Air and Ocean Currents

A(n) _____ is a large body of air that has properties similar to the part of Earth's surface over which it depends.

• tornado
• pressure system
• front
• air mass

____________ air rises because it is ____________dense.

• Cool, Less
• Warm, Less
• Cold, More
• Warm, More

What heat source causes convection currents in Earth's oceans & atmosphere?

• heat from Earth's core
• the sun
• wind
• geothermal energy

Flow of air from land to water

• Sea Breeze
• Land Breeze
• Wind

Flow of air from water to land

• Land Breeze
• Sea Breeze
• Wind

Which is true about the way air flows?

• from high pressure to low pressure
• from cold air to hot air
• from low pressure to high pressure
• from top to bottom only

Which is true about atmospheric convection currents?

• wind is only caused by the rotation of the Earth
• heat is released from the oceans and land causing wind
• wind is caused by the polar ice caps
• wind is caused by the gravity of planets in our solar system

weather conditions that are characteristic of a region or of a particular place over a long period of time.

• weather
• weather front
• warm front
• climate

A massive rotating storm with wind speeds of 119 km per hour or more that forms north of the equator in the Atlantic, eastern Pacific Oceans and Caribbean Sea when warm air rises over tropical waters. 

• tornado
• climate
• hurricane
• earthquake

Warm air rises and the cool air sinks demonstrates this type of heat transfer. 

• conduction
• convection
• radiation
• Insolation