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Topic: Review Post Assessment Unit 3
Directions: Using your sourcebook, posters in the class room, and other group members work to answer all of the following
questions. You may also use previous reviews (… like from the benchmark). Answer all questions in the source book, remember to
use part of the question in your answer so you have something to study from when you look back!!
1. Describe what temperature measures.
2. Which has more kinetic energy a moving car or a baseball sitting on the ground?
3. a. What is viscosity?
b. Compare the viscosity of milk to the viscosity of syrup which has more?
4. Explain why you can observe ice floating on top of ice tea in a glass.
5. Explain how a pot of boiling water can have all three type of thermal energy transfer and identify specifically
where they occur.
6. As you move from a solid to a liquid to a gas, or when ever any material gains energy (is heated) explain how the
distance in between molecules changes.
7. Earth’s rotation causes the Coriolis Effect… what is the Coriolis Effect?
8. When you climb a mountain higher in our troposphere (the layer of the atmosphere we live in) how come it gets
harder to breath?
9. What winds bring a lot of weather to US in New York… the prevailing _______________.
10. When water vapor in the air condenses in the atmosphere what does this form? _______________.
11. Describe the three types of clouds and the type of weather associated with them.
12. What does a station model describe?
13. What is the difference between a cold front and a warm front?
14. The temperature at which condensation forms and air is fully saturated is known as what? __________.
15. Describe what an air mass is.
Name_____________________ Class______________ Date__________________
Topic: Review Post Assessment Unit 3
Directions: Using your sourcebook, posters in the class room, and other group members work to answer all of the following
questions. You may also use previous reviews (… like from the benchmark). Answer all questions in the source book, remember to
use part of the question in your answer so you have something to study from when you look back!!
1. Describe what temperature measures.
2. Which has more kinetic energy a moving car or a baseball sitting on the ground?
3. a. What is viscosity?
b. Compare the viscosity of milk to the viscosity of syrup which has more?
4. Explain why you can observe ice floating on top of ice tea in a glass.
5. Explain how a pot of boiling water can have all three type of thermal energy transfer and identify specifically
where they occur.
6. As you move from a solid to a liquid to a gas, or when ever any material gains energy (is heated) explain how the
distance in between molecules changes.
7. Earth’s rotation causes the Coriolis Effect… what is the Coriolis Effect?
8. When you climb a mountain higher in our troposphere (the layer of the atmosphere we live in) how come it gets
harder to breath?
9. What winds bring a lot of weather to US in New York… the prevailing _______________.
10. When water vapor in the air condenses in the atmosphere what does this form? _______________.
11. Describe the three types of clouds and the type of weather associated with them.
12. What does a station model describe?
13. What is the difference between a cold front and a warm front?
14. The temperature at which condensation forms and air is fully saturated is known as what? __________.
15. Describe what an air mass is.