Readworks Weather

What is this passage mostly about?

• Temperature
• Barometers
• What causes weather
• The atmosphere

You know the clouds are made up of water particles. On a day that is cloudy, you would expect...

• High temperatures
• High humidity
• High wind speeds
• a lot of air pressure

When you look up in the sky and see storm clouds moving your way, you are observing...

• temperature
• pressure
• wind speed and direction
• air pressure

All the following cause weather, except for...

• the Weather Channel
• the sun warming up the water on Earth
• clouds moving across the sky
• humidity

What is humidity?

• the amount of water in the air
• when people are pushed to another room
• the temperature of the air
• the main cause of weather

When it is cloudy, many of the sun's rays never reach the Earth. What does this do to the temperature?

• The lack of sunlight causes the Earth to get cooler and the temperature to drop.
• The sun is so bright that it can shine through the clouds and make Earth hot.

The four main ingredients of weather are temperature, humidity, wind speed/direction, and air pressure.

• True
• False

Choose the word that best completes the sentence.
Weather is caused by a few things, ______________ air pressure.

• always
• including
• excluding
• but

Weather forecasters use wind speed and direction to predict the weather.
Based off the sentence above, what do weather forecasters do and why?

• predict the weather only
• use wind speed and direction to predict the weather.

Definition of interact: the way people or things communicate, work with or change each other.
What is a synonym of the word interact?

• disconnect
• divide
• connect
• not speak