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Question 1

What does temperature tell us?

Answer 1

How hot or cold it is.

Question 2

What is temperature measured in?

Answer 2

Celsius (C)

Question 3

What is the job of a thermometer?

Answer 3

To measure temperature

Question 4

At what temperature does water boil?

Answer 4

100 Degrees Celsius

Question 5

At what temperature does water freeze?

Answer 5

0 Degrees Celsius

Question 6

What is the average of a healthy person?

Answer 6

37 Degrees Celsius

Question 7

What is wind?

Answer 7

Wind is moving air.

Question 8

What happens when hot air becomes lighter and rises?

Answer 8

Colder air blows in to take its place.

Question 9

What is wind direction measured with?

Answer 9

A wind vane or wind sock.

Question 10

What is wind speed measured with?

Answer 10

Anemometer

Question 11

What are winds named according to?

Answer 11

From where they blow.

Question 12

What is wind speed measured in?

Answer 12

Knots (Knt)

Question 13

What is a knot?

Answer 13

A ‘knot’ is a nautical mile per hour.

Question 14

What is a cloud?

Answer 14

A cloud is a collection of very tiny droplets of water or ice crystals.

Question 15

What rises when it gets warm?

Answer 15

Water vapour.

Question 16

What symbol means 'scattered cloud' ?
A. Full black circle
B. White circle with thin line
C. Half black half white circle
D. Three quarters black circle
E. Quarter black circle
F. Full white circle

Answer 16

E

Question 17

\_\_\_\_\_ living things depend on water to survive.
A. All
B. Some
C. Little
D. None

Answer 17

A

Question 18

What does rain do to the air?

Answer 18

It cleans the air from dust and pollution particles.

Question 19

What is used to measure the amount of rain that fell?

Answer 19

A rain gauge.

Question 20

What do we measure rainfall?

Answer 20

Millimeters (mm)

Question 21

What is precipitation?

Answer 21

Is when rain, hail or snow fall form the atmosphere.

Question 22

How does snow form?

Answer 22

Snow is formed when tiny ice crystals stick together.

Question 23

How does hail form?

Answer 23

Hail is usually formed in large thunder clouds when balls of ice are continuously pulled far up into the colder parts of the atmosphere. As the ice goes up it freezes into a bigger ball. Finally it gets very heavy and falls to the ground.

Question 24

How does weather affect people's lives?
A. Wear, emotion, jobs, happiness
B. Houses, emotion, sport, happiness
C. Agriculture, emotions, wear, sport
D. Agriculture, wear, jobs, houses

Answer 24

D