TEST review 1

What allows water to exist on Earth?

• Earth's atmosphere allows CO2 to form

• Earth's atmosphere allows solar radiation to reach the surface

• Earth's atmosphere traps energy from the sun

Earth's atmosphere is important to living things because it

• is very thin compared to the size of the Earth

• provides all of the gases needed

• contains particulates such as dust

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NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-3

Moisture(water vapor) in the air is called

• weather

• precipitation

• humidity

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Temperature, Density and Air Pressure____________ as altitude increases in the troposphere

• stays the same

• increases

• decreases

Water vapor is water in the form of

• steam

• droplets

• a gas

• ice crystals

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

The most abundant gas in the atmosphere is nitrogen

• True

• False

What is the 2nd most abundant(plentiful) gas in the atmosphere?

• nitrogen

• argon

• CO2

• oxygen

The condition of Earth's atmosphere(humidity, cloud cover, wind, precipitation, and temperature) at a specific time and place is

• density

• weather

• temperature

• air pressure

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

When a rapidly moving cold air mass runs into a slowly moving warm air mass, the result is a(n)

• occluded front

• cold front

• stationary front

• warm front

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Which type of weather is most likely to occur along a cold front?

• several days of heavy precipitation

• moderate temperatures with mild breezes

• high temperatures with low winds

• rain with possible severe thunderstorms

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-5