Water undergoes ______ and rises into the atmosphere.
A. Evaporation
B. Condensation
C. Precipitation
D. Runoff
What is evaporation?
100
True or False: Air has mass and density.
What is true?
100
What is a boundary where two air masses meet?
What is a front?
100
On a weather map, a warm front is shown as a solid line with ____ along its length.
A. Triangles
B. Half-circles
C. Trapezoids
D. Squares
What is B - Half Circles?
100
Ocean water is very _____.
What is salty?
200
Liquid water that moves into the ground or returns to rivers, lakes , and oceans is called ______.
What is runoff?
200
The weight of the atmosphere at the Earth's surface is _____.
A. Dew Point
B. Humidity
C. Air Pressure
D. Cold Front
What is C - Air Pressure?
200
What is a cold front?
A. Cold air moving in to replace warm air.
B. Warm air moving in to replace warm air.
C. Cold air moving to replace cold air.
D. Warm air moving in to replace cold air.
What is A - cold air moving in to replace warm air?
200
On a weather map, a cold front is shown as a solid line with ______ across its length.
A. Circles
B. Squares
C. Diamonds
D. Triangles
What is D - Triangles?
200
All runoff from precipitation eventually makes its way into rivers, which empty into an ______.
What is an ocean?
300
Conditions of temperature, rainfall, cloud cover, and air pressure in the troposphere at any given moment is ____.
What is weather?
300
What type of weather do High-Pressure Systems bring?
What is warm, clear, and sunny weather?
300
A ____ front brings wispy clouds, sheet-like clouds, and light precipitation.
What is warm front?
300
The direction in which the symbols along the cold/warm front line points indicates _________.
What is the direction that the front travels?
300
The world's ocean currents have a great influence on Earth's _____ patterns.
A. Clothing Patterns
B. Weather Patterns
C. Wind Patterns
D. Number Patterns
What is B - Weather Patterns?
400
You leave a bowl of room-temperature soil and a bowl of room-temperature water out in the sun. After twenty minutes, which will most likely be warmer?
What is the soil?
400
When an air mass sinks towards the Earth's surface, what type of pressure system develops?
What is a High-Pressure System?
400
True or False: Cold fronts are lighter than warm fronts.
What is false?
400
On a weather map, if a front line has symbols on both sides of the line, this means that the front is _________.
What is stationary? (Not moving)
400
On average, Earth's oceans contain about ____ grams of salt.
A. 9,000 grams
B. 25 grams
C. 35 grams
D. 1 gram
What is C - 35 grams?
500
During what season are oceans warmer, and during what season is it colder?
What is warmer in the winter and colder in the summer?
500
Imagine that the weather in your area is currently warm and sunny. The weather forecast says that a low-pressure system will move into your area. What type of weather is most likely coming?
What is many dark clouds and precipitation?
500
A warm front pushes into your state from the southwest. Are the clouds likely to be flat and parallel to the ground, or will they rise perpendicular to it?
What is they will rise perpendicular to it?
500
On a weather map, you see a line with triangles facing New Jersey. What type of front is making its way into New Jersey? What if the line had both half circles and triangles on it?
What is a cold front and a stationary front?
500
Western Europe is roughly in the same latitude as Siberia in Russia, yet Western Europe has a much milder climate. Why is this so?
What is because of the ocean current from the Gulf Stream?