Water Cycle & Weather Vocabulary Quiz

What is air pressure?

• The weight of the atmosphere pressing down on Earth's surface

• Moving air

• The long-term weather patterns of a place

• An area that has similar average temperatures and precipitation throughout

What is wind?

• The weight of the atmosphere pressing down on Earth's surface

• Moving air

• The long-term weather patterns of a place

• An area that has similar average temperatures and precipitation throughout

What is climate?

• The weight of the atmosphere pressing down on Earth's surface

• Moving air

• The long-term weather patterns of a place

• An area that has similar average temperatures and precipitation throughout

What is a climate zone?

• The weight of the atmosphere pressing down on Earth's surface

• Moving air

• The long-term weather patterns of a place

• An area that has similar average temperatures and precipitation throughout

What is the equator?

• The weight of the atmosphere pressing down on Earth's surface

• Moving air

• The long-term weather patterns of a place

• An imaginary line that divides Earth into the northern and southern hemispheres

What is latitude?

• The weight of the atmosphere pressing down on Earth's surface

• Moving air

• The long-term weather patterns of a place

• A measure of how far north or south a place is from the equator

What is weather?

• The weight of the atmosphere pressing down on Earth's surface

• Moving air

• What the atmosphere is like at a given time and place

• An area that has similar average temperatures and precipitation throughout

What is a meteorologist?

• The weight of the atmosphere pressing down on Earth's surface

• Moving air

• A scientist who studies the weather

• An area that has similar average temperatures and precipitation throughout

What is a weather balloon?

• The weight of the atmosphere pressing down on Earth's surface

• Moving air

• A tool used to measure weather conditions high in the atmosphere

• An area that has similar average temperatures and precipitation throughout

What is a wind vane?

• The weight of the atmosphere pressing down on Earth's surface

• Moving air

• A tool used to measure wind direction

• An area that has similar average temperatures and precipitation throughout