Weather tools, station models, and global winds!

Winds are named for the direction they are blowing from?

• True
• False

What kind of breeze is this and when would it form?

• Land breeze - daytime
• Land breeze - nighttime
• Sea breeze - daytime
• Sea breeze - nighttime

Winds are created by differences in ______

• air temperature
•  air pressure 
• altitude
• humidity 

_{Which diagram shows the formation of a land breeze?}

• diagram Y
• diagram X
• neither 
• both

^{Which diagram shows the formation of a sea breeze?}

• diagram Y
• diagram X
• neither
• both

Air moves because of differences in temperature and pressure.

• True
• False

Warm air sinks, and cold air rises.

• True
• False

What is the name of the steady winds that flow from west to east between latitudes 30*N and 60*N and 30*S and 60*S?

• trade winds
• land breeze
• westerlies
• jet stream

The Coriolis effect causes ___________.

• the Earth to rotate on its axis
• continental deflection
• global winds and surface currents to move in a curved path instead of a straight line
• global winds and deep ocean currents to move in a curved path instead of a straight line.

What causes global winds and convection in the atmosphere? 

• continental deflection
• the rotation of the Earth
• Moon's gravity
• unequal heating of the Earth by the Sun