Winds

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

What creates the air pressure difference between the equator and the poles?

• The length of the seasons
• The shape of the earth 
• the duration of the solar year
• The amount of direct sunlight each area receives 

True or False:

Land heats and cools faster than water, helping create wind and weather.

• True

• False

Is this a land or a sea breeze?

• land breeze
• sea breeze

Winds that blow from the west are called ____.

• Easterlies

• Polars

• Westerlies

• Temperates

If you wanted to visit an area with very little wind, where might you go? 

• The doldrums around the equator
• the jet streams in the northern and southern hemisphere 
• the North or South Pole 
• the area around the Mediterranean Sea 

The effect of Earth’s rotation on the direction of winds and currents is called the _______________ .

• La Niña

• El Niño

• Coriolis effect

• Currents

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

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

Which best describes how winds in the jet stream blow?

• between a boundary of cold air and a boundary of warm air

• between two boundaries of hot air

• no pattern

• between two boundaries of cold air

Winds are caused by...

• equal heating.

• unequal heating.