Weather 1 Review

Air pressure is usually lowest when the air is 

• warm & dry
• warm & humid
• cool & dry
• cool & humid

Cowlesville, New York, received a total of 88 inches of snow in 85 hours. Calculate the average rate of snowfall in inches per hour (in/h) for Cowlesville. 

• .97 in/h
• 1.0 in/h
• 1.07 in/h
• 88 in/hr

An air temperature of  70°C is equal to 

• 345 K
• 340 K
• 158  °F 
• 160  °F 

Air pressure is measured with which weather instrument?

• thermometer
• sling psychrometer
• barometer
• anemometer

Air pressure is usually the highest when the air is

• cool & dry
• cool & humdid
• warm & dry
• warm & humid

Air pressure is usually the lowest when the air is

• cool & dry

• cool & humdid

• warm & dry

• warm & humid

In which city was the greatest wind speed occurring?

• Boise
• Kansas City
• Austin
• Denver

 As altitude increases in the troposphere and stratosphere, the air temperature

• decreases in the troposphere and increases in the stratosphere
• decreases in both the troposphere and stratosphere
• increases in the troposphere and decreases in the stratosphere 
• increases in both the troposphere and stratosphere

Temperature decreases in which two layers of the atmosphere?

• stratosphere & thermosphere
• troposphere & mesosphere
• troposphere & stratosphere
• mesosphere & thermosphere

As altitude in the atmosphere increases, pressure will 

• increase
• decrease
• stay the same