Weather-Quiz

Weather Quiz

A METEOROLOGIST or Weatherman

1. What is the name of a scientist who studies weather?

2. What is the name of a weather instrument used to measure atmospheric pressure?

A BAROMETER

3. A thermometer is a device used to measure what?

TEMPERATURE

Weather Quiz5. Why is it cloudy?

CLOUDS

4. True or false? A rainbow is a spectrum of light that appears when the Sun shines onto water droplets in the air.

TRUE

6. Balls or irregular lumps of ice that fall from clouds (often during thunderstorms) are known as what?

HAIL STONES

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9. Blizzards feature: low temperatures, strong winds and heavy ……….

10. Breeze and gale are common terms used to describe the speed of what?

7. An avalanche features: the rapid descent of

8. Wind is more powerful than air.

SNOW

TRUE

WIND

SNOW

Weather Quiz11. Very powerful cyclonic storms that form over warm tropical waters are called:

A: hurricanesB: cyclonesC: typohonesD: all of the above

12. What is the driest desert on Earth, the Sahara, the Kalahari or the Atacama?

THE ATACAMA DESERT

Weather Quiz13. An anemometer is used to measure what?

WIND SPEED

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14. Trying to predict the weather is known as weather

FORECASTING

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16. True or false? You see lightning and hear thunder.

TRUE

15. Lightning never strike twice in the same place.

FALSE

True or false?17.

During a tornado, open Windows in your homes to equalize the air presure. FALSE.

O 18.wearing or carrying a metal object will increase your chances of being struck by lightning.

O TRUE

O 19.you risk being electrocuted if you talk on the pone during a thunderstorm.

O TRUE

More questions:

20.What is a twister? 21.Is it normal that in our country have tsunamis?

Gales?...O 22.Do you know

what you have to do when you feel a earthquake?

O 23.What is a earthquake? A hurricane? A tsunami? A volcano?

More questions:O 24. what is your

favourite type of weather? Why?

O 25. what is your favourite natura disaster? Why?