Weather Test
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- Q1Which device may be used to measure air pressure?A wind vaneA barometerAn anemometerA thermometer300s
- Q2While you are experiencing summer in the northern hemisphere, which is a likely statement about the weather in the southern hemisphere?The southern hemisphere is experiencing unpredictable weather patternsThe southern hemisphere is experiencing their spring seasonThe southern hemisphere is experiencing their winter seasonThe southern hemisphere is experiencing their fall season300s
- Q3The jet stream is described as which of the following?A cold water current that flows from west to eastAn unpredictable air currentAn air current that impacts North American weatherA water current that flows from east to west300s
- Q4Low layered clouds that are often gray in color are most likely which cloud type?CirrusStratusCumulonimbusCumulus300s
- Q5A scientist who studies and predicts weather patterns is called aphysicistmeteorologistcytologistbotanist300s
- Q6What is the difference in an anemometer and a wind vane?An anemometer measures wind speed and a wind vane measures wind directionAn anemometer measures air temperature and a wind vane measures wind directionAn anemometer measures air pressure and a wind vane measures wind directionAn anemometer measures wind direction and a wind vane measures wind speed300s
- Q7A student notices bright, puffy clouds in the sky. What is she most likely observing?Cumulus clouds, low pressureCirrus clouds, high pressureCirrus clouds, low pressureCumulus clouds, high pressure300s
- Q8On a summer day, multiple thin, feathery cirrus clouds can be seen in the sky. How would this observation help to that day's weather?The weather would produce winds and precipitationThe weather would be rain all dayThe weather would indicate a stormThe weather would likely be fair without rain300s
- Q9When the sun warms water, which resulting process occurs?condensationprecipitationrunoffevaporation300s
- Q10In North Carolina, the wind is blowing from the north. If the wind changes direction and begins to blow from the south, what will most likely result?The temperatures will increase.The wind speeds will decrease.The air pressure will increase.The temperatures will decrease.300s
- Q11Which best explains why a storm that affects an area in the western United States may affect an area in the eastern United States a few days later?Warm Gulf Stream water causes storms to form in the west.The jet stream winds blow storms from east to west.The jet stream winds blow storms from west to east.Cool Gulf Stream water causes storms to form in the east.300s
- Q12Which best describes the cause of day-to-day weather changes?action of the windsthe rotation of Earthmoving air massesthe size of Earth300s
- Q13Which best describes a hurricane?a cold fronta stationary fronta high-pressure weather systema low-pressure weather system300s
- Q14Which instrument is best used to predict weather changes?thermometeranemometerbarometerhygrometer300s
- Q15Why are liquids used in some thermometers?because most liquids condense when heated and evaporate when cooledbecause most liquids contract when heated and expand when cooledbecause most liquids expand when heated and contract when cooledbecause most liquids melt when heated and freeze when cooled300s