Regional Climate Quiz

Convection can be described as

• The process of heat sinking
• The process of heat transferring from one object to another
• The process of plants making food from the sun
• The process of heat rising

Warm air is __________ dense than cold air and rises creating convection currents.

• more
• less

Convection is heat transfer by-

• Touch an object
• The heating and cooling of a fluid
• Electromagnetic Waves

How is thermal energy distributed?

• through water
• through atmospheric currents
• through clouds

The Coriolis effect is the way the Earth's rotation makes winds curve:

• in the same direction
• to the left in the northern hemisphere and to the right in the southern hemisphere
• to the right in the northern hemisphere and to the left in the southern hemisphere

A ___________________ is a local wind that blows from land to a body of water.

• sea breeze
• coriolis effect
• land breeze
• prevailing wind

A _____________ is a local wind that blows from a body of water.

• sea breeze
• global wind
• land breeae
• coriolis effect

If the wind is blowing from the ocean to the beach it is called a 

• land breeze
• sea breeze
• global wind
• zephyr

If the wind is blowing from the beach to the ocean it is called a 

• land breeze
• sea breeze
• global wind
• zephyr

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

• Spirally
• Unevenly
• Circularly
• Kinetically