Wind and Air Currents

This type of wind is formed near the POLES. It blows from east to west and brings freezing weather. 

• Prevailing Westerlies

• Polar Easterlies

• Polar Westerlies

• Horse Latitudes

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 

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When Earth's rotation causes the wind to curve, we call it the...

• cloudy 

• Coriolis effect

• high pressure

• low pressure 

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Which wind band is shown in Location B (from 60N to 30N)?

• Polar Easterlies

• Westerlies

• Trade Winds

• Polar Westerlies

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Surface Currents are driven (caused) by

• gravity

• global winds

• water density

• the ocean floor

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Warm, rising air creates areas of _____ pressure. Cold, sinking air creates areas of _____ pressure.

• low; high

• high; low

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Because of the Earth's rotation, in the Northern Hemisphere wind and water are spun to the _________

• North

• South

• right

• left

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Because of the Earth's rotation, in the Southern Hemisphere wind and water are spun to the _________

• North

• South

• right

• left

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What type of heat transfer happens by the rising of warm air?

• Radiation

• Conduction

• Convection

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The horizontal (side to side) movement of air along Earth's surface is called ____________.

• Air currents

• Wind

• Air Pressure

• Atmosphere

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