Fast & Curious Week 22

The circular motion that happens when warmer air rises, while the cooler air sinks (also happens in liquid).

• Convection Current

• Radiation

• Conduction

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The movement of air from land to sea at night, created when cooler, denser air from the land forces up warmer air over the sea.

• Land breeze

• Sea breeze

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The movement of air from sea to land during the day when cooler air from above the water moves over the land, forcing the heated, less dense air above the land to rise.

• Sea breeze

• Land breeze

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Cool dense sinking air creates ________ pressure.

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Warm air that rises and creates ________.

• High pressure

• Low Pressure

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________ is air moving from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure.

• Wind

• Rain

• Cloud

• Sun

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Warm air rises because it's ________

• more dense

• less dense

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Cool air sinks because it's ______

• more dense

• less dense

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The layer of the atmosphere you would find a mountain top, like Mt. Everest, would be...

• Troposphere

• Stratosphere

• Mesosphere

• Thermosphere

What happens to the temperature in the Troposphere as you go up in the air?

• It rises (with increasing altitude above Earth)

• It rises then falls (with increasing altitude above Earth)

• It decreases (with increasing altitude above Earth)

• It remains constant (with increasing altitude above the Earth)