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What is wind?
a) high pressure pushes low pressure
b) high pressure
c) air mass
d) low pressure

What creates different wind patterns globally?
a) wind
b) the uneven heating of the earths surface
c) temperature
d) earth's rotation

What will most likely result from a high pressure system?
a) lower temperatures and fair weather
b) high temperatures and rain
c) nothing will happen
d) moist air will create clouds

What type of cloud is high in the sky and made of ice crystals?
a) cirrus
b) cumulus
c) nimbus
d) stratus

Fog is a type of
a) stratus cloud
b) cumulus cloud
c) cirrus cloud
d)

These clouds usually appear during fair weather but can change into rain
a) cumulus
b) cirrus
c) stratus
d) nimbus

What will most likely occur during a low pressure system?
a) lower temperatures and fair skies
b) higher temperatures and rain
c) cold dry air
d)

What has the greatest effect on wind speed?
a) air pressure
b) the sun
c) humidity
d) clouds

Air pressure is
a) the weight of the atmosphere
b) a front
c) types of clouds
d) tornadoes

Humidity is
a) water in the air
b) high and low pressure
c) wind
d) clouds

Cumulonimbus clouds indicate
a) thunderstorms
b) a change in the next 24 hours
c) fair weather
d) rain is coming

Warm air is
a) less dense
b) more dense
c)
d)

Cold air is
a) more dense
b) less dense
c)
d)

What type of wind causes weather in NC?
a) westerlies
b) polar easterlies
c) tradewinds
d)

What will most likely happen when the jet stream moves south of NC?
a) NC will experience cold weather
b) NC will experience warm weather
c) NC will experience hot, dry weather
d) NC will experience tropical weather conditions

What is true about sea breezes?
a) land and oceans have cooler temperatures
b) land and oceans have warmer temperatures
c) land warms more quickly than cooler ocean water
d) land cools more quickly than warmer ocean water

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