LCC - Weather Test

Question 1

What is Weather?

Answer 1

what is happening in the atmosphere at a certain place in a certain time.

Question 2

What is Wind?

Answer 2

Wind is the movement of air

Question 3

What is the Atmosphere?

Answer 3

The layer of air that surrounds the earth

Question 4

What is Temperature?

Answer 4

How hot or cold something is

Question 5

What is Precipitation?

Answer 5

Any kind of water that falls from the sky

Question 6

What is Groundwater?

Answer 6

Fresh water found on the earth’s surface

Question 7

What is the Troposphere?

Answer 7

The layer of the atmosphere we live in

Question 8

What does a Barometer do?

Answer 8

Measures the air pressure

Question 9

What does a Thermometer do?

Answer 9

Measures the temperature

Question 10

What does a Anemometer do?

Answer 10

Measures the wind speed

Question 11

What does a Rain Gauge do?

Answer 11

Measures how much rain has fallen from the sky

Question 12

What does a Weather Map show?

Answer 12

Shows the weather over a large area

Question 13

What is Evaporation?

Answer 13

Heat from the sun changes water to water vapor and it rises

Question 14

What is Condensation

Answer 14

Water vapor makes a cloud

Question 15

What are the forms of Precipitation?

Answer 15

Rain, Sleet, Hail, Snow that falls down to earth

Question 16

What powers the Water Cycle?

Answer 16

The Sun

Question 17

What is a Cold Front?

What does the Cold Front usually bring?

Answer 17

• Colder air mass that moves into the area and replaces the warm air mass
• Usually brings in colder temperatures and possibly precipitation

Question 18

What is a Warm Front?

What does a Warm Front bring?

Answer 18

• Warmer air mass that moves into an area and replaces the cold air mass
• Usually brings warmer temperatures and fair weather

Question 19

How many layers is the atmosphere made of?

What are the layers?

Answer 19

• 5 Layers

1. Troposphere
2. Stratosphere
3. Mesosphere
4. Thermosphere
5. Exosphere

Question 20

How do you keep safe in a storm?

Answer 20

1. Stay inside
2. If weather is severe, find an interior room in the house or building
3. Stay from windows
4. If a hurricane or flood occurs, listen to the news and weather reports and possibly evacuate

Question 21

What is a Tornado?

Answer 21

Dark, funnel shaped cloud with destructive winds

Question 22

What is a Hurricane?

Answer 22

Violent storm with heavy rains and winds greater than 75 mph, forms over the ocean and moves onto land

Question 23

What is a Blizzard?

Answer 23

Severe snow storm with strong winds

Question 24

What is a Thunderstorm?

Answer 24

Storm with heavy rain or hail, thunder and lightning

Question 25

What is a Cumulous Cloud? How high in the sky?

Answer 25

Puffy, fair weather clouds low to the ground

Question 26

What is a Stratus Cloud? How high in the sky?

Answer 26

Gray clouds that look like a gray blanket in the sky low lying clouds

Question 27

What is a Cirrus Cloud? How high in the sky?

Answer 27

Thin, wispy clouds made up of tiny ice crystals high in the sky

Question 28

What is a Cumulonimbus Cloud?

Answer 28

Tall, big clouds usually produces storms and lightning