Semester Review

Question 1

What causes wind?

Answer 1

High and low pressure

Question 2

What type of weather is associated with high pressure?

Answer 2

Good weather

Question 3

How does precipitation form?

Answer 3

Water droplets combine and become heavy

Question 4

When is solar radiation most intense?

Answer 4

Noon

Question 5

Winds move because air pressure is the same (true or false)

Answer 5

False

Question 6

Winds move from low to high (true or false)

Answer 6

False

Question 7

What wind belt is most of the U.S.?

Answer 7

Westerlies

Question 8

Where does a hurricane form?

Answer 8

Warm oceans, why they form in the fall

Question 9

Large masses of moving air because of uneven heating

Answer 9

Global Winds

Question 10

Atmospheric conditions in particular time and place

Answer 10

Weather

Question 11

Winds that change because of seasons

Answer 11

Monsoons

Question 12

Quickly moving winds that flow in the upper atmosphere

Answer 12

Jet stream

Question 13

A student saw lightning and counted to ten before thunder. How far away was the lightning?

Answer 13

2 miles (1 mile=5 seconds)

Question 14

What attracts lightning?

Answer 14

Metal and trees

Question 15

Lightning attracts (smallest/tallest) objects?

Answer 15

Tallest

Question 16

Why don’t fish get killed?

Answer 16

Electricity is a surface energy; lightning will scatter on the surface

Question 17

The ozone layer traps radiation that is harmful (true/false)

Answer 17

True

Question 18

What can reduce greenhouse gases?

Answer 18

Living in a house that uses less energy

Question 19

Air at sea level is denser than air at a high level (true/false)

Answer 19

True, because the air molecules are pushed closer together at sea level

Question 20

To equalize air pressure you should open up the windows before a tornado (true/false)

Answer 20

False, because air pressure is the same inside and out.

Question 21

Condensation, precipitation, evaporation are part of the ____ cycle.

Answer 21

Water

Question 22

What reflects solar radiation?

Answer 22

Clouds

Question 23

Higher above air, air molecules (spread apart or move together)?

Answer 23

Spread apart

Question 24

Tornados can always be seen (true/false)

Answer 24

False (because of always and at night you can’t see a thunderstorm)

Question 25

If the day is sunny and hot, and clouds moved in at 3:00 pm, what would happen to the nighttime temperature?

Answer 25

It would be hot, because the clouds act as a blanket

Question 26

What kind of weather does low pressure bring?

Answer 26

Bad

Question 27

Lightning is a danger only during the first two stages of a thunderstorm (true/false)

Answer 27

False

Question 28

When is the air pressure the lowest?

Answer 28

Mt. Everest, because high altitude, low pressure

Question 29

Who is most at risk during a flood?

Answer 29

People in a river

Question 30

Who is most at risk during lightning?

Answer 30

People standing near trees

Question 31

Who is most at risk during a tornado?

Answer 31

People in a trailer/car

Question 32

Precipitation

Answer 32

Water closest to Earth

Question 33

Fog

Answer 33

Cloud on ground

Question 34

Humidity

Answer 34

Closest to Earth

Question 35

Condensation

Answer 35

Changes to water

Question 36

What are the hours of day and night at the equator?

Answer 36

12 hours of daylight, 12 hours of darknesss

Question 37

What causes day and night?

Answer 37

Rotation of the Earth

Question 38

If the north hemisphere is toward the sun...

Answer 38

Summer

Question 39

What is the motion around the sun?

Answer 39

Eliptical

Question 40

There are four gas planets and four rock plants (true/false)

Answer 40

False

Question 41

Sputnick (Russia, satellite, first space object was important because (answers on test)

Answer 41

All of the above

Question 42

Earth is a satellite of the Moon and both are of the Sun (true/false)

Answer 42

False

Question 43

When do days get longer in the Northern Hemisphere?

Answer 43

Spring and Summer

Question 44

Why are tides higher than normal during spring tides?

Answer 44

Sun is closer, moon and sun are on the same side

Question 45

When in orbit, what do astronauts have to get used while in orbit around Earth?

Answer 45

Weightlessness

Question 46

The moon has fewer impact craters than the Earth (true/false)

Answer 46

False

Question 47

If you can locate the North Star you can figure out direction (true/false)

Answer 47

True, because the star always stays in the north

Question 48

Sydney, Australia in the summer when U.S. in winter (true/false)

Answer 48

True

Question 49

What energy does the Sun create?

Answer 49

Nuclear fusion

Question 50

Where does daylight change the most?

Answer 50

Poles. because farther away from the equator