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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is the lapse rate?
The rate at which humans would be at the top of the column of air
How long it would take to leave the troposphere
The rate at which air temperature falls with increasing altitude
- 2. Multiple Choice
Flora said a weather vane measures wind speed. Is Flora correct?
- 3. Multiple Choice
If somewhere is near the _________, it should be _____. (select 2)
Poles, cold
Poles, hot
Equator, cold
Equator, hot
- 4. Multiple Choice
If sunlight is concentrated in the northern hemisphere, what season should it be?
Fall
Summer
Winter
Spring
- 5. Multiple Choice
What is the order of the atmosphere (lowest to highest)?
Stratosphere, Thermosphere, Mesosphere, Troposphere
Thermosphere, Mesosphere, Stratosphere, Troposphere
Troposphere, Stratosphere, Mesosphere, Thermosphere
Stratosphere, Troposphere, Thermosphere, Mesosphere
- 6. Multiple Choice
What are the two types of barometers?
Aneroid Barometers
Spring Barometers
Mercury Barometers
Centon Barometers
- 7. Multiple Choice
What two gases is air mostly made of?
Hydrogen
Nitrogen
Methane
Oxygen
Carbon
- 8. Multiple Choice
Where is the ozone layer located?
Exosphere
Thermosphere
Mesosphere
Stratosphere
Troposphere
- 9. Multiple Choice
Pablo had to write an essay about the mesosphere. Which of these facts he found is true?
The mesosphere is cold.
The mesosphere is where weather happens.
The mesosphere has a lot of clouds.
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which of these tools will be useful measuring weather?(Select all that apply)
Rain Gauge
Telescope
Anemometer
Thermometer
Stopwatch
- 11. Multiple Choice
The stem "therm" means hot. What do you think a thermometer measures?
Air pressure
Wind speed
Air temperature
Wind Temperature
- 12. Multiple Choice
How does the angle of insolation affect the temperature.
The greater the angle, the hotter it is. The smaller the angle, the colder it is.
The greater the angle, the colder it is. The smaller the angle, the hotter it is.
- 13. Multiple Choice
What would bring us storms and bad weather?
A high pressure system
A low pressure system
- 14. Multiple Choice
What is insolation?
The layer of gases that surround Earth.
What the Troposphere is like at any given place and time.
The amount of incoming solar radiation that reaches Earth at any given place & time.
The distance north & south from the equator- this is a major cause of the climate a location will have
The force put on an area by the weight of the air above it
- 15. Multiple Choice
Which is not a type of cloud?
Status
Cirrus
Cumulus
Nimbostratus
Cumulonimbus
- 16. Multiple Choice
What is a barometer?
An instrument used to measure lapse rate
An instrument used to measure air pressure
An instrument used to measure air temperature
An instrument used to measure how much rain has fallen
- 17. Multiple Choice
What is the highest level of the atmosphere?
Mesosphere
Exosphere
Troposphere
Ozone layer
- 18. Multiple Choice
Why does the temperature cool when you go up?
It doesn't it get warmer.
It stays the same temperature.
Heat rises, therefor it gets warmer
Heat rises, then spreads out and cools
- 19. Multiple Choice
What is isolation?
The amount of heat that stays on earth
The amount of radiation that stays on earth
The amount of radiation the reaches earth at a given time
The amount of thermal energy that leaves earth at a given time.
- 20. Multiple Choice
Which BEST holds all earth's water
Hydrosphere
Troposphere
Ozone layer
Mesosphere
- 21. Multiple Choice
What does not measure wind?
Anemometer
Weather vane
Barometer
- 22. Multiple Choice
What is the definition of weather?
The amount of incoming solar radiation that reaches earth at a given place and time
the height of and object or point in relation to sea or ground level- can greatly change the climate of an area
the lowest layer of the atmosphere- all weather happens here!
What the lowest layer of the atmosphere is like at a given place or time
- 23. Multiple Choice
What is this?
rain gauge
weather vane
anemometer
thermometer
- 24. Multiple Choice
Which is the correct order of the layers of the atmosphere
stratosphere, troposphere, mesosphere, thermosphere
thermosphere, stratosphere. mesosphere, troposphere
Troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, hydrosphere
troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, thermosphere
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