Thermal balance & Wind

The process by which heat transfer takes place between objects by direct contact.

• Convection

• Conduction

• Radiation

• Evaporation

Number of processes in which Earth's surface releases heat

• 1

• 3

• 2

• 4

The invisible force that appears to deflect the wind is the

• trade winds

• Coriolis action

• Coriolis force

• westerlies

Total amount of heat absorbed by the earth is not always equal to the total amount of heat released into the atmosphere

• True

• False

The process by which air heated by contact with the warm earth surface

• Convection

• Conduction

• Radiation

• Evaporation

During June and July, ITCZ is found

• around the equator

• a little south of the equator

• a little north of the equator

Warm equatorial air rises higher into the atmosphere and migrates toward the poles. This is a ___ pressure system

• average

• medium

• low

• high

Wind is the movement of air caused by the _____ heating of the Earth by the sun

• Uneven

• Even

• Stable

• Unstable

Winds generally blow from____ areas

• High pressure

• low-pressure to high-pressure

• high-pressure to low-pressure

• low pressure

Differences in atmospheric pressure generate 

• storm

• snow

• rainfall

• winds