Weather & Climate Notes

Earth's atmosphere has 4 layers: troposphere, stratosphere, mesosphere, and thermosphere.

• True

• False

What type of cloud is described as 'Thin clouds that look like feathers and form high in the sky; usually bring fair weather'?

• A) Cirrus

• B) Altocumulus

• C) Cirrocumulus

• D) Stratus

What type of cloud is described as 'Small, white, puffy, middle level cloud'?

• Stratocumulus

• Altocumulus

• Cirrocumulus

• Altostratus

Match the types of precipitation with their descriptions.

• Rain

• Falls when the temperature in the cloud is below freezing (32°F)

• Snow

• Falling drops of liquid water

• Hail

• Rain that freezes as it falls to Earth's surface

• Sleet

• Forms when drops of rain freeze in the cloud and are carried higher into the cloud freezing over and over before falling to Earth's surface.

The water cycle is the movement of water into the air as water vapor and back to Earth's surface as precipitation.

• True

• False

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Precipitation that flows downhill on Earth's surface to rivers, streams, lakes, and oceans is called ________.

• Runoff.

• Evaporation.

• Infiltration.

• Condensation.

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An air mass is a large body of air that has about the same ______, air pressure, and moisture.

• temperature

• humidity

• density

• velocity

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Moist air masses usually form over _________. Dry air masses usually form over land.

• oceans

• deserts

• mountains

• forests

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Most changes in ______ happen when one air mass moves into a place and pushes out another air mass.

• weather

• climate

• temperature

• humidity

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A cold front on a weather map is typically represented by which of the following symbols?

• A line with triangles pointing in the direction of movement

• A line with semicircles pointing in the direction of movement

• A line with both triangles and semicircles

• A dashed line