Global/Local Winds and Water Cycle

What causes wind?

• convection currents
• conduction currents
• radiation currents
• tropical currents

What causes GLOBAL winds to move in all directions?

• breezes
• coriolis effect
• westerlies
• easterlies

Warm air rises over the land.  As the air rises, it cools and drops over ocean.  What type of breeze results?

• Ocean breeze
• Land breeze

What is the process of water droplets or ice crystals falling from the sky?

• evaporating
• condensing
• precipitating
• runoff

Cool air moving across land and warm air rising up from the ocean will result in:

• land breeze
• sea breeze
• warm breeze
• no breeze

Winds that blow from 30 & 60 latitude are called what?

• Polar Easterlies 
• Polar Westerlies
• Prevailing Westerlies 
• Trade Winds

What source of energy evaporates the most water from Earth’s surface?

• volcanoes
• the sun
• lightning
• wind

I am a fast-moving ribbon of AIR that moves from west to east in the Northern Hemisphere around the Earth.

• California Current
• Gulf Stream
• Jet Stream
• Atlantic Ocean

Global winds located along the equator where no winds blow because the warm rising air creates an area of low pressure are called what?

• Doldrums
• Horse Latitudes
• Trade Winds
• Polar Easterlies

What global wind is located from 0 to 30 degrees North and South of the Equator?

• Trade Winds
• Prevailing Westerlies
• Polar Easterlies 
• Doldrum