Meteorology Pretest

1. Radiation is the transfer of energy

As electromagnetic waves

From atmospheric gases

By circulation of gases

As heat though a material

2. Energy transferred by circulation of a liquid or gas is called

Conduction

Convection

Radiation

Retaliation

3. What causes wind?

Differences in air pressure

Differences in oxygen

Differences in gravity

Differences in atmosphere

4. What explains the fact that a pan on a stove gets hot when it is above a flame?

Radiation

Conduction

Convection

Greenhouse effect

5. What tool measures wind speed?

Thermometer

Anemometer

Psychrometer

Barometer

6. Which answer best describes Earth's atmosphere?

Mostly oxygen with about 21% nitrogen

Mostly nitrogen with about 21% oxygen

Mostly carbon dioxide with about 21% oxygen

Mostly oxygen with about 21% carbon dioxide

7. Why is air pressure greatest at the Earth's surface?

Due to the pressure of oxygen

Gravity pulls gas molecules toward the surface

Because of the weight of ice crystals

Because of pollution

8. What tool measures the moisture content of the atmosphere?

Thermometer

Anemometer

Psychrometer

Barometer

9. Energy transferred as electromagnetic waves is called

Conduction

Convection

Radiation

Retaliation

10. How does a mountain affect the weather on either side of it?

The mountain makes both sides wet

The mountain makes both sides dry

The mountain makes both sides cold

The mountain makes one side wet and one side dry

11. What is the greatest problem created by the ozone hole?

It allows more lunar radiation to reach the Earth's surface

It allows more Ultra Violet rays to reach the Earth's surface

It allows meteors to enter the Earth's atmosphere

It causes global warming

12. Lightning is an electric discharge between a positively charged area and

A rising air mass

Another positively charged area

A source of rain

A negatively charged area

13. What tool measures air pressure?

Thermometer

Anemometer

Psychrometer

Barometer

14. The layer of the atmosphere where most weather occurs is called the

Troposphere

Mesosphere

Stratosphere

Thermosphere

15. What role does runoff play in the water cycle?

It is the process in which liquid turns to water vapor.

It carries water from precipitation into oceans.

It takes water out of the water cycle.

It is not part of the water cycle.

16. Energy transferred as heat through a material is called

Conduction

Convection

Radiation

Retaliation

17. What are parts of the hydrosphere?

Oceans, clouds, groundwater

Mountains, rivers, clouds

Clouds, rivers, forests

Land, clouds, oceans

18. What is the highest layer of the atmosphere?

Stratosphere

Mesosphere

Troposphere

Thermosphere

19. What causes differences in air pressure around the Earth?

Warm air rises at the equator and cold air sinks at the poles.

Warm air sinks at the equator and cold air rises at the poles.

Warm air rises at the equator and cold air rises at the poles.

Cold air rises at the equator and warm air sinks at the poles.

20. The protective ozone layer is found in the

Thermosphere

Troposphere

Mesosphere

Stratosphere

21. The thermosphere is split into the and ____.

Ionosphere and mesosphere

Exosphere and troposphere

Troposphere and stratosphere

Ionosphere and exosphere

22. The Aurora borealis are caused by electrically charged particles in the

Mesosphere

Troposphere

Ionosphere

Exosphere

23. Weather is

The current temperature and precipitation of a certain area

The average temperature and precipitation of a certain area

The current air pressure of a certain area

What the atmosphere is on average like

24. Condensation is when water changes from

A gas to a liquid

A liquid to a gas

A liquid to a solid

A solid to a gas

25. Some ovens have a fan to circulate the hot air inside the oven cavity and to make food cook more quickly. What is this an example of?

Radiation

Conduction

Convection

Greenhouse effect

26. How does sleet differ from snow?

It is not a form of precipitation.

It is liquid and not ice.

It starts as rain and freezes in the air.

It starts as water vapor and changes to a solid.

27. What kind of weather would cumulonimbus clouds likely bring?

Clear and sunny

Light rain

Hurricane

Thunderstorm

28. In what part of the water cycle do clouds form?

Evaporation

Precipitation

Runoff

Condensation

29. The area around the equator where there is little or no wind is called

Westerlies

Trade winds

The doldrums

Polar easterlies

30. The layer of the atmosphere where meteors burn up is called the

Stratosphere

Mesosphere

Ionosphere

Exosphere

31. In the Northern Hemisphere, winds traveling north appear to curve to the east because of the

Trade winds.

Coriolis effect.

Convection currents.

Polar easterlies.

32. What does a hurricane need to form?

Big waves

Low ocean temperatures

High ocean temperatures

High are pressure

33. Which describes the eye of a hurricane?

Brings winds of up to 300 km/h

Has strong, spinning winds

Has warm, calm air and light winds

Has spiraling bands of heavy rain

34. Which loses its heat faster, water or land?

Land

Water

It varies

Both lose heat at the same rate

35. How does a warm front form?

Warm air becomes caught between cold air masses.

Two air masses meet and stay separated.

Warm air moves over cold air and replaces it.

Cold air moves under warm air and pushes it up.

36. The warmth you feel when standing beneath a heat lamp is an example of what?

Radiation

Convection

Conduction

Greenhouse effect

37. Which describes an altocumulus cloud

High, feathery cloud

Low storm cloud

Puffy mid level cloud

High cloud made of ice crystals

38. What kind of weather will nimbostratus clouds likely bring?

Sunny

Rainy

Warm

Thunderstorms

39. What kind of weather does a cold front usually bring?

Warm

Sunny

Stormy

Windy

40. A storm surge is a dangerous part of

A tornado

The water cycle

A thunderstorm

A hurricane

41. Which of the following increases air's ability to hold water vapor?

Increase in wind speed

Decrease in temperature

Increase in temperature

Decrease in air pressure

42. What kind of weather would an occluded front likely bring?

Sunny and warm

Thunderstorms

Much precipitation

Cold and dry

43. What happens when air reaches its dew point?

Condensation occurs.

The humidity decreases.

Relative humidity is 100%.

Clouds form.

44. Which statement about hail is correct?

It is rain that falls through a layer of freezing air.

It may be sent up into the clouds many times.

It forms in winter in low stratus clouds.

It is a liquid form of precipitation.

45. Which is more dense: ice, salt water, or fresh water?

Ice

Salt water

Fresh water

They vary

46. Evaporation is when water changes from

A gas to a liquid

A liquid to a gas

A liquid to a solid

A solid to a gas

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Meteorology Pretest

1. Radiation is the transfer of energy

2.

What first name or nickname would you like us to use?

2. Energy transferred by circulation of a liquid or gas is called

3. What causes wind?

4. What explains the fact that a pan on a stove gets hot when it is above a flame?

5. What tool measures wind speed?

6. Which answer best describes Earth's atmosphere?

7. Why is air pressure greatest at the Earth's surface?

8. What tool measures the moisture content of the atmosphere?

9. Energy transferred as electromagnetic waves is called

10. How does a mountain affect the weather on either side of it?

11. What is the greatest problem created by the ozone hole?

12. Lightning is an electric discharge between a positively charged area and

13. What tool measures air pressure?

14. The layer of the atmosphere where most weather occurs is called the

15. What role does runoff play in the water cycle?

16. Energy transferred as heat through a material is called

17. What are parts of the hydrosphere?

18. What is the highest layer of the atmosphere?

19. What causes differences in air pressure around the Earth?

20. The protective ozone layer is found in the

21. The thermosphere is split into the ____________ and ________________.

22. The Aurora borealis are caused by electrically charged particles in the

23. Weather is

24. Condensation is when water changes from

25. Some ovens have a fan to circulate the hot air inside the oven cavity and to make food cook more quickly. What is this an example of?

26. How does sleet differ from snow?

27. What kind of weather would cumulonimbus clouds likely bring?

28. In what part of the water cycle do clouds form?

29. The area around the equator where there is little or no wind is called

30. The layer of the atmosphere where meteors burn up is called the

31. In the Northern Hemisphere, winds traveling north appear to curve to the east because of the

32. What does a hurricane need to form?

33. Which describes the eye of a hurricane?

34. Which loses its heat faster, water or land?

35. How does a warm front form?

36. The warmth you feel when standing beneath a heat lamp is an example of what?

37. Which describes an altocumulus cloud

38. What kind of weather will nimbostratus clouds likely bring?

39. What kind of weather does a cold front usually bring?

40. A storm surge is a dangerous part of

41. Which of the following increases air's ability to hold water vapor?

42. What kind of weather would an occluded front likely bring?

43. What happens when air reaches its dew point?

44. Which statement about hail is correct?

45. Which is more dense: ice, salt water, or fresh water?

46. Evaporation is when water changes from

21. The thermosphere is split into the and ____.