Download Weather Condition Test Updated 2016

Weather Condition Test
(6.e.2b.1 and 6.e.2b.2)
A. Multiple Choice: Write the letter of your answer choice on your answer sheet. (2 points each)
1. What are huge bodies of air that form over water or land in tropical or Polar Regions?
a) Fronts
b) Air masses
c) Storms
d) Pressure systems
2. What is important to developing air masses?
a) Temperature and humidity
b) Temperature and fronts
c) Temperature and pressure
d) Humidity and fronts
3. What type of front is the following drawing?
a) Cold front
b) Warm front
c) Stationary front
d) Occluded front
4. What forms when air masses move and collide?
a) Fronts
b) Air masses
c) Storms
d) Pressure systems
5. What is a warm front?
a) A warm air mass moving over a cold air mass that causes severe weather.
b) A cold air mass moving under a cold air mass that causes tornadoes.
c) A warm air mass moving over a cold air mass that causes days of rain and warmer weather.
d) A warm air mass moving under a cold air mass that causes snow.
6. What is caused by warm air rising or cold air sinking combined with the spinning of the earth?
a) Fronts
b) Air masses
c) Storms
d) High and low pressure systems
7. What is a cold front?
a) A warm air mass moving under a cold air mass that causes severe weather.
b) A cold air mass moving under a warm air mass that causes severe weather.
c) A cold air mass moving over a warm air mass that causes snow.
d) A warm air mass moving over a warm air mass that causes severe weather.
8. Nimbus means ______________. (2b.1)
a) Sun
b) Cold
c) Rain
d) Storm
9. What is a cold air mass and warm air mass that meet and cannot move the other mass?
a) A stationary front that causes fair weather.
b) An occluded front that causes long periods of precipitation
c) A stationary front that causes long periods of precipitation
d) An occluded front that causes fair weather.
10. A ______________________ cloud is thin and wispy and can signal an approaching warm front. (2b.1)
a) Cirrus
b) Stratus
c) Front
d) Cumulus
11. What is a warm air mass caught between 2 cold air masses?
a) A stationary front that causes severe weather conditions
b) An occluded front that causes days of rain or snow
c) A stationary front that causes several days of clouds and rain
d) An occluded front that causes fair weather
12. What system signals rain and stormy weather with winds circulating in, counter-clockwise, and
upward?
a) Cold front
b) High pressure system
c) Low pressure system
d) Warm front
13. What system signals fair weather with winds circulating out, clockwise, and downward?
a) Cold front
b) High pressure system
c) Low pressure system
d) Warm front
14. What occurs when pressure differences cause rapid air movement?
a) Storms
b) Warm fronts
c) Cold fronts
d) Occluded fronts
15. What weather condition includes lightning, thunder, heavy rain, and strong winds from a
cumulonimbus clouds and forms along a cold front?
a) Hurricane
b) Tornado
c) Thunderstorm
16. What weather condition includes a rapid, whirling funnel-shaped cloud in a very low pressure
area?
a) Tornado
b) Hurricane
c) Thunderstorm
17. What weather condition includes low pressure forming over warm ocean water?
a) Tornado
b) Hurricane
c) Thunderstorm
18. What makes the winds blow faster in a hurricane?
a) High pressure
b) Water
c) Wind
d) Low pressure
19. What do winds in a hurricane spin around?
a) Thunderstorm
b) Eye
c) Waterspout
d) Wind
20. A _______________________ cloud is puffy with a flat bottom, and can signal fair weather. (2b.1)
a) Cirrus
b) Stratus
c) High pressure
d) Cumulus
21. What type of cloud signals long period of rain when it builds up layer upon layer? (2b.1)
a) Stratus
b) Cirrus
c) Cumulus
d) Occluded front
22. A __________________________ air mass forms over cold land and bring cold, dry air.
a) Maritime Polar
b) Continental Polar
c) Maritime Tropical
d) Continental Tropical
23. __________________________ air mass forms warm, ocean water and brings warm, humid air.
a) Maritime Polar
b) Continental Polar
c) Maritime Tropical
d) Continental Tropical
Name: ____________________________________________________
Weather Conditions Answer Sheet
Period: ________________
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24. Label the map with the air masses: continental polar (CP), maritime polar (MP), maritime tropical
(MT), continental tropical (CT) (2 points each)
B. Short Answer:
25. You walk outside on a spring day and see blue skies and cirrus clouds. What kind of weather can you
predict is going to happen that day? (2b.1) (6 points)
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
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26. True or False: Cool air rises and warm air sinks. ________________________________________________ (2 points)
27. Draw and label (with arrows) a picture that models a cold front. (10 points)
28. How are clouds classified? (4 points) __________________________________________________________________________
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29. True or False: Air moves out from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure. _________________
(2 points)
30. You are packing for a weekend at the lake with your friends. When you check the weather, the
meteorologist says that the temperatures will be cooler and there are going to be a lot of cumulonimbus
clouds in the sky all weekend. (2b.1) (8 points)
a. What does this mean about the weather? _______________________________________________________________
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b. What kind of front is approaching? ______________________________________________________________________
31. How does lake water become a part of a cloud? (2b.1) (6 points)___________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
32. What are the two important gases for weather conditions? (4 points)
a.____________________________________________________________________
b. ____________________________________________________________________
33. What are the 4 forms of precipitation? (4 points)
a. _________________________
b. __________________________
c. _____________________
d. ______________________
EXTRA CREDIT: Draw the symbols for high pressure system and low pressure system.