Weather and Climate Vocabulary Test

Moving air is called ____________.

• rain

• wind

• air waves

• clouds

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Which of the following is a type of precipitation?

• Wind

• Temperature

• Clouds

• Rain

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Information that is collected is called

• Answers

• Data

• Conditions

• Questions

The amount of water vapor in the air is called

• Rain

• Steam

• Heat

• Humidity

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Rain, sleet, snow, or hail that falls from the clouds.

• Humidity

• Water Vapor

• Precipitation

• Anticipation

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Temperature

• How hot or cold something is

• How humid something is

• How much water vapor is in the air

• Wind that is cold

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Typical means

• unusual - doesn't happen often

• never happens

• normal - happens a lot over time

• a typing error

Current

• now

• 20 years ago

• old

• rare

The recent rain storm dumped 3 inches of rain and caused some minor flooding.

What does recent mean in this sentence?

• happened in the last few days

• Happened 10 years ago

• during the Jurassic period

• One hundred years ago

Weather is

• last year's summer conditions

• the current outdoor conditions

• outdoor conditions averaged over the last 10 years

• the typical outdoor conditions weather a place has

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