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Climate, Seasons, and Weather Quiz
Climate, Seasons, and Weather Quiz
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A Geography quiz to help grasp the understanding of Climate, Seasons, and Weather.
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1
Evaporation is cause by?
Heat
Steam
The sun
Hot pavement
2
How many days a year do equinoxes occur?
4
2
1
3
3
What causes rain?
Evaporation
Precipitation
All the above
Condensation
4
What does anvil shape of cloud tell about it?
The cloud hasn't changed at all
A cloud has grown well beyond freezing level
A cloud has shrunk well beyond freezing level
A cloud has shrunk beyond heating level
5
What is the difference between rain and drizzle?
Amount coming from sky
Over all amount fallen
Size of droplets
Number of clouds in the sky
6
What continent doesn't get tornadoes?
Africa
Australia
Antarctica
S. America
7
If temperature under a cloud is 3 degrees Celsius, the precipitation will be snow.
False
True
8
Why do scientists create Climographs?
to show regions average humidity
to show a regions average temperature and precipitation
to show a regions average wind speed
They think they're pretty (cool)
9
How does latitude affect climate?
Influencing intensity of the sun in a region
Mo rain, mo problemz
Influencing intensity of moon in a region
Changing speed of earths rotation
10
When does Australia have the
longest
lasting days?
March Equinox
December Solstice
September Equinox
June Solstice
11
Why do continental locations have similar seasonal temperature?
Water heats faster than land
Land cools faster than water
Land heats faster than water
Water cools faster than land
12
When are the coolest temperatures for a certain location usually?
During the winter solstice
Before winter solstice
None of the above
Several weeks after the winter solstice
13
Why does drizzle reduce visibility?
Particles are small and far apart
Particles are large and close together
Particles are small and close together
Particles are large and far apart
14
Crystals drift through clouds they connect with other ice crystals in a process called what?
Aggregation
Irregation
Snowing
Aquedation
15
The sun is more intense when...
Sunlight strikes earth's surface less directly
Sunlight doesn't strike earth's surface more
Sunlight strikes earth's surface more directly
16
What does this map show?
Relative warm and cool currents
Relative sea-temperature
Relative wind currents
Relative water density
17
What is El Nino?
Hurricane
Tornado
Tsunami
Storm
18
Why does the sun appear to move across the sky from east to west?
The Earths rotation
The Suns orbit
Magic
The Earths orbit
19
What Pole is the coldest?
Arctic
South Pole
Antarctica
North Pole
20
How does Continentality affect climates around the world?
The more continents, the more weather
What's Continentality?
Climate changes on how far inland specific areas climate is
Continents get more rain than oceans
21
The higher the Sun appears in the sky, the more solar energy reaches the surface .
False
True
22
Earth's orbit is a perfect circle
True
False
23
Temperature generally decreases with altitude
Frue
Tralse
True
False
24
Weather fronts typically bring what?
Clouds
Sun
Tornadoes
Tsunamis
