Weather Test
Study Guide
This test will be taken on Thursday, December 15 th . It covers
EVERYTHING you’ve learned about weather this year. The test will have matching, multiple choice and a few short answer questions. The test will NOT be open book. Use the following information to make flash cards and to help you look up information in your science notebook and textbook that you will need to know for the test.
Be able to match the following terms to their definitions:
air mass- a large body of air
anemometer- measures wind speed
barometer- measures air pressure
hurricane- storm with very fast wind speeds ( 119 kph or more)
precipitation- water falling back to earth (rain, snow, sleet, hail)
evaporation- liquid changing into a gas
the water cycle- water moves from the surface of the Earth to the air and back again.
condensation- gas changes to a liquid

Know the types of weather these things bring: warm, dry air cool, wet air warm, wet air cool, dry air warm fronts cold fronts
Know the steps of the water cycle in order and what they look like.
Know the 4 types of precipitation.
Know what the following weather instruments look like and what they measure. Be able to draw 2 of them. barometer rain guage psychometer weather vane hygrometer anemometer
Be able to fill in the following chart correctly: fluffy cool weather hail ice crystals
Stratus Cumulus gray thunderstorms light rain clear, warm days
Cumulonimbus Cirrus

Be able to match the type of precipitation to its cause:
rain- water vapor condenses in air
hail- rain freezes and then falls through warmer air. The frozen air is snow-coated with liquid water and then carried back up to a cold pocket of air, where the liquid coating also freezes.
sleet- falling rain passes through a layer of freezing cold rain
snow- water vapor turns into ice crystals
Know the 3 properties of air: mass, pressure, space
Know what property of air goes with the blowing up a balloon (air
takes up space) and the baggie raising the books (air exerts pressure) experiments.

Be able to look at the following map and know that the weather in the heart area will be cold tomorrow because there is a cold front and the weather in the star area will be the same as the day before because there is a stationary front.