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Which best explains why it is important for people to be able to identify cumulonimbus clouds?

• Cumulonimbus clouds can cause mild showers.

• Cumulonimbus clouds can cause severe thunderstorms.

• Cumulonimbus clouds form near Earth’s surface, causing fog.

• Cumulonimbus clouds form when the temperature is below freezing.

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What two factors are needed to measure wind?

• direction and speed

• temperature and speed

• direction and temperature

• temperature and humidity

Which instrument is used to record average precipitation?

• rain gauge

• barometer

• anemometer

• hygrometer

Which would be the best way to collect data from a rain gauge?

• Check and record the data once a week.

• Check and record the data every day, at the same time each day, and then empty the rain gauge.

• Check and record the data for 3 days, then estimate what the next readings will be.

• Research the rainfall history of the area, then estimate how much rainfall may occur.

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What form of precipitation, in which ice crystals freeze over and over, frequently occurs during thunderstorms?

• hail

• snow

• sleet

• heavy rain

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What stage of the water cycle occurs when water falls back to Earth?

• condensation

• precipitation

• evaporation

• transpiration

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Which best describes the sun’s effect on the water cycle?

• The sun causes water to precipitate. The precipitation evaporates and returns to the earth as condensation.

• The sun causes water to condense. The condensed water evaporates and returns to the earth as precipitation.

• The sun causes water to evaporate. The evaporated water condenses and returns to the earth as precipitation.

• The sun causes water to collect on the earth. The collected water precipitates and returns to the earth as condensation.

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Which two processes increase the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere as a result of heat from the sun?

• surface run­off and transpiration

• condensation and precipitation

• evaporation and condensation

• transpiration and evaporation

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Which factors would mostly likely help cause precipitation?

• decrease in sunlight, decrease in evaporation, increase in condensation

• increase in sunlight, decrease in evaporation, decrease in condensation

• decrease in sunlight, increase in evaporation, decrease in condensation

• increase in sunlight, increase in evaporation, increase in condensation

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A scientist is collecting data over time using a barometer. What trends could best be revealed from the data?

• changes in cloud cover

• changes in temperature

• changes in air pressure levels

• changes in precipitation levels

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