Weather and Climate

Question 1

What is weather?

Answer 1

Temporary behavior of the atmosphere

Question 2

What is the study of weather?

Answer 2

Meteorology

Question 3

What is climate?

Answer 3

Long term behavior of the atmosphere

Question 4

What type of cloud produces thunderstorms?

Answer 4

Cumulonimbus

Question 5

What kind of weather usually occurs at the boundary of two unequal air masses?

Answer 5

Rain

Question 6

What weather condition is likely to occur as a result of a high pressure system?

Answer 6

Fair/Clear Weather

Question 7

As air rises in the atmosphere it cools and water vapor condenses forming a?

Answer 7

Cloud

Question 8

What is Polar Climate?

Answer 8

90-60 degrees latitude
Cold year-round

Question 9

What is Temperate Climate?

Answer 9

60-30 degrees latitude
Variety of Climate

Question 10

What is Tropical Climate?

Answer 10

30-equator
Warm year-round

Question 11

What affects weather and Climate?

Answer 11

The Sun
The Water Cycle
Gravity
The Ocean

Question 12

What warms the atmosphere?

Answer 12

The surface

Question 13

How does the Sun affect weather?

Answer 13

Warms the land and ocean

Question 14

What is water going from a liquid to a gas called?

Answer 14

Evaporation( gains energy from the sun)

Question 15

What is water going from a gas to a liquid?

Answer 15

Condensation( loses energy)

Question 16

What is transpiration?

Answer 16

Evaporation of water from/out of plants

Question 17

What is precipitation?

Answer 17

When water falls out from the atmosphere

Question 18

What is the atmosphere?

Answer 18

Mixture of Gases

Question 19

1st Layer:
2nd Layer:
3rd Layer:
4th Layer:
5th Layer:

Answer 19

Trophosphere
Stratosphere
Mesosphere
Ionosphere
Exosphere

Question 20

What is depostition?

Answer 20

Gas to a solid state
the dropping of sediment by wind, water, ice, or gravity

Question 21

What is an air mass?

Answer 21

Body of air with a certain temperature and moisture level

Question 22

What is a front?

Answer 22

Where air masses meet

Question 23

What are the types of fronts?

Answer 23

Warm Front
Cold Front
Occluded Front
Stationary Front

Question 24

How can you measure air pressure?

Answer 24

Barometer

Question 25

A storm with lightning, thunder, heavy rains, and string winds?

Answer 25

Thunderstorms

Question 26

A funnel-shaped cloud from a massive storm cloud?

Answer 26

Tornado

Question 27

A tropical storm that forms over warm waters?

Answer 27

Hurricane

Question 28

What is neither a cold air mass or a warm air mass moves at a frontal boundary?

Answer 28

Stationary Front

Question 29

A cold air mass collides and slides under a warm air mass

Answer 29

Cold Front

Question 30

A warm air mass is pushed up above 2 surrounding cold air masses

Answer 30

Occluded front

Question 31

A warm air mass collides and rides over a cold air mass

Answer 31

Warm Front

Question 32

What type of Pressure is in a tornado?

Answer 32

Very low

Question 33

What holds on to the sun's heat the longest?

Answer 33

The Ocean and other bodies of water

Question 34

Which takes the longest to warm up?

Answer 34

The Ocean and other bodies of water

Question 35

If a cloud has nimbo or nimbus in the name it means?

Answer 35

It can cause precipitation

Question 36

The prefix alto means?

Answer 36

The cloud is in the middle of the atmosphere

Question 37

A cloud that has Cirro or Cirrus in the name means?

Answer 37

High in the atmosphere

Question 38

The Jet Stream is?

Answer 38

A river of air high in the atmosphere

Question 39

A layered cloud that covers the whole sky is?

Answer 39

Stratus cloud

Question 40

These clouds are puffy and found in the middle layer of the atmosphere?

Answer 40

alto cummulus

Question 41

The amount of water vapor in the air at a given time and place is called?

Answer 41

Humidity

Question 42

Water in gas form is called?

Answer 42

Water Vapor

Question 43

1st step 2nd step 3rd step 4th step

Answer 43

Evaporation Condensation Precipitation Collection

Question 44

The clouds are puffy, white and flat at the bottom

Answer 44

Cumulus

Question 45

Warm, moist air...

Answer 45

Rises

Question 46

This type of cloud is found low to the ground

Answer 46

Fog

Question 47

What device measures wind speed?

Answer 47

Anemometer

Question 48

The more water vapor in the air, the higher the

Answer 48

Relative Humidity

Question 49

The hurricane below spins in a particular direction due to which global phenomenon that causes fluids to spin?

Answer 49

the Coriolis effect