Bill Nye Wind Questions

Wind is caused by...

• The Sun
• The Rotation of the Earth
• Air Pressure
• All of these things

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Which is more dense?

• Hot Air

• Cold Air

• All air has the same desnity

When you open the door to the freezer, the air that was in the freezer will....

• Go up
• Go Down
• Go straight out
• Stay in the freezer

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What can you expect to happen when large bodies of hot and cold air meet?

• Nothing

• They'll mix and become the same temperature

• Water will condense causing cloud / preceptitation

• A tear in the space/time continuum will form

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Air has weight.

• True

• False

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_______________________ is caused by the heating and the cooling of the earth.

• wind

• water

• sand

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When we say warm air rises, what is actually happening is that cold air is ____________ warm air up.

• pulling

• pushing

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A barometer is a device scientists can use to measure ____________________ in the atmosphere.

• time

• clouds

• pressure

• temperature

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The ______________________ stream is a high altitude wind that moves from west to east.

• jet

• plane

• tornado

• dirt

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Air ____________________ at the equator, and sinks at either pole.

• stays still

• rises

• drops

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