Winds

What causes wind to blow?

• Differences in longitude 
• Shock waves from clouds 
• Differences in air temperature and pressure 
• The rotation of the earth

Which term best describes how the earth's atmosphere is heated?

• Spirally
• Unevenly
• Circularly
• Kinetically

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 

The reason why global winds flow from east to west and west to east, but not north to south, or south to north.

• Bernoulli's principle 
• Coriolis effect 
• high pressure 
• low pressure 

What is the name for cooler air blowing from the land to the sea?

• Sea Breeze
• Land Breeze
• Mountain Breeze
• None of the Above

True or False:
Land heats and cools faster than water causing wind and weather.

• True
• False

What is the name for cooler air blowing from the sea to land?

• Sea Breeze
• Land Breeze
• Mountain Breeze
• None of the Above

What do you call winds that blow in the same direction all over the Earth?

• global winds
• Coriolis effect
• Greenhouse effect
• sea breezes

What winds blow from west to east in the temperate zone and move weather patterns across the United States?

• prevailing westerlies
• polar easterlies
• trade winds
• jet streams

What are cold winds that blow from east to west in the polar regions?

• polar easterlies
• trade winds
• prevailing westerlies
• jet streams