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What type of cloud is soft and fluffy, resembling cotton balls?
a) cirrus
b) stratus
c) nimbus
d) cumulus

What type of severe weather forms quickly from thunderstorms?
a) cyclones
b) tornadoes
c) hurricanes
d) dust storms

Which of the following is true about the ozone layer?
a) It stores excess oxygen
b) It is the source of our oxygen.
c) It absorbs harmful ultraviolet rays from the Sun.
d) It transmits healthy ultraviolet rays from the Sun.

Rain falls through a layer of freezing air that is large enough to freeze the rain. What type of precipitation forms?
a) hail
b) sleet
c) snow
d) glaze

On the local news, the weatherperson says that the relative humidity is 20 percent. What does this mean?
a) 20 percent of the water in the atmosphere is water vapor.
b) The air contains 80 percent of the water vapor it can hold
c) The air contains 20 percent of the water vapor it can hold.
d) 20 percent of the water in the atmosphere is in clouds, dew, or fog.

How does the jet stream affect winter weather in North America?
a) It carries hot weather from southern areas to northern areas.
b) It carries warm weather from eastern areas to western areas
c) It carries moist weather from western areas to eastern areas.
d) It carries cool weather from northern areas to southern areas.

All weather takes place in which layer of Earth's atmosphere?
a) mesosphere
b) troposphere
c) stratosphere
d) thermosphere

Which gas makes up most of Earth's atmosphere?
a) oxygen
b) nitrogen
c) water vapor
d) carbon dioxide

Most of the energy used in the United States comes from
a) fossil fuels.
b) solar power.
c) nuclear energy.
d) renewable resources.

Which statement best describes how anthracite coal formed?
a) Anthracite formed from swamp plants.
b) Anthracite formed from decaying dinosaurs.
c) Anthracite formed from desert plants and animals.
d) Anthracite formed from tiny organisms in ocean water.

Why is crude oil heated at an oil refinery?
a) Heating the oil removes water, salts, and oxygen from the oil.
b) Different parts of the oil blend together at a higher temperature.
c) Heating the oil reduces the amount of pollutants the oil releases.
d) Different parts of the oil can be removed at different temperatures.

Which fossil fuel below formed from the remains of tiny ocean organisms?
a) oil
b) coal
c) antracite
d) lignite

The energy released from fossil fuels was originally captured from
a) soil
b) The Sun
c) Earths core
d) Decayed bacteria

Energy of the heat inside Earth is called
a) solar energy.
b) nuclear energy
c) geothermal energy.
d) hydroelectric energy.

When factories began mass producing clothing, furniture, and farm machines what did they often use as an energy source?
a) solar power
b) wind power
c) water power
d) electric power

Which sentence best describes how the need for energy has changed over time?
a) The amount of energy needed today is less than the amount of energy needed fifty years ago.
b) The amount of energy needed today is greater than the amount of energy needed fifty years ago.
c) The amount of energy needed today is about the same as the amount of energy needed fifty years ago.
d) The amount of energy needed today greatly increases and decreases from year to year, as it did fifty years ago.

Forests play an important role in controlling which gas in Earth's atmosphere?
a) ozone
b) oxygen
c) carbon dioxide
d) carbon monoxide

Which natural resource can take hundreds of years to form and can be easily eroded?
a) oil
b) soil
c) coal
d) lignite

In the ocean, where is wave energy the strongest?
a) at the trough
b) on the ocean floor
c) at the water's surface
d) just below the water's surface

One beach has white sand and one beach has black sand. The color of sand on a beach depends on
a) the age of the beach.
b) the amount of erosion.
c) the coast the beach is on.
d) the source of the sand and rock.

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