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Weather And Climate
Test Description: Weather and Climate
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1) A land breeze happens when the wind blows the air from where to where?
A
From the polar area to the continents below
B
From the land to the sea
C
From the equator to the areas above it
D
From the sea to the land
2) A sea breeze happens when the wind blows the air from where to where?
A
From the equator to the areas above it
B
From the sea to the land
C
From the polar area to the continents below
D
From the land to the sea
3) Does water or the land heat up faster?
A
Neither heats faster
B
The land
C
They warm the same
D
The water
4) Does land or water cool down the fastest?
A
Land
B
Water
C
Neither cools, they stay hot
D
They cool at the same rate
5) How does air move?
A
From right to left
B
From higher pressure to lower pressure
C
From left to right
D
From lower pressure to higher pressure
6) What is one of the effects of Earth’s rotation?
A
The Coriolis effect
B
The Graham effect
C
The Criminal Code
D
The Equator
7) What kind of weather does a warm front usually bring?
A
A bright sunshiny day
B
Stormy weather
C
A cold spell
D
A winter ice storm
8) What kind of weather does a cold front usually bring?
A
It may bring thunderstorms.
B
It may bring wind
C
It may bring heavy rainstorms
D
All of the above
9) How do the oceans affect Coastal towns?’
A
They do not affect coastal towns
B
It makes the weather more constant
C
It makes the weather hot due to the water
D
It makes them cold due to the water.
10) Climate is
A
The weather that is happening now
B
The weather but only when it snows
C
The weather on a long term average basis
D
The weather that happened over the last 2 years
11) Weather is
A
The weather that is happening now
B
The weather that happened over the last 2 years
C
The weather on a long term average basis
D
The weather but only when it snows
12) What are two things that are used to determine climate of an area
A
The number of animal species that inhabit the area
B
The amount of precipitation and the temperatures
C
The people living there vote on the climate
D
The number of people living there
13) What causes a rain shadow?
A
The raindrops are large enough and heavy enough to create shadows
B
The area on one side of mountains and it receives less rainfall than the other side
C
The clouds create a shadow on the ground
D
There is no such thing as a rain shadow
14) Which area of Earth receives the most solar radiation?
A
North America continent
B
The equator
C
The north pole
D
The south pole
15) When a cold air mass creeps up on a warm air mass and starts to climb over it what kind of front results?
A
A stationary front
B
A warm front
C
An occluded front
D
A cold front
16) The prevailing westerlies are
A
Winds in the middle latitudes between 35 and 65 degrees that blow from west to east
B
Winds that only blow in the United States
C
Winds that come from the eastern area and blow toward the west
D
Winds that blow on the Sahara Dessert
17) What three things could cause an ocean current?
A
Falling rocks, people throwing items in the water and oil wells
B
Ocean currents are not caused, they just are
C
The wind, boats, swimmers
D
Coriolis effect, wind, differences in density of water due to temperature and amount of salt
18) Why is warm fresh water less dense than cold salt water?
A
Because the salt takes up so much room.
B
Because the warm water has molecules that are spread out thus having less of them in the same amount of space.
C
Because the cold water is made of different types of molecules
D
Because the salt water is colder
19) Where do warm ocean currents come from?
A
From the area around the Equator
B
The bottom of the ocean.
C
From the North pole and the South pole
D
Around the poles
20) What kind of weather do we associate with a high pressure system?
A
It will be the same as a low pressure system
B
Clear skies
C
No clouds in the sky
D
Snow and rain
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