Climate, Weather and Jet Stream

Climate, Weather and Jet Stream

5th Grade

25 Qs

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Climate, Weather and Jet Stream

Climate, Weather and Jet Stream

Assessment

Quiz

Science

5th Grade

Hard

NGSS
MS-ESS2-6, MS-ESS2-5

Standards-aligned

Created by

Lisa Thompson

FREE Resource

25 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

What is the jet stream?

Precipitation in North Carolina

Weather over a long period of time

Strong winds above the Earth's surface

Football flying over the Earth

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

A narrow band of fast moving winds high in the atmosphere that move from west to east

Jet Stream

doldrums

equator

polar easterlies

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Media Image

Which best describes a characteristic of the jet stream?

It forms a boundary between a cold air mass and a warm air mass.

It creates the high winds around the eye of a hurricane.

It forces the hot air along the equator to rise to areas in North

America.

It causes high pressure air masses to rotate clockwise.

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which has the greatest effect on the movement of the jet stream? 

size of clouds

amount of precipitation

differences in air temperatures

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

What is true about the jet stream?

it is warm water that moves along the Atlantic coast of North America

it is air moving across North America from west to east and sometimes north to south

it is air moving across North America from east to west and sometimes north to south

it is cold warm water that moves along the Pacific coast of North America

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

6.

DROPDOWN QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

​ ​ (a)   is the ​average or typical weather condition of a region year after year.

Climate

Weather

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

7.

DROPDOWN QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

​ ​ (a)   is the condition of the atmosphere at any given time and place.

Weather

Humidity

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

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