Weather

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  1. What is the composition of the atmosphere?

    2. Your answer:
    78%Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, and 1% all other gases
    78% Oxygen, 21% Nitrogen, and 1% all other gases
    78% Oxygen, 10% Nitrogen, and 11% all other gases
    78% Oxygen, 21% Carbon DIoxide, and 1% all other gases

  2. What are two natural sources of Carbon Dioxide in the air?

    3. Your answer:
    Transpiration of plants and animals
    Plants and Fungus
    Cars and trucks
    Respiration of animals and burning of fossil fuels

  3. Why is nitrogen important to living things?

    4. Your answer:
    For us to breathe
    All of the answers are true
    To grow and repair body cells
    To give us energy

  4. What are some of the weather elements available on weather forecast sites?

    5. Your answer:
    Wind, temperature and pressure
    Visibility, dew point, and air pressure
    UV index, temperature and humidity
    All of the answers are true

  5. What are two processes that uses oxygen?

    6. Your answer:
    Burning and photochemical smog
    Acid rain and photochemical smog
    Air pressure
    Rusting and burning

  6. The following are pollutants

    7. Your answer:
    Burning fossil fuels and breathing
    Forest fires and rusting
    Air pollution and water pollution
    Dust storms and farming

  7. Which unit is used to measure temperature in the metric system?

    8. Your answer:
    Celsius and Kelvin
    Calories and Celsius
    Celsius and Farenheit
    Kelvin and Farenheit

  8. Infer the conditions of the atmosphere if bacteria had not evolved.

    9. Your answer:
    A lot of oxygen available
    Mostly nitrogen
    Carbon dioxide and oxygen
    Mostly no oxygen

  9. Ozone is a molecule of oxygen with ____ oxygen atoms

    10. Your answer:
    4
    1
    3
    2

  10. The amount of mass in a given volume is

    11. Your answer:
    Weight
    Never the same
    Pressure
    Density

  11. Presure is

    12. Your answer:
    Higher on top of a mountain
    Higher at sea level
    Lower at sea level
    Always the same

  12. A barometer measures

    13. Your answer:
    Humidity
    Pressure
    Wind direction
    Temperature

  13. Which type of scientists are able to make general predictions for weather using information about the El Niņo.

    14. Your answer:
    Veterinaries
    Arqueologists
    Astronomers
    Meteorologists

  14. The _________ has a layer that filters most of the UV rays

    15. Your answer:
    Troposphere
    Mesosphere
    Stratosphere
    Thermosphere

  15. What is El Niņo?

    16. Your answer:
    A small boy
    The newest Hollywood production
    It's a giant puddle of heated water that sloshes across the Pacific Ocean.
    The name of the school`s cafeteria

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