Weather (wind/pressure)

What kind of breeze is this & what time of day/night would it form?

• Land breeze - daytime
• Land breeze - nighttime
• Sea breeze - daytime
• Sea breeze - nighttime

Wind is caused mainly by air pressure differences that result from...

• a. uneven heating of the Earth's atmosphere.
• b. absorption of ultraviolet radiation by Earth's land masses.
• c. radiation of heat from Earth's land masses to water bodies.
• d. rotation of Earth on its axis.

Which term is best described as the movement of air from land to sea?

• global winds
• sea breeze
• land breeze
• local winds

What causes global winds and convection in the atmosphere? 

• continental deflection
• the rotation of the Earth
• Moon's gravity
• unequal heating of the Earth by the sun

What causes warm air to rise?

• the fact that it's less dense than cold air 
• The fact that it weighs more than cold air 
• The fact that it has higher pressure than cold
• the fact that its more dense than cold air 

What causes wind to blow?

• Differences in longitude 
• Shock waves from clouds 
• Differences in air temperature and pressure 
• The rotation of the earth

How are the winds in the northern hemisphere different from winds in the southern hemisphere?

• Winds in the northern hemisphere are deflected right; winds in the southern hemisphere are deflected left

• winds in the northern hemisphere are deflected south; winds in the southern hemisphere are deflected north

• winds in the northern hemisphere are deflected eart; winds in the southern hemisphere are deflected west

• winds in the northern hemisphere are deflected left; winds in the southern hemisphere are deflected right

if you wanted to find the jet steam, where would you go? 

• the area around the poles 
• the area around the equator 
• 10 km above the earth's surface 
• 1 km above the earth's surface 

How do jet streams influence the weather? 

• by creating clouds 
• by increasing the moisture in the atmosphere 
• by moving weather from one area to another very quickly 
• by drying out the atmosphere 

When Earth's rotation causes the wind to curve 

• cloudy 
• Coriolis effect
• high pressure
• low pressure