the air temperature, the
greater the humidity. B. Water falling as hail, rain sleet or snow
B. The warmer the temperature, the C. High wind speeds
more likely for precipitation. D. Measurement of cloud cover
C. Humidity depends on how close a loca-
5719. Which is not a factor that affects cli-
tion is to a body of water.
mate?
D. As temperature rises, the amount of
A. altitude
water vapor in the air decreases.
B. latitude
5714. The second layer of the atmosphere up
C. lakes and oceans
from Earth, where the ozone layer is that
protects us from harmful UV rays, is the D. living organisms
A. thermosphere 5720. A person that studies, reports and fore-
B. stratosphere cast weather conditions is a
C. troposphere A. radiologist
D. mesosphere B. geologist
5715. The two properties of ocean water that C. astronomer

influence density are: D. meteorologist
A. location and precipitation 5721. An air mass is a large mass of air that
B. salinity and speed is defined by its temperature and
C. speed and temperature
D. temperature and salinity
5716. Which factor should a student include in
a model to explain differences in tempera-
ture at Earth’s equator and Earth’s poles?
A. density of air at different altitudes
B. intensity of sunlight at different angles
A. Elevation (altitude)
C. movement of thermal energy by ocean
currents B. Water vapor content (humidity)
D. movement of air influenced by the Cori- C. Strength

olis effect D. Weather

5722. Why do we experience the changing of 5725. A cloud is a dense, visible mass of
the season on the earth? A. tiny water droplets.

A. distance from the sun B. ice crystals.
B. rotation of the earth C. water vapor.
C. change in solar output D. both tiny water droplets and ice crys-
tals.
D. tilt of the earth’s axis
5726. It is usually at higher elevations and
5723. What does a thermometer measure? at lower elevations.
A. warmer, cooler
B. cooler, warmer
C. cooler, cooler
D. warmer, warmer
5727. What is water vapor?
A. Water in lakes, rivers, oceans, etc.
B. Water in a cup.
C. Water from space.
D. Water that hangs in the atmosphere.
5728. CLIMATE
A. REMAINS SAME YEAR AFTER YEAR
B. KEEPS CHANGING EVERY YEAR
A. Amount of rain fall
C. CHANGES EVERY HOUR
B. Temperature
D. SOMETIMES IT CHANGES
C. Wind direction
5729. Which term means the conditions that
D. Air pressure are seen from season to season and year
to year over a certain location?
5724. The picture represents the symbol for a
Front. A. Weather
B. Climate
C. Ecosystem
D. none of above
5730. Warm air near the Earth’s surface rises
and then cools and drops, this creates a
in the atmosphere.
A. Cold A. run-off
B. Warm B. Greenhouse Effect
C. Occluded C. convection current
D. Stationary D. water cycle

5731. Choose the best forecast for Seattle on 5735. It was 85 degrees yesterday in Miami.
Saturday. A. Climate
B. Weather
A. The usual weather in an area (or re-
gion) over a long period of time
B. The mixture of gases that surrounds a
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. rain planet, or air in a particular place
B. sunny skies C. The condition of the atmosphere at a
certain time and place
C. warmer temperatures
D. An expert in or student of meteorology;
D. snow a weather forecaster.
5732. To measure temperature we use 5737. High pressure means what
A. snow gauge A. Sunny and nice weather
B. hygrometer B. cloudy and rainy weather
C. Anemometer
5738. The ability of the air to hold water de-
D. thermometer pends on its
5733. What is the most important factor that A. air pressure
creates land and sea breezes? B. thermometer
A. The sea water has dissolved salt, the C. temperature
land does not. D. water vapor
B. The air above the land and water heats
up differently. 5739. The amount of precipitation measured
over the course of a year
C. The shape of the land is constantly
changed by the water. A. Weather
D. More people visit the ocean during the B. Climate

day than at night. 5740. Is the climate near the equator line the
?
5734. The red line in a climate graph repre-
sents what?
A. Temperature A. Warmest
B. Precipitation B. Coldest
C. Wind Direction C. Hottest

5741. Which of the following is not a form of 5747. Why is the greenhouse effect impor-
precipitation? tant?

A. Rain A. It helps to keep our planet warm and
B. Wind sustain life on earth.
C. Snow B. It helps us to grow plants in a green-
house.
D. Hail
C. It helps to cool our planet down and
5742. As altitude increases (you climb a moun- sustain life on earth.
tain) what happens to temperature?
D. none of above
A. temperature gets hotter
5748. What helps protect a house’s roof from
B. temperature gets colder
wind and rain damage?
5743. There is a cold front moving into the A. Boarded up windows
area later today.
B. Shingles
A. Weather
C. Sand bags
B. Climate
D. Lightning rod
5744. True or False:Earth is tilted on an axis
5749. When 2 different air masses meet and
come to a standstill
A. True
A. Warm Front
B. False
B. Cold Front
5745. A scientist who studies and predicts C. Stationary Front
weather is a
D. none of above
A. meteorologist
B. weather guru 5750. Seattle, is surrounded by the Pacific
coast. Bismark, ND is in the North Central
C. natural hazard U.S. They are both at about the same lat-
D. paleontologist itude. Why does Seattle experience much
less severe winters?
5746. What do you call water that goes into
the air?
A. Evaporation
B. condensation
C. precipitation
D. collection

A. Cold air masses settle away from bod- B. The air temperatures over land would
ies of water decrease.
B. It is warmer in the central part of the C. Less water would evaporate into the
U.S. atmosphere and cause a drought.
C. The Pacific ocean releases heat and D. More water would evaporate into the
keeps Seattle warmer atmosphere and lead to more rain.
D. Seattle is slightly closer to the sun dur- 5754. A rule or pattern based on limited infor-
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ing the winter months mation is a generalization.
A. True
5751. According to the diagram of the water
cycle, what happens to the water in the B. False
oceans before it becomes water in the at- 5755. It cannot snow on high mountains near
mosphere? the equator
A. false
B. true
5756. Winds that blow from west to east are
called?
A. global winds
B. Westerlies
C. Easterlies
D. Tradewinds
A. It evaporates.
B. It becomes a liquid. 5757. Which storm forms over water?
C. It is sent to the Sun.

D. It turns into precipitation.
5752. What’s the humidity and temperature of

a continental tropical air mass?
A. Wet and cold
B. Dry and warm A. tornado
C. Wet and warm B. hurricane
D. Dry and cold C. thunderstorm
5753. El Niño is an ocean current that is D. none of above
warmer than normal and recurs every few 5758. What is the most abundant gas found in
years in the Pacific Ocean. What effect the atmosphere?
would warmer waters have on weather
A. Carbon Dioxide
States? B. Nitrogen
A. The wind speeds over water would de- C. Oxygen
crease. D. Water Vapor

5759. Which of the following air masses forms B. Land breeze-nighttime

over land north of 50◦ north latitude? C. Sea breeze-daytime

A. maritime polar D. Sea breeze-nighttime
B. temperate continental
5765. Which one of the following does NOT de-
C. continental polar
scribe weather?
A. the force of the wind through the trees
5760. An example of a long-term climate B. if it is raining or not
change that occurs naturally is
C. the amount of water pollution in a lake
A. an ice age.
D. the number of clouds there are in the
B. an El Nino. sky
C. global warming.
5766. How does a mountain affect an air mass
D. the greenhouse effect. blowing over it?
5761. This week was the hottest week of the A. the mountain changes the air mass
year. from dry to wet
A. weather B. rain or snow falls on the side the air
mass hits first
B. climate
C. the side the air mass hits first always
5762. This determines the type of animals that remains dry
can live there.
D. neither side is dry
A. Weather
B. Climate 5767. months, years, or at least a season
C. Longitude A. weather only
D. International Date Line B. climate only

5763. Lines joining places have similar atmo-
spheric pressure at a particular time is D. none of above
called
5768. The correct geographical term for any
A. Isobars water falling from the sky is:
B. Isotherms A. Precipitation
5764. What kind of breeze is this and when B. Condensation
would it form? C. Evaporation
D. Transpiration
5769. During a it is important that you

board up all windows and stay away from
windows. Also, move further inland if you
are near the coast.
A. hurricane
A. Land breeze-daytime B. rain storm

C. thunderstorm 5775. What are long distance winds that

D. tornado travel above global winds for thousands
of miles called?
5770. seasons are caused by A. Winds
A. the sun’s cycle B. Global Winds
B. the greenhouse effect C. Jet Streams
C. sunspots D. Fronts
NARAYAN CHANGDER
D. the tilt of the Earth’s axis
5776. In what layer of the atmosphere would
5771. Two types of ocean currents are you find clouds and weather?
A. local and global A. troposphere
B. sea and land B. stratosphere
C. surface and deep C. mesosphere
D. warm and cold D. thermosphere
5772. The average weather of a place over 5777. Which of the following best describes
many years is the tilt of the earth when it is summer in
the southern hemisphere?
A. weather
A. The northern hemisphere is tilted to-
B. climate ward the sun
C. precipitation B. The northern hemisphere is tilted
D. temperature away from the sun
5773. What would this climate most likely be? C. The southern hemisphere is tilted to-
ward the sun
D. The southern hemisphere is tilted
away from the sun
A. The amount of wind in the air
B. The amount of moisture in the air
A. Tropical C. The amount of precipitation in the air
B. Desert D. The amount of clouds in the air
C. Temperate 5779. It is raining

D. Mediterranean A. weather
B. climate
5774. The condition of the Earth’s atmosphere
at a particular time and place is known as 5780. The People who study climate is called?
A. Climate A. geneticist
B. Weather B. Climatologists
C. Conditions C. palaeontologist
D. Temperature D. ecologist

5781. Word monsoon is derived from Menominee, experience more stable tem-
A. Latin word peratures than areas that are farther in-
land and away from the lakes?

B. Arabic word
A. The elevation of the cities of the coast
5782. The main human activity that releases is higher than the elevation of cities inland
greenhouse gases is causing temperatures to be more stable
A. using public transportation and there B. The Great Lakes are a basin of water,
by reduce the affects of greenhouse which both holds and releases heat due to
gases. the specific heat of water, stabilizing the
temperature of the cities near the water
B. burning fossil fuels
C. The air masses near the Great Lakes
C. texting on cellphones
hold a lot more moisture than the air
D. eating meat masses farther inland which help keep
temperatures stable
5783. The main reason land and sea breezes
exist is because: D. The Great Lakes do not influence the
temperatures of the land around them.
A. the earth revolves around the sun The only thing that influences tempera-
B. the earth is tilted on an axis ture is the cold air masses coming down
C. of the temperature difference be- from Canada
tween land and water 5787. What does a meteorologist do?
D. of global warming A. Studies what happens when you mix to-
5784. This is the state of temperature at a gether different chemicals.
given place and time. B. Studies the planets.
A. weather C. Studies weather patterns and make
predictions of future weather (let us know
B. climate
what weather to expect)
C. both
D. Play video games
D. none of above
5788. is a measure of how hot or cold
5785. If the temperature of an object is 30◦
C, something is
which of the following final temperatures A. Humidity
would indicate the MOST heat that was re-
moved from this object? [hint:consider the B. Temperature
amount of differences] C. Water
A. 40◦ C D. Precipitation
B. 30◦ C 5789. What is used to reset Six’s maximum
C. 20◦ C and minimum thermometer?
D. 10◦ C A. Hammer
B. Need to buy a special instrument to re-
5786. Think about the microclimates of areas set it.
surrounding the Great Lakes. Which state-
ment best describes why areas immedi- C. Magnet
ately surrounding the Great Lakes, such as D. None of the above

5790. What is the wind speed for the follow- 5794. On which kind of day would you expect
ing station model? the most evaporation from the surface of
a pond?
A. sunny and hot
B. sunny and cold
C. rainy and hot
D. rainy and cold
NARAYAN CHANGDER
5795. what instrument tells the direction of
wind
A. windvane
A. 10 knots
B. hygrometer
B. 15 knots
C. bantometer
C. 20 knots
D. 25 knots D. thermometer
5791. Pieces of information used to analyze in- 5796. What does the picture show?
formation
A. experiment
B. Conclusion
C. Questions
D. Data
5792. determine the cropping pattern of a
country.
A. Hail
A. Wind
B. Electrical charges
B. Climate
C. Supercell thunderstorm
C. Weather
5793. Water Vapor rises from the Earth’s sur- 5797. When water falls from the sky, it is
face during this phase of the water cycle. called:
A. Condensation A. Elevation
B. Evaporation B. Evaporation
C. Precipitation C. Condensation
D. Run Off D. Precipitation

5798. Psychrometers are used to measure 5802. Which of the following best describes
how clouds are formed?

A. Clouds are formed when the wind
blows water vapor quickly across the sky.
B. Clouds are formed when water vapor
in the air rises, cools and condenses.
C. Clouds are formed when moisture
builds up in the sky.
D. Clouds are formed when the birds
A. air pressure breathe out too much air.
B. humidity
5803. What is the hydrosphere?
C. precipitation
D. wind speed
5799. Under what conditions will the vortex

of a tornado form?
A. When air masses of very different tem-
perature and humidity conditions meet
B. When water spirals in a whirlpool
C. When deep ocean currents result from
changes in temperature B. made up of living things
D. When greenhouse gases trap the
of the Earth
earth’s heat
5800. Which table correctly classifies state- Earth
ments about weather and climate?
5804. What is a tornado?
A.
A. a violently rotating column of air
B. a rotating tropical storm
B.
C. a winter storm characterized by high
winds and snow
C.
D. a storm that occurs in cumulonimbus
clouds
D.
5805. What day did it rain the most?
A. differences in air pressure
B. differences in gravity
C. difference in oxygen
D. differences in the thermosphere

A. Day 1 B. B:None of the options

B. Day 2 C. c:It represents Pretty isn’t everything
C. Day 3 D. d:A and C both
D. Day 4
5806. which of the following does NOT collect
weather related data from the upper atmo-
sphere?
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A. weather balloon
B. doppler radar
C. psychrometer
D. weather satellite
5807. Human skin contains melanin. Melanin

helps protect the skin from which environ-
A. Atmosphere conditions over a long
mental factor?
time
A. Extreme humidity
B. Atmosphere conditions at a certain
B. Subzero temperatures time and place
C. Ultraviolet rays from the sun C. The temperature of an area
D. Acid Rain D. The amount of rain an area receives
5808. Which two factors are usually included
5811. The condition in the atmosphere over a
in descriptions of climate?
short period of time is called
A. climate
B. weather
C. global warming
D. temperature and precipitation
D. atmospheric pressure
5809. What does Black represent in BLACK-
PINK? 5812. a body of air that has about the same
temperature and moisture throughout
A. Air mass
B. Air pressure
C. Dew point
D. Fog
E. Jet Stream
5813. Over a small area eg Stockton
A. a:That BLACKPINK is for boys and girls A. Weather

both B. Climate

5814. What are the three things needed to 5820. Which sentence best describes the rela-
make weather? tionship between elevation and air temper-
atures?

A. Sand, plants, and rocks
B. People, places, and things A. LOWER elevation = COLDER tempera-
tures
C. Air, water, and heat
B. HIGHER elevation = COLDER temper-
D. Gravity, forces, and electricity atures
5815. Which of the following is NOT a factor C. HIGHER elevations = WARMER tem-
that affects climate? peratures
A. latitude D. There is no relationship
B. geography 5821. Sources of information is called
C. altitude A. Hypothesis
D. weather forecast B. Data
C. Investigation
5816. The graph shows the rainfall in Florida.
Which season gets the most rain? D. none of above
A. Winter 5822. Cool air is than warm air.
B. Spring A. Prettier
C. Summer B. Heavier
D. Fall C. Darker
5817. This is measured and recorded daily- D. Lighter
A. climate. 5823. Wind and weather is caused by uneven

of Earth.
B. weather.
A. Heating
C. seasons.
B. Wind
D. none of above
C. Water Vapor
5818. A heavy snowstorm is called a ? D. none of above
A. Tornado
5824. Heat in the atmosphere is caused by the
B. Hurricane
C. thunderstorm A. Altitude
D. blizzard B. Sun
5819. Without any greenhouse effect the C. Asphalt
Earth would be D. none of above
A. Fine
5825. The short-term condition of the atmo-
B. Too Cold to Support Life sphere.
C. Very Hot A. Climate

5826. Factors in a ecosystem C. none of the above

A. abiotic D. All
B. stones
5832. MOUNT IS THE HIGHEST MOUN-
C. biotic TAIN IN AFRICA.
D. animals A. EVEREST
5827. Sunlight hits the Earth most directly B. KILIMANJARO
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. at the poles C. SAGARMATHA
B. at the equator D. MEGHARITTA
C. 30*N and 30*S
5833. Which term describes a circulation of air
D. 60*N and 60*S
or water that is caused by uneven heat-
5828. Cold air is more dense than warm air. ing?
When a cold air mass moves into a warm A. Convection Current
air mass, causing a cold front, the warm
air mass is B. Conduction Current
A. squeezing downward, causing clouds C. Radiation Current

and rain D. Emission Current
B. wedged upward, where its water va-
por condenses 5834. The measure of mass per volume.
C. forced backward, as the approaching A. StratosphereB.C.D.
cold air replaces it B. Density
D. compressed into a smaller mass, as it C. Cloud
becomes even warmer
D. Weather pattern
5829. As you get farther away from the Earth,
the layers of the atmosphere get 5835. Which climograph has the most precipi-
A. colder tation during the winter?
B. warmer
5830. Earth’s rotation makes global winds

curve. This is called the
A. convection effect
B. global effect
C. Coriolis effect
D. rotational effect
A. A
5831. I have little tree’s but alot of Grass and
Plants what am i B. B
A. A Grassland C. C
B. A Forest D. D

5836. A snowflake is changing its shape as it 5840. Choose the correct option
descends from the sky during the water
cycle. Which factor is most likely affecting

the snowflake’s shape?
A. change in wind
B. change in cloud color
C. change in cloud shape
D. change in temperature
5837. This front occurs when a warm air mass

meets a cold air mass and stops.
A. High Air Pressure

B. High Temperatures
C. Heavy Rain
D. Hail
5841. The closer a place is to the , the

A. occluded front warmer it will be
B. warm front
C. stationary front
D. cold front
5838. Which must be present before a hurri-

cane can develop? A. Sun
B. North and South Pole
A. a high pressure cell
C. Equator
B. warm, moist air
D. none of above
C. a warm front
5842. Which Climate Zone is the arrow point-
D. cool, turbulent air
ing to?
5839. The lowermost portion of the atmo-
sphere where most weather occurs is
called the
A. upper atmosphere
B. ozone layer
C. troposphere
D. stratosphere
E. tropopause tagsSC.912.E.7.4 A. Polar

B. Temperate 5847. It was cloudy and rainy all weekend, it’s

C. Tropical an example of.
D. none of above A. Weather

B. Climate
5843. Climate can change
A. day to day 5848. Air pressure flows from
B. from week to week A. high to low
NARAYAN CHANGDER
C. over ten to twenty years B. low to high
D. over hundreds or thousands of years C. top to bottom
or longer D. none of the others
5844. What will happen when the relative hu- 5849. It’s been like this for the last 3 days.
midity of an air mass reaches 100%? What kind of front is shown?
A. The relative humidity will stay at 100%.
B. The relative humidity will continue to
increase.
C. Precipitation will likely stop, decreas-
ing the relative humidity.
D. Precipitation is likely to occur, de-
creasing the relative humidity.
5845. What type of weather can you expect

from a High pressure system?
A. warm front
A. warm weather
B. cold front
B. sunny, clear weather
C. occluded
C. stormy, cloudy weather
D. stationary
D. cold weather
5846. The diagram shows a wind pattern at
specific time is referred to as the areas:
a coastal mountain.Which of these is the
most likely weather condition at Location A. high pressure
2 when compared to Location 1? B. low pressure
C. weather
D. climate
5851. Which of the following increases air’s

A. Location 2 has less rain.
ability to hold water vapor?
B. Location 2 is hotter.
A. increase in wind speed
C. Location 2 experiences more hurri-
canes. B. increase in temperature
D. Location 2 has higher average wind C. decrease in temperature

speeds. D. decrease in air pressure

5852. Weather in the United States flows C. torrid zone

from
D. temperate zone

A. East to West (right to left)
B. West to East (left to right) 5858. An electrical discharge that happens be-
tween a positively charged area and a neg-
C. North to South (top to bottom) atively charged area.
D. South to North (bottom to top)
A. lightning
5853. precipitation B. thudnerstorm
A. only the rain from the summer C. tornado
B. the snow accumulation in January
D. hurricane
C. moisture in the air
E. storm surge
D. any form of water that falls from
clouds and reaches Earth’s surface 5859. The upper layer of our atmosphere,
where atoms and molecules escape into
5854. The zone which is neither too hot nor
space.
too cold is:
A. Frigid Zone A. Exosphere
B. Torrid Zone B. Cold front

C. Temperate Zone C. Troposphere
D. none of above D. Occluded
5855. These symbols stand for what? 5860. Which describes the eye of a hurricane?
A. Sea level A. Brings winds of up to 300 km/h
B. Mountain ranges
B. Has warm, calm air and light winds
C. Barometric pressure
C. Has strong, spinning winds
D. How hard it is going to rain.
D. Has spiraling bands of heavy rain
A. Average atmospheric conditions over a 5861. WHAT IS IT?
B. Average precipitation at a certain time
and place.
C. Average temperature at a certain time
and place.
D. Actual atmospheric conditions at a par-
ticular place and time over a daily period.
A. Tropical rainforest
5857. types of heat zones in earth.(choose
that apply) B. Sahara desert
A. temperature zone C. Antarctica
B. frigid zone D. none of above

5862. These clouds are low in the sky and look C. June
soft and fluffy. They mean fair weather.
D. May
5867. What is water vapor?

A. Water on the land (geosphere)
B. Water in the air (atmosphere)
NARAYAN CHANGDER
C. Water in plants
D. Water in the water (hydrosphere)
A. Cirrus
B. Cumulus 5868. What is the correct term for a body of
air that has similar temperature and hu-
C. Stratus midity?
D. none of above
A. pressure
5863. The summers in Texas are warmer than B. air mass
the summers in Colorado
C. ocean current
A. Weather
B. Climate D. front boundary
5864. The condition of the outside air or atmo- 5869. The two most important elements of cli-
sphere at a particular time and place. mate are
A. atmosphere A. elevation and temperature
B. weather B. weather and elevation
C. meteorologist
D. precipitation
D. precipitation and global winds
5865. T or F:It is cooler outside the Tropics be-
cause the sun is directly overhead. 5870. what type of cloud is shown?
A. T
B. F
5866. Which month had the lowest average

rainfall in 2014?
A. cumulus
B. cirrus
A. January C. stratus
B. March D. none of above

5871. Long term weather patterns 5875. What information is NOT given on the
map?

A. The location of isobars
B. Direction and location of fronts
C. Weather conditions
A. Weather D. The weekly weather forecast
B. Climate
5876. What do you think is a desert climate?
5872. When there is high pressure, the sky is A. Very warm to hot summers, mild to
because the air sinks and is warm. cool winters.
A. Cloudy B. Hot and wet summer and dry winter.
B. Clear C. Hot and dry summer and winter.
5873. What is a hurricane? D. Hot and warm summer, mild and wet
winter.
A. A tropical tornado with rain speeds of
over 74mph 5877. Prevailing winds tend to move over
B. A tropical storm with wind speeds of the US and Canada.
over 96mph A. west to east
C. A tropical storm with wind speeds of B. east to west
over 74mph
5878. The fall of water, ice, or snow deposited
D. A tropical tsunami with wind speeds of on the surface of the Earth from the atmo-
over 74mph. sphere
5874. The prefix “cirro” can be applied to dif-
ferent cloud types. “Cirro” means
A. precipitation A. Condensation
B. low altitude B. Evaporation
C. middle altitude C. Precipitation
D. high altitude D. Transpiration

5879. A warm front usually brings what type

of weather conditions?
A. The poles receive more energy than
NARAYAN CHANGDER
anywhere else on Earth.
B. There is more sunlight per unit of sur-
A. cold temperatures with stormy condi- face area.
tions
C. Santa must use lights all day and night
B. warmer temperatures with a slight
in the North Pole from June to September.
chance of precipitation
D. The poles receive very little energy per
C. cooler weather all day
unit of surface area.
D. warmer temperatures with strong
storms 5883. The the isobars on a map are
to/from one another the the wind.
5880. the amount of solar radiation reaching a
A. closer, slower
given area. the amount of solar radiation
reaching a given area. B. closer, faster
A. Solar radiation C. farther, faster
B. Insolation D. none of above
C. Radiation 5884. The zone which is neither too hot nor
D. All of these too cold is:
A. Frigid Zone
5881. A cold front pushes a warm front up and
out of the way and then meets another B. Torrid Zone
cold front. C. Neither of the above
D. none of above
5885. Any amount of CO2 (Carbon Dioxide) in

the atmosphere is bad for our planet.
A. True
A. Cold Front B. False
B. Warm Front 5886. Why was the weather balloon data col-
C. Stationary Front lected at midnight?
D. Occluded Front A. It is the most quiet then

B. It is the least windy then
5882. At latitudes near the North Pole and
South Pole, sunlight strikes Earth’s surface C. Sunlight is absent at midnight
at a low angle. This causes which effect? D. There are less people around

5887. The Coriolis Effect is caused by what? 5893. Which of the following is true about lat-
itude?
A. The wind blowing

B. Earth’s gravity pulling things down
C. The rotation of the Earth
D. The pull of the Moon
5888. Climate is
A. What is expected to happen
A. Places located at high latitude re-
B. What is happening now ceives less sunlight than places at low lat-
itude.
5889. In what layer of the atmosphere does
most weather occur? B. Places located at high latitude re-
ceives greater sunlight than places at low
A. Thermosphere latitude.
B. Mesosphere C. Places located at low latitude receives
C. Stratosphere less sunlight than places at high latitude.
D. Troposhere D. Places in each latitude receives equal

amount of sunlight
5890. The layer of the atmosphere closest to 5894. What is the main factor that determines
Earth is called the: global wind pattern?
A. Troposphere A. Mountain ranges and large water bod-
B. Stratosphere ies
C. Exosphere B. Earth’s yearly revolution around the

Sun
D. Mesosphere
C. Uneven heating of Earth’s surface by
the sun
temperature? D. The direction of ocean currents
A. thermometer 5895. Where is the sunny day?
B. anemometer
A.
C. hydrometer
D. rain gauge
B.
5892. The higher one is in the atmosphere the
oxygen there is available to breathe.
A. more C.
B. same amount of
C. less
D.
D. none of above

5896. Sandra visited her grandma in Florida C. Really large air masses that are cre-
over Thanksgiving. She noticed that they ated mainly as a result of the earth’s rota-
were selling bathing suits at the stores. tion
Her grandma said they sell bathing suits D. none of above
all year because Florida is warm.
A. weather 5901. A change in temperature, precipitation,
or other weather patterns over a long time
B. climate is called
NARAYAN CHANGDER
5897. These clouds are low in the sky and look A. Climate change
soft and fluffy. They mean fair weather. B. Elevation
C. Weather change
D. Latitude
5902. The water cycle is powered by the sun.

A. True
B. False
A. Cirrus 5903. Every few years, an event occurs in
B. Stratus which the waters in the eastern Pa-
cific Ocean become warmer. This event
C. Cumulus
changes weather patterns worldwide,
D. none of above causing droughts, floods, blizzards, hurri-
canes, and tornadoes. What is the name
5898. The scientist who study weather are of this event?
called
A. Typhoon
A. cartographers
B. The boy
B. meteorologist
C. Global conveyor
C. climatologist
D. Kuroshio Current
D. none of above
5904. What two characteristics are used to
5899. Frigid zone is the zone classify air masses?
A. Hottest A. Elevation and speed of movement
B. Coldest B. Temperature and humidity
C. Moderate C. Humidity and speed of movement
D. Both (a) and (b) D. Temperature and elevation
5900. What are global winds? 5905. The climate in North Pole, Alaska, is
A. The weather conditions prevailing in most likely an example of what kind of
an area in general or over a long period climate?
B. A storm with a violent wind, in particu- A. Polar (E)

lar a tropical cyclone in the Caribbean B. Dry (B)

C. Humid mid-latitude with Mild winters 5910. Clouds are observed in a low pressure
(C) area over Georgia, and clear skies are ob-
served in a high pressure area above Al-

D. Continental (D)
abama. Which of the following is most
5906. Which statement describe parts of the likely to occur?
water cycle and how clouds form? 1. Wa- A. Wind will blow the clouds in a westerly
ter evaporates from the earth’s surface as direction toward Alabama.
it changes from a liquid to a gas. 2. Wa-
ter vapor rises with rising, warm air. 3. B. The warn air will cause the clouds to
At higher altitudes, where temperatures evaporate.
are cool, vapor (along with dust particles) C. The clouds will move east, toward the
condenses into drops of water that form Atlantic Ocean.
clouds. 4. Low-pressure conditions also
D. A thunderstorm will occur between the
help clouds form.
two areas.
A. 1 and 2
5911. Climate or Weather? Many areas like
B. 1, 2, 4
the Sahara Desert and Death Valley, Cal-
C. 1 and 3 ifornia remain very dry for most of the
D. all of the above year.
A. Climate
B. Weather
A. the condition of the atmosphere at any
given time and place 5912. Which of these negative effects is most
B. cloud cover and temperature likely to occur because of global warming?
C. precipitation and humidity at a given A. rising sea levels
time and place B. shorter growing seasons
D. weather conditions in an area over a C. increased volcanic eruptions
long period of time
D. falling sea levels
5908. What are clouds made of?
5913. How hot or cold something is-
A. water droplets, ice crystals, and dust
A. friction
B. water droplets and rocks
B. temperature
C. only water droplets
C. gravity
D. none of above
D. none of above
5909. air temperature, air pressure, humidity,
precipitation, clouds and fog, wind, etc. 5914. Periodic wind is also called
A. wind A. seasonal wind
B. elements of weather B. monsoon wind
C. climate C. polar wind
D. wind D. none of above

5915. Which statement best describes the dif- B. Is less dense and falls
ference between weather and climate? C. Is more dense and rises
D. Is less dense and rises
5919. Wind doesn’t move in a straight line be-
cause of the Coriolis Effect. What causes
this?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. Weather is the conditions when you
look outside while climate is the con-
ditions you can expect for the next 6
months.
B. Climate is the current condition out-
side while weather is what you can expect
for the next 6 months. A. The Earth’s rotation
B. The Earth’s revolution
5916. This weather tool is used to measure
C. The gravitational pull of the moon
D. The gravitational pull of the Sun
5920. What is this thermometer indicating?
A. Temperature
B. Rainfall
C. Wind Speed
D. Humidity A. Hot weather
5917. The instrument used to measure the B. Low air pressure
wind speed is C. Cold temperatures
A. Barometer D. High wind speeds
B. hygrometer 5921. What is air mass?
C. Pyranometer A. . huge amounts of air that form over
D. Anemometer parts of the earth
B. strong winds concentrated in a rela-
5918. Warm air: tively narrow stream in the upper atmo-
A. Is more dense and falls sphere of the earth

C. any form of water that falls to the 5926. Which climate zone is found at the red
earth from the air star?

D. the weight of the air over a given point
5922. Areas in Michigan close to Lake Michi-
gan have had great success in growing
fruit. What conditions exist in these loca-
tions that make this area well known as
the fruit belt?
A. The land areas near Lake Michigan are
sheltered from strong winds that would
otherwise damage crops.
B. The land near the lakes have a lot of
hills and mountains that force warm air
downward toward the fruit trees. A. Tropical
C. During winter, the Great Lakes act as a
B. Temperate
heat source, helping to regulate extreme
temperatures in the surrounding areas. C. Polar
D. Warm stable air masses result from D. none of above
the lake absorbing more heat during the
winter and giving off excess heat during 5927. The weather in the Temperate Zones
the summer.
5923. What are the three main climate zones? A. is hot
A. mountainous, coastal, and desert B. is cold
B. urban, suburban, and rural
C. tropical, temperate, and polar
D. none of above
D. dry, wet, and windy
5924. Which atmospheric layer is the ozone 5928. Day and night are caused by Earth’s
layer found? A. rotation.
A. Troposphere
B. revolution.
B. Stratosphere
C. orbit.
C. Mesosphere
D. Thermosphere D. tilt.
5925. What part of the water cycle is when 5929. A is the dry area on the inland side
water gathers in oceans, lakes, rivers, or of a mountain.
groundwater?
A. natural landform
A. evaporation
B. rain shadow
B. condensation
C. precipitation C. water vapor
D. runoff and collection D. water cycle

5930. This is the process of water changing 5934. If it rains in the morning and is sunny in
from a gas to a liquid. You will see clouds the afternoon it is describing
forming when this happens. A. Weather
A. condensation B. Climate
B. evaporation
5935. What type of front is over Texas?
C. precipitation
D. run-off
NARAYAN CHANGDER
E. transpiration
5931. What 2 pieces of evidence are there for

continental drift?
A. continents fit like a jigsaw puzzle and
fossil record
B. similar mountain ranges around the A. warm front
world, one plant species on all continents B. cold front
C. gold and diamond deposits on all con- C. stationary front
tinents D. occluded front
5936. Ocean water is more dense than fresh
5932. The higher the altitude of a city, the water at the same temperature due to dif-
the temperatures are. ferences in:
A. Wind patterns
B. Lifeforms
C. Currents
D. Salinity

map?
A. higher
B. lower
C. more consistent
D. weirder
5933. what am i am gray somtime im white i

got good ears to hear far what animal am
i
A. Wolf Tundra A. Sandstorm
B. Fox grassland B. smoke
C. Wolf Forest C. Sand
D. Deer Rainforest D. Storms ahead

5938. We are currently living in a(n) cli- B. The warm air over the ocean rushes in
mate. to replace the cool air that rises over the
land.

A. Icehouse
B. Greenhouse C. The heavy, cool air over the ocean
rushes in to replace the warm air that
5939. Does the following statement represent rises over the land.
weather or climate? Phoenix, Arizona has
very hot summers. D. There are no clouds to block the wind
coming in from the ocean.
A. weather
B. climate 5943. A psychrometer measures. (a)
5940. The heavy rain last week caused a flood A. a humidity
B. temperature
C. air pressure
D. wind direction
5944. This is sometimes called a thunderhead

cloud. It looks very tall like mountains and
A. Weather heavy rain comes from it.
B. Climate A. Cumulus
5941. Which tornado is the most rare? B. Cirrus
C. Stratus
D. Cumulonimbus
5945. things that affect :shape of land, el-

evation, closeness to equator, ocean cur-
rents, nearness to water
A. weather
A. F1
B. climate
B. FZ
C. Fch 5946. Which type of data would MOST help
D. F5 a meteorologist determine whether a
nearby weather system is headed toward
5942. At the seashore late in the afternoon on a certain area?
a hot, sunny day, a person often feels a
strong breeze coming in from the ocean. A. Humidity
Which of the following is the reason for B. Wind speed
the breeze?
C. Temperature
A. The pounding waves generate air cur-
rents. D. Wind direction

5947. Based on the weather map, what can 5951. Which description describes CLIMATE?
you predict the weather in Florida? A. Today it is cold and snowy in Colorado.
B. Last week it rained in Austin.
C. Yesterday it was warm and sunny so I
went to the beach.
D. Winters are usually very cold and
snowy in Chicago.
NARAYAN CHANGDER
5952. is created when cool air moves in to
A. It is storming today and tomorrow. replace warm.
B. It is most likely going to rain there to- A. land breeze
morrow. B. wind
C. The air temperature will be getting C. high tides
warmer and dry.
D. none of the other choices
D. You cannot predict the weather from a
weather map. 5953. The atmosphere is made up mostly of
A. Oxygen
5948. A red line with half circles on it show
B. Nitrogen
that there is a
C. Carbon Dioxide
D. none of above
5954. A warm front means the air tempera-

ture will
A. Warm Front
A. stay the same
B. Cold Front
B. increase
C. Hight Pressure
C. decrease
D. Low Pressure
D. none of above
5949. where do land breeze & sea breeze oc- 5955. Last week there was a hurricane in Cen-
cur tral America.
A. sea
B. land
C. coastal area
D. none of above
5950. What type of front does this represent?

A. Stationary
B. Occluded
C. Cold A. Weather.
D. Warm B. Climate.

5956. Climate is C. Hot and Cold

A. The weather over an extended period D. Magic

of time
5960. In what ways are a hurricane and a tor-
B. What is going on in the atmosphere nado alike?
right now
A. Both are usually around 650 km across
C. weather in a specific area
B. Both form over warm, tropical waters
D. the process of the water cycle
C. Both contain winds that spiral very
5957. Why do meteorologist use this tool? rapidly
D. The path of destruction for both is usu-
ally equal in diameter
5961. in which direction do all air masses

move?
A. East to West
B. West to East
A. To measure temperatue
C. West to South
B. To measure wind direction
D. none of above
C. To measure snow fall
5962. Which process forms the object labeled
D. To measure rainfall
“2” in the diagram?
A. average weather over a long period of
time
B. average precipitation at a certain time
and place
C. average temperature at a certain time
and place
D. what’s happening in our atmosphere
at a certain time and place A. condensation
B. runoff
5959. What causes seasons to change?
C. precipitation
D. evaporation
5963. Elevation, how high up the land is from

the sea level does not impact climate
A. Earth’s rotation
B. Earth’s tilt

A. True 5970. In which type of climate, the place re-

B. False mains under ice and snow throughout the
year?
5964. Weather conditions stay for a period A. Tropical
of time.
B. Tundra
A. Long
C. Moderate
B. Short
D. Desert
NARAYAN CHANGDER
5965. What are some key features of
Tairawhiti’s climate? Tick all that are cor- 5971. Climate is the average temperature,
rect. precipitation, humidity, wind, etc over
A. Lower rainfall than western and cen- a long period of time
tral NZ A. True
B. Southwesterly prevailing winds B. False
C. Tornadoes
5972. The sun’s energy produces the
D. About 2000 sunshine hours each year
A. Coriolis effect
5966. The sun’s energy B. water cycle
A. changes daily C. seasons
B. heats the ocean before evaporation D. tides
C. directly causes evaporation
5973. What two factors are needed to mea-
D. none of above
sure wind?
5967. Which of these is not a weather hazard A. direction and speed
usually experienced in the UK?
B. temperature and speed
A. Thunderstorms
C. direction and temperature
B. Strong Winds
D. none of above
C. Hurricanes
D. Drought 5974. Which is continent E?
5968. Which of these describes evaporation?

A. Water vapor becomes a liquid.
B. Plants lose water through their leaves.
C. What comes down must go up.
D. Water warms up and becomes a vapor.
A. Asia
5969. The area that receives the least direct
B. Europe
rays of the sun (poles, 90◦ ) will have the
lowest yearly temperatures. C. Antarctica
A. True D. South America
B. False E. Africa

5975. Which of the tools below is a Hygrome- 5978. The coastal plains of India have cli-
ter? mate.

A. extreme
A. B. moderate
C. harsh
D. none of above
5979. Radiation
B. A. The distance in degrees north or south
of the equator
B. The amount of thermal energy re-
quired to increase the temp of 1 kg of ma-
terial 1 degree Celsius.
C.
C. The transfer of thermal energy be-
tween materials by the collisions of par-
ticles. (Transfer of energy through direct
contact)
D. The transfer of thermal energy by elec-
D. tromagnetic waves.
Explanation:
5976. What tool do u need to measure air
presure
A. thermometer 5980. What does this measure?
B. barometer
C. rain gauge
D. hygrometer
5977. What type of cloud is pictured?
A. Cirrus
B. Stratus
C. Cumulous A. rain fall
D. Cloud B. wind speed

C. wind direction C. niether

D. temperature D. none of above
5981. the weather conditions prevailing in an 5986. Which of the following situations is an
area in general or over a long period. example of condensation?
A. Weather A. car windows fogging up
B. Climate B. snow falling from the clouds
NARAYAN CHANGDER
5982. What describes the condition of the at- C. a pot of boiling water turning into gas
mosphere at a certain time and place? D. a plant releasing oxygen into the atmo-
A. climate sphere
B. weather 5987. The warming of the atmosphere by the
C. sub-tropical trapping of heat being radiated to space is
D. barometer called
A. evaporation
5983. storms form in what kind of weather
system B. condensation
A. high pressure system C. the greenhouse effect

B. low pressure system D. radiation
5984. The atmosphere allows life to exist on 5988. The atmospheric pressure is lowest at
the Earth because of different reasons. the mean sea level.
Which reason is FALSE? A. True
B. False
5989. Air is warmer and less dense at the

equator because the equator receives
more
A. wind
B. solar radiation
A. It maintains an adequate temperature
C. air pressure
B. It protects from the Sun’s damaging
rays D. condensation
C. The atmosphere produces meteorites 5990. Sleet forms when
which living creatures depend on
A. the air temperature is at or below
D. It has all the required gases for ani- freezing
mals and plants
B. raindrops collide with bits of ice in
5985. Which of the following brings cold wa- thunderstorm clouds
ter from the north near the poles? C. precipitation falls through a layer of
A. California Current very cold air near the ground
B. Gulf Stream D. the air temperature is above freezing

5991. What weather is currently happening at 5995. What are climate zones?
letter A? A. areas that are divided by precipitation

and temperature
B. different levels of hills and mountains
divided by altitude
C. weather at different times of day and
in different months
D. areas that are divided mainly by clouds
and time
A. dry, clear weather
5996. A sea breeze blows from the ocean to-
B. wet, rainy weather ward the shore. Why does this occur?
C. cloudy, cold wather A. High pressure over the land causes a
D. none of above downdraft to occur.
B. The tide carries the wind to the shore
5992. All matter moves from
as it moves back and forth.
A. Where there is less to where there is
C. Conduction of heat from the warm wa-
more
ter produces wind from the ocean.
B. Where there is more to where there is
D. Air over land heats faster than air over
less
water which causes convection.
C. Matter does not move
D. none of above
A. Degree of only coldness of the air
5993. This storm is the most powerful electri-
B. degree of hotness and coldness of the
cal storm. What storm is described?
air
A. Thunderstorm
C. Degree of only hotness of the air
B. Flood
D. none of above
C. Hurricane
5998. Which climate zone is Spain located in?
D. Tornado
A. temperate climate
5994. Determines the type of animals that can
B. cold climate
live there.
C. hot climate
D. none of above
5999. which is NOT possible without atmo-

sphere
A. sound
B. feel
A. Weather C. touch

6000. Definition of Weather 6005. Which climate has camels and cactus?
A. The condition of the ground at a partic- A. Tropical
ular place and time
B. Polar
B. The measurement of air pressure
C. Desert
C. The study of celestial bodies
D. The state of the atmosphere at a spe- D. none of above
cific place and time
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6006. A tropical storm that has winds of 119
6001. “The wind is blowing from the south” is kilometers per hour; typically 600 kilome-
an example of ters across.
A. wind vane
B. wind speed
C. wind direction
D. wind chill
6002. What produces convection currents in

A. front
A. only warm air rising
B. hurricane
B. only cool air sinking
C. thunderstorm
C. warm air rising and cool air sinking
D. warm air sinking and cool air rising D. land breeze
6003. When Earth receives energy from the 6007. What causes most of a hurricane’s dam-
Sun, some is absorbed by land and water. age?
A. wind
B. rain
C. storm surge
D. spring tides
6008. Is this a cirrocumulus cloud?

A. True
B. False
6004. CFCs and halons break down the ozone

layer and prevent the ozone layer from ab-
sorbing from the Sun
A. infrared light
B. ultraviolet light
C. gamma rays A. True
D. radio waves B. False

6009. This shows the unequal heating of land

and water by the sun’s rays. The pattern
seen here creates a current and also is

responsible, in part, for on Earth.
A. radiation; wind
A. Rain Gauge and the amount of water
B. conduction; wind that is in the air
C. convection; wind B. Rain Gauge and the amount of rain that
has fallen
D. radiation; weather
C. Hygrometer and the amount of rain
that has fallen
by sinking air. D. Hygrometer and the amount of water
that is in the air
A. High
6014. True of False? Animals that live in the
B. Low
desert have adapted to live with little wa-
ter since the desert gets little rainfall.
6011. Which weather tool measures tempera-
ture?
A. thermometer
B. barometer
C. psychrometer
D. anemometer
A. True
6012. December, January, and February are B. False
the months in this season.
6015. Which climate has very cold tempera-
A. Winter
tures all year and very little plant or an-
B. Spring imal life? There is very little precipitation
in this climate.
C. Summer
A. mountain
D. Autumn
B. temperate
6013. What is the name of this weather tool C. tropical

and what does it measure? D. polar

6016. What is the name for the condition of 6021. What can you predict about the weather
Earth’s atmosphere at a particular time in Minneapolis in a few days?
and place?
A. weather
B. climate
C. air pressure
D. atmosphere
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6017. What type of breeze is pictured?
A. It will be warm and rainy from the cold
A. land breeze front.
B. sea breeze B. It will be warm and rainy from the
C. tornadic breeze warm front.
D. hurricane gale breeze C. It will be cold and rainy from the warm
front.
6018. Stratus D. It will be cold and rainy from the cold
A. the amount of water vapor in the air front.
B. any form of water that falls to the earth 6022. A tropical low-pressure system that has
from the air winds of 119km or more per hour.
C. low level clouds usually associated A. Precipitation
with rain B. Humidity
D. strong winds concentrated in a rela- C. Thunderstorm
tively narrow stream in the upper atmo-
sphere of the earth D. Hurricane
E. Tornado
6019. What happens as you move farther
away from the equator 6023. The desert has been very dry for the pas
4 decades.
A. It starts raining more.
A. weather
B. The temperature increases.
B. climate
C. The temperature decreases.
6024. Why do more tornadoes form in Dixie
D. It becomes less windy.
Alley than any other place on the earth?
6020. the area that lies in between Tropic of A. Dixie Alley is along the equator, and
Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn is called more tornadoes form along the equator
zone than any other place on earth.
A. torrid B. In Dixie Alley, warm, moist air masses
from the south meet cool, dry air masses
B. temperate
from the north and west unusually often.
C. frigid
C. In Dixie Alley, heavy, moist air masses
D. none of above from the north and west slide under cold,

dry air masses from the south, causing 6028. polar zone
the cold air to circulate rapidly.
A. A climate zone characterized by very

D. In Dixie Alley, warm air from the ocean little precipitation and extremely cold tem-
causes condensation. peratures.
6025. This is the layer that is divided into B. a specialized type of radar that can de-
two other layers; the ionosphere and exo- tect precipitation as well as the movement
sphere. of small particles, which can be used to ap-
A. Troposphere proximate wind speed
B. Stratosphere C. The average weather conditions in an
C. Mesosphere area over a long period of time deter-
D. Thermosphere mined by temperature and precipitation
6026. The equatorial climate is D. none of above
6029. Climate data is not the same as weather

data. Which of the following is a descrip-
tion of climate data?
A. New York had a record rainfall on
Wednesday.
A. hot and wet B. Lima, Peru had a low temperature last
B. cold and wet night of 17◦ C.
C. hot and dry C. Winds are currently from the south in
D. hot and cold Ann Arbor, Michigan.
6027. Average weather conditions of a region D. The coast of Antarctica has very short
year after year summers.
6030. What is evaporation?

A. The part of the water cycle when the
sun heats up water, turning it from a liquid
into water vapor or steam. It rises from
the ground into the air.
B. The part of the water cycle when the
water vapor in the air gets cold. The water
turns back into a liquid and forms clouds.
C. The part of the water cycle when
clouds get heavy and can no longer hold
A. weather the liquid water. This causes the water to
B. season fall from the sky to the earth as rain, snow,
C. climate sleet, or hail.

6031. The jet stream usually stays too far 6035. Define weather.
north to affect Florida’s weather. What A. Weather stays for a long period of time
is the jet stream?
B. Weather does not change
A. A narrow band of strong winds that
C. Weather keeps changing
blows in the upper region of the atmo-
sphere D. none of above
B. The spinning of the air in the same di- 6036. South Carolina getting 5 inches of snow
rection as Earth’s rotation on 1/3/18 was a event.
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C. The spinning of the air in the opposite A. Climate
direction of Earth’s rotation B. Weather
D. The spinning of the air in the opposite
6037. Weather phenomena occur in the
direction of Earth’s rotation
A. Mesosphere
6032. Air and ocean currents are driven by B. Troposphere
A. moon C. Stratosphere
B. sun D. none of above
C. wind
6038. A dry and hot air mass would be
D. equator
A. Maritime arctic
6033. Leeward side gets less rainfall and is B. Maritime tropical
known as C. Continental tropical
A. Windward side D. Continental polar
B. Rain shadow area
6039. What temperature would Earth be with
C. Opposite side no greenhouse effect?
D. none of above
6034. The stir crazy warms up the popcorn ker-

nels through the direct contact with the
hot plate, what type of heat transfer is
responsible for this process?
A. 25 degrees C
B. 50 degrees C
C. -18 degrees C
D. 0 degrees C
6040. This climate zone has four changing sea-
sons.
A. radiation A. Tropical
B. convection B. Temperate
C. conduction C. Polar
D. condensation D. none of above

6041. The climatic effect shown in this photo C. groundwater

where one side of the mountains receives
D. lakes and rivers
less precipitation is known as:

6046. Many factors affect visibility. Which of
the following wouldleastaffect visibility?
A. rainshadow
B. Monsoon
C. rain cycle
D. wind convection A. Air pressure
6042. Which of the following is not a form of B. Pollution
condensation
C. Rain
A. drizzle
B. cloud D. Fog
C. dew 6047. Which of the following is NOT TRUE

D. fog about the rain shadow effect?
6043. This is one of of the outer-most layers A. Air cools and condenses producing the
of the atmosphere precipitation on the windward side of a
mountain.
A. thermosphere
B. mesosphere B. the leeward side of the mountain re-
ceives dry, warm air often producing
C. stratosphere deserts in this area.
D. troposphere
C. Cool, wet air condenses and sinks on
6044. Streams of water called ocean move the leeward side of the mountain
warm or cold water, warming the nearby
D. the windward side of the mountain of-
land.
ten receives maritime air masses.
A. sun spots
B. currents 6048. A horizontal movement of ocean water
that is caused by wind and that occurs at
C. carbon dioxide
or near the ocean’s surface.
D. air masses
A. Gulf Stream
6045. Most of the water on Earth is found in
B. Global Conveyor Belt
which of the following locations?
A. oceans C. Surface Current
B. the atmosphere D. Gyre

6049. Does this picture show weather or cli- 6054. Which location has the driest climate?
mate?
A. Location A
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B. Location B
A. Weather
C. Location C
B. Climate
D. Location D
6050. Snow is an example of
A. precipitation 6055. Because the earth is spinning on its axis,
the global winds appear to curve. This is
B. temperature known as the
6051. A weather forecast tells us what the cli- A. Coriolis Effect
mate is in different places.
B. Greenhouse Effect
C. Climate Effect
D. Atmosphere Effect
6056. How does air pressure change as you

climb a mountain?
A. it decreases (less air pressure)
B. it increases (more air pressure)
A. True C. stays the same
B. False D. the temperature gets warmer
6052. Which statement is correct?
6057. Does the following statement refer to
A. cooler air sinks, while warmer air rises climate or weather? Today’s air tempera-
creating a convection current ture was the lowest this week.
B. cooler air rises and warmer air sinks
A. Climate
creating a convection current
C. cooler air sinks and warmer air sinks B. Weather
creating a convection current
6058. non-renewable resource
D. cooler air rises and warmer air rises
creating a convection current A. can be replaced
6053. Currently, the sky is clear in Navasota. B. limited amounts
A. Weather C. there is plenty of


6059. The curving of air to the right in the 6063. Which of the following is typical of a
Northern hemisphere is caused by and tropical climate?
is called the effect.

A. cold, dry air
B. cool, moist air
C. hot, dry air
D. warm, moist air
6064. What does a cumulus cloud look like?
A. pretty
B. grey
A. Earth’s rotation Coriolis
C. flat and long
B. Earth’s revolution Coriolis
D. puffy and white
C. Earth’s rotation Doppler
6065. THE INSTRUMENT THAT MEASURES THE
D. Earth’s revolution Doppler
DIRECTION OF THE WIND IS THE
6060. What is a Barometer A. BAROMETER
A. Air pressure B. THERMOMETER
B. precipitation C. RAIN GAUGE
C. Humidity D. WEATHER VANE
D. 8910
6066. Winds play a major role in formation of
6061. Climates are classified according to
which two major factors? A. clouds
A. elevation and precipitation B. fog
B. latitude & temperature C. sand
C. elevation & latitude D. water
D. precipitation & temperature 6067. What is the “fuel” for a hurricane?
6062. Device/Object that measures tempera- A. Cold, humid air
ture. B. Warm, moist air
C. Warm, dry air
D. Dry, cool air
6068. A climate having abundant rainfall, all
monthly average temperatures above 18
C (64 F), and no winters is
A. Tropical (A)
A. Thermal energy B. Dry (B)
B. Temperature C. Humid mid-latitude with Mild winters
C. Thermometer (C)
D. Heat D. Continental (D)

6069. In the event of a tornado in our area, B. Florida is warmer in the winter and
what is the best way to protect yourself? hotter in the summer, with less precipita-
tion in the winter than North Dakota.
C. Florida is very similar to North Dakota
because they are both in North America.
D. Florida has beaches and North Dakota
does not.
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6073. What kind of breeze is this what time
of day/night would it form?
A. Go outside your house and look for a
low place to lay in and cover your head.
B. Find a room or closet in your home
with no windows and cover your head.
C. Get in a car or large truck.
D. Go to the store and stock up on water
and canned goods when you hear the the
warning. A. Land breeze-daytime
6070. North B. Land breeze-nighttime
A. Tropic of Cancer C. Sea breeze-daytime
B. Tropic of Capricorn D. Sea breeze-nighttime
C. Arctic Circle 6074. Air masses are classified by
D. Antarctic Circle A. altitude and temperature
6071. Which climate zone is located nearest to B. pressure and temperature
the equator and usually consists of warm C. temperature and moisture
temperatures year-round? D. pressure and altitude
A. polar
6075. The boundary between cold and warm
B. temperate air masses is called a
C. tropical A. front
D. none of above B. storm
6072. How would you describe the climate of C. climate
Florida compared to North Dakota? D. flood
6076. Weather
A. daily weather news
B. Average weather conditions for a re-
A. North Dakota has snow in the winter D. The amount of water vapor in the air
and Florida does not. E. The current outdoor conditions

6077. The amount of sun that an area receives 6081. A cloud that produces precipitation.
obviously affects temperatures in an area, Usually the precipitation reaches the
but it also affects precipitation through the ground as rain, hail, snow, or sleet.

water cycle. Which of the following pro-
A. Cumulus
cesses in the water cycle is directly depen-
dent on the sun? B. Cloud
C. Thermometer
D. hygrometer
6082. Most of the energy that heats Earth’s

atmosphere is
A. visible light
A. Condensation B. ultraviolet light
B. Evaporation C. blue light
C. Percolation D. infrared radiation
D. Precipitation
6083. A convection current is caused by
6078. Showing the usual or expected, the av- A. Differences in density
erage
B. Differences in wind speed
A. unexpected
C. Differences in air pollution
B. typical
D. Differences in atmosphere pressure
C. trend
6084. Which biome would receive the MOST
D. different
precipitation?
6079. What are climate zones? A. Forest
A. areas that are divided by precipitation B. Tundra
and temperature C. Desert
B. different areas divided by altitude and D. none of above
pressure
C. weather at different times of the day 6085. Rain, sleet, hail, and freezing rain are
during different seasons all
D. areas divided by cloud coverage and A. precipitation

time B. condensation
6080. Evaporation is caused by C. evaporation
A. the sun cooling D. perspiration
B. the sun’s heat energy 6086. Can trees grow in the tundra?
C. the moons heat energy A. Yes
D. the moon cooling B. No

6087. Which of these are different seasons? A. Troposphere

A. Hot, Cold, Sunny, Cloudy B. Stratosphere
C. Mesosphere
D. Thermosphere
D. none of above
E. Exosphere
6088. What factors determine climate
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A. Wind speed and temperature
6092. Which instrument do you need to mea-
B. Precipitation and humidity sure wind velocity?
C. Precipitation and air pressure
D. Precipitation and temperature

A. the blanket of air that wraps around
the planet
B. water changing from a gas to a liquid
C. the condition of the atmosphere at a
D. the pattern of weather conditions that
occur over a long period A. Anemometer
6090. The average yearly weather pattern B. Barometer
over many years.
C. Thermometer
D. Rain gauge
A. weather
B. air pressure
C. climate
D. zone
6091. The layers of the atmosphere. This

layer is also called ionosphere.
A. sunny
B. rain
C. partly coudy
D. cloudy

6094. Which statement below describes a sci- A. Cool air above the ocean sinks and
entist studying weather? warm air above the land rises

A. A scientist studied the average rainfall B. cool air above the ocean rises and
over a 30-year period. warm air above the land sinks
B. Using tree rings a scientist studied C. Warm water evaporates and con-
flooding over the last century. denses above the ocean
C. A scientist used 1000-year-old fos- D. warm water condenses and precipi-
silized trees to study a hurricane 100 tates above the ocean
years ago.
D. A scientist used 100-year-old tree to 6098. The kinds of data that reflect climate are
study the average rainfall over the last 40 different from the conditions described in
years. weather data. Which of the following is a
description of climate?
6095. The earth‘s rotation makes global
winds curve clockwise in the Northern A. Today it is hot and sunny in Phoenix,
hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the Arizona.
Southern hemisphere. B. Summers are usually mild in Lansing,
A. Coriolis effect Michigan.
B. Air mass C. Last week it rained every day in San
Antonio, Texas.
C. Jet stream
D. none of above D. Yesterday was cold and windy in An-
chorage, Alaska.
6096. Air in the atmosphere gets warmed by
the ground and rises up. Air that was 6099. the crust nearest the ridges near sea
high up in the atmosphere then sinks down. floor spreading is the:
What is the effect of the air moving in cir- A. oldest
cles like this?
B. youngest
A. Clouds form on the lower boundary of
the troposphere. C. most dense
B. Thermal energy is transferred by con- D. least dense
duction cells.
6100. Surface currents
C. Wind blows from high-pressure areas
to low-pressure areas. A. Warmer and are created by wind
D. Heat from the earth’s core rises up to B. Warmer and are more dense than
fill the vacuum. deep ocean currents
6097. In the summer, coastal towns usu- C. Cooler and more dense than deep
ally experience cool ocean breezes, as ocean currents
shown.Which process creates this type of D. Cooler and are created by wind
ocean breeze?
6101. Mula is a nakaiy belonging to
A. These are monsoons
B. Hulhan�u Monsoon

6102. Which three elements affect air pres- B. tropical climate

sure? C. continental climate
A. wind, Earth’s distance from the Moon,
D. subtropical climate
and clouds
B. amount of plants, wind, and level of 6107. The measure of the transparency of the
water in the ocean atmosphere.
C. height above sea level, temperature, A. precipitation
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and amount of water vapor B. visibility
D. temperature, wind, and how much C. humidity
plant or animal life is around
D. air pressure
6103. Some major factors are landforms, lati-
tude, elevation, and nearby bodies of wa- 6108. What are clouds made of?
ter. A. Air
A. Climate B. Cotton balls
B. Weather C. Tiny droplets of water
6104. Air travels D. atmosphere
A. from high pressure to low pressure 6109. VERY HOT TEMPERATURES FOR LONG
B. from low pressure to high pressue PERIODS OF TIME.
6105. A THERMOMETER measures A. HAIL

B. BLIZZARD
C. HEATWAVES
D. FLOOD
6110. As altitude increases, air pressure

A. Increases
B. Decreases
C. Stays the same
A. wind speed in kilometres per hour D. Goes up and down
B. temperature of the air in degrees cel- 6111. Which tool measures wind direction?
sius
A. wind vane and stopwatch
C. precipitation:rain, snow or hail in litres
B. wind vane and compass
per square metre
C. compass and rain gauge
D. wind direction:north, south, east or
west D. wind vane and thermometer
6106. The closer you live to the ocean, the 6112. Compared to the base of a mountain,
more likely your climate will be a the peak will have
A. marine climate A. warmer temperatures and denser air

B. warmer temperatures and less dense C. lines drawn to places of different tem-
air peratures

C. colder temperature and denser air D. lines drawn to places of different pres-
sures
D. colder temperatures and less dense
air 6118. Climate Change is defined as
6113. The uneven heating of the atmosphere
by the sun’s energy creates pressure dif-
ferences. Which effect is a direct result of
this?
A. formation of clouds
B. generation of winds
C. occurrence of lightning A. a change in weather/temperature
D. an increase in humidity over a long period of time.
B. a change in density over a long period
6114. What causes global warming? of time.
A. Burning fossil fuels
6119. Weather refers to the conditions of
B. Deforestation Earth’s atmosphere at a particular
C. Ice caps melting A. Location
D. none of above B. Time
6115. Many scientists think that the Earth’s C. Place
water came from D. Time and Place
A. The Earth’s Core 6120. What is greenhouse effect?
B. The Sun A. the process by which gasses hold heat
C. Ice covered meteors in the air.
D. Alpha Centauri B. water vapor and dioxide.
C. particles in the atmosphere.
6116. Which climate has branchless trees and
red eyed tree frogs? D. heat
A. Tropical 6121. What does a hydrometer measure?
B. Polar A. wind speed
C. Desert B. wind direction
D. none of above C. humidity
D. precipitation
6117. what are isotherms?
A. lines connecting places of equal tem- 6122. What is a front?
perature A. . fluffy fair weather clouds
B. lines drawn connecting places of equal B. water vapor changing into tiny
pressure droplets of water

C. the line along which two different air 6126. Which instrument measures the location
masses meet of storms and how fast winds are moving,
D. . lines drawn on weather maps to including the winds in tornadoes?
show where barometric pressure is the A. anemometer
same
B. weather satellite
6123. What is the atmosphere? C. wind vane
D. weather balloon
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6127. What is it called when water is formed
from a liquid to a water vapor?
A. EVAPORATION
B. PRECIPITATION
C. TRANSPIRATION
D. none of above
B. made up of living things
6128. Meteorologists study weather patterns
to predict weather.
of the Earth
D. the rivers, lakes, and oceans of the A. True
Earth B. False
6124. What is the condition of the atmosphere 6129. A scientist who studies about weather
at a certain time and place called?
A. weatherman
A. front
B. meteorologist
B. high
C. low 6130. What information does a weather bal-
loon collect?
D. weather
A. Temperature and humidity
6125. Which picture illustrates fall?
B. Wind speeds
C. Evaporation
A.
D. Storm shapes
6131. Low clouds (like fog), that are thick,

B. cover the sky, and block the sun. Usu-
ally bring continuous precipitation (rain or
snow).
C. A. stratus
B. cumulus
C. cirrus
D.
D. fog

6132. Compared to other greenhouse gases, 6138. What are types of Planetary wind
carbon dioxide is very effective in trapping A. Trade winds
heat near the surface of the Earth.

B. The westerlies
A. true
C. polar easterlies(polar winds)
B. false D. None
6133. Mumbai is near coastal region. So it will 6139. What is a disturbance in the atmo-
have climate sphere that has some or all of the follow-
A. Extreme ing:Thunder, gusty winds, rain/ hail?
B. Moderate A. Snow storm
B. Just rain
6134. Ocean currents tend to circulate wa-
C. Thunderstorm
ter towards the poles and water to the
tropics. This activity helps to counteract D. Hurricane
the climate effects of uneven distribution 6140. Which tool is used to measure humidity
of solar energy on the Earth’s surface. (the amount of moisture) in the air?
A. Cold | Cold A. wind vane
B. Warm | Cold B. barometer
C. Cold | Warm C. anemometer
D. Warm | Warm D. hygrometer
6135. What is the main source of heat energy 6141. when a warm and cold air mass meet,
on Earth? but neither can move the other.
A. cold front
A. Core of the Earth
B. warm front
B. the Sun
C. stationary front
C. the Sun and Moon
D. occluded front
D. none of above
6142. Which front has the symbol of a red line
6136. Which unit is used in predicting temper- with half circles?
ature? A. warm front
A. liters (L) B. cold front
B. grams (g) C. stationary front
C. millimeters (mm) D. occluded front
D. degrees Celsius (◦ C) 6143. What part of the water cycle is when
water heats up, becomes water vapor,
6137. Land breeze flows from to
and rises?
A. cooler land to warmer sea A. evaporation
B. cooler sea to warmer land B. condensation
C. none of the other choices C. precipitation
D. lower density to higher density D. runoff and collection

6144. You live in Pennsylvania and are getting 6150. Name that front.
ready to vacation in California. How can
you find out the weather in California?
A. by reading your barometer
B. by checking the hygrometer
C. by looking out your window
D. by looking at a weather map
A. Cold Front
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6145. What type of weather word would
B. Warm Front
most likely be used to describe a swamp
in Florida during the summer? C. Stationary Front
A. windy D. Occluded Front
B. arid
6151. What zone is the United States in?
C. humid
A. Temperate
D. semiarid
B. Polar
6146. This shows how hot or cold something
is. C. Tropical
A. climate D. none of above

B. weather 6152. clouds are rain clouds
C. humidity
A. cirrus
D. temperature
B. stratus
6147. Rain, snow, sleet, and hail are forms of C. cumulus
A. precipitation
D. cloud
B. temperature
C. tropical storms 6153. At which latitude would you expect to
find the warmest air temperatures?
D. evaporation
A. 23.5◦ S
6148. Which one of the following is not a
cause for the variation in climate B. 0◦
A. distance from the sea C. 66.5◦ N

B. distance from the equator D. 66.5◦ S
C. distance between two cities
6154. It is sunshine, rain, snow, wind, and
D. none of above storms. It’s what is going on outside right
now.
6149. Which is an example of a local wind?
A. polar easterlies A. Climate
B. trade winds B. Weather

C. jet streams C. Weather and Climate
D. sea breezes D. none of above

6155. What is latitude? 6160. The average atmospheric conditions for

a large place for a long period of time is
A. A measure of the distance away from
called

the prime meridian.
B. A measure of how warm a climate is.
C. A measure of an angle in Math class. A. Weather
D. A measure of the distance away from

the equator. B. Climate
6156. A continental polar air mass forms in

C. Temperate
A. the Pacific ocean
B. northern Canada D. None of the above
C. Gulf of Mexico
D. desert Southwest
6157. Which system results in drier, fairer 6161. What are the reasons for the seasons?
weather?
A. Earth’s tilt and rotation
B. Earth’s rotation and revolution (orbit)
C. Earth’s tilt and revolution (orbit)

A. high pressure
B. low pressure D. Earth’s tilt and resolution
C. hurricane
D. weather system
6158. Weather changes takes place in 6162. The conditions of the atmosphere at a
particular time is called weather
A. Troposphere
B. Thermosphere
A. False
C. Stratosphere
D. none of above
B. True
6159. There a cold wind coming in from the
west!
A. Weather
B. Climate 6163. What does this tool do?

A. cold front
B. warm front
NARAYAN CHANGDER
C. stationary front
D. none of above
6167. What is the horizontal or parallel mov-
ment of air that is caused as air moves
from areas of high pressure to areas of
low pressure.
A. Air pressure
B. Relative Humidity
C. Visibility
D. Wind
6168. Which of the following types of water
would SINK the fastest?
A. warm and salty
B. cold and salty
C. warm and fresh
D. cold and fresh
A. measures the temperature 6169. frigid zone receives
B. measures the amount of rain A. Maximum sun rays

B. Minimum sun rays
6164. Which of the following gas does not
C. Slanting sun rays
trap heat?
D. Extremely slanting sun rays
A. A. Carbon dioxide
B. Nitrogen 6170. Which of the following describes how
global winds influence climate?
C. Water Vapour
A. Global winds move warm air toward
D. Methane the poles.
6165. Which is more dense? B. Global winds move warm air toward
the equator.
A. Hot Liquid
C. Global winds move cool air toward the
B. Cold Liquid
poles.
6166. What does this line represent on a D. Global winds move warm and cool air
weather map? toward the equator.

6171. What kind of skies will you see if this 6175. Which of Spain’s five climates is found
is around? in areas of high elevation? It is very cold
in winter and mild in summer. Rain is fre-

quent and it often snows in the higher ar-
eas.
A. Oceanic climate
B. Mountain climate
C. Continental-Mediterranean climate
E. Subtropical climate
6176. Several factors affect in different

places on Earth.
A. clear, sunny skies
A. climate
B. cloudy, rainy skies
B. clouds
6172. A device used to measure the amount of
rainfall over a period of time. 6177. A cold front is heading towards Dal-
las. When the front is over the city, they
A. Rain Gauge should expect
B. Thermometer A. Warm air
C. Wind Vane B. Gentle storms
D. Anemometer C. Thunder and lightening
6173. What is the Jet Stream? D. Long lasting storms
A. a high speed band of air that travels 6178. Which of these is something that sur-
east to west face currents do?
B. a high speed band of air that brings A. cause landslides
weather west to east
B. destroy cities
C. a high speed band of air that causes
cold fronts C. affect climate
D. a band of air high in the atmosphere D. all of the above
that cools down the U.S.
6179. A scientist is collecting data over time
6174. The person who studies weather is using a barometer. What trends could best
called be revealed from the data?
A. Thermometer A. changes in cloud cover
B. Meteorologist B. changes in temperature
C. Anemometer C. changes in air pressure levels
D. Barometer D. changes in precipitation levels

6180. Weather changes 6184. How are climate and weather related?
A. Every Day A. Climate is the trend in weather of an
area over time.
B. Every week
B. Climate happens because of periodic
C. Twice a week
weather.
D. none of above C. Weather occurs because the climate is
constantly changing.
6181. The youngest member in BLACKPINK is
NARAYAN CHANGDER
D. Weather is climate over a long period
of time.
6185. Which FACTOR OF CLIMATE is this?

The higher you are above sea level, the
LOWER the temperature becomes.
A. latitude
B. altitude/elevation
A. A:Lalisa Manobaal
C. large bodies of water
B. b:Kim Jisoo
D. ocean current
C. c:Park Rose
6186. Sometimes when traveling in an air-
D. d:Kim Jennie plane your ears may pop, why?
6182. There is
A. Your eardrum busted

A. wind B. As the airplane goes up it gets colder.
B. rain C. The humidity decreased
C. fog D. The change in altitude effected air
pressure
D. none of above
6187. Samuel lives in the Northern Part of
6183. Todays baseball game was postponed Australia. Which heat zone does he live
because of the storm. in?
A. Weather A. Torrid Zone
B. Climate. B. Frigid Zone
C. none of the above. C. Temperate Zone

6188. How do you say AGUA-NIEVE in en- 6194. Climate is the current temperature and
glish? precipitation in an area.

A. Sleet A. True
B. Hail B. False
C. Snow
6195. Choose all of the types of precipitation.
D. Rain
A. rain
6189. the process of changing from a gas to a B. snow
liquid
C. sleet
A. evaporation
D. hail
B. condensation
E. lightening
C. transpiration
D. precipitation 6196. What happens to the density of the air
as you increase in altitude in the tropo-
6190. What type of skies are associated with sphere?
high pressure? A. density increases
A. Sunny skies B. density stays the same
B. Cloudy skies C. density disappears
6191. Global winds travel from: D. density decreases
A. high to low pressure 6197. The Canary Islands are in the
B. low to high pressure
C. high pressure to cool temperatures
D. low pressure to cold temperatures
6192. Winds are caused by
A. cold zone
B. hot zone
C. temperate zone
D. none of above
A. equal heating 6198. The terms weather and climate both de-
B. unequal heating scribe conditions of the astmosphere such
as
6193. The weather is warm and sunny one
A. temperature
minute, and the next minute it is raining.
The weather is B. pressure
A. Unpredictable C. rock
B. Predictable D. wind

6199. (T/F) Permafrost is when the soil is 6204. Ocean currents are the result of uneven
frozen. heating of the water, which leads to
A. True
B. False
6200. Which of the following is a FALSE state-

ment?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. Weather results from air movement &
changes in temp, pressure A. conduction
B. Weather results from air that stays in B. convection
the same place. C. reflection
C. Weather reports include temp., humid- D. condensation
ity, pressure, wind speed
D. none of above 6205. What instrument do we use to measure
atmospheric pressure?
6201. What is the climate of Lusaka? A. Barometer
B. Pluviometer
C. Thermometer
D. Anemometer
6206. Which climate zone is most likely found

around the equator?
A. Tropical Wet
B. Tropical Dry
C. Arid
D. Mild
6202. The warm climate zone near the equa-

tor:
A. Tropical Zone
B. Polar Zone
A. polar
C. Temperate Zone
B. temperate
D. Climate
C. tropical
6203. Height above the sea level means D. arctic
A. Latitude
6207. Why does the sand get hotter than the
B. Altitude ocean water?
C. Meridian A. Sand takes longer to heat up
D. none of above B. The water heats up quickly

C. The sand has a low specific heat capac- 6212. It helps us measure the
ity

D. The water has a low specific heat ca-
pacity
6208. What is the definition of a warm front?
A. A very violent thunderstorm.
B. Occurs when a warm air mass is re-
placing a cold air mass.
C. Very cold weather.
D. none of above A. Precipitation.
6209. In which layer of the atmosphere does B. Temperature.
our weather take place? C. Wind direction.
A. mesosphere D. Wind speed.
B. troposphere
6213. The farther you live from an ocean, the
C. stratosphere more likely your climate will be a
D. thermosphere A. marine climate
6210. The layer of air that surrounds the Earth B. continental climate
is the C. tropical climate
D. subtropical climate
6214. If I talk about how the Mojave Desert
is mostly hot and dry every year, I am re-
ferring to which?
A. weather
A. Geosphere. B. climate
B. Atmosphere.
6215. local winds have some local
C. Hydrosphere. names.what are the local names?(choose
D. none of above all that apply)
A. loo
6211. What is the climate of a swamp? (think
of the animals!!!) B. chinook
A. The water is cooler than the land be- C. foehn
cause the sun warms land more. D. none
B. The water in the swamp is warmer be- 6216. How would you describe summers in
cause the sun warms water more. Georgia?
C. The water in the swamp is warmer A. Cool
than land because the sun warms better
than land. B. Hot
D. The water in a swamp is cooler be- C. Mild
cause land holds warm better than water. D. none of above

6217. The coldest climate zone is the
A. Polar Zone
B. Tropical Zone
C. Temperate Zone
NARAYAN CHANGDER
D. none of above
6218. Definition of Climate
A. The long-term weather patterns and

conditions in a specific region or area.
B. The direction of the wind in a particular

location
C. The amount of rainfall in a specific

month
D. The average temperature on a given

day
6219. A city located by a river always floods

when it rains a lot. They want to build a
flood wall. Do you think the solution is a
good idea?
A. Yes
B. No
6220. You may have this weather instrument

at home, hanging outside. It may be round
or have pictures on it. No matter what it
looks like, we use it to track the temper-
ature outside. Some of us may have the
same instrument inside our home to tell us
when it is time to turn the heat on in the
winter or the air conditioning in the sum-
mer. What is the name of this weather A. barometer
instrument? B. anemometer

C. rain gauge 6226. Continental polar air masses are

D. thermometer A. dry and cold

6221. Low pressure bring B. humid and cold
A. hot, dry air C. humid and warm
B. cool, wet air D. dry and warm
C. sunny with no clouds 6227. Where are stratus clouds located in the
D. none of above sky?
A. Hight
6222. In a convection current, rising warm air
is replaced by cooler, air that sinks be- B. Medium
side it. C. Low
A. denser D. High and Medium
B. less dense 6228. What are the characteristics of a high-
C. stable pressure system?
D. none of above A. Wind and rain
6223. When changing from a liquid to a solid, B. Humidity and thunder
the water molecules are C. Extremely hot temperatures
A. freezing and moving away from each D. Clear skies and sun
other.
6229. Which of the following is NOT used to
B. evaporating and moving away from describe the climate of a region?
each other
A. average temperature of a region
C. condensing and moving closer to each
B. average wind speed in a region
other
C. the size of the region
D. freezing and moving closer to each
other D. the amount of sunlight throughout the
year in the region
6224. What are the types of fronts? (Mark all
that apply) 6230. What type of weather would you pre-
dict for Columbia, SC based on this
A. Cold front
weather map?
B. Warm front
C. Hot front
D. Occluded front
E. Stationary front
6225. What is the FOURTH layer of the atmo-
sphere?
A. Thermosphere A. Cooler and potential for storms
B. Exosphere B. Warm and clear
C. Troposphere C. Consistently hot and sunny
D. Stratosphere D. Record highs

6231. What is the water called that sinks into 6237. The weather map uses to represent
the soil? the weather.
A. Condensation
B. Precipitation
C. Evaporation
D. Groundwater
E. Transpiration
NARAYAN CHANGDER
6232. THE AMOUNT OF SOLAR RADIATION A. emojis
RECEIVED BY THE EARTH’S SURFACE IS B. symbols
CALLED-
C. key
A. INSOLATION
D. drawings
B. TERRESTRIAL RADIATION
C. SOLAR RADIATION 6238. What is a tropical zone?
D. RADIATION A. Area near both poles that have cold cli-
mates and has little direct sunlight
6233. The average high temperature for B. A climate zone near the equator char-
Laredo is 90◦ F. acterized by warm temperatures due to di-
A. weather rect sunlight year-round
B. climate C. Characterized by a seasonal climate,
wide range of temperatures, hot and cold.
6234. climate is described as cold all year
long and located in high latitudes.
D. none of above
A. Polar
B. Continental 6239. i am a animal it always rain but hot
where am i
C. Dry
A. Rainforest
D. Highland
B. desert
6235. How does temperature of the atmo- C. tundra
sphere change with altitude?
D. NOTHING
A. increases
B. decreases 6240. what is periodic winds?
C. stays the same A. winds that blow throughout the year
D. none of above B. winds that blow in particular month

C. winds that blow in particular season
6236. A snowy storm.
D. none of above
A. drought
B. thunder 6241. the ratio between the amount of water
vapour present in the air and the maximum
C. blizzard amount that can be held by the air at a
D. lightning given temperature

A. Absolute humidity B. thudnerstorm

B. Relative humidity C. tornado

6242. How do clouds form D. thunder
A. Clouds start as liquid water on the E. storm surge
ground. As time passes, the water evap-
orates into a gas and rises up in the air.
6247. Latitude influences climate because
When it gets high enough, the gas turns
back into small liquid water drops, form-
ing a cloud
B. Water droplets escape the ocean in
the middle of the night and form clouds
C. Ducks pass gas as they are flying
through the sky and clouds form.
D. Fish spit water up into the sky, wa-
ter droplets spray into the sky and form A. the Sun’s rays reach the Earth at a
clouds more direct angle near the Equator, so
temperatures are higher.
6243. What is the short-term conditions of a
given area? B. the Sun’s rays reach the Earth at a
more direct angle near the Equator, so
A. Temperature
temperatures are lower.
B. Pressure
C. the Sun’s rays reach the Earth at a
C. Weather
more direct angle near the Poles, so tem-
D. Climate peratures are higher.
6244. Climates that are located in areas where D. the Sun’s rays reach the Earth at a
the amount of precipitation is less than more direct angle near the Poles, so tem-
the amount of water that could potentially peratures are lower.
evaporate.
A. Dry climate 6248. Which of these are natural hazards?
B. Polar climate A. Volcanic Eruptions
C. Temperate climate B. Earthquakes
D. Tropical Climate
C. Tsunami
6245. When air pressure is low, what type of D. Cave Arches Stacks and Stumps
weather do we experience?
A. sunny and clear 6249. What is the duration of cold season
B. rainy and cloudy A. December to February
6246. When a hurricane moves into a coastal B. October to November
area, it also pushes a huge mass of ocean
water know as C. March to May
A. lightning D. None of the above

6250. As the cold front over California moves

east, the isobars between it and the sta-
tionary front move closer together. Which
of the following statements about the lo-
cal weather are correct?
A. Salt
B. Dust
NARAYAN CHANGDER
C. Water droplets
D. Water vapor
6255. T or F:Weather referes to daily changes

in the air.
A. The wind speed is faster. A. T

B. F
B. The wind speed is slower.
C. The air pressure is lower. 6256. The transmission of energy by two ob-
jects touching is called
D. The air pressure is higher.
A. conduction
6251. What are the 2 most abundant gases in B. convection
Earth’s atmosphere? C. contraction
A. carbon dioxide and oxygen D. radiation
B. carbon dioxide and nitrogen 6257. Migratory birds can travel upto
C. nitrogen and oxygen A. 700km
D. nitrogen and hydrogen B. 15000 km
C. 1500 km
6252. pellets of frozen rain that fall in show-
ers from cumulonimbus clouds D. none of above
A. snow 6258. Water changes from a liquid to a gas at

what temperature?
B. freezing rain
A. 100 degrees fahrenheit
C. sleet
B. 212 degrees fahrenheit
D. hail
C. 0 degrees fahrenheit
6253. Where evaporation will happen faster D. 32 degrees fahrenheit
A. Cloudy Day 6259. Mt. Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain
in
B. A Field
A. Asia
C. Sunny Day
B. Africa
D. Both 2 and 3
C. Australia
6254. What is a cloud made of? (mostly) D. none of above

6260. What happens as you increase your al- C. surface runoff

titude? D. evaporation

A. Temperature decreases
6265. Pressure exerted by the weight of air is
B. Temperature increases known as:
C. Temperature stays the same A. Wind pressure
D. none of above B. Heavy wind
6261. What is climate? C. Air pressure
D. None of these
6266. Power source of water cycle

A. Rain
B. Sun
C. Ocean
A. The conditions of the atmosphere D. Run-off water
(air/sky) over a short period of time.
B. The changing of weather throughout 6267. Tropical continental air masses bring
the day.
C. The way in which we feel when it is hot A. cold, wet weather conditions
or cold. B. cold, dry weather conditions
D. The atmosphere (air/sky) over long pe- C. warm, wet weather conditions
riods of time. D. warm, dry weather conditions
6262. What is the largest layer of the atmo- 6268. The ozone layer
sphere?
A. Mesosphere
B. Thermosphere
C. Troposphere
D. Exosphere
6263. In what type of climate is a majority of

A. Are gases that come from the industry
the United States located?
B. Is a layer of gases around the Earth
A. Tropical
C. Refers to heat that is trapped in the
B. Arid
Earth‘s atmosphere
C. Polar D. none of above
D. Temperate
6269. What type of weather event is charac-
6264. the process of changing from a liquid to terized by lightning, thunder, heavy rain-
a gas fall, and sometimes hail?
A. condensation A. Tornado
B. precipitation B. Tsunami

C. Thunderstorm A. The typical state of the atmosphere

D. Heatwave over a long period of time.
6270. The snow, sleet and hail are all the B. The state of the atmosphere at a par-
types of precipitation that consist of ticular time.
frozen water, belongs to:
6274. What two weather tools would a mete-
orologist use to collect wind direction and
wind speed data?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. weather vane and barometer
B. weather vane and hygrometer
C. anemometer and hygrometer
D. weather vane and anemometer
A. Precipitation 6275. Visible light reaches Earth’s surface

B. Humidity while infrared light is trapped as heat.
Which characteristic of Earth’s atmosphere
C. Wind causes this to happen?
D. none of above
A. the hole in the ozone
6271. Over the past 200 years, the level of
B. the greenhouse effect
carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has
A. decreased slightly. C. atmospheric pressure
B. increased until recently, and then de- D. the inversion layer
creased.
C. increased steadily. 6276. As air in a high-pressure system sinks,
D. stayed about the same. relative humidity and clouds
6272. Which climate has polar bears and cot- A. increases, evaporate
ton grass? B. decreases, evaporate
A. Tropical
C. increases, form
B. Polar
D. increases, evaporate
C. Desert
D. none of above 6277. Because Earth’s axis is , the hemi-
6273. The climate is spheres receive different amounts of solar
energy at different times.
A. straight
B. titled
C. bent
D. not there

6278. An electric discharge that happens be- C. The ITCZ brings rain during the wet
tween a positively charged area and a neg- season
atively charged area D. Prevailing winds bring warm air into

A. Thunder the region year-round
B. Humidity 6283. a front where warm air moves over cold
C. Lightning air and brings drizzly rain and then are fol-
lowed by warm and clear weather
D. Hurricane
A. warm front
E. Tornado
B. cold front
6279. I wear woolen clothes in the month of C. stationary front
January D. occluded front
A. WEATHER
6284. three climatic zones on Earth are:
B. CLIMATE A. Torrid, Hot, Cold
6280. Does lightning or thunder come first? B. Cold, Moderate, Temperate
A. thunder C. Torrid, Temperate, Frigid
B. lightning D. Temperate, Cold, Frigid
C. it depends 6285. What dew point is most likely to pro-
duce morning dew or fog?
D. none of above
A. 89◦ F
6281. This type of climate is cold and dry most B. 32◦ F
the year and is at the North and South
Poles. C. 52◦ F
D. pineapple◦ F
6286. Wind blows from to
A. east to west
B. West to east
C. North to south
D. south no north
A. Temperate
6287. Air in a low pressure system moves
B. Polar
C. Tropical
D. United States
6282. Select the incorrect statement about

Tropical Marine Climates
A. No rainfall occurs outside of the wet
season
B. Relief rainfall can occur during the dry
season

A. outward 6291. tropical rainforests

B. inward A. Located in temperate climates
6288. Tara connects two Convection Tubes. B. *Temperature about 26◦ (Humid and
She adds smoke to one cylinder. The warm all year)
smoke immediately sinks to the bottom
C. *Each year between 2.000 and 4.500
of the cylinder and moves into the second
litres of rain per square metre!
cylinder and then rises. Which of the fol-
D. *Wide range of plants and animals:
NARAYAN CHANGDER
lowing statements describes Tara’s setup?
6292. GLOBAL WARMING consequences

A. The polar capes are melting
B. Living things can´t adapt to these fast
changes
C. Weather is becoming unpredictable
D. Places are getting hotter
A. She connected one hot and one cold
cylinder. She added smoke at the top of 6293. our light source from the sun
the hot cylinder. A. Radiation
B. She connected one hot and one cold B. Conduction
cylinder. She added smoke at the top of
the cold cylinder. C. Solar Energy
C. She connected two cold cylinders. She D. Convection
added smoke at the top of one cold cylin-
der. 6294. Land heats up and cools down faster
than water.
D. She connected two hot cylinders. She
added smoke at the top of one hot cylin- A. True
der.
B. False
6289. In what region of Georgia would expect
to see the most snow? 6295. The richest half of the global population
is responsible for which percentage of the
A. Northern Mountains
world’s carbon emissions?
B. Eastern Beaches
A. 10%
C. Southern Plains
B. 25%
D. none of above
C. 70%
6290. A high pressure system is often associ-
ated with clouds and thunderstorms. D. 90%
A. True 6296. A temperate climate in which summers
B. False are hot and dry, and winters are mild, and
Explanation:Low pressure system is asso- most precipitation falls in spring and au-
ciated with clouds and thunderstorms. tumn is

C. Polar Zones
D. Temperate Zones

6302. Puffy detached clouds are called
A. Mediterranean
B. Continental
C. Oceanic
D. Steppe
6297. What are the yearly conditions of tem- A. Cirrus Clouds

perature, precipitation and humidity? B. Stratus Clouds
A. weather C. Cumulus Clouds
6298. Which air masses influence much of the 6303. Temperature decreases as elevation
weather in North America, especially east A. increases
of the Rocky Mountains?
B. decreases
A. maritime tropical and continental po-
lar 6304. Pieces of information-
B. maritime polar and continental polar A. investigation
C. continental polar and continental trop- B. data
ical
C. hypothesis
D. maritime polar and maritime tropical
D. none of above
6299. Land takes more time to cool down as
compared to the sea. 6305. The driving force of the Water Cycle is?
A. True A. The troposphere
B. False B. The Sun

C. The oxygen
6300. is a rain bearing cloud
D. The clouds
A. cloud
B. cirrus 6306. What part of the water cycle does this
picture show?
C. cumulus
D. none of above
6301. areas between the tropical and polar

zones where you see the most changes in
temperature and weather
A. Subtropical Zones
B. Tropical Zones A. condensation

B. precipitation
C. evaporation
D. none of above B.
6307. How does latitude influences climate?

A. The closer to the equator the higher
the temperature
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. The higher the latitude the hotter the C.
temperature
C. Closeness and nearness from the
equator does not affect the climate. D.
D. Climate is not affected by latitude of
the area
6311. Which statement best describes how a
cloud is formed?
6308. Which of Spain’s five climates is the
largest climate in Spain? Summers are A. The formation of clouds happens when
very hot, but winters can be very cold. It water vapor in the air rises, cools, and
does not rain very often. condenses.
A. Oceanic climate B. The formation of clouds happens when
water vapor in the air rises, warms, and
B. Subtropical climate condenses.
C. Continental-Mediterranean climate C. The formation of clouds happens when
water vapor in the air rises, warms, and
D. Mediterranean climate evaporates.
E. Mountain climate D. The formation of clouds happens when
water vapor in the air rises, cools, and
6309. What is the Coriolis effect? evaporates.
A. The way Earth’s rotation makeswinds 6312. On weather maps, the symbol, a line
curve with half circles, indicates
B. The direction a compass points to- A. A warm front
wards
B. A hurricane
C. The tilt of Earth’s axis C. A cold front
D. none of above D. Snow
6310. Choose the picture that best represents 6313. The ozone layer can be found in the
the “biosphere”. A. Troposphere
B. Mesosphere
A. C. Sphere
D. Stratosphere

6314. What is the name of the object in the C. Runoff

picture?
D. Evaporation

6318. Average temperature and average rain-
fall, in addition to other weather informa-
tion, are important parts of
A. climate
B. changes
6319. Clouds usually do not form over

A. Anemometer
B. Thermometer A. sea
C. Wind Vane B. plains

D. Rain Gauge C. desert
6315. Two conditions are required for cloud D. none of above

formation:cooling of the air and
6320. The higher the altitude, the colder the
A. the absorption of infrared energy temperature
B. the unequal heating of Earth’s surface A. True
C. the presence of particles in the air
B. False
D. the influence of the Coriolis effect
6321. Some places are very hot in summers
6316. If the barometric pressure is low and the and very cold in winters. Such a climate is
temperature is 25*C (77*F), what kind of called climate.
weather is MOST likely happening?
A. Extreme
A. Sunny
B. Moderate
B. Rainy
C. Icy C. Mild
D. Snowy D. none of above
6317. Which water cycle process is at letter 6322. Seasons occur because:
B?
A. The rotation of earth
B. The earth’s revolution around the sun
C. The earth’s axis is inclined by 661/2◦
D. Combined effect of (b) and (c) above
6323. Name 4 instruments of weather?

A. Guitar, Piano, Drums, Tambourine
A. Precipitation B. Thermometer, Rain gauge, Hygrome-
B. Condensation ter, Anemometer

6324. Weather data is different from climate

data. Which of the following is an exam-
ple of weather data?
A. The average high temperature in May
is 21oC in the Midwest of the United
States.
B. Central Australia usually receives less
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than 110 mm of rainfall all year
C. The relative humidity was 24% at noon A. Most tornadoes are local storms.
on July 23 in Tempe, Arizona. B. Typical tornadoes are 400-500 feet
D. On average, there is 88 mm of rain in wide.
the Gulf Coast region in July. C. Tornado winds generally range from
20-50 miles per hour.
6325. Which is the primary cause of the global
wind patterns on Earth? D. Tornadoes can last for a few minutes
to an hour or more.
A. uneven heating
B. ice cap melting 6330. What does the rotation of the earth
cause us to experience?
C. greenhouse effect
A. seasons
D. global warming
B. year
6326. Increasing quantities of CO2 (Carbon C. day & night
Dioxide) in the atmosphere will cause air
temperatures to be D. eclipse
A. warmer 6331. circulating air with high pressure; gener-
B. cooler ally brings clear skies and calm air or gen-
tle breezes
6327. Which is not a source of carbon dioxide? A. high pressure system
A. forest fires B. stationary front
B. volcanoes C. cold front
C. glaciers D. low pressure system
D. use of fossil fuel
6332. The temperature at which air is satu-
6328. Rising air masses are rated and condensation forms is the:
A. cold and low pressure. A. dew point
B. cold and high pressure. B. rain point
C. warm and low pressure. C. wind point
D. warm and high pressure. D. relative humidity
6329. Which is NOT true of tornadoes? 6333. What does this image represent?

6338. The image above shows which type of

light?

A. Cold front
B. Red bulbous things
C. Warm front
D. Sarah Ju
6334. A storm with thunder and lightning and

typically also heavy rain or hail.
A. Direct sunlight
B. Indirect sunlight
6339. When Brian left for school in the morn-

ing, weather conditions were cool and hu-
A. hurricane mid and it was difficult for him to see very
far. What is he most likely observing?
B. tornado
A. fog
C. thunderstorm
B. snow
D. jet stream
C. rain
6335. As elevation increases, temperature D. sleet
6340. Which is the opposite of condensation?

A. increases
A. runoff
B. decreases
B. evaporation
6336. We cannot feel the air that pressures C. precipitation
our body because of counter pressure. D. transpiration
A. True
6341. What is the highest temperature ever
B. False recorded on earth?
A. 56.7◦ C
6337. Most moisture falls on the side.
B. 66.7◦ C
A. leeward
C. 76.7◦ C
B. windward
D. 86.7◦ C
C. rain shadow
Explanation:
D. altitude

Record Value:56.7◦ C (134◦ F)Date of 6346. What causes seasons?

Record:10 /7 [July] / 1913Length of A. The tilt of the earth’s rotation changes
Record:1911-present how much heat energy we get
6342. Which of the following describes B. The sun gets hotter and colder at dif-
weather? ferent times of the year
A. Tropical C. It’s a random process, but it happens

at the same time each year
B. mostly cloudy with a high of 73 F
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D. none of above
C. cold winders and warm summers
6347. A period of extremely cold tempera-
D. 31 months in july tures when part of the planet’s surface
was covered with massive ice sheets
6343. The day to day changes in temperature,
precipitation, wind speed is called A. Global warming
A. weather B. Greenhouse effect
B. climate C. Ice age

C. neither of the other answers
E. Station model
D. none of above
6344. Which season gets the most rain?
A. Spring
B. Summer
C. Fall
D. Winter
A. Cold front
6345. Being near water makes the climate
over nearby land B. Warm front
A. more moderate-cooler summers C. Stationary front

warmer winters. D. Occluded front
B. more extreme-hotter summers and 6349. This front is the result of a warm air
colder winters. mass and a cold air mass meeting and nei-
C. more likely to rain all the time ther can move?
D. more cold-cooler summers and colder A. Cold front

winters B. Stationary front

C. Warm front
D. Occluded front

6350. Levee is made by
A. Occluded Front
B. Cold Front
C. Stationary Front
D. Warm Front
6355. For a tropical storm to be called a hur-

A. Animals ricane, the storm must have strong, sus-
B. People tained winds. What is the minimum wind
speed a storm must have to be classified
C. Plants
as a hurricane?
D. Sun
6351. If there is a tornado warning for your

area, you should
A. find a high place to stay.
B. go to a room with no windows or a
basement.
C. cover your windows with plywood.
D. not listen to the radio. A. 31 km/hr
B. 64 km/hr
6352. Any form of water that falls from clouds
is called C. 92 km/hr
A. Evaporation D. 120 km/hr
B. Dew 6356. The location where warm air mass is re-
C. Precipitation placing a cooler air mass
D. Condensation
6353. Tropical climates are mostly and

A. hot and cold.
B. cold and rainy.
C. hot and wet. A. cold front
D. none of above B. warm front
C. icy front
6354. Identify the type of front that is shown
in the image. D. storm front

6357. Which of the following statements are A. Run-off will decrease.

true of a monster tornado?
B. Ground water will increase.
C. Precipitation will increase.
D. Transpiration will decrease.
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A. Once lifted a twenty-ton trailer truck
from a highway and dropping it in a field
1100 feet away.
B. Can pick up a house and move it down
a block.
C. Once sucked up a pond of frogs and
rained them down in another town.
A. Cold
D. All of the above.
B. Warm
6358. A rain gauge measure precipitation C. Stationary
A. in degrees celsius (◦ C) D. Occluded
B. in millimetres (mm)
6362. It tends to be in places where the
C. as a percentage (%)
altitude is high.
D. in miles per hour (mph)
A. Hot
6359. Located at the leading edge of a warm B. Cold
air mass. Brings gentle rain or light snow,
followed by warmer, milder weather. 6363. This is an instrument to measure atmo-
A. Warm Front spheric
B. Cold Front
C. Occluded Front
D. Stationary Front
6360. Consider the diagram of the water cycle.

Assume we have a very cold winter with
lots of snow. The mountain top is piled
high with snow. Then it is spring. How
will this impact the water cycle model?
A. temperature
B. moisture
C. pressure
D. none of above

6364. what am i am redish brown i am sneaky classmates and records her data. She con-
i like stealing stuff i am fast what am i cludes that the class average was actually
36.5 degrees Celsius. What empirical evi-

A. Fox forest
dence did Sally gather when doing her ex-
B. Deer desert periment?
C. wolf grassland A. Her classmates served as the control
D. seal desert group for her experiment.
6365. Where do warm ocean currents come B. The thermometer used to conduct her
from experiment.
A. the poles C. The temperature of her classmates in

degrees Celsius.
B. near the land
D. She concluded that the class average
C. the equator was low because it was cold outside.
D. middle of the oceans
6370. Climatologists record the information
6366. The most powerful storms on Earth are they get from weather instruments and
called they make
A. tornadoes. A. weather maps
B. thunderstorms. B. climate graphs
C. hurricanes. 6371. Choose the odd one from the following
D. hailstorms. options,
6367. THE UNIT USED TO MEASURE ATMO- A. Thick layer of fat under the skin
SPHERIC PRESSURE IS B. White fur
A. KILOMETER C. Long grasping tail
B. KILOGRAM D. Wide and large feet with sharp claws
C. MILLIBARS
6372. What type of storm is described as a
D. MILLIMETERS “violent, funnel-shaped, rotating column
of air” and occurs along with a thunder-
6368. A city is experiencing a high pressure storm?
system. What else are they most likely
experiencing? A. Hurricane
A. Cloudy skies B. Tornado
B. Storms C. Blizzard
C. Very hot temperatures D. Thunderstorm
D. Clear skies 6373. What is the date today?
6369. Kelly wants to take the temperature of A. September 25, 2022
her classmates to determine if the aver- B. September 26, 2022
age temperature of her class is actually
37 degrees Celsius. She uses a thermome- C. September 27, 2022
ter and takes the temperature of all of her D. none of above

6374. Which of the following is not a tool to 6379. Antarctica is cold all the time. What is
measure climate? it’s climate?
A. thermometer
B. charts
C. data
D. computers
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6375. Why do winds change during the day
and night near a beach? A. Tropical
A. The warm air over land sinks and stays B. Polar
there
C. Arid/Dry
B. The warm air over water sinks and D. Temperate
stays there
C. The temperature over air and the land 6380. What is a wind sock?
change
D. Cool air sinks over the land and stays
there
6376. Which best describes heat transfer by

radiation?
A. a slice of bacon frying in a pan
B. a pot on a stove boiling water
C. a camp fire warming hands
D. a hot air balloon A. A weather tool that is used to measure
temperature
6377. The condition in the atmosphere over a
short period of time. B. A device moved around by the wind,
pointing in different directions as the wind
A. climate changes
B. global warming C. A device used to measure the amount
C. weather of rainfall
D. atmosphere D. A weather tool used to measure aver-
age weather conditions
6378. How many layers of Atmosphere are
there? 6381. The time that it takes for a molecule of
water to circulate all the way through the
A. 2 oceanic conveyor belt
B. 7 A. 100 years
C. 5 B. 1000 years
D. 4 C. 10 000 years
E. 3 D. 100 000 years

6382. Caden wants to do some research on 6387. Which of these is NOT a factor that af-
the atmosphere. He learns that there fects the climate
are three main gasses in the atmosphere. A. Distance from the equator

Which gas is there the MOST of?
B. Distance from the sea
A. water vapor
C. Distance from the mountains
B. oxygen D. Altitude
C. carbon dioxide
6388. Which city experiences continental cli-
D. nitrogen mate?
6383. Which is most likely to cause a hurri- A. Hyderabad
cane? B. Delhi
A. a distant tidal wave C. Mumbai
B. a deep underwater earthquake D. Chennai
C. warm evaporated water from the 6389. Recycling, saving energy and using bicy-
ocean cles instead of cars can help reduce Global
D. cold evaporating water from the ocean Warming.
6384. A destructive, rotating column of air

that has very high wind speeds and that
is sometimes visible as a funnel-shaped
cloud.
A. lightning
B. thudnerstorm
C. tornado
D. thunder
E. storm surge
6385. A natural process that holds heat in is

called
A. True
A. greenhouse effect
B. False
B. infrared radiation
6390. Today in London is rather cloudy, though
C. ultraviolet radiation
staying mainly dry. A risk of a few very
D. visible light isolated rains. Winds are staying light.
What are we talking about?
6386. They are low in the sky and look soft
and fluffy.
A. Cirrus
B. Cumulonimbus
C. Cumulus
D. Stratus

A. Meteorological conditions 6394. What is air pressure?

B. Weather
C. Climate
D. Precipitation
6391. These temperatures are from Greenville,

SC. What season is it MOST LIKELY?
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A. spring A. The force of air molecules pushing on
B. fall a surface
C. summer B. The amount of water vapor
D. winter C. How hot or cold an area is

D. The amount of rainfall
6392. Why do you see precipitation near the
L? (select 2 answers) 6395. Weather is a set of conditions in the
at a particular time and place.
A. ocean
B. atmosphere
C. earth’s interior
D. land
6396. Low, flat layers of clouds that often

A. because that is low pressure and that cover much of the sky and produce steady
is where air rises, forming clouds and widespread rain are
B. because that is where air is falling and A. cumulonimbus clouds.
it brings rain with it B. cirrus clouds.
C. because southern Ohio is always rainy C. nimbostratus clouds.
this time of year
D. altostratus clouds.
D. because the cold front is meeting the
warm front which forces warm air to rise 6397. A tropical forest has precipitation
rapidly forming clouds than a desert.
A. more
6393. Infiltration is when
B. less
A. Water evaporates from plants
C. the same
B. Water on the surface of the ground
seeps into the soil D. none of above
C. When water travels over the surface 6398. What instrument measures wind tem-
of the land perature?
D. When water is stored as ground water A. barometer

B. rain gauge B. the wind isn’t blowing

C. thermometer C. sea to land

D. wind vane D. none of above
6399. What is used to measure temperature? 6404. What is the difference between climate
and weather?
A. A fan
A. Climate averages the weather condi-
B. A thermometer.
tions in a specific place over a long period
6400. What ocean current impacts Georgia’s of time, while weather describes the state
climate and how? of the atmosphere at a specific moment in
time.
A. Gulf stream warms our climate
B. Weather averages the weather condi-
B. Jet stream cools our climate
tions in a specific place over a long period
C. Gulf stream cools our climate of time, while Climate describes the state
D. California warms our climate of the atmosphere at a specific moment in
time.
6401. Celsius scale is used to measure C. Climate describes the weather condi-
A. temperature tions at night, while weather describes
B. pressure the conditions during the daytime.
C. with D. There is not a difference between cli-
mate and weather.
D. humidity
6405. Which measures all forms of precipita-
6402. hurricane tion?
A. intense tropical storm with winds ex- A. Barometer
ceeding 119 km/h
B. Rain gauge
B. Latitudes between the tropics and the
Arctic Circle in the north and the Antarc- 6406. How do clouds form?
tic Circle in the south; regions with milder A. Clouds are formed when water is
climates than the tropics or polar regions. cooled and evaporates, then the water va-
C. A rapidly whirling, funnel-shaped por warms and condenses and attaches to
cloud that reaches down to touch Earth’s particles in the air.
surface. B. Clouds are formed when water vapor
D. none of above is heated and evaporates, then the water
vapor cools and condenses and attaches
6403. In diagram X, which way does the wind to particles in the air.
blow? C. Clouds are formed when water is
heated and condenses, then the water va-
por cools and evaporates and attaches to
particles in the air.
D. Clouds are formed when water is
heated and evaporates, then the water va-
por cools and condenses and attaches to
A. land to sea particles in the air.

6407. The , or the height of land above sea C. Earthquake

level, affects climate, too. High places and
D. Flood
mountains are cool most of the year.
A. increase 6413. Which statement is describing climate?
B. elevation A. It snowed 12 centimeters last night.
6408. The table shows how much snow falls B. Last winter was colder than normal.
in Central Park each year. Which two C. There is a thunderstorm watch for the
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months have more than 150 millimeters of local area.
snow?
D. The temperature will be between 32◦ C
A. January and February and 37◦ C allweek.
B. September and October
C. March and April 6414. The surface features of an area combine
to form its
D. November and December
A. Climate
6409. When water vapor turns back into a liq-
B. Weather
uid it is called
C. Topography
A. Evaporation
B. Condensation D. Landmass
C. Precipitation 6415. What are the 2 gases that make up the

D. Surface run-off most part of the earth?
6410. What does this ◦ A. Oxygen and Nitrogen
A. Fahrenheit B. Oxygen and Argon
B. Celsius C. Argon and Nitrogen

C. Degrees D. Nitrogen and Methan
D. none of above
6416. This is the layer where meteors, or
6411. Increased carbon dioxide may cause shooting stars, burn up.
global warming by
A. reducing the amount of oxygen in the
air
B. trapping more heat in the atmosphere
C. allowing more sunlight into the atmo-
sphere
D. reducing the amount of nitrogen in the
air A. Troposphere
6412. Form above oceans with warm water B. Stratosphere
A. Tsunami C. Mesosphere
B. Hurricane D. Thermosphere

6417. Which climate zone is found at the blue A. cold, dry

X? B. warm, humid

C. warm, dry
D. cold, humid
6420. What does it mean when both the dry
and wet bulb thermometers has the same
reading?
A. Air is saturated with water vapour,
hence no evaporation is taking place
B. Air is not saturated and evaporation is
taking place
A. Tropical 6421. What is weather?
B. Temperate
C. Polar
D. none of above
6418. Precipitation will increase in areas
where there is
A. The average weather conditions in

outer space
B. The average weather conditions in a
large area over time
C. The outdoor conditions at a specific
A. less transpiration and less run-off. time and place
B. lower temperatures and more evapo- D. The outdoor conditions in the thermo-
ration. sphere
C. lower temperatures and less evapora- 6422. Which layer of the atmosphere does
tion weather occur?
D. higher temperatures and more evapo- A. thermosphere
ration.
B. mesosphere
6419. Which type of air would you find at air C. stratosphere
mass D?
D. troposphere
6423. Which part of the water cycle process
can change dirty water into clean water?
A. evaporation
B. condensation
C. collection
D. air pressure

6424. Weather changes at fronts. Fronts form 6429. Precipitation

where A. Common
A. wind flows into a mountain B. Rain, snow, sleet, or hail that falls from
B. air is heated near Earth’s surface clouds in the sky
C. water flows across Earth’s surface. C. Average weather conditions for a re-
gion year after year Its this one ;)
D. two air masses meet
D. Information that has been collected
NARAYAN CHANGDER
6425. Which of the following is NOT a world E. GLIZZY
climatic zone?
6430. the orographic rainfall is common in the
A. Wet and miserable belt of the westerlies
B. Hot and wet A. TRUE
C. Hot and dry B. FALSE
D. Cold and dry 6431. In which country was the Great Blizzard
of 1888?
6426. One of the four natural divisions of the
year:Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter are A. UK
called B. USA
A. Climate C. Iran
B. Weather D. Norway
C. Season 6432. The transfer of thermal energy by move-
D. Range ment of particles through gases and liquids
(fluids) is
E. Prediction
A. heat
6427. Times of year when certain kinds of B. conduction
weather are common temperature.
C. convection
A. weather D. radiation
B. precipitation
6433. Which pressure system brings clouds
C. seasons and precipitation?
D. climate A. Cold Pressure System
6428. What is a greenhouse gas? Pick ALL an- B. High Pressure System
swers that are true. C. Warm Pressure System
A. A gas that traps heat in our atmo- D. Low Pressure System
sphere. 6434. What season will sleet mostly happen
B. A gas that reflects heat out of our at- in?
mosphere. A. Winter
C. Oxygen (O2) B. Summer
D. Carbon Dioxide (CO2) C. Fall
E. A gas that causes climate change. D. Spring

6435. stationary front A. high pressure

A. intense tropical storm with winds ex- B. low pressure

ceeding 119 km/h C. hurricane
B. when a warm air mass and a cold air D. weather system
mass meet and no movement occurs
6440. The process of gases radiating energy
C. a large body of circulating air with low
as heat back to Earth
pressure at its center and higher pressure
outside of the system A. Global Warming
D. none of above B. Greenhouse Effect
C. Weather
6436. What does show us the wind direction?
D. Heat
A. Vane
6441. How does the air move in a sea breeze?
B. Vein
A. wind moves from north to south
C. Vine
B. wind moves from ocean to the land
D. Wein
C. wind moves from the land to the ocean
6437. What are the Factors that don’t Influ- D. wind moves from south to north
ence Climate?
A. Distance from the equator 6442. Longest day of the year
B. Distance from the sea A. Autumnal Equinox

B. Summer Solstice
C. Altitude
C. Winter Solstice
D. Longitude
D. Vernal Equinox
E. The direction of the wind
6443. The average year-after-year conditions
6438. a collection of small water droplets or of temperature, precipitation, winds, and
ice crystals suspended in the air clouds in an area.
A. Cloud
B. Fog
C. Front
D. Humidity
E. Thunderstorm
A. fronts
6439. Which system results in drier, fairer
weather? B. leeward
C. weather
D. climate
6444. We usually have less recess in Decem-
ber because it is cold.
A. Weather
B. Climate

6445. Does this statement describe weather 6450. when a warm air mass overtakes a
or climate? “We average 12 inches of colder air mass
snow each winter.”
A. cold front
A. Weather
B. warm front
B. Climate
C. stationary front
6446. in what months do dry season happen?
D. occluded front
A. from March to April
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B. from June to November 6451. What is a definition of Humidity?
C. from December to May
D. none of above

A. a word that means “if”
B. the condition of the air or the atmo-
sphere on our planet
A. Moisture or water vapour present in
C. the conditions in an area over a period the air is called humidity
of time
B. sitting and eating in home is called hu-
D. none of above
midity
6448. Arizona is a climate. C. Watching TV is called humidity
A. Tropical D. Talking non-stop is called humidity
B. Temperate
C. Polar 6452. Which term below describes the daily at-
mospheric conditions of an area?
D. none of above
A. climate
6449. Why do hurricanes weaken once they
B. temperature
are away from the ocean?
A. The hurricane uses the water from the C. weather
ocean as an energy source, and without D. none of the above
that source the power of the hurricane
lessens 6453. The symbol for high pressure is a circle
B. The power of the hurricane has noth- with
ing to do with ocean, and the storm will A. nothing inside it.
eventually stop regardless of where it
goes B. the letter H inside it.
C. The hotter temperatures on land C. the letter L inside it.
cause the clouds to evaporate D. none of above
D. There are so many buildings on the
land that they get in the way of the storm 6454. What kind of precipitation can you see
front and reduce the winds in the picture?


A. dry
B. hot
A. Rain
C. moist
B. Snow
D. cold
C. Hail
6460. An anemometer measures
D. none of above
A. Direction of the wind
B. air moisture (humidity)
in a high-pressure system?
C. Wind speed
A. clear skies and gentle breezes
D. speed and direction of the wind
B. clouds and rain
C. hurricanes 6461. This instrument allows students to de-
termine which weather property?
D. tornadoes
6456. Where is the altitude the greatest?
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
6457. How much it rained or snowed A. Air temperature

A. weather B. Relative humidity
B. precipitation C. Wind speed
D. Wind direction
6458. The rain shadow effect causes equal pre-
cipitation on both sides of a mountain. 6462. What does a wind vane measure?
A. true A. wind speed
B. false B. wind direction
6459. Describe the air on the windward side C. humidity

of a mountain. D. precipitation

6463. What causes thunder and lightning? 6467. humidity causes in a place
A. Rubbing of ice crystals in the clouds A. rainfall
B. Heating up of the air B. snowfall
C. Collision of clouds C. wind
D. Volcanic eruptions D. none of above
6464. Any form of water:liquid or solid, that 6468. Weather is
falls from the sky, is called:
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A. what air is like outside
B. pattern of weather in a place over
many years.
C. the evaporation of water
D. none of above
6469. Find the independent variale (IV):You
experiment to find out if you can blow big-
ger bubbles when it is hot outside or when
it is cold outside.
B. Size of bubbles
C. Type of bubble juice
D. Temperature
A. Precipitation
B. Humidity 6470. Which greenhouse gas is released from
sewage and manure?
C. Wind
A. CFC’s CFC’s
D. none of above
B. Water Vapor
6465. The Earth’s atmosphere didn’t have the
C. Storm
oxygen we need to breath until
D. Methane
A. Tiny bacteria used photosynthesis to
turn carbon dioxide into oxygen 6471. Which of the following does NOT have
B. A meteor with its own atmosphere an affect on a region’s climate?
crashed into Earth and gave off oxygen
C. The sun’s energy heated up lava until
oxygen was formed
D. Oxygen evolved from nitrogen
6466. Which of the following is not a type of
precipitation?
A. frost A. Large bodies of water
B. rain B. Latitude
C. snow C. Mountains
D. hail D. Longitude

6472. Cold fronts 6476. This zone receives moderate insolation.

A. cold air moves under warm air forcing

warm air up
B. A rapidly whirling, funnel-shaped cloud
that reaches down to touch Earth’s sur-
face.
C. A period of extremely cold tempera-
D. none of above A. Torrid zone
B. Temperate zone
6473. These climates are found in high alti-
tudes. They have mild summers and cold C. Frigid zone
winters.There is a lot of precipitation, in-
D. none of above
cluding snow.
A. Mountain climates 6477. The temperature of the oceans affects
B. Oceanic climates the different climates on Earth because:
C. Continental Mediterranean climates A. The water in the oceans holds a great
D. Mediterranean climates amount of heat.
E. Subtropical climates B. The oceans shelter the shore from se-
vere weather.
6474. The Atmospheric condition on a particu-
lar day, at a place with respect to the tem- C. The warm waves that hit the ocean
perature, humidity, etc is called shore warm the surrounding air.
A. Climate D. The climates that border the ocean
are mostly sunny and the sun warms the
B. Weather
Earth.
C. Season
D. All of these 6478. a weather system where a warm air
mass is caught between two cooler air
6475. What are some other factors for torna- masses; brings cool temps, rain and snow
does to form?
A. Abundant high level heat is necessary
to contribute to the development of a thun-
derstorm
B. They usually form in areas where
winds at all levels of the atmosphere are
not strong and also turn with height in an
up and down motion.
C. They form in areas where winds at A. occluded front
all levels of the atmosphere are not only B. stationary front
strong, but also turn with height in a clock-
wise or veering direction. C. cold front
D. none of above D. warm front

6479. The warmest climate zone is 6485. An air current in the upper atmosphere
A. tropical that has a powerful influence on the
weather because it is a boundary between
B. temperate cold and warm air. Generally moves from
C. polar West to East.
D. none of above
6480. Today is sunny, but tomorrow there is a
NARAYAN CHANGDER
10% chance of rain.
A. Weather
B. Climate
6481. Where was it? A. Gulf Stream
A. Kebii, Tunisia B. High Pressure
B. Oodnadatta, Australia C. Jet Stream

C. Athens, Greece D. Low Pressure
D. Death Valley, California, USA
6486. Hail is an example of
6482. What is the SECOND layer of the atmo- A. precipitation
sphere?
B. temperature
A. Exosphere
B. Troposphere 6487. A scientific instrument that is used to
measure air pressure
C. Stratosphere
A. Compass
D. Mesosphere
E. Thermosphere B. Thermometer
C. Barometer
6483. All energy on earth begins
D. none of above
A. with the heat produced by pressure in-
side the earth 6488. What day did it rain 2cm?
B. photosynthesis by producers
C. with the sun
D. with the magma inside the earth
6484. Which environment can be described as

having high average rainfall and high av-
erage temperatures?
A. tundra A. Day 1
B. rainforest B. Day 2
C. mountain C. Day 3
D. desert D. Day 4

6489. Which measures precipitation? 6493. What does this symbol on a weather
map indicate?

A.
B.
C. A. High pressure system

C. Cold front
D. D. Warm front
6494. What landform causes the rain shadow
6490. Precipitation is effect?
A. Rain, sleet, snow or hail.
B. Only rain.
C. Only snow and hail.
D. Only rain and snow
A. Mountains
6491. What is the definition of climate?
B. Lakes
A. The condition of the air around the
C. Plains
Earth
D. Valleys
B. The rainforest
6495. All weather is energy in motion. Where
C. The pattern of weather over time
does this energy come from?
D. How hot it is in a certain place
A. the water cycle
6492. The amount of water vapor in the at- B. the moon’s gravity
mosphere compared to how much it could C. the sun’s radiation
hold.
D. heat from the Earth’s core
A. Saturation
6496. Tornadoes and hurricanes form under
B. Vaporicity high pressure systems.
C. Absolute Humidity A. true
D. Relative Humidity B. false

6497. What do meteorologists use to predict 6502. What type of air mass forms over B?
or forecast the weather? Choose two.
A. cold, dry
A. cats
B. warm, humid
B. clocks
C. cold, humid
C. observations
D. trolls D. warm, dry
E. measurements
NARAYAN CHANGDER
6503. What type of zone is Texas in?
6498. Decide if this describes climate or A. polar zone
weather:The Amazon rainforest is wet.
B. temperate zone
A. climate
B. weather C. tropical zone
D. none of above
6499. The atmosphere is heated more by
A. Terrestrial radiation than solar radia- 6504. this instrument is used to measure the
tion speed of the wind
B. Insolation than terrestrial radiation
C. Terrestrial radiation than insolation
D. Solar radiation than insolation
6500. When this type of weather front passes
through an area, temperatures will be-
come warmer
A. high pressure system A. Wind Vane

B. cold front
B. Anemometer
C. none of these
D. warm front
D. none of above
6501. Find the IV:You experiment to find out
if you can blow bigger bubbles when it is 6505. Which best describes climate?
hot outside or when it is cold outside.
A. It rained this week.
B. Type of bubble juice B. Yesterday it was cold and windy.
C. Size of bubbles C. Summers are usually hot and dry.

D. Temperature D. none of above

6506. Which sentence best describes how lati- B. stationary front

tude and air temperature are related? C. warm front

A. The lower the latitude, the lower the D. cold front
air temperature.
B. The lower the latitude, the colder the
air temperature.
C. The higher the latitude, the colder the
air temperature.
D. The higher the latitude, the warmer
the air temperature.
6507. What climate zone do we live in?

A. temperate A. thermosphere
B. tropical B. stratosphere
C. polar C. mesosphere
D. none of above D. troposphere
6508. Factors that determine climate are 6511. On average, a snowfall of 20 centime-
ters would equal a rainfall of
A. 1 centimeter
B. 2 centimeters
C. 3 centimeters
D. 4 centimeters
6512. Sun’s rays falls directly on
A. South Pole
B. Equator
A. Altitude and longitud C. North Pole
B. Altitude, warm and place on Earth D. none of above
C. Altitude, water and place on Earth 6513. London is much farther north than
D. Altitude, longitud and water Chicago, yet it is warmer in London in the
winter than it is in Chicago. Why is this
6509. This front occurs when 3 air masses true?
meet up forcing the warm air upward. A. The Sun’s rays shine at a higher angle
in London than Chicago
B. Waters around England are warmed
by many underwater volcanoes
C. London receives more sunshine in the
winter than other places farther south
D. London’s climate is affected by warm
A. occluded front ocean currents that flow from the south

6514. What is climate? 6518. Cold dry air from Canada meets warm
moist air from the tropics. These two air
masses begin to spin over land. What is
created?
A. Hurricane
B. Tornado
C. Thunderstorm
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. long-term pattern of weather in an D. Anticyclone
area.
B. short-term pattern of weather in an 6519. What type of weather is associated
area. with a cold front?
C. The five Climate Zones A. sunshine

D. Medium-pattern of weather in an area. B. thunderstorms
C. warm and humid
6515. When heat transfers from warmer to
cooler, the molecules D. drizzle
6520. A large storm that forms over an ocean

is called
A. Hurricane
B. Tornado
C. Blizzard
D. Sand storm
A. move closer and slow down 6521. Cities on top of a mountain (higher ele-
B. move closer and speed up vation) normally have a climate.
C. spread out and slow down A. Hot
D. spread out and speed up B. Cooler
C. Warm
6516. What caused Pangea to break up over
200 million years ago? D. All different types of
A. The Big Bang 6522. Are stratus clouds or cirrus clouds found
B. Tectonic Plate Movement closer to the ground?
C. Volcanic Eruption A. Cirrus
D. Tsunami B. Stratus
6517. Which climate region does a polar bear 6523. Which storm has the most change in
live in? wind direction and increase in wind speed?
A. Tropical climate A. Hurricanes
B. Temperate climate B. Thunderstorms
C. Polar climate C. Tornados

6524. Earth’s tilt on its axis and movement 6529. The picture represents a land breeze
around the sun create

A. seasons
B. day and night
C. ocean currents
D. rain shadows
6525. The continuous movement of water on, A. True

above, and below the surface of the earth
is known as? B. False
A. The hydrologic cycle C. Not enough information
B. The rock cycle D. Maybe
C. The hydroponics cycle
6530. This is a
D. none of above
6526. Scientist study the climate patterns of

an area for many years to deduce weather
A. True
B. False
6527. Which layer of the atmosphere is closest

to the surface of the Earth and it is where
all weather occurs?
A. Anemometer
B. Barometer
C. hygrometer
D. Pyranometer
A. Thermosphere 6531. Kimberly made a model to show the

B. Mesosphere spinning of a tornado. She filled a 2-liter
soda bottle with water. Then she con-
C. Stratosphere nected it neck-to-neck with an empty 2-
D. Troposphere liter bottle. She flipped the water-filled
bottle upside down and turned it a few
6528. the temperature, precipitation, and times. Why is this NOT an experiment?
wind in a place at one time
A. The activity is not repeatable.
A. weather
B. climates B. There are no variables being tested.
C. measure C. There are no tools being used.

D. seasons D. The activity is not scientific.

6532. The layers of the atmosphere. The layer

that contains the ozone layer is the
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. global warming
A. Troposphere B. the greenhouse effect

C. the trump effect
B. Stratosphere
D. none of above
C. Mesosphere
D. Thermosphere 6536. What type of storm can produce torna-
does?
E. Exosphere
A. Multicell Cluster
6533. What type of front is shown? B. Squall Line
C. Cyclone
D. Supercell
6537. Cold climates are
A. Warm front
B. Occluded front
C. Cold front
D. Stationary front
6534. Is this a land or a sea breeze? B. Desert climates
C. Polar climates
D. Mediterranean climates
6538. Winds on earth form because of un-

equal heating. What are the areas of lit-
tle or variable winds found at the equator
called?
A. land breeze A. Trade Winds
B. sea breeze B. Easterlies
6535. The gradual increase in average global C. Doldrums

surface temperature is called D. Jet Streams

6539. Where is the temperature the highest? 6543. clouds covering the whole sky means
it’s going to rain

A. yes, whenever it is overcast if is going
to rain
B. No, some clouds, cover the whole sky
but don’t produce rain. Also, some clouds
A. 1
produce rain but don’t cover the whole sky
B. 2
C. There is no way to tell if it is going to
C. 3 rain
D. 4 D. none of above
6540. Fall here tends to be dry and cool. 6544. water vapour present in air is called
A. hydration
B. humidity
C. evaporation
D. none of above
6545. i live in the tundra but i need to hide

from predators what do i do
A. blend in with eviorment
B. run super fast
A. Climate C. turn small
B. Weather D. hide under the snow
6541. is the measure of the transparency 6546. An instrument used to measure how hot
of the atmosphere. or cold something is
A. Wind A. barometer
B. Weather B. thermometer
C. Precipitation C. wind sock
D. Visibility D. rain guage
6542. Is this a land or a sea breeze? 6547. the amount of water vapor in the air
A. land breeze
B. sea breeze

A. warm front A. climate

B. precipitation B. weather
C. humidity C. geosphere
D. air pressure D. atmosphere
6548. the temperature at which air is satu-
6553. Which of the following is a major factor
rated and condensation forms is called
in Earth’s current global warming?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. dew point
A. stronger hurricanes
B. weather
B. burning of fossil fuels
C. precipitation
C. increase in volcanic activity
D. frost point
D. increase in Sun’s brightness
6549. Weather is the same all around the
planet. 6554. Which latitude receives the most direct
A. True rays of the Sun year-round?
B. False A. 0◦
B. 30◦
6550. Your local meteorologist announces that
the humidity today is at 95%. What does C. 60◦
this mean? D. 90◦
A. The air pressure is very low.
6555. The weather forecast is for warmer air
B. There is a high chance of getting snow.
and lower air pressure. Which of the fol-
C. There is a great deal of moisture in the lowing fits with the forecast?
air.
A. higher humidity
D. The air is very dry.
B. strong winds
6551. A small, intense storm formed when a
C. lower humidity
vertical cylinder of rotating air develops is
a D. strong rain
A. thunderstorm.
6556. Which of the following is most likely to
B. tornado. be the cause of high wind and heavy rain-
C. monsoon. fall?
D. hurricane. A. A cold mass is remaining stationary for
an extended period of time.
6552. The mixture of gases that surrounds
B. A cold mass is colliding with moist,
Earth.
warm air.
C. A warm air mass is remaining station-
ary for an extended period of time.
D. A moist, warm air mass is colliding
with a dry air mass of the same temper-
ature.

6557. Which are good examples of a station- 6562. A big red L on a weather map shows
ary front? where there is a

A. It rained for one hour today
B. It has been snowing for two weeks
straight in Alaska
C. It was sunny yesterday but now it is
raining A. Cold Front
D. It has been sunny all month and it
B. Warm Front
hasn’t rained once
C. Low pressure air mass
6558. How many factors are there that influ-
ence the climate of a place? D. High pressure air mass
A. 4
6563. Low pressure systems move:
B. 8
C. 5 A. clockwise
D. none of these B. counterclockwise
6559. Warm air glides above a cold air mass C. they are stationary
A. cold D. who kows
B. warm
C. stationary 6564. Lines joining places have similar temper-
ature at a particular time is called
D. occluded
A. Isohyets
6560. The measurement of the distance above
sea level B. Isotherms
A. altitude
6565. A front where a warm air mass and two
B. atmosphere
cold air masses are caught between each
C. humidity other is called a(n) front.
D. weather
A. warm
6561. In a flood, you should move to lower
B. cold
ground and play in the flood waters.
A. True C. occluded
B. False D. stationary

6566. Which month has the lowest average 6570. A pattern is something that happens in
temperature? a regular way you can predict.
A. True
B. False
6571. The three main seasons in India are ,
and
A. Summer, Winter and Autumn
NARAYAN CHANGDER
B. Summer, Winter and Spring
A. December
C. Summer, Winter and Monsoon
B. November
D. none of above
C. January
D. February 6572. Name the type of climate that is very
cold?
6567. is the amount of water vapor in the
air.
A. condensation
B. precipitation
C. humidity
D. none of above A. Polar climate
6568. Which city has the highest rainfall in B. Dry climate
July?
6573. Which tool do we use to measure atmo-
spheric pressure?
A. Pluviometer
B. Thermometer
C. Anemometer
D. Barometer
A. Iquitos ( Graph on Left) 6574. What front is occurring between Denver
B. Monrovia (Middle Graph) and St. Louis?
C. Normanton (Graph on Right)
6569. Which of the following has caused re-
peating 100, 000-year cycles of ice ages
in the past?
A. an increase in sun spots
B. several major volcanic eruptions A. occluded front
C. changes in Earth’s orbit and the tilt of B. warm front
its axis C. cold front
D. continental drift D. stationary front

6575. This climate is dry with very little rain-

fall. It has extreme temperatures and
very little plant or animal life.

A. Polar
B. Temperate
C. Tropical
D. Desert
E. Polar A. Suns’s energy drives the water cycle
B. Sun’s energy creates surface currents
6576. It is possible to have a moist climate on in the ocean.
one side of a state and a desert on the C. Sun’s energy controls condensation.
other side. How?
D. Sun’s energy controls runoff.
A. Mountains block moist air from the
desert side 6580. Which weather tool measures the wind
direction?
B. Actually, it’s not possible
A. anemometer
C. It is based on the size of the state
B. wind vane
D. The state is so near the poles C. thermometer
D. barometer
6577. a local rise in sea level near the shore
that is caused by strong winds from a 6581. A place at a higher altitude will have
storm, such as those from a hurricane climate.
A. Elevation A. cold
B. Meteorology B. hot
C. Jet Stream C. moderate

D. none of above
D. Topography
E. Storm Surge 6582. It is the condition of the air at a certain
time.
6578. Which of these has the greatest capacity A. Weather
for storing thermal energy from the Sun? B. Reading
A. Air 6583. Weather is the state of the atmosphere
B. Land over a longer period of time. True or False
C. Oceans A. True
B. False
D. Plants
6584. Which example of weather produces
6579. How does the sun’s energy most di- heavy winds, loss of visibility, and lots of
rectly influence precipitation in an area? snow?

A. A hailstorm. 6588. What is the shape of Earth’s surface in

a particular place called?
B. A hurricane.
A. geography
C. A blizzard.
B. topography
D. A thunderstorm.
C. cartography
6585. Which is NOT a main gas that is in D. typography
earth’s atmosphere. 6589. This kind of front forms when a fast
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. Nitrogen moving cold air mass hits a warm air mass.
B. Oxygen A. Warm front
B. Cold front
C. Hydrogen
C. Stationary front
D. Water Vapor
D. none of above
6586. Amy and Scott are preparing a presen- 6590. How do prevailing winds that travel
tation on climate in Florida. Which of the across large bodies of water affect the cli-
following statements would BEST support mate?
the idea that Florida has a subtropical cli-
A. they make it wetter
mate?
B. they make it colder
A. Florida had record high temperatures
this past summer C. they make it warmer
D. none of above
B. Florida received 35 inches of rain this
past year. 6591. What do hurricanes feed on?
C. Florida’s location near the equator A. warm tropical water
makes it cooler than most of the United B. hot water
States. C. cold artic water
D. Florida has a long pattern of experienc- D. rain
ing hot, humid summers and mild to cool
winters. 6592. This climate has 4 seasons each year.
6587. Land breezes flow from to
A. east; west
A. Cold or Polar
B. land; water B. Warm
C. clouds; jet C. Temperate
D. water; land D. Tropical

6593. On a summer day which clouds are most 6598. a person who studies the weather
likely to bring rain? A. temperature

A. thin, fluffy clouds
B. weather
B. red clouds at sunset
C. climate
C. thick, dark-gray clouds
D. meteorologist
D. clouds that look like white sheep
6599. The areas between the equator and 30
6594. What is weather? degrees North/South is known is also
A. Weather is the condition of air, temper- known as AND
ature, wind air pressure, rainfall and hu-
A. low latitudes
midity in the atmosphere at a given place
and time. B. high latitudes
B. Weather is conditions of seasons that C. tropical climate zone
prevail for a long time. D. temperate climate zone
6595. Weather is what you and Climate is E. arctic climate zone
what you
6600. We average 200 inches of snow each
A. get, expect year.
B. get, wait for
A. Weather
C. expect, get
B. Climate
D. none of above
6601. Raindrops that freeze on the way to the
6596. The blow from east to west, in both earth and land as tiny ice pellets form
the southern and northern hemispheres,
and move warm tropical air toward the A. Snowflakes
equator. B. Sleet
A. doldrums C. Dew
B. westerlies D. Frost
C. trade winds
6602. Earth would be too cold to support life
D. polar easterlies without
6597. How warm the air is is the definition for A. global warming
B. the greenhouse effect
C. tropics
D. seasons
6603. The symbol for high pressure is a circle

with-
A. Atmospheric pressure A. nothing inside it
B. Precipitation B. the letter L inside it
C. Temperature C. the letter H inside it
D. Wind D. a storm cloud

6604. What is the unit for measuring air pres- D. It represents a low pressure system,
sure? which usually brings clouds and precipita-
A. millibar tion
B. centimetre 6608. As elevation increases, air pressure

C. inches A. increases
D. none of above B. decreases
6609. A thunderstorm is a severe weather
NARAYAN CHANGDER
6605. Why does Daytona, Florida have high
condition that generates lightning, thun-
humidity?
der, gusty winds, and heavy precipitation.
Thunderstorms frequently form over the
ocean when the conditions are favorable
for their development. There are gener-
ally three sequential stages in the life of a
thunderstorm:the formation stage, the ma-
ture stage, and the dissipating stage. Iden-
tify the correct sequence of events that
is characteristic of thunderstorm devel-
opment and dissipation.Event a= Strong
A. Daytona is close to a warm ocean downdrafts of cold air throughout the
B. Daytona is at a high elevation thunderstorm cloud and light rain.Event
C. Daytona is near alot of mountains b= Strong updrafts of warm air, associ-
ated with strong gusty winds and precip-
D. Daytona is south of the equator itation.Event c= Strong updrafts of warm
moist rising into the atmosphere creating
6606. The layer of gases surrounding earth is
a cumulus cloud.Event d = Evaporation of
what?
the cumulus cloud.
A. atmosphere A. Event a, Event b, Event c, Event d
B. climate B. Event b, Event c, Event a, Event d
C. weather C. Event c, Event b, Event a, Event d
D. none of above D. Event d, Event c, Event a, Event b
tagsSC.912.E.7.6
6607. What does this weather map symbol
represent, and what type of weather can 6610. What is a “Rain Shadow” in meteorol-
typically be expected when this symbol is ogy? a) A region that receives heavy rain-
shown? fall. b) A type of hurricane. c) A dry area
on the leeward side of a mountain range,
A. It represents a low front, which usu-
with little rainfall. d) A desert with fre-
ally brings cooler temperatures and light
quent thunderstorms.
rain
A. A region that receives heavy rainfall.
B. It represents a low pressure system,
which usually brings clear skies and clear B. A type of hurricane.
weather C. A dry area on the leeward side of a
C. It represents an isobar, which usually mountain range, with little rainfall.
means windy conditions D. A desert with frequent thunderstorms.

6611. Which layer of the atmosphere does 6617. Polar means

weather occur in? A. wet

A. Troposphere B. dry
B. Exosphere C. cold
C. Mesosphere D. warm
D. Earth
6618. Which climate zone is located near the
6612. Hygrometer measures rainfall. equator?
A. True A. polar
B. False B. subarctic
C. temperature
6613. There is a warning for a severe Thun-
derstorm. Which safety measure should D. tropical
people take?
6619. A funnel shaped windstorm is a
A. Stand near windows A. Blizzard
B. Take a bath B. Tropical Storm
C. Stay out of water C. Tornado
D. Stand under trees D. Tsunami
6614. I am located at the top and bottom of 6620. What is the tool that measures precipi-
the earth and am home to the coldest tation called?
places.
A. rain gauge
A. Tropical zone
B. barometer
B. Polar zone
C. meteorologist
C. Temperate zone
D. thermometer
D. Mild zone
6621. Which BEST describes why latitudes
6615. What type of front occurs when a cold closest to the equator have warmer cli-
air mass replaces a warm air mass? mates?
A. Stationary Front A. they are at lower elevations
B. Warm Front B. they receive high angle sunlight
C. Occluded Front C. they are nearer to ocean currents
D. Cold Front D. they get more winds that carry energy
in the form of heat
6616. A cloud type that is a high level cloud
that are thin and wispy. They appear dur- 6622. Atmosphere is
ing good weather A. the layer of gases that surrounds the
A. Meteorology earth
B. Cirrus B. the layer of water in the oceans
C. Mesosphere C. the layer that contains the ozone layer
D. Altitude D. the layer in which the weather occurs

6623. During which portion of the Earth’s revo- 6628. THE AREA OF THE EARTH CLOSE TO
lution around the sun is the Northern Hemi- EQUATOR IS THE
sphere tilted toward the sun? A. COLD ZONE
A. Vernal equinox B. HOT ZONE
B. summer solstice C. TEMPERATE ZONE
C. autumnal equinox D. none of above
D. winter solstice
NARAYAN CHANGDER
6629. What are two examples of greenhouse
6624. What does ozone in the atmosphere do? gases?
A. it absorbs and traps heat energy A. Carbon
B. it provides a place for water vapor to B. Argon

condense C. Water Vapour
C. it protects against harmful uv radiation D. Methane
D. it helps plants grow 6630. What is the greenhouse effect?
6625. ice cores A. The warming of a planet due to
trapped radiation.
A. A person who forecast the weather
and studies the climate patterns. B. The heating of a solid, such as a rock.
B. method for studying climate change by C. The cooling of Earth due to air pollu-
drilling cores in ice caps and glaciers that tion.
have build up over thousands of years D. none of above
6631. Where are tornadoes most likely to oc-
tect precipitation as well as the movement
cur?
of small particles, which can be used to ap-
proximate wind speed A. South Dakota, North Dakota, Florida
and Mississippi
D. none of above
B. Thunder Alley
6626. Which of these is true about weather?
C. Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska
A. Scientists only measure weather pat- D. none of above
terns once a year.
B. Weather describes the conditions of 6632. The condition of Earth’s atmosphere at
the air outside. a particular time and place.
C. Weather never changes.

D. Weather is always hot.
6627. Places which are close together some-

times have very different weather condi-
tions or microclimates.
A. True
B. False A. weather

B. windward A. Day
C. precipitation B. Night

D. climate 6637. What type of cloud is this? A middle
6633. The device that measures air pressure is level puffy cloud
A. Barometer
B. Thermometer
C. Anemometer
D. Zapometer
6634. At the seashore late in the afternoon on

A. Altocumulus
a hot, sunny day, a person often feels a
strong breeze coming in from the ocean. B. Fog
Which of the following is the reason for C. Cloudy
the breeze?
D. Stratocumulus
A. The pounding waves generate aircur-
rents 6638. Definition:the condition of the air in a
B. There are no clouds to block the wind specific place at a specific time
coming infrom the ocean A. climate
C. The warm air over the oceanrushes in B. weather
to replace the cool air that rises over the
land 6639. This weather instrument measures the
speed of wind.
D. The heavy, cool air over theocean
rushes in to replace the warm air that
rises over the land*
6635. When it rains, everything is
A. anemometer
B. barometer
A. dry C. rain gauge
B. hot D. wind vane
C. cold 6640. An air mass develops when air
D. wet A. moves through a region rapidly
6636. Do land breezes typically happen during B. stays in one region for many
the day or night? days/weeks

6641. A device that measures air pressure. 6646. Which of these countries has a tropical
climate?
A. Barometer
A. Russia
B. Thermometer
B. Scotland
C. Anemometer
C. Mozambique
D. Wind Vane
D. France
6642. How many seasons are there in India?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
6647. What direction is the cold front moving?
A. 5
B. 9
C. 1
D. 3
6643. How do air masses move across the US?

A. The trade winds move the air masses
from west to east A. Northwest
B. The jet stream moves air masses from B. Southeast
west to east
C. Northeast
C. The trade winds move the air masses D. Southwest
from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific
Ocean 6648. What does an “H” inside a circle repre-
D. The Gulf Stream air moves around the sent on a weather map?
Gulf of Mexico A. Hurricane
6644. Weather is B. High Humidity
A. The condition of the atmosphere at any C. Hot

given time. D. High Pressure
B. What can happen at any time 6649. What does this symbol represent on a
C. The condition of the sky. map?
D. The condition of the atmosphere at 12
o’clock
6645. Define Climate

A. Climate keeps changing. We may ex-
perience different weather conditions.
B. Climate is the number of layers around
the atmosphere.
C. Climate is the average weather in a
given area over a longer period of time.
D. none of above A. Rain

B. Hail 6653. A is used for measuring tempera-

C. Mixed rain and snow ture.

A. hygrometer
D. Thunderstorms
B. rain gauge
6650. What kind of front is shown in the pic-
C. thermometer
ture?
D. wind mill
6654. What forms when air masses with dif-

ferent temperatures meet?
A. storms
B. thunder
C. fronts
D. currents
6655. T or F:Outside the Tropics is known as a

A. occluded front low latitude area.
B. stationary front A. T
C. warm front B. F
D. cold front 6656. An instrument that measures air pres-

sure
6651. When water is so heavy that it falls as
a liquid or a solid it is known as
A. Evaporation
B. Condensation
C. Precipitation
D. Surface run-off
6652. Choose the best forecast for Miami on A. thermometer

Saturday.
B. barometer
C. rain guage
D. wind sock
A. sunny skies
C. rain
D. snow

A. tundra B. air mass

B. forest C. air front
C. desert D. isobar
D. grassland 6662. The boundaries that separate cold and
hot masses are
temperature?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. An anemometer
B. A weather vane
C. A pluviometer A. Weather vanes
D. A barometer B. Isobars
E. A thermometer C. Atmospheric pressures
D. Weather fronts
6659. falling of water and flakes of snow to-
gether 6663. Hurricanes are intense tropical storms.
What type of pressure system do they pro-
A. Sheet
duce?
B. Sleet
C. Snow B. high pressure system
D. Water
6664. Summer solstice is the day of the
6660. Nanital is cool even in summers because year.
of its A. Shortest
A. Latitude and Longitude B. Longest
B. Longitude 6665. Take your umbrella it is going to rain to-
C. Altitude day
D. All of the above A. weather
B. climate
6661. An is a large body of air that has
similar temperature and humidity through- 6666. The temperature is currently 3oC.
out it. A. Weather
A. air pressure B. Climate

6667. This zone has low temperatures all year A. Height above sea level
round. B. Amount of water vapor
A. Cold climate

C. Average temperature
B. Temperate climate D. Distance from the equator
C. Hot climate
6673. The Gulf stream carries water from
D. none of above the east coast of The United States to the
6668. What type of cloud indicates a thunder- West coast of Europe.
storm and possibly tornado? A. Cold
A. Stratus B. Warm
B. Cirrus C. Freezing
C. Cumulus D. Fresh
D. Cumulonimbus
6674. Katrina was the strongest hurricane to
6669. Which of the following is NOT a useful hit New Orleans
tool in measuring local weather? A. Weather
A. thermometers B. Climate
B. rain guages
6675. What does a hygrometer measure?
C. wind socks
A. temperature
D. telescopes
B. humidity
6670. Which of the following sources of
C. air pressure
weather data would enable a meteorolo-
gist to follow the path of an approaching D. wind speeds
thunderstorm? 6676. Climate covers
A. a chart of data from nearby weather A. Larger areas than weather
stations
B. Smaller areas than weather
B. radar
C. a network of aneroid barometers 6677. What pushes weather from place to
place?
D. weather balloons
A. magic
6671. He was at the park and suddenly it
B. water
started to rain.
C. wind
A. weather
D. clouds
B. climate
6672. What is latitude? 6678. Steve was measuring the wind speed
for the class’s daily weather report. He
most likely used what tool to do this?
A. anemometer
B. wind mill
C. weather vane
D. thermometer

6679. The Coriolis Effect is the curving of the 6682. It is a type of weather when an atmo-
path of a moving object in Earth’s atmospheric water froze and fell to the ground,
sphere that is caused by Earth’s rotation. covering it. It happens when the tempera-
How does the Coriolis Effect affect winds ture of the air falls at 0 ◦ C (32 ◦ F).
globally? A. Rainy
A. it causes the air to move as wind B. Sunny/Clear
B. it causes winds to shift north and south C. Cloudy
C. it causes winds to blow from any direc-
NARAYAN CHANGDER
D. Snowy
tion
D. it causes the wind to move in a curved 6683. Which abbreviation of an air mass can
path be identified as warm and moist?
A. cP
A. Cold B. mP
B. Warm C. cT
C. Stationary D. mT
D. Occluded 6684. The climate zones can be:
6681. Rania saw on the news that an air mass
is forming over the Gulf of Mexico. What
type of air mass is it likely to be?
A. Hot or cold
B. Hot, temperate or cold
C. Temperate or cold
D. Hot or temperate
6685. A dry and cold air mass would be
A. warm and humid A. Maritime polar
B. warm and dry B. Continental polar
C. cool and humid C. Maritime tropical
D. cool and dry D. Continental tropical

6686. (a) is someone who studies the 6693. stalled; not moving ;when a warm air
weather. mass and a cold air mass meet and no
movement occurs. Many days of precipi-

A. a Meteorologist
tation.
B. Weather
A. warm front
C. Climate
B. cold front
D. none of above
6687. Salem is not close to the equator.
D. stationary front
A. True
6694. anemometer
B. False
A. measures wind speed
6688. Which layer of the atmosphere has me-
teors? B. measures air pressure
A. troposphere C. the pressure caused by the weight of

a column of air pushing down on an area
B. stratosphere
D. long-term average of weather in an
C. mesosphere area
D. thermosphere
6689. What is the weather instrument that
A. How hot or cold something is
measures air pressure?
B. Thermometer
A. wind vane
C. That feeling when you get sick
B. anemometer
D. How close the Earth is to the sun
C. thermometer
D. barometer 6696. Weather refers to long term trends.
6690. The hot “line” around the center of the A. True

earth is called the B. False
A. Equilibrium 6697. A very warm to hot zone with little pre-
B. Equator cipitation where most water evaporates
C. Tropic of Cancer very quickly.
D. Tropic of Capricorn A. Temperate Zone
B. Tropical Zone
6691. It usually rains a lot in April.
C. Dry Zone
A. Weather
D. none of above
B. Climate
6698. What is the main cause for seasonal
6692. Which best describes a hurricane?
variations in temperatures in the Northern
A. a low-pressure weather system and Southern Hemispheres?
B. a high-pressure weather system A. The phases of the moon
C. a cold front B. Changes in the earth’s tilt as it orbits
D. a stationary front the sun

C. The earth’s rotation on its axis 6703. Biomes of the World:This one sees
D. Differences in the earth’s distance mostly snow and features permafrost as
from the sun the normal ground situation; found be-
tween Taigas and Ice Caps.
6699. Which gas is a greenhouse gas?
A. carbon dioxide
B. oxygen
NARAYAN CHANGDER
C. nitrogen
D. helium A. Deciduous Forest
B. Desert
6700. This instrument shows the direction of
C. Grassland
the wind
D. Tundra
A. Aenometer
6704. Cold ocean currents generally come from
B. barometer
A. The North Pole
C. Precipitator
B. The South Pole
D. Wind Vane
C. The Equator
6701. When barometric pressure is rising, D. Both A and B
what type of weather can usually be ex-
pected? 6705. This cold river of air travels from west
to east in the northern hemisphere. Last
winter, it dipped far south to bring cold air
and snow to many southern states. This is
the
A. Hadley wind
B. Polar jet stream
C. polar vortex
D. Tropical jet stream
6706. What makes the wind blow
A. strong thunderstorms and hail A. differences in cold and hot tempera-
tures
B. tornadoes
B. differences in air pressure from one lo-
C. fair weather cation to another
D. severe weather with storms 6707. It did not rain last night but there is
water droplets on the leaves. What hap-
6702. Where we live.
pened?
A. stratosphere A. Fog evaporated from the leaves.
B. thermosphere B. Water evaporated from the clouds.
C. troposphere C. Fog condensed on the leaves.
D. mesosphere D. Clouds condensed in the sky.

6708. pressure systems are characterized 6714. What are the imaginary lines that divide
by rising air. climate zones and run parallel to the equa-
tor? (flatitude is:)

A. High
A. latitude
B. Low
B. longitude
6709. WHAT WEATHER CONDITIONS EXPLAIN
6715. Why does air pressure differ around the
THE ‘MODERATE CLIMATE’
earth?
A. NEITHER TO HOT OR TO COLD A. Cold air rises at the equator and warm
B. VERY COLD air sinks at the poles.
C. VERY HOT B. Cold air sinks at the equator and warm
air rises at the poles.
D. none of above
C. Warm air air sinks at the equator and
6710. What weather factor does a wind vane cold air rises at the poles.
measure? D. Warm air rises at the equator and cold
A. Air Pressure air sinks at the poles.
B. Air Temperature 6716. What is a tornado and how is it formed?

C. Wind Speed A. A tornado is formed when warm, moist
air meets cold, dry air, creating instability
D. Wind Direction in the atmosphere.
6711. Polar Climates are found B. A tornado is formed when hot air
meets hot air, creating instability in the at-
A. Half way between the poles and equa- mosphere.
tor
C. A tornado is formed when there is no
B. around the North and South Pole specific reason, it just happens randomly.
C. Near the equator D. A tornado is formed when warm, dry
air meets cold, moist air, creating insta-
D. none of above
bility in the atmosphere.
6712. Every year when he goes home for the 6717. A sea breeze moving across the central
holidays, it is snowing. Florida peninsula.
A. weather A. Weather
B. climate B. Climate
6713. Which of the following scientists studies 6718. Air pressure is greatest:
the distribution and movement of Earth’s A. closer to Earth
water?
B. farther from Earth
A. climatologist
6719. the temperature that air must be cooled
B. hydrologist to in order for dew to form
C. meteorologist A. Cloud
D. atmospheric scientist B. Dew Point

C. Dew A. High elevation and high latitude have a

D. Humidity similar effect on climate.
B. Both mountain and polar regions have
6720. Analyze the image. What could ex- arid climates.
plain why certain parts of the ocean have
C. Mountain and polar regions receive
warmer temperatures?
more energy from the Sun than other re-
gions.
D. An increase in snowfall and an in-
NARAYAN CHANGDER
crease in temperature have a similar ef-
fect on climate.
6725. The Earth is divided into heat zones.
A. the uneven heating of the Earth’s sur-
A. three
face
B. four
B. the rising of cold air and the sinking of
warm air C. five
C. hurricanes D. none of above
D. none of above 6726. What does this represent?
6721. Offshore winds blow from during

the night.
A. Land to sea
B. Sea to land
6722. What is the correct definition of cli-

mate?
A. snow
A. Weather on a specific date.
B. rain
B. Weather at a specific place over a long-
C. sunny
period of time.
D. cloudy
C. The same thing as weather.
D. none of above 6727. What type of air mass forms over A?
A. cold, dry
6723. What does a hygrometer measure?
B. warm, humid
A. wind speed
C. cold, humid
B. air pressure
D. warm, dry
C. relative humidity
6728. A thermometer measure temperature
D. temperature
6724. What is the best explanation for these A. in degrees celsius (◦ C)

two statements? 1. Some mountains lo- B. in millimetres (mm)
cated near the Earth’s Equator have snow-
covered peaks. 2. Icecaps exist at the C. as a percentage (%)
Earth’s poles. D. in miles per hour (mph)

6729. types of humidity 6734. the types of weather places have over
A. absolute a long time

B. relative A. measure
C. none B. weather
D. none of above C. climates
6730. Which description defines heat? D. precipitation

A. total thermal energy of an object or 6735. Wind is moving air. This can be caused
substance by high and low pressure in both local
B. change in the temperature of a sub- winds and global winds. What is the pro-
stance in degrees Celsius cess called that moves air on Earth creating
C. energy transferred between objects at winds by uneven heating?
different temperatures
D. average kinetic energy of the particles
that make up a substance
6731. Why are too many greenhouse gases

bad for the environment?
A. Coriolis Factor
B. Infiltration
A. They cause trees to die.
C. Solar Radiation
B. They release heat and will be the
cause of the next ice age. D. Convection Cell
C. They trap heat in our atmosphere caus-
ing the planet to warm up.
D. They are fossil fuels which pollute our
environment.
6732. T or F:CFCs are chemicals made by na-

ture when the Earth’s temperature gets
too hot.
A. T
B. F
A. rain gauge
6733. Which place in India experiences cool cli-
mate throughout the year? B. U.F.O.
A. Mumbai C. satellite
B. Manali D. anemometer

6737. What is this an image of? A. a clear sky

B. gentle wind
C. low humidity
D. thunderstorm
6741. The thin blanket of gases and dust par-

ticles that surrounds the earth is called the
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. altitude
B. atmosphere
A. Thermometer C. air
B. Barometer D. weather
C. Anemometer 6742. Which layer of the atmosphere contains
D. Sling Psychrometer the ozone?
6738. Climate factors are A. troposphere

B. stratosphere
C. mesosphere
D. thermosphere
6743. Precipitation that can lead to flooding

with what type of front?
A. warm front
B. cold front
A. Latitude, Altitude and Temperature C. occluded front
B. Latitude, Sea level and Wind direction D. stationary front
C. Latitude, Altitude and Proximity to wa-
ter 6744. What statement best describes global
winds but not local winds?
D. none of above
A. They occur over a large area of Earth’s
6739. A large pocket of air is called a(n) surface.
A. air mass B. They are caused by unequal heating of
B. air pressure Earth’s surface.
C. cloud C. They occur when cool air moves close
to Earth’s surface.
D. front
D. They occur when hot air rises and
6740. Warm air from a large body of water moves up from the Earth’s surface.
rapidly moves into a land area of cold air.
Which weather event is MOST LIKELY to 6745. What type of front is moving towards
occur where the two air masses meet? Georgia and Florida?

6751. We use a rain gauge to measure

A. temperature

B. humidity
C. precipitation
D. wind
A. Warm front
B. Occluded front 6752. In winter, I need to always wear a
warm jacket.
C. Stationary front
A. weather
D. Cold front
B. climate
6746. weather depends on?
A. Temperature 6753. The temperature remains the same at all
times of the day.
B. wind
C. rain A. True
D. humidity B. False
E. all of these 6754. It is the average pattern for weather
6747. Lines on a map joining places that have over a long period of time.
the same air pressure are called ? A. Atmospheric phenomena
A. wind bars B. Climate
B. precipitation bars C. Weather
C. barometer bars
D. none of the choices
D. isobars
6748. In convection, WARM air
A. What happening in our atmosphere at
A. Rises
a time and place.
B. Sinks
B. The average temperature over many
6749. Temperatures in the TROPICAL ZONES years.
are
C. The average weather in a region over
A. cold all year a long period of time.
B. always warm D. rain, snow, sleet or hail
C. warm in summer and cold in winter
6756. The place where two air masses meet.
D. none of above
A. air mass
6750. A forecast is the prediction of weather
in the future. B. air pressure
A. True C. water cycle
B. False D. front

6757. what is thermometer. C. east to west

A. instrument used to measure tempera- D. west to east
ture
6761. A biome is
B. instrument used to measure earth-
quake
C. instrument used to measure hotness
and coldness
NARAYAN CHANGDER
D. none
6758. A meteorologist, is using a special type

of sensor that measures the amount of wa- A. Like a snowglobe that you shake and
ter vapor in the air. He knows that his can see different types of animals.
findings will help him better predict the
B. A large region of earth with a certain
weather. What is he measuring?
type of climate
C. An area of earth only found in the
United States.
D. A community of living things.
6762. You will need a coat when you go out-

side this morning.
A. Weather
B. Climate
A. Wind direction 6763. Popsicles are forms of precipitation

B. Air pressure A. True
C. Humidity B. False
D. Wind speed
6764. The Gulf Stream is a current that brings
6759. It is unusual for our area to get snow in warm ocean water from the south to the
November. north. What type of heat transfer is this?
A. Weather
B. Climate
6760. The Jet Stream usually flows
A. conduction
B. convection
A. north to south C. radiation
B. south to north D. Insolation

6765. Jane filled one glass with warm water 6769. Scientists who study weather are called
and one with ice water. After 10 minutes,
she observed that water drops were form-

A. botanist
ing on the outside of the glass that con-
tained ice water. What is the most likely B. agronomist
cause of Jane’s observations? C. astronomer
A. The ice water caused the air around
D. Meteorologists
the glass to cool to it dew point.
B. The ice water caused the amount of 6770. What is the definition of “Greenhouse
water in the air to increase. Effect?”
C. The ice water leaked through the A. Gases that increase Earth’s tempera-
glass. ture
D. The temperature of the warm water B. when the gases in Earth’s atmosphere
was below the dew point trap heat from the Sun and keep the
planet warm
6766. Which of these describes evaporation?
A. water vapor becomes a liquid C. the pattern of weather that occurs
over time
B. plants lose water through their leaves
D. When our climate changes
C. what goes up must come down
D. the sun warms up the water and be- 6771. Ginny enjoys mountain climbing. Today,
comes vapor in the air she is climbing Mt. Sheridan, which is the
tallest mountain she’s ever climbed. When
6767. Select all of the consequences of global Ginny makes it to the top of the mountain,
warming. she notices that it is more difficult to catch
A. Water shortages and drought are her breath. At higher elevations, why is it
more common. harder for Ginny to breathe?
B. The polar ice caps are melting, causing A. At higher altitudes, the air is very cold.
sea levels to rise
B. At higher altitudes, the air pressure is
C. Higher temperatures are affecting lower.
plants, wildlife and humans.
C. At higher altitudes, the air contains
D. In some places it’s getting too hot to more nitrogen.
grow food.
D. At higher altitudes, the air contains
E. Weather is becoming more extreme more carbon dioxide.
and rainfall patterns are changing.
6772. The average year-after-year conditions
6768. Which climate is dry with little rain-
of temperature, precipitation, winds and
fall, extreme temperatures, and very little
clouds in an area is called
plant or animal life?
A. polar A. Climate
B. Mediterranean B. Weather
C. temperate C. Conditions
D. desert D. Temperature

6773. Temperature increases with height in C. Warm air rises at the equator and cold
the due to solar radiation. air rises at the poles.
A. troposphere D. Cold air rises at the equator and warm
B. stratosphere air sinks at the poles.
C. mesosphere 6777. What happens if a hurricane moves over

land or cold ocean water?
D. thermosphere
NARAYAN CHANGDER
6774. Temperature, Humidity, Precipitation
A. it will get stronger

B. it will get weaker
C. it will upgrade its category
D. it will morph into a typhoon
6778. Any form of water (rain, snow, sleet,
ice) that falls from clouds
A. precipitation
A. Weather B. meteorologist
B. Climate C. atmosphere
D. drought
6775. True or False:We have winter when the
Earth’s hemisphere is tilted away from the 6779. Wind results when two air masses col-
sun lide that have a difference in
A. size
B. latitude
C. altitude
D. pressure
6780. what is land breeze
A. wind from sea to land
A. True B. wind from land to sea
B. False 6781. When did BLACKPINK Debuted
6776. What causes differences in air pressure
around the Earth?
A. Warm air rises at the equator and cold
air sinks at the poles.
B. Warm air sinks at the equator and cold
air rises at the poles.

A. a:August 6, 2017 6786. If you took away the atmosphere’s nat-

B. b:August 8th, 2016 ural greenhouse effect, and everything
else stayed the same, Earth’s temperature

C. c:August 16th, 2016 would be
D. d:None of the given options A. 10-20◦ F warmer
6782. In which layer of the atmosphere would B. 30-40◦ F warmer
you find the top of Mount Everest?
C. 10-20◦ F cooler
D. 50-60◦ F cooler
A. Troposphere
B. Stratosphere
C. Mesosphere
D. Thermosphere
6783. Trudy wants to go on a picnic. She sees
cumulonimbus clouds forming. What type
of weather should she expect? A. Hotness
A. rain B. High altitude
B. fog C. High pressure

C. light wind D. Hi five bro!
D. clear skies 6788. The labeled diagram shows the water
cycle over the ocean. At which point is salt
6784. What unit is used to measure wind
water being evaporated?
speed?
sius
C. Miles per Hour or Kilometers per Hour
D. Cardinal Directions
6785. Land closer to the equator is
A. warmer A. A
B. dry B. B
C. colder C. C
D. none of above D. D

6789. The earth’s coldest biome is the 6793. Weather Symbol:line with triangles rep-
resents
A. cold front
B. warm front
6794. Which stages does liquid water from the

ocean turn into water vapor?
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. Antarctic
B. Grasslands
A. condensation
C. Tundra
B. evaporation
D. Freshwater
C. precipitation
6790. The area which has more rain on a moun-
D. run off
tain
A. windward side 6795. What is the movement of water be-
tween the atmosphere, land, oceans, and
B. leeward side
even living things called?
6791. Which front is this? A. water cycle
B. sublimation
C. deposition
D. freezing
6796. A device that measures how fast the

wind is blowing.
A. Warm front
A. Anemometer
B. Cold front
B. Thermometer
C. Occluded front
C. Barometer
D. Stationary Front
D. Rain Gauge
6792. The measure of how transparent the at-
mosphere is. 6797. A force applied by the weight of air
A. Dew Point A. cold front
B. Humidity B. barometer
C. Air Pressure C. air pressure
D. Visibility D. humidity

6798. I need a warm jacket for the winter. 6804. A severe storm that involves strong
winds and forms over warm water is:
A. climate

A. tornado
B. weather
B. thunderstorm
6799. Which Barometer is easily portable?
C. hurricane
A. Android
D. blizzard
B. Mercuric
6800. When lightning moves through the air, oceanic climate.
the air gets very hot. The hot air expands
rapidly. As it expands, it makes the air vi-
brate. These vibrations release energy in
the form of sound waves called
A. thunder
B. particles Rain is frequent and it often snows in the
C. lightning higher areas.
D. none of above C. It’s found in southern and eastern

6801. Which type of front combines a cold air winters are ocol. It does not rain very of-
mass and a warm air mass? ten.
A. Warm Front D. It’s the largest climate in Spain. Sum-
B. Occluded Front cold. It does not rain very often.
C. Stationary Front E. It’s found in the Islas Canarias. It is
D. Cold Front mild all year round and it does not rain fre-
quently.
6802. How many major pressure belts exist
on the earth. 6806. What is the name of the object in the
picture?
A. Three
B. Seven
C. Five
D. Eight
6803. A maritime tropical air mass that affects

weather in the Unites States might form
over
A. the Gulf of Mexico. A. Anemometer
B. Mexico. B. Barometer
C. Canada. C. Wind Vane
D. the North Atlantic ocean. D. Rain Gauge

6807. A cloud will appear gray if it A. Columbia

A. contains water. B. Japan
B. appears at sunset. C. Scotland
C. is reflecting sunlight. D. none of above
D. is high in the sky. 6812. Sandstorms are common in
6808. Which statement about lightning is A. Monsoon
NARAYAN CHANGDER
true? B. Equatorial
A. It is one of the most dangerous parts C. Desert
of a thunderstorm.
D. Continental
B. It is an electric discharge between two
similarly charged surfaces. 6813. Polar, temperate, and tropical.
C. It is caused by the rapid expansion of A. Climate
air along an electrical strike. B. Weather
D. It always begins in a cloud and strikes
the Earth. 6814. What is the source of all energy in the
atmosphere?
6809. What type of cloud is small and puffy? A. moon
B. inner core
C. sun
D. none of above
6815. In which water body does water move

LEAST?
A. Stratus Clouds
B. Cumulus Clouds
6810. What is cloud cover measured in?

A. km/h
B. Octas
C. m/h A. Glacier
D. mm B. River
6811. what country has the snowiest place in C. Steam/Gas
the world? D. none of above

A. the process through which water evap-
orates
B. the path that water takes from the
Earth to the clouds and back again

C. the path water takes from the moun- 6822. Describe the climate for the tropical
tain top to the soil zone.

D. the process of water falling A. Very cold
6817. What type of weather would you asso- B. Very hot
ciate with a low pressure system?
C. Different seasons (hot, cold, warm,
A. cold and sunny cool)
B. cold and clear D. none of above
C. warm and clear
6823. Four towns are each located at similar
D. cloudy with a chance of precipitation
latitudes. Which town will have the least
6818. meteorologist difference between the average high tem-
perature and average low temperature?
A. A person who forecast the weather
and studies the climate patterns. A. a town in a desert
B. A violent winter storm characterized B. a town near the ocean
C. a town at the edge of a forest
and blowing snow
C. intense tropical storm with winds ex- D. a town high in the mountains
ceeding 119 km/h
6824. You and your family are watching TV
D. none of above and the program is interrupted by a tor-
6819. What is the Greenhouse Effect? nado warning. What action would give
you and your family the MOST protection
A. The rising of sea level over time from the storm?
B. The Earth’s atmosphere losing heat
A. Stand under a tree in an open field.
C. The trapping of the Sun’s warmth in
the Earth’satmosphere B. Move to the lowest floor of the build-
ing.
D. The way we get energy to our holmes
C. Get into a car and move away from tor-
6820. Clouds are made up of tiny drops of nado.
or ice. The moisture in the cloud affects
D. Come out into an open field with no
the weather.
buildings around it.
A. dust
B. water 6825. Which of the following is an example of
weather?
C. cloud particles
D. precipitation A. A town’s specific location on the earth.
B. A region’s set of meteorological instru-
6821. What is weather? ments.
A. what the air is like outside
C. A town’s atmospheric measurements
B. the way the sun gives energy on a certain day.
C. how water becomes rain D. A region’s average temperature and
D. none of above rainfall for the year.

6826. Lines that connect places with the same

temperature are
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A. Isotherms A. Barometer
B. Isohyets B. Anemometer
C. Isobars C. Wind vane

D. hygrometer
D. Isotops
6830. Which type of rainfall occurs mainly in
6827. What type of weather is Minneapolis the summer?
most likely experiencing? A. Frontal
B. Relief
C. Convectional
D. none of above
6831. Which substance depleted the ozone
layer?
A. carbon dioxide
B. methods of filtering gas
A. light/drizzly rain
C. use of chlorofluorocarbons
B. severe thunderstorms
D. method of retroactive waste storage
C. sunny skies
6832. The amount of solar radiation received
D. cloudy skies, light precipitation by the earth’s surface is called
A. solar radiation
6828. How do you measure air pressure? B. insolation
A. Rain Gauge C. terrestrial radiation
B. Barometer D. none of above
C. Anemometer 6833. air is less dense and tends to rise

A. cold
B. warm
6829. This weather instrument measures wind C. moist
direction. D. dry

6834. Define Weather? 6838. The boundary between cold and warm
air masses is called a/an

A. Flood
B. Front
C. Climate
A. It is what the air is like outside at a cer- D. Storm
tain time or place. Example, sunny; rainy;
6839. Which water cycle process is at letter
windy.
D?
B. It is what happens when a caterpillar
becomes a butterfly.
6835. The Main dancer in BLACKPINK is
A. Precipitation
A. longing morale B. Condensation
B. Kim Jenny C. Runoff
C. Park Rose D. Evaporation
D. Kim jisoo 6840. What weather instrument is shown?
6836. What is step 1 on the picture of the wa-
ter cycle?
A. Rain Gauge
B. Barometer
C. Weather Vane
A. Runoff and Collection D. Thermometer
B. Condensation E. Anemometer
C. Evaporation 6841. when a fast moving cold air mass over-
D. Precipitation takes a slower, warm air mass.
A. cold front
6837. Which of these changes quickly, from
moment to moment? B. warm front
A. weather C. stationary front
B. climate D. occluded front

6842. How does the concentration of carbon 6846. Being near an or other large body of
dioxide in the atmosphere affect climate? water affects climate.
A. As carbon dioxide concentrations in- A. pond
crease, temperatures increase B. ocean
B. As carbon dioxide concentration in-
crease, temperatures decrease. 6847. What do we measure in Fahrenheit and
Celsius?
C. Carbon dioxide concentrations have no
A. thermometer
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affect on climate
D. As carbon dioxide concentrations in- B. temperature
crease, temperatures become more ran- C. rainfall
dom. D. wind direction
6843. Which climate zone is found at the green 6848. Since Chicago sits along the GREAT
smiley? LAKES, it experiences lots of snow in the
winter. This is due to
A. large bodies of water
B. ocean currents
C. altitude/ elevation
D. latitude

A. The color of a big cloud
B. Small amounts of air with different
moistures and temperatures
A. Tropical C. Large amounts of air with similar mois-
B. Temperate ture and temperature
D. none of above
C. Polar
D. none of above 6850. Which of the following best describes
the difference between weather and cli-
6844. Our lifestyle varies according to mate?
A. Weather A. Weather happens in your state, and cli-
B. Seasons mate happens in your country.
C. Climate B. Weather includes the wind and rainfall,
whereas climate only describes the tem-
D. none of above
perature.
6845. What does a barometer do? C. Weather can be predicted but climate
A. it measures air pressure cannot.
B. it slaps you D. Weather describes conditions such
as wind and rain at a particular time,
C. it makes music whereas climate describes typical sea-
D. it measures the wind sonal conditions.

6851. What are the imaginary lines that deter- A. time

mine weather patterns and run parallel to
B. temperature
the equator?

A. latitude C. speed
B. longitude D. rain
6852. The Sun’s energy produces different 6854. What is a weather balloon?
types of wind on Earth’s surface. Which is
a narrow zone at the equator where sur- A. An instrument in space that takes pho-
face winds are weak and variable? tos of small storms
B. An instrument sent into the atmo-
sphere to collect precipitation
C. An instrument in space that takes pho-
tos of large scale air movements
D. An instrument sent into the atmo-
sphere to collect weather data
6855. You fill a cup with water, cover it with

A. Jet Streams plastic, and place it near a sunny window.
B. Trade Winds After 2 hours, you notice water droplets
on the plastic. What process of the water
C. Doldrums cycle caused the water droplets?
D. The Horse Latitudes
A. Evaporation
6853. what does a thermometer measure? B. Condensation
C. Precipitation
D. Transpiration
A. Cold front
B. Warm front
C. Occluded front
D. Stationary front

6857. Melting of glaciers and polar ice caps Earth. Which statement BEST explains the
cause of rain?
A. will result in cooler temperatures in A. The rising air cools, forming water
the Arctic droplets
B. will result in sea-levels rising B. The rising air makes space below it for
rain clouds
C. Will have no effect on ecosystems
C. The rising air warms, creating rain
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clouds
6858. Any type of liquid or solid water that D. The rising air displaces the water
falls to Earth surface, such as rain, snow droplets above it
or hail.
6863. True or False. The weather is the state
A. Heat of the atmosphere in a specific place at a
B. Precipitation specific moment
C. Weather A. True
D. Wind B. False
6859. weather can last a week 6864. The study of atmosphere that focuses
on weather is called
A. true
A. Meteorology
B. false
B. Geology
6860. What do you call the part of the at- C. Biology
mosphere where molecules escape into
space? D. none of above
A. doldrums 6865. Warm air rising at the equator and cold
B. ionosphere air sinking at the poles is one reason for
which event?
C. exosphere
A. hurricanes
D. dead zone
B. earth’s rotation
6861. Which of the following choices causes all C. Coriolis Effect
of the others in creating global terrestrial
D. convection currents
climates?
A. ocean currents 6866. The is the air that surrounds the
earth.
B. global wind patterns
A. Climate
C. evaporation of water from ocean sur-
faces B. Weather
D. differential heating of Earth’s surface C. Atmosphere
tagsSC.912.E.7.7 D. Wind
6862. The barometric pressure increases when 6867. areas near the poles that get the least
colder air sinks toward to Earth and de- amount of direct sunlight and are the cold-
creases when warmer air rises away from est

A. subtropical zones C. Planting saplings

B. tropical zones D. none of above

C. temperate zones
6872. Climate means
D. polar zones
A. Weather conditions over time
6868. Temperature increases as altitude in- B. Ice age is coming
creases in both the stratosphere and the
C. Everyday changes in the atmosphere
thermosphere. What is the main differ-
ence between these two layers? D. none of above
A. The temperature increases in the 6873. There is a 15 mph wind from the north
stratosphere because of aurora borealis, today.
and in the thermopshere because of the
jet stream. A. Climate
B. The temperature increases in the B. Weather

stratosphere because of the jet stream, 6874. Is this claim true that weather changes
and in the thermosphere because of au- everyday?
rora borealis.
C. The temperature increases in the
stratosphere because of direct exposure
to the sun, and in the thermosphere be-
cause ozone absorbs ultraviolet light.
D. The temperature increases in the
stratosphere because ozone absorbs ul-
traviolet radiation, and in the thermo-
sphere because of direct exposure to the A. True
sun.
B. False
6869. Being in or facing the direction from
which the wind is blowing. 6875. Who is the ultimate reason for having
change in weather?
A. Windward
A. Sun
B. Leeward
B. Wind
6870. How long does it take the Earth to make C. Cloud
one REVOLUTION around the Sun?
D. Rain
A. 12 hours
B. 24 hours 6876. Breeze and gale are the common terms
related to
C. 365 days
A. Wind
D. 29.5 days
B. Cloud
6871. One of the main Readon of global warm-
ing is 6877. Which one is measured EVERYDAY.
A. Hunting animals A. Weather
B. Cutting trees B. Climate

6878. This zone has four seasons. Summers 6884. This area of Earth has little or NO wind
are warm and winters are cool. and is between 5 degrees N and 5 degrees
S.
A. Cold climate
A. Horse Latitudes
B. Temperate climate
B. Trade Winds
C. Hot climate
C. Prevailing Westerlies
D. none of above
D. The Doldrums
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6879. Which is the most widely discussed im- 6885. When a rapidly moving cold air mass
pact of climate change? overtakes a slow moving warm air mass,
A. Increase in average sea level the result is a
B. Deforestation A. cold front
C. Soil Erosion B. warm fromt

C. occluded front
D. Water Pollution
D. stationary front
6880. Which instrument measures air pressure
6886. Rain, snow sleet, or hail that falls from
A. Thermometer the clouds in the sky
B. Wind Vane A. humidity
C. Barometer B. liquid
D. Aenometer C. precipitation
D. weather
6881. If cumulonimbus clouds are in the sky,
which type of weather is MOST likely ex- 6887. What does this weather instrument
pected? (shown here) measure?
A. Fog
B. Rain
C. Snow
D. Clear
6882. Weather is caused by the

A. uneven heating of the Moons Surface
B. Uneven heating of the oceans
C. Uneven heating of the Earth’s surface
D. none of above
6883. True or false:Clouds can help us predict A. wind speed

weather. B. air pressure
A. true C. amount of fallen rain
B. false D. temperature

6888. True or false? Places near the ocean 6893. The average weather conditions over a
have less extreme weather conditions. longtime

A. True A. Weather
B. False B. Climate
C. Latitude
6889. Meteorologists make predictions every
day using maps, satellites, and computers. D. Prevailing Winds
What area of science do they study?
6894. Causes of rise in global temperature.
A. Weather (Tick 2 correct answers).
B. Climate A. burning of fossil fuels
6890. Who studys and predicts weather? B. migration of birds

C. massive cutting down of trees
D. none of above
6895. The average temperature in Atlanta in

June is 25 degrees C, but the average
temperature in December is 7 degrees C.
Why is the average temperature in Atlanta
A. Weather People higher in June that in December?
B. Meteorologist A. The sun is hotter during June than it is
during December.
C. Chemist
B. Earth is closer to the sun in June than
D. none of above it is during December.
6891. Warm air tends to C. Earth’s axis is tilted so that Atlanta
gets more direct sunlight in June than in
December.
D. The atmosphere in Atlanta absorbs
more heat from sunlight in June than in
December.

or climate? “Yesterday we got 3 inches
A. Rise of snow.”
B. Sink A. Weather
B. Climate
6892. The 3 major climate zones in order from
the Equator to the Poles are 6897. “its cold today”
A. Polar, Temperate, Tropical A. weather
B. Tropical, Temperate, Polar B. climate
C. Temperate, Polar, Tropical C. both
D. Frigid, Torrid, Temperate D. nether

6898. Winters are wet due to rain and cool in 6903. Which of the following is a cold current
A. Labrador
A. Tundra
B. North Atlantic Drift
B. Tropical
C. Gulf stream
C. Mediterranean
D. none of above
D. Maritime
6899. Spontaneous generation was an idea 6904. Global warming can cause
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that living things appear from nonliving A. polar ice caps to melt
things. This was disproved by Louis Pas-
teur’s experiment using bacteria to demon- B. A change in rainfall patterns
strate bacteria comes from existing bacte- C. Both A and B
ria. What is this an example of? .
D. none of above
A. A scientific theory changes as an or-
ganism evolves 6905. How does the jet stream affect the
B. Scientific knowledge changes as new weather?
evidence is discovered by experiments. A. The jet stream transports weather sys-
C. Changes cannot be made because it is tems that affect us.
a scientific law.
B. The jet stream does not affect the
D. Bacteria have been observed and mod- weather.
ified many times.
C. The jet stream releases oxygen so we
6900. A cold-water event in the Pacific ocean can breathe.
that brings colder than normal winter
D. The jet stream brings only bad
weather:
weather.
A. The boy
B. The girl 6906. You are working for WBOC and Dan Sat-
terfield has asked you to calculate the me-
C. Global Warming
dian temperature of a few days in Decem-
D. Sunspots ber. The following are the high tempera-
tures he needs calculated. They are in Cel-
6901. What is the average weather for a par-
sius. 12.5, 16, 11.2, 10.3, 15.9, 17.3,
ticular time and region called?
14.8
A. drought
A. 16
B. weather
B. 11.2
C. emissions
D. climate C. 14.8
D. 14
A. Differences in oxygen levels 6907. K. Saving energy, recycling and eating
B. Differences in elevation only less meat helps fight the climate crisis
C. Differences in clouds A. True
D. Differences in air pressure B. False

6908. Which biome is home to lions, zebras, 6912. Continental means

wildebeests, giraffes, and elephants? A. wet

B. dry
C. cold
D. warm
6913. What affects the daily life of people?

A. Weather
A. Grasslands B. Climate
B. Tundra C. Rain
C. Rainforest D. Snow
D. Temperate Forest
6914. The temperature in Miami on a day in
6909. Identify the type of front that is shown July is 92 ◦ F (33 ◦ C). There is very little
in the image. wind on this day. What type of precipita-
tion is most likely to form?
A. sleet
B. snow
C. rain
D. hail
A. Occluded Front 6915. can be defined as a condition that

B. Cold Front indicates the atmosphere’s degree of hot-
ness or coldness.
C. Stationary Front
A. Air
D. Warm Front
B. Temperature
6910. In which way is heat transferred?
6916. What is the outer most main layer of
A. It is transferred from cooler to
warmer objects.
A. Thermosphere
B. It is transferred from larger to smaller
objects. B. Troposphere
C. It is transferred from warmer to C. Stratosphere
cooler objects. D. Mesosphere
D. It is transferred from smaller to larger
objects. 6917. Students measured wind speed outside
their classroom for 4 days and recorded
6911. Water boiling in a pot their observations. There was an increase
A. Conduction in the amount of wind speed between
B. Convection
C. Radiation
D. none of above A. October 5th and October 6th

B. October 6th and October 7th 6922. Which of the following describes how
severe weather is different than weather
C. October 7th and October 8th
we see every day? Choose TWO
D. none of above
A. People need more protection from se-
vere weather than every day weather.
6918. What would cause rain showers to con-
tinue over a particular area for several B. Severe weather does not cause as
days? much damage to life or property as every
day weather.
NARAYAN CHANGDER
A. a high-pressure system
C. People need less protection from se-
B. a stationary front vere weather than every day weather.
C. low humidity D. Severe weather may cause more dam-
D. a warm front age to life and property than every day
weather.
6919. The span between lowest and highest E. Severe weather happens more often
numbers in a group. than everyday weather?
A. data
6923. Which of these is NOT a natural re-
B. claim source?
C. range A. Sun
D. pattern B. Coal
C. Trees
6920. According to the map, which state had
the least amount of rainfall? D. Paper
6924. THEY ARE NARROW ROTATING

COLUMNS OF AIR.
A. HURRICANES
B. BLIZZARDS
C. THUNDERSTORMS
D. TORNADOES
6925. What type of weather would you ex-

pect from an air mass which formed over
A. Florida (FL) the Gulf of Mexico?
A. warm and humid
B. Missouri (MO)
B. cold and humid
C. Oregon (OR)
C. warm and dry
D. Arizona (AZ)
D. cold and dry
6921. Climate covers
6926. A tool for measuring atmospheric pres-
A. smaller areas than weather. sure.
B. larger areas than weather. A. anemometer

B. barometer C. Mesosphere
C. themometer D. Stratosphere

D. none of above 6932. Which statement best fits in the third
6927. What is the condition of outside air at a box?
certain time and place?
A. climate zone
B. weather
C. climate
A. Liquid water cools.
D. element
B. Liquid water turns into water vapor.
6928. The horizontal movement of air from an
C. Liquid water turns into a solid.
area of high pressure to an area of lower
pressure. D. Liquid water begins to freeze
6933. In this cold climate there is no summer,

temperatures are always very low. and
precipitation is very scarce and falls as
snow.
A. climate
B. wind
C. front
D. hurricane
A. Mountain
6929. local storms are known as
B. Steppe
A. tornado
C. Continental
B. hurricane
D. Polar
C. typhoons
D. none 6934. During which months is The Bahamas af-
fected by hurricanes?
6930. Which best describes climate? A. January-June
A. It rained this week. B. August-March
B. Summers are usually hot and dry. C. June-November
C. Yesterday it was cold and windy. D. August-October
D. none of above
6935. In the summer, the sun sits in the
6931. The layer in our atmosphere in which sky causing the rays to hit Earth at a steep
weather occurs is the angle.
A. Exosphere A. lower
B. Troposphere B. Higher

C. In the middle 6940. Hot summers and very cold winters is

D. none of above typical of
6936. What is the movement of water on

earth called?
A. The Weather Cycle
B. The Water Cycle
NARAYAN CHANGDER
C. The Rain Cycle
D. The Weather Movement
6937. The 2 main factors that determine cli-

mate are
A. Mediterranean climate.
B. Continental climate.
C. Oceanic climate.
A. temperature and wind D. Mountain climate.

6941. Winds that blow from 300 latitude to
C. air pressure and humidity 600 latitude are called:
D. none of above
6938. Choose the correct description of tem-

perate climates.
A. They have low temperatures all year
mers. The four seasons of the year are A. polar easterlies
more noticeable in these areas.
B. prevailing westerlies
C. These climates are located between
the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of C. trade winds
is warm all year round. D. doldrums
D. none of above
6942. A tropical climate can best be described
6939. The blanket of air that surrounds the as being
earth.
A. mild
A. Aurora borealis
B. dry
B. Atmosphere
C. Air pressure C. warm
D. Trade Winds D. cold

6943. What is a levee? 6946. Decide if this describes climate or

weather:The Amazon rainforest is humid
and 95 degrees.

A. climate
B. weather
6947. Which type of rainfall is cause by warm

and cold air masses meeting?
A. An earthen wall which slows or stops A. Relief
water from flooding an area. B. Convectional
B. An overflow of large amounts of water. C. Frontal
C. A type of underground bunker that pro- D. none of above
tects people from severe weather.
D. A person who follows storms. 6948. Isobar
6944. The symbol for high pressure is area over a long period of time deter-
B. Latitudes between the tropics and the
A. Arctic Circle in the north and the Antarc-
C. A line on a weather map that joins
places that have the same air pressure
D. none of above
B.
the difference between climate and
weather?
A. Weather measures energy and climate
C. measures heat
B. Weather looks at the oceans and cli-
mate looks at the sky
D.
C. Climate is short-term, and weather is
long-term
6945. What instrument is used to measure at- D. Weather is short-term, and climate is
mospheric pressure? long-term
A. An anemometer 6950. Pattern
B. A weather vane
C. A pluviometer
D. A barometer
E. A thermometer

A. A design or sequence that is repeated C. Wind is not effected by pressure

B. A statement about what you think will D. none of above
happen, based on what you know
6956. Under what conditions will the vortex
C. The difference between the largest
of a tornado form?
and smallest values in a set of values
A. When greenhouse gases trap the
D. A portion of Earth’s surface with bor-
earth’s heat
ders
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B. When deep ocean currents result from
6951. Land and water absorb and release the changes in temperature
sun’s heat in different ways. One result
of this is a sea breeze. Which statement C. When water spirals in a whirlpool
is true of sea breezes? D. When air masses of very different tem-
A. They originate in the day and blow to- perature and humidity conditions meet
ward the land. 6957. The amount of water vapor in the air.
B. They originate in the day and blow to-
A. warm front
ward the water.
B. humidity
C. They originate in the evening and blow
toward the land. C. precipitation
D. They originate in the evening and blow D. air pressure
toward the water.
6958. What measures temperature?
6952. Density of air with altitude A. barometer
A. Increases B. anemometer
B. decreases
C. thermometer
6953. What must happen to water vapor be- D. psychrometer
fore it can rain?
6959. When holding a cup of ice water, your
A. Water vapor must freeze
warm hand becomes cold. How does the
B. Water vapor must evaporate heat transfer?
C. Water vapor must condense A. From the cold cup to your hand
D. Water vapor must run off B. From the cold cup to the warm air
6954. The difference between climate and C. From the ice to your hand
weather is D. From your warm hand to the cold cup.
A. Measure in time
6960. regions where temperature, average
B. Area
yearly rainfall, and amount of sunlight are
C. I don’t know similar
D. Temperature A. climate zones
6955. Wind always blows from B. cities
A. Low Pressure to High Pressure C. jet streams
B. High Pressure to Low Pressure D. Coriolis effect

6961. There is a hurricane affecting the West B. temperate zone

Coast
C. polar zone

A. Climate
D. eye
B. weather
6962. How are the precipitations in a polar cli- 6967. What type of front is this? when nei-
mate? ther air mass moves after colliding; results
in long periods of fair weather or precipi-
tation
A. Cold front
B. Warm Front
C. Stationary Front
A. Abundant, with a lot of snow. D. Occluded Front
B. Irregular, there’s snow in winter.
C. It rains in summer and it snows in win- 6968. Siberian crane migrates from Siberia to
ter. in India
D. Very scarce.
6963. What does “nimbus” mean in Latin?

A. Rain
B. Curl
C. Heap
D. Spread out
6964. ‘We are predicting a hot week in Dubai,

and there will be smog over the city, ‘ said
the newscaster. A. Sultanpur
A. Weather B. Srinagar
B. Climate
C. Visakhapatnam
6965. The freezing point of rain is
D. Karnataka
A. 0 degrees Fahrenheit
B. 32 degrees Fahrenheit 6969. Any form of water that falls from clouds
and reaches Earth’s surface.
C. 100 degrees Fahrenheit
D. 20 degrees Fahrenheit A. Precipitation
6966. The regions covering the north and B. Humidity

south poles (66.5◦ north and south lati- C. Thunderstorm
tudes and the poles). The sun’s rays strike
at a very small angle. D. Relative Humidity
A. tropical zone E. Fog

6970. The table shows the weather data of 6974. When ocean water evaporates into the
four cities on the same day. In which lo- air, which 2 spheres are interacting?
cation is it MOST likely raining? (choose 2)
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A. St. Louis, Missouri
B. Seattle, Washington
C. Orlando, Florida A. Geosphere
D. Portland, Maine B. Hydrosphere
C. Atmosphere
6971. Why does air rise over land at the
beach? D. Biosphere
A. Cold air gets warmer over land, which 6975. The season in the Atlantic is much
makes it lighter, so it rises. more active during a(n) year.
B. Warm air over the sea moves inland, A. Hurricane, The Girl
gets cooler, and then rises.
B. Hurricane, El Nino
C. Trade winds around the Equator blow
C. Typhoon, La Niña
the air higher at the beach.
D. Typhoon, El Nino
D. Land is cooler than water at the beach,
so the air repels away from it. 6976. this zone receives slanting rays of sun
and is neither too hot or too cold.
6972. At its beginning, Earth was very hot and
was covered in molten rock, called This A. torrid
same material still exists towards the cen- B. temperate
ter of the Earth and erupts from volcanoes.
C. frigid
A. Meteors
D. none of above
B. Lava
C. Bump 6977. This solid type of precipitation falls to
Earth and can damage crops, cars, and
D. Neutrons homes. It often comes during severe thun-
derstorms. What is this type of precipita-
6973. What do greenhouse gases do?
tion called?
A. block harmful UV radiation from reach-
ing Earth
B. warm the planet by trapping heat radi-
ating from the Earth
C. allow heat to escape the Earth’s atmo-
sphere cooling the planet
D. protect the Earth from harmful meteor
strikes A. hail

B. ice C. Visibility
C. sleet D. Topography

D. snow E. Latitude
6978. What is one way to prevent climate 6983. How clouds are form? The correct steps
change? ishumidity of the air increasestiny water
A. avoid dumping in storm drains droplets collectwarm air rises and cool-
B. turn off electricity when you are not us- swater vapor condenses air eventually be-
ing it comes saturated
C. pick up after your pet’s litter A. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

D. open windows B. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
C. 3, 1, 5, 4, 2
6979. Scientists collect , or pieces of infor-
mation. D. none of above
A. numbers
6984. In most of the United States and Canada,
B. examples weather moves
C. data A. from west to east
D. samples B. from east to west
6980. Lightning can be very dangerous. It can C. from north to south
even cause death if it strikes a person or D. from south to north
animal. Which of the following is a way
to be safe from lightning? 6985. What is the primary factor that influ-
A. If outside, squat on the ground and ences climate?
keep as little contact with the ground as A. latitude
possible
B. longitude
B. Stay inside your house, and watch for
lightning from a window on the ground C. elevation
floor. D. climate zone
C. If outside, lie flat on the ground to
keep from being the highest thing around. 6986. Slopes which face away from the sun
tend to be cold and damp.
D. Stay in water because water, and duck
under the surface when lightning strikes. A. True
B. False
6981. There is a cold front moving from the
south. 6987. In winter, cold winds from make
A. Weather northern India very cold.
B. Climate A. Rajasthan
6982. The height of land above sea level B. Kerala
A. Elevation C. The Himalayas
B. Meteorology D. none of above

6988. Which statement describes weather? A. subduction

A. The temperature is 35 degrees Celsius B. convection
in Brownsville today. C. hot pockets
B. Summers in El Paso are hot and dry. D. radial fracture
C. Winters in New York City can be cold. 6992. Fill in the blank:The higher the altitude,
D. The Sun will set in San Diego today at the the temperature.
6:45pm. A. warmer
NARAYAN CHANGDER
6989. What are three natural hazards? B. colder
A. the ocean 6993. the amount of water vapor in the air
B. volcano erupting
C. rain
D. earthquake
E. hurricane
6990. What climate zone is the white area in

the picture?
A. warm front
B. precipitation
C. humidity
D. air pressure
6994. A student decides to design a family pre-
paredness plan for natural disasters. In
the plan, the student lists all the family
members and what their jobs will be dur-
A. Polar zone ing the emergency. The student draws a
B. Temperate zone map of the house. Finally, she writes that
if a family member becomes separated
C. Tropical zone they will all meet a their favorite pizza
D. none of above place two blocks away, or at grandma’s
house a few towns over. Why does the
6991. The theory of plate tectonics is based on student have two locations for meeting up
hot magma rising and cool magma sinking. with family?
This cycle is called:
A. So that more people can join them
B. In case someone forgets one of the
places
C. So that they can stay local if they do
not want to travel
D. In case they are required to evacuate
the neighborhood

6995. What do the lines represent?

A. High pressure system
C. Cold front
A. Pressure
D. Warm front
B. Boundries
C. Patterns 6997. What is a scientist who studies weather
D. Fronts called?
A. Meteorologist
6996. What does this symbol indicate on a
weather map? B. Radiologist

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