Weather
The continuous movement of water between Earth's surface and the atmosphere
What is the water cycle?
Which is an example of climate in an area?
a. The high temperature for May 2, 2001 was 89 degrees F
b. The average temperature from 1920-1995 was 73 degrees F
c. There should be heavy rains tomorrow night
b. The average temperature from 1920-1995 was 73 degrees F
Daytona Beach currently has high humidity and high temperatures. Which of the following is most likely to occur if a cold front moves over the city.
a. More clouds will form
b. the temperature will rise
c. there will be little or no wind
A. More clouds will form
Which is a direct way that hurricanes have caused sever property damage in Florida?
a. Pipes burst because of freezing temperatures
b. Storm surges have caused flooding
c. lawns have died because of dry air conditions
b. Storm surges have caused flooding
What is needed for evaporation to happen?
a. wind energy
b. energy from the ocean currents
c. heat energy from the sun
c. heat energy from the sun
The changing of gas to a liquid as heat is removed
What is condensation?
The average weather pattern over a region.
What is climate?
An air mass traveling south from the north pole will cause temperatures to
a. The air temperature will decrease
b. atmospheric pressure will decrease
c. The humidity will increase
a. The temperature will decrease
What shuould you do when an electrical storm is coming?
a. find a stream or pond to stand in
b. get inside a building or car
c. stand under a tree
b. get inside a building or car
What is the difference between weather and climate
Weather is short term and climate is a long term average
What could be a limitation of using weather models?
a. a model cant be used to study air masses that are to large to see
b. a model cant be used to explain new information collected about weather.
c. a model cannot always make accurate weather predictions.
c. a model cannot always make accurate weather predictions
The distance north or south of the equator.
What is latitude?
A large region of the atmosphere in which the air has similar properties throughout is a what?
What is an air mass?
When these storms move over land they lose strength or weaken.
What is a hurricane?
Air always moves from _____pressure to ______pressure.
high, low
The main cause of global and local winds is
a. Earth's tilted axis
b. the gravitational pull of the moon
c. the unequal heating of Earth's surface
C. The unequal heating of Earth's surface
The two main factors that determine the climate.
a. oceans and lakes
b.temperature and precipitation
c. organisms and air
What are temperature and precipitation?
Ray Ray and Pookie see some dark puffy clouds far away and want to know if it will rain soon. Which of the following changes would most likely form precipitation?
a. the water molecules in a cloud separate
b. the water molecules in a cloud evaporate
c. the water molecules in a cloud combine
c. the water molecules in a cloud combine
The weakest point of a hurricane.
What is the eye?
Heat can move from object to object in what three ways?
Convection, Conduction and Radiation.
Why does the ocean have a greater impact on weather than continents do?
a. The oceans store and transfer more heat than continents
b. the oceans has more organisms than continents do.
c. Ocean water has more salt than most lake water
a. The oceans store and transfer more heat than continents
The sun's heat and light travel to earth in the form of EM waves. What type of heat transfer is this?
What is Radiation
When warm air moves in over a cold air mass, what would be the resulting weather?
a. fog and strong wind
b. clear skies and cooler temperatures
c. light rain and gentle wind
c. light rain and gentle wind
Warm humid air pulled into a funnel shaped column.
What is a tornado?
Convection can only occur where?
In liquid and gases.