Global and Local Wind

The movement of air caused by differences in air pressure is called ________

• air

• low pressure

• wind

• high pressure

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Which direction does the wind blow?

• from low pressure to high pressure

• from high pressure to low pressure

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Differences in air pressure are caused by__________

• the Earth being heated evenly

• the uneven heating of the Earth due to the tilt

• the moon heating the Earth

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Patterns of air circulation produced by the combination of pressure belts and the Coriolis effect are called __________ ________

• local winds

• high winds

• sea breezes

• global winds

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The apparent curving of the path of winds and ocean currents due to Earth's rotation is called ________

• the wind effect

• the Coriolis Effect

• the sun effect

• the convection effect

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The three major GLOBAL winds are called____________

• trade winds, sea breezes, land breezes

• polar easterlies, mountain breezes, westerlies

• polar easterlies,westerlies, trade winds

• sea breeze, land breeze, valley breeze

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What global wind is described below?

* extend from the poles to 60 degrees latitude,

*blow from east toward the equator,

*carry cold, arctic air over the US producing snow and freezing weather

• westerlies

• polar easterlies

• trade winds

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What global wind is described below?

*wind belts found between 30 degrees and 60 degrees latitude

*blow from the west toward the poles

*carry moist air over the US

• trade winds

• polar easterlies

• westerlies

• sea breezes

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Which global wind is described below?

*blow from 30 degrees latitude to the equator

*their name comes from the fact that early sailors used them to sail from Europe to the Americas

• trade winds

• polar easterlies

• westerlies

• sea breeze

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NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Narrow belts of high speed winds that blow in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere, do not follow regular paths, pilots use them to speed up their flight and meteorologists track them to predict where storms will move are called

• sea breezes

• trade winds

• land breezes

• jet stream

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