Check in part 1

1. If a stationary front and a warm front crash into each other, what weather will LIKELY occur?

• Cumulonimbus clouds will form
• Light precipitation
• Sunny weather with an increase in temperature
• Thunderstorms

2. What is likely to change within 24 hours at the coast?

• The climate
• The amount of evaporation
• The direction of the wind
• The warm air will sink over the ocean and create wind

3. What could be the cause of a low pressure system moving towards North Carolina from the west?

• The gulf Stream
• El nino
• La Nina
• Prevailing Westerlies

4. In North Carolina, the wind begins to blow from the south, what is likely to occur?

• The temperature will decrease
• The jet stream will blow from the east
• The temperature will increase
• The season will change

5. A meteorologist states the barometric pressure is rapidly decreasing. What would result in this drop of pressure?

• Fair, clear skies
• A temperature increase
• A temperature decrease
• Overcast sky

6. What describes best why weather changes day to day

• The gulf stream carries air masses through the united states from west to east
• The prevailing westerlies carries air masses from east to west in the united states
• The Jet Stream curves west to east steering air masses
• El nino warming up the pacific ocean

7. What is the cause of rising surface temperatures in the pacific ocean?

• El nino
• La nina
• Gulf stream
• Jet Stream

8. Which is the best example of a new substance forming?

• a cake baking
• water turning to steam
• mowing the grass
• making lemonade

9. Two liquids are poured together and a solid substance forms. Liquid 1 has a mass of 300 grams and Liquid 2 has a mass of 200 grams. What is the mass of the solid substance that formed?

• 100 grams
• 200 grams
• 500 grams
• 400 grams

10. A student places 40 grams of water into the freezer until it becomes ice. What would the mass of the ice be?

• 30 grams because liquid has more mass than solid
• 50 grams because solid has more mass than liquid
• 40 grams because the mass does not change from liquid to solid
• 20 grams because some of the liquid evaporated