SC - Grade 4 Weather Test
  • 1. What tool is used to measure how hot or cold the air is?
A) thermometer
B) rain gauge
C) hygrometer
D) barometer
  • 2. What tool is used to measure the wind speed?
A) anemometer
B) barometer
C) hygrometer
D) satellite
  • 3. What tool is used to measure air pressure?
A) hygrometer
B) anemometer
C) barometer
D) thermometer
  • 4. What tool is used to measure the amount of humidity in the air?
A) thermometer
B) barometer
C) anemometer
D) hygrometer
  • 5. What tool is used to help predict the weather?
A) hygrometer
B) rain gauge
C) thermometer
D) satellites
  • 6. what tool is used to measure the amount of rainfall?
A) satellite
B) hygometer
C) rain gauge
D) thermometer
  • 7. Which clouds are low and gray?
A) cirrus
B) nimbus
C) cumulus
D) stratus
  • 8. Which clouds are puffy?
A) nimbus
B) cumulus
C) stratus
D) cirrus
  • 9. Which clouds would you see on a nice, sunny day?
A) cirrus
B) cumulus
C) stratus
D) nimbus
  • 10. If someone says it is foggy out, you know you can see
A) nimbus clouds
B) stratus clouds
C) cirrus clouds
D) cumulus clouds
  • 11. Which clouds are very high in the sky and look like thin, narrow bands?
A) cumulus
B) stratus
C) cirrus
D) nimbus
  • 12. What controls the flow of water on earth?
A) condensation
B) water cycle
C) precipitation
D) carbon cycle
  • 13. Another name for hail, sleet, and snow is:
A) evaporation
B) precipitation
C) water cycle
D) condensation
  • 14. A person who predicts the weather is called a
A) weather predicter
B) news person
C) meteorologist
D) biologist
  • 15. Weather is determined by all of these EXCEPT:
A) cloudiness
B) moisture
C) time
D) temperature
  • 16. When water vapor _____________ it forms precipitation.
A) warms
B) cools
C) condenses
D) evaporates
  • 17. All of these cause air pollution EXCEPT:
A) factory smoke
B) steam from water
C) car exhaust
D) forest fires
  • 18. Storms that cause extreme damage are called:
A) air pollution
B) violent storms
C) atmosphere
D) wind storms
  • 19. A great winter storm usually with snow and strong winds is called a
A) thunderstorm
B) blizzard
C) tornado
D) hurricane
  • 20. What begins as a tropical storm over warm tropical waters?
A) hurricane
B) tornado
C) blizzard
D) thunderstorm
  • 21. What is a form of precipitation that falls as a liquid?
A) snow
B) rain
C) hail
D) sleet
  • 22. Which of these is NOT a solution to air pollution?
A) clean up factory smoke
B) cut emissions from cars
C) drive vehicles less often
D) Make factories illegal
  • 23. Which storm causes lots of ice and snow?
A) blizzard
B) hurricane
C) tornado
D) thunderstorm
  • 24. What is the name of the group that is trying to cut emissions from cars to help reduce air pollution?
A) EPA
B) APE
C) CBS
D) MDA
  • 25. When water changes to water vapor it, __________.
A) warms
B) cools
C) condenses
D) evaporates
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