Atmospheric Processes

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Air is made of

• water vapor

• oxygen

• wind

• molecules

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Which statement correctly defines wind?

• Wind is the movement of air from areas of low pressure to areas of high pressure
• Wind is the movement of air to a colder area in the atmosphere.
• Wind is the movement of air from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure.
• Wind is the movement of air pushed around and bouncing off Earth's surface.

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Is this a land or a sea breeze?

• land breeze

• sea breeze

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Is this a land or a sea breeze?

• land breeze
• sea breeze

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What causes wind?

• differences in air pressure

• differences in gravity

• difference in oxygen

• differences in the thermosphere

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What causes differences in air pressure?

• even heating of the Earth

• even cooling of the earth

• uneven heating of the earth

• global warming

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Descending air in a High leads to _______ weather and ascending air in a Low tends to make weather _________.

• fair, stormy

• stormy, fair

• fair, fair

• stormy, stormy

Multiple Choice

Name that front.

• Cold Front

• Warm Front

• Stationary Front

• Occluded Front

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Name that front.

• Cold Front

• Warm Front

• Stationary Front

• Occluded Front

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Name that front.

• Cold Front

• Warm Front

• Stationary Front

• Occluded Front

Air is a very poor conductor of electricity and gets extremely hot when lightning passes through it. In fact, lightning can heat the air it passes through to 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit (5 times hotter than the surface of the Sun).

Lightning Facts

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Lightning is one of the leading causes of weather-related fatalities. Lightning kills an average of 49 people each year in the United States and hundreds more are injured. Some survivors suffer lifelong neurological damage.

​ Weather experts believe that strong tornadoes occur so frequently in Tornado Alley because storms are caused when dry cold air moving south from Canada meets warm moist air traveling north from the Gulf of Mexico.

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Tornado wind speeds are rated using the

• Dragonball Z scale

• Enhanced Fujita scale

• Vegeta scale

• Goku scale

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Hurricane wind speeds are measured using the

• OJ Simpson scale

• Homer Simpson scale

• Saffir Simpson scale

• Tropical Storm scale