Weather Quiz

Weather

The Earth's atmosphere becoming hotter is called what?

• Deforestation
• Water Cycle
• Global Warming
• El Nino

What is thunder?

• Two clouds colliding
• Series of sound vibrations caused by lightning
• Rain hitting the Earth's surface
• The Earth's plates sliding into one another

One who studies and predicts the weather is known as a what?

• Biologist
• Archeologist
• Ophthalmologist
• Meteorologist

An earthquake is caused by movement of what?

• Tectonic plates
• Atmospheric gases
• Large amounts of water
• Mountains

Earthquakes are measured on a 1 to 7.9 scale which measures how much the earth moves. This is called what?

• Fujita Scale
• Papadopoulos-Imamura Intensity Scale
• Richter Scale
• Saffir-Simpson Scale

Hurricanes are named each season by the alphabet and are all boys names.

• True
• False

Tornadoes are also called what?

• Twisters
• Tsunami
• Downpour
• Seismic events

The sun is made up of mostly what?

• Helium
• Hydrogen
• Oxygen
• Carbon

Which is not a type of cloud?

• Cumulus
• Stratus
• Cirrus
• Puffulus

It needs to be what temperature for snow to form?

• 42F
• 40F
• 38F
• 32F