This document is a quiz about weather-related terms. It contains 25 multiple choice or true/false questions about concepts such as meteorologists, weather instruments, cloud formation, wind speed, natural disasters like hurricanes, tsunamis and volcanoes. The quiz covers topics ranging from the basics of weather observation to more advanced meteorological phenomena.

1. Weather-
Quiz

2. 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

3. Weather Quiz
5. 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

4. Weather Quiz
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

5. Weather Quiz
11. Very powerful cyclonic
storms that form over warm
tropical waters are called:
A: hurricanes
B: cyclones
C: typohones
D: all of the above
12. What is the driest
desert on Earth, the
Sahara, the Kalahari or the
Atacama?
THE ATACAMA DESERT

6. Weather Quiz
13. An anemometer is used
to measure what?
WIND SPEED

7. Weather Quiz
14. Trying to predict the
weather is known as
weather
FORECASTING

8. Weather Quiz
16. True or false? You
see lightning and hear
thunder.
TRUE
15. Lightning never strike
twice
in the same place.
FALSE

9. 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

10. 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?

11. More questions:
O 24. what is your
favourite type of
weather? Why?
O 25. what is your
favourite natura
disaster? Why?