Wind

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 

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What causes wind to blow?

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

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

• Spirally
• Unevenly
• Circularly
• Kinetically

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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 

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How do jet streams influence the weather? 

• by creating clouds 
• by increasing the moisture in the atmosphere 
• by moving weather from one area to another very quickly 
• by drying out the atmosphere 

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When Earth's rotation causes the wind to curve 

• cloudy 
• Coriolis effect
• high pressure
• low pressure 

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What type of winds blow constantly, predictably, and over long distances?

• land breezes
• mountain breezes
• global winds
• land breezes

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The curving of air to the right in the Northern hemisphere is caused by ___________ and is called the _________ effect.

• Earth's rotation...Coriolis
• Earth's revolution...Coriolis
• Earth's rotation...Doppler
• Earth's revolution...Doppler

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What type of global wind flows toward the poles from west to east carrying moist air over the United States?

• Prevailing Westerlies
• Prevailing Easterlies
• Polar Easterlies 
• Doldrums

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Where does the initial source of energy come from that creates winds?

• the moon
• the sun
• the Earth's surface
• the rotation of the Earth

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