Air Masses
Which of the following forms as a cold air mass meets a warm air mass?
A) Icy Front
B) Cold Front
C) Warm Front
D) All of the above
What is a Cold Front?
Which of the following is used by meteorologists to predict the weather?
A)Radar
B)Anemometer
C)Satellite
D)All of the above
What is all of the above?
Which of the following is a type of storm that is accompanied by lighning and loud rumbling thunder?
A)Hurricane
B)Tornado
C)Thunderstorm
D)Snowstorm
What is a thunderstorm?
Which of the following is a prediction of what the weather will be for a particular day, week, or longer period of time?
A) Satellite
B) Meteorologists
C) Forecast
D) Map
What is a forecast?
What kind of front has layers of gray clouds and steady precipitation?
A) Icy Front
B) Cold Front
C) Warm Front
D) All of the above
What is a Warm Front?
Which weather tool measures air pressure in units called millibars?
A)Rain Gauge
B)Barometer
C)Anemometer
D)Radar
What is Barometer?
Which of the following is a mobile, and often destructive force of rotating winds that have the appearance of a funnel shaped cloud?
A)Hurricane
B)Tornado
C)Thunderstorm
D)Snowstorm
What is a Tornado?
Which of the following could a person expect from seeing a picture of a cloud on a weather map in the area where they live?
A)It will be sunny
B)It will be rainy
C)It will be cloudy
D)It will be stormy
What is it will be cloudy?
Which of the following is a large body of air that has about the same temperature, air pressure, and moisture throughout it?
A) Air Pressure
B) Air Mass
C) Front
D) South Pole
What is a Air Mass?
Which weather tool measures the speed of wind in miles or kilometers per hour?
A) Rain Gauge
B) Barometer
C) Anemometer
D)Radar
What is a anemometer?
Which storm is where large amounts of snowfall in a particular areas?
A)Hurricane
B)Tornado
C)Thunderstorm
D)Snowstorm
What is a Snowstorm?
Which of the following is a scientist who studies weather?
A)Astrologist
B)Geologist
C)Paleontologist
D)Meteorologist
What is a Meteorologist?
Which of the following is the place where two air masses meet?
A) Front
B) Air Pressure
C) Anemometer
D) Temperature
What is a Front?
Which weather tool measures the amount of precipitation that has fallen in a certain area?
A)Rain Gauge
B)Barometer
C)Anemometer
D)Radar
What is a rain gauge?
Which of the following is a storm that hits the southeatern United States in a special season with huge swirling winds that bring heavy rain?
A)Hurricane
B)Tornado
C)Thunderstorm
D)Snowstorm
What is a hurricane?
Which of the following is the amount of water vapor in the air?
A)Humidity
B)Thermometer
C)Barometer
D)Temperature
What is humidity?
What would most likely change very suddenly when a front moves across an area?
A)Geography
B)Geology
C)Weather
D)Habitats
What is weather?
Which gives people the opportunity to evacuate an area that is expecting bad weather?
A)Rain Gauge
B)Barometer
C)Satellite
D)Warning
What is a warning?
What type of weather is brought on by a warm front?
A)Sunshine
B)Cloudy but no rain
C)Hurricanes
D)Storms
What is a storm?
What makes air move?
A)Air flows from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure
B)Air flows from areas of low pressure to areas of high pressure
C)Air flows from areas of no pressure to areas of no pressure
D)Air flows from areas of no pressure to areas of high pressure
What is air flows from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure?