Thursday, March 1, 2012

4th Grade Science Test: Weather, Climate & Environment


4th Grade Science Test
Weather, Climate & Environment
Name:
 


Instructions: Choose the best answer for each question.
1.                   everything that surrounds living things and affects growth and health; the natural world.
 atmosphere
 environment
 climate
 lithosphere
2.                   the conditions outside. __________ concerns such things as temperature, rain, snow, sun, and other things.
 flood
 drought
 atmosphere
 weather
3.                   the act or process of changing from a gas to a liquid.
 drought
 condensation
 geologic
 cloud
4.                   the forward edge of a mass of cold or warm air.
 solid
 front
 greenhouse effect
 climate
5.                   of, pertaining to, or according to geology.
 lithosphere
 geologic
 vapor
 atmosphere
6.                   a sudden, strong flow of water onto land that should not be under water.
 cloud
 transpire
 precipitation
 flood
7.                   the usual weather conditions in a place.
 liquid
 environment
 lithosphere
 climate
8.                   to give off water from a surface in the form of vapor.
 transpire
 humidity
 front
 liquid

9.                   the movement or transfer of heat through a liquid or gas because of the natural rising of the heated parts and sinking of the cooled parts.
 geologic
 convection
 humidity
 drought
10.                the earth's crust.
 lithosphere
 geologic
 solid
 atmosphere
11.                snow, sleet, rain, or hail that falls to the surface of the earth, or the amount of it that falls in a given period of time.
 humidity
 precipitation
 atmosphere
 climate
12.                to guess or estimate or predict the weather, it will rain tomorrow or the storm will hit the town.
 forecast
 solid
 geologic
 weather
13.                a form of matter that can flow and is neither a solid nor a gas. Water is the most common kind of __________ on earth.
 condensation
 precipitation
 liquid
 drought
14.                having to do with or coming from the sun.
 condensation
 liquid
 solar
 geologic
15.                water vapor or moisture in the air.
 wind
 transpire
 humidity
 convection
16.                the gases that are in the space around the earth.
 flood
 greenhouse effect
 transpire
 atmosphere


17.                a white or gray mass of small drops of water high in the sky above the earth.
 forecast
 evaporate
 solid
 cloud
18.                air as it moves over the surface of the earth created by the heat of the sun.
 geologic
 transpire
 wind
 condensation
19.                tiny pieces of a liquid or solid that float in a gas.
 convection
 condensation
 flood
 vapor
20.                made entirely of a single material or thing, not a gas or liquid.
 greenhouse effect
 transpire
 solid
 precipitation
21.                the warming of the earth's surface that takes place when heat from the sun is held in by the earth's atmosphere. The __________ can be caused by too much carbon dioxide being released into the air from the burning of fossil fuels.
 climate
 greenhouse effect
 transpire
 geologic
22.                to turn from liquid into gas; pass away in the form of vapor.
 liquid
 evaporate
 front
 cloud
23.                a long period with little or no rain.
 evaporate
 forecast
 environment
 drought

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