8.10ABC (2021) Weather and Climate Test Review

Temperature and humidity conditions inside air masses

What plays a role in determining surface temperatures?

What causes the West Coast of the US to be cooler in summer than the East Coast?

What is created by the movement of air from areas of higher pressure to areas of lower pressure called?

What drives the movement of air in the atmosphere?

What kind of weather usually occurs at the boundary of two unequal air masses?

What is the movement of water from the Earth's surface into the atmosphere?

What are the conditions inside air masses related to?

A cold air mass collides and slides under a warm air mass

Water vapor absorbs heat to condense and form clouds.

What is a key ingredient for hurricane formation?

What is responsible for the transfer of heat in the atmosphere?

The sun provides energy to both the atmosphere and the hydrosphere.

Heat causes water to evaporate and enter the atmosphere.

Which factor contributes to the formation of hurricanes?

Where do hurricanes form?

What is the main driver of weather?

What weather condition is required for a hurricane to form?

A warm air mass is pushed up above 2 surrounding cold air masses

What causes the movement of air masses and the formation of weather systems?

What causes variations in surface temperatures?

What atmospheric condition is necessary for hurricane formation?

A warm air mass collides and rides over a cold air mass

What is necessary for a hurricane to develop?

What causes the formation of weather systems?

What is the process by which water falls from the atmosphere to the Earth's surface?

What causes the movement of warm air to rise and cool air to sink?

Convection currents are responsible for global weather patterns.

The atmosphere absorbs more of the sun’s energy than does the hydrosphere.

Neither a cold air mass nor a warm air mass moves at a frontal boundary

What kind of weather usually occurs at the boundary of two unequal air masses?

The unequal heating of Earth drives convection that creates winds in the atmosphere and currents in the oceans.

What is the process of water vapor turning into liquid water?