Meteorology

Question 1

What the air is like outside at any given time and place?

Answer 1

weather

Question 2

What is the layer of air that surrounds Earth called?

Answer 2

atmosphere

Question 3

The atmosphere is about ____ miles thick.

Answer 3

70

Question 4

Most air in our atmosphere is ______________.

Answer 4

Nitrogen

Question 5

Why do gases in the atmosphere not float out into space?

Answer 5

Gravity

Question 6

What is the weight of air as it presses on objects below or within it?

Answer 6

air pressure

Question 7

T or F: Air pressure is less as you travel upward and away from the surface of Earth.

Answer 7

True

Question 7

T or F: Gravity is a pushing force.

Answer 7

False

Question 8

Is the air pressure on a clear and sunny day probably high pressure or low pressure?

Answer 8

High pressure

Question 8

What happens to air when it warms?

Answer 8

It spreads out. (Expands)

Question 9

What is water in gas form?

Answer 9

water vapor

Question 9

What is water that falls from the sky in the form of rain, snow, sleet, or hail?

Answer 9

precipitation

Question 10

What type of precipitation happens when temperatures are above freezing?

Answer 10

rain

Question 10

What word describes when water changes from liquid to gas?

Answer 10

evaporation

Question 11

What word describes how much water vapor is in the air?

Answer 11

humidity

Question 12

Where does most of the water vapor in Earth’s atmosphere come from?

Answer 12

Evaporation from oceans.

Question 13

What is the process where water is turning from gas to liquid in the form of a cloud?

Answer 13

condensation

Question 14

What happens to warm air masses in the atmosphere?

Answer 14

They rise

Question 14

What is a large body of air in the atmosphere?

Answer 14

air mass

Question 15

What is created when high-pressure air mass comes in contact with low-pressure air mass?

Answer 15

wind

Question 16

What makes a hot-air balloon rise?

Answer 16

The air is heated.

Question 17

Which word means over water?

Answer 17

maritime

Question 17

What word means over land?

Answer 17

continental

Question 18

T or F: Temperature affects wind speed.

Answer 18

True

Question 18

What are regular patterns of winds that blow from one direction called?

Answer 18

prevailing winds

Question 18

What do scientists measure with wind vanes and wind socks?

Answer 18

wind direction

Question 19

What is a scientist who studies weather patterns?

Answer 19

meteorologist

Question 20

In science, what is information that is observed, measured, and recorded?

Answer 20

data

Question 20

What do meteorologists use data for?

Answer 20

To predict weather in the near future.

Question 21

What do the cups that spin on an anemometer measure?

Answer 21

wind speed

Question 22

What does a hygrometer measure?

Answer 22

humidity

Question 23

What does this thermometer measure?

Answer 23

temperature

Question 23

What does a wind vane measure?

Answer 23

wind direction

Question 24

What does a barometer measure?

Answer 24

air pressure

Question 25

What does a rain gauge measure?

Answer 25

rainfall

Question 26

What is the place where two air masses meet called?

Answer 26

front

Question 27

What is the weather patterns in a place over a long period of time?

Answer 27

climate

Question 28

What causes seasons?

Answer 28

The Earth's axial tilt.

Question 29

What is the climate of the Amazon Rainforest?

Answer 29

hot, wet, humid, and tropical climate.

Question 29

What is the climate of the Sahara Desert?

Answer 29

hot, dry, and arid

Question 30

What is the climate of the tundra?

Answer 30

freezing and polar climate

Question 31

These now extinct relatives of elephants lived in North America, Europe, and Asia in the ice age. Choose 2.

Answer 31

woolly mammoths and mastodons

Question 32

A dangerous condition that can cause damage is a _____________.

Answer 32

hazard

Question 33

A storm accompanied by thunder, lightning, wind and heavy rain is called a ________.

Answer 33

thunderstorm

Question 33

T or F: Lightning can travel from clouds to the ground AND from the ground to the clouds.

Answer 33

True

Question 34

What is a flood that happens with little warning?

Answer 34

Flash Floods

Question 35

This natural disaster is a rotating column of air that extends from a cloud and moves along the ground.

Answer 35

Tornado

Question 35

T or F: Thunderstorms, tornadoes, and hurricanes mostly happen in colder months.

Answer 35

False

Question 35

This storm forms over the ocean and gets stronger as it moves towards land.

Answer 35

Hurricane

Question 36

What is a winter storm that is very windy with a lot of snow?

Answer 36

Blizzard

Question 36

This kind of storm happens when precipitation freezes on roads, trees, and other surfaces.

Answer 36

ice storm

Question 37

A long period of weather with less precipitation than normal is called a ____________.

Answer 37

drought

Question 38

Walls that engineers design to block water are called what?

Answer 38

levees and seawalls

Question 38

What is the limitation of a design?

Answer 38

constraint

Question 39

What are the requirements of a design for it to be a success?

Answer 39

criteria

Question 40

What are on buildings to protect them from a lightning strike?

Answer 40

lightning rods

Question 41

What do engineers build to stop the wind from blowing snow on the roads?

Answer 41

snow fences

Question 42

What word means to examine something and decide its value?

Answer 42

evaluate

Question 43

What weather related invention was Ben Franklin responsible for?

Answer 43

lightning rod