Name ___________________________________
Date ____________________ Period _________
Weather Test Review
Multiple Choices
8. Look carefully at the graphic below. What sort
of weather would you expect to find within the
circle?
Dry and Hot
summers with cold
and moist winters
1. Cloudy and rainy weather is usually associated
with what type of pressure system? _____.
a. Warm front (rain/clouds for a few days)
b. Cold front (rain/clouds initially then clear)
c. Stationary front (rain/clouds for many days)
2. What type of pressure occurs when air masses
sinks and prevents clouds from forming_____.
a. High pressure
b. Low pressure
9. A tornado is a type of severe weather that is
NOT an intense tropical storm?
a. True
b. False
c. Only when it is close to an ocean
3. Tornadoes and hurricanes are produced by
a. Thunderstorms
b. Volcanoes
c. Tsunamis
10. Where is the calmest part of a hurricane?
a. Vortex
b. Eye
c. outside
4. What is wind? How does it form?
Air moving from high pressure to low pressure
Uneven heating of Earth’s surface
5. A front is formed between a cold and _____ air
masses.
a. Cold
b. Warm
11. True or False?
a. Hurricanes are much larger than
tornadoes true
b. Tornadoes last for a longer time than
Hurricanes false
c. Hurricanes are associated with flooding
since they cause high waves and strong
rains true
6. Which type of system is shown below?
High
7. Which type of system is shown below?
Low
12. How does air move in a low-pressure system?
a. Toward the low-pressure area
b. Away from the low-pressure area
c. Clockwise around the low-pressure area
13. A thermometer measures ______________?
a. Air mass
b. Air temperature
c. Dew point
14. How do ocean currents affect weather?
The temperature of the water will
influence/make the air the same temperature
15. A maritime tropical air mass would have the
greatest effect on weather _________.
a. Seattle
b. Florida
c. Alaska
16. Explain how a hurricane forms?
The ocean provides warm and moist air to fuel
the hurricane
17. The amount of water vapor in the air relative to
what that air could hold is the _____.
a. Dew point
b. Air pressure
c. Relative humidity
18. Air moves into and upward through a _______
system.
a. High pressure
b. Low
c. Warm front
19. A continental polar air mass would have the
greatest effect on weather in ___________.
a. Florida
b. Alaska
c. Texas
25. Which weather phenomenon do the trade
winds weaken or change direction?
a. El Nino
b. La Nina
c. Tornado
d. Hurricane
26. Where do warm ocean currents originate?
Equator
27. What causes the winds to move in a circular
directions instead of a straight line?
Coriolis Effect
28. Explain why air masses tend to travel from the
Polar Regions to the equator?
Hot air rises at the equator. Cool dense air
moves in to fill in the space.
20. Clear skies and fair weather is brought in by
which type of system?
a. High
b. Low
c. Warm front
21. _________________ is the atmospheric
conditions, along with short-term changes, of a
certain place at a certain time
a. Climate
b. Weather
c. season
22. A (n) ________________ forms when warmer
air moves toward colder, denser air.
a. Cold front
b. Warm front
c. Stationary front
23. Cooler air has _______________ humidity than
warmer air.
a. More
b. Less
c. Same
d.
24. When a build-up of warm water occurs off the
coast of South America, what weather
phenomenon is this?
a. La Nina
b. El Nino
29. Using the diagram above, explain how the Gulf
Stream helps regulate the temperature in
Western Europe.
The warm water flows north and across the
Atlantic to Western Europe. This warm water
warms the air above it making the weather
warmer than it would be if the current did not
move past that area.
C
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B
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A
D
A.
B.
C.
D.
Using the weather map above name and
describe what is occurring at each letter
Cold Front: Cooler air, rainy/cloudy then clear
High Pressure System: Clear Skies/ Fair
weather
Low Pressure System: Cloudy/Rainy weather
Warm Front: Warmer air, cloudy/rainy for a
few days.