ESS Weather Review

Match the following front symbols to the correct name

• Cold Front

• 
• Stationary Front

• 
• Warm Front

• 
• Occluded Front

• 

The dew point is when...

• even more water can be held by air

• relative humidity reaches 100%

• snow begins to fall

• None of these

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Two air masses meet at a...

• division point

• medium

• front

• convergence point

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

The strongest winds form when...

• there is no precipitation

• the temperature differences between two air masses is very low

• the temperature differences between two air masses is very high

• there is lots of precipitation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

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Rising air creates...

• high pressure

• low pressure

• fronts

• temperature differences

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

The categories of the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale are divided into categories by...B

• the amount of precipitation and wind speed

• the wind speed

• the amount of precipitation

• the amount of damage done

Convection in a thunderstorm dies when...

• all the raindrops have fallen and no new ones can be created

• the cloud grows into the top of the Stratosphere and cools down the top of the cloud, stopping convection

• the downdrafts cool the base of the cloud, so no warm air rises

• None of these choices

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Frigid air warms and collects moisture over the Great Lakes, so that downwind, the air...

• cools and drops lots of snow

• cools and creates a nor'easter

• warms the region and skies clear

• warms the region and rain falls

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Which of the following is radar named for?

• Radio Detection and Ranging

• Lt. Col. Joseph P. Radar

• Radio Readings and Wind Direction

• Radio Direction and Readings

On a weather map, isolines are created...

• by identifying high and low pressure cells

• by connecting points of equal value

• at the location of a front

• None of these choices