Weather Review Quiz

Weather Review Quiz

Name: ______

Regents Review #8: Weather

  1. As you go up a mountain, altitude increases/decreases, temperature increases/decreases and pressure increases/decreases.
  1. Winds always blow from ______to ______pressure.

Use the arrow below as a starting point to answer/complete questions 3 – 6a.

Wind direction

  1. Draw an “H” where the high pressure is located and an “L” where the low pressure is located.
  2. Draw arrows to show where the air is rising and where it is sinking.
  3. Label the cooler area and the warmer area
  4. Draw a sun in the sunny area and a cloud in the area that is more likely to have precipitation.
  5. Why is this area more likely to have precipitation? ______

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  1. Are we having high or low pressure today? How do you know? ______

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  1. On the letters below, show how the air would be moving around the high pressure area and how they would be moving around the low pressure area.This is a “bird’s eye” view.

HL

  1. Low pressure areas are zones of convergence/divergence, move clockwise/counterclockwise, and are cyclones/anticyclones.
  2. If a cloud or fog has formed, then the air temperature at that spot has reached the dew point and has ______relative humidity.
  1. Fill in the chart and the blanks below.

Wet Bulb / Dry Bulb / Difference / Dew Point / Relative
Temperature / Temperature / Temperature / Humidity
8ºC / 10ºC
22ºC / 30ºC
18ºC / 24ºC
negative 7ºC / negative 5ºC
  1. Relative humidity: 76%Air temp: 10CDewpoint: ______
  2. Relative humidity: 49%Air temp: 30CDewpoint: ______
  1. Clouds form when warm/cold and dry/moist air rises/falls and cools to the dewpoint, causing condensation/evaporation. Warm, air rises because it is more/less dense than cold, dry air.
  2. Storms are high/low pressure systems and move from the ______to the ______across the United States (give compass directions).
  3. cP air masses have warm/cold and dry/moist air. mT air masses have warm/cold,and dry/moist air.
  1. When isolines are ______, it is windy.
  1. Hurricanes feed on warm/cold water. They gain/lose power when the come onto land or meet cold air.
  2. Tornadoes usually form when warm/cold and wet/dry air from Canada meets warm/cold and wet/dry air from the Gulf of Mexico.
  3. Tornadoes are larger/smaller and have faster/slower winds than hurricanes.
  1. For the station model below, list the … (DON’T FORGET UNITS!)

Air temp: ______Present weather: ______Wind speed: ______

Dewpoint: ______Cloud cover: ______Wind direction: ______

Relative humidity: ______

Picture 1

  1. Using the diagram above to answer the following:

a) Label numbers 1 and 2 in the diagram with the correct air mass SYMBOLS.

b) Letter A represents a ______front. Letter B represents a ______front.

c) In Binghamton, the temperature is likely to soon become warmer/cooler, and it

is likely to rain/be sunny.

Picture 1

Regents Review #8: Weather KEY

  1. increases, decreases,decreases
  2. high to low

The diagram below answers questions 3 – 6a.

pwppthl

6 a) The warm, moist air is rising.

  1. Low if it is cloudy, high if it is clear.
  1. convergence, move counterclockwise, and are cyclones.
  2. 100%

Wet Bulb / Dry Bulb / Difference / Dew Point / Relative
Temperature / Temperature / Temperature / Humidity
8ºC / 10ºC / 2 / 6ºC / 76%
22ºC / 30ºC / 8 / 18ºC / 49%
18ºC / 24ºC / 6 / 14ºC / 55%
negative 7ºC / negative 5ºC / 2 / neg 13ºC / 48-54%
  1. Relative humidity: 76%Air temp: 10CDewpoint: 6°C
  2. Relative humidity: 49%Air temp: 30CDewpoint: 18°C
  1. warm and moist air rises, condensation, less
  2. low, west to the northeast
  3. cold and dry air, warm and moist air.
  4. close together
  5. warm, lose
  6. cold and dry, warm and wet
  7. smaller, faster

Air temp: 31°CPresent weather: snowWind speed: 5 knots

Dewpoint: 31°CCloud cover: 100%Wind direction: north

Relative humidity: 100%

a) (see picture)

b) cold,warm

c) cooler, rain.

21. low, counterclockwise

22. B.

23. northeast.

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