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- 1. Multiple Choice
What weather measuring instrument is this?
barometer
anemometer
thermometer
rain guage
- 2. Multiple Choice
What does an anemometer measure?
wind speed
wind direction
air pressure
precipitation
- 3. Multiple Choice
What weather measuring tool is this?
anemometer
barometer
thermometer
rain guage
- 4. Multiple Choice
What weather measuring instrument is this?
barometer
anemometer
thermometer
rain guage
- 5. Multiple Choice
What does a barometer measure?
air pressure
temperature
precipitation
wind speed
- 6. Multiple Choice
What weather measuring tool is this?
wind vane
anemometer
thermometer
barometer
- 7. Multiple Choice
What unit do you measure wind direction in?
kPa
North, South, East, West
degrees Celcius
mm
- 8. Multiple Choice
Does warm air rise or sink?
rise
sink
- 9. Multiple Choice
Where would you find one of the warmest areas of a room?
areas next to an air conditioner
areas next to a burning fireplace
areas next to exits or doors
areas areas next to a window in winter
- 10. Multiple Choice
What is humidity?
moisture in the air
water that collects as droplets on a cold surface
tiny drops of water that forms on cook surfaces over night.
- 11. Multiple Choice
What is rain?
liquid that freezes before it hits the ground?
liquid form of water that falls from the sky
mixture of water droplets and ice
soft white flakes of ice that fall from the sky to the Earth
- 12. Multiple Choice
Air tends to flow from regions of:
low pressure to high pressure
high pressure to low pressure
- 13. Multiple Choice
A low pressure system is associated with:
clouds, rain and storms
clearer skies and fair weather
- 14. Multiple Choice
The four basic types of clouds are:
fluffy, white, dense, low
big, small, wide, narrow
cirrus, cumulus, stratus, nimbus
- 15. Multiple Choice
Cirrus clouds appear in the sky on what type of day?
stormy days
blizzardy days
fair weather days
- 16. Multiple Choice
We measure temperature in what unit?
degrees Celcius
degrees Farenheit
- 17. Multiple Choice
What is the temperature?
4 degrees Celcius
minus 10 degrees Celcius
15 degrees Celcius
30 degrees Celcius
- 18. Multiple Choice
In winter, the Northern Hemisphere (where we live) is tilted ___________ from the sun.
towards
away
- 19. Multiple Choice
The temperature at night usually drops because the sun:
hits the Earth directly
no longer hits that part of the Earth
- 20. Multiple Choice
Weather is:
how the weather averages over a long period of time.
the day to day changes in conditions
- 21. Multiple Choice
Climate is:
how the weather averages over a long period of time
the day to day changes in conditions.
- 22. Multiple Choice
November is usually cloudy and rainy. This is an example of:
weather
climate
- 23. Multiple Choice
The Greenhouse effect can change a climate. What is the Greenhouse effect?
a process that occurs when gases in Earth's atmosphere trap the Sun's heat.
a natural part of our atmosphere
- 24. Multiple Choice
The temperature is -24 degrees Celcius and there is snow on the ground. How should you dress?
jeans and t-shirt
pajamas
winter coat
bathing suit
- 25. Multiple Choice
If you wanted to go out in a rainstorm, what fabric to you want your jacket to made of?
cotton
flannel
nylon
leather
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