Air pressure and Wind

_____________ is air that flows from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure.

• Convection Cells

• Wind

• Atmospheric Pressure

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

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 

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

NGSS.MS-PS3-4

What causes wind to blow?

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

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

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

• Spirally
• Unevenly
• Circularly
• Kinetically

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

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 

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

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 

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

When Earth's rotation causes the wind to curve 

• cloudy 
• Coriolis effect
• high pressure
• low pressure 

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

When heat rises cools then sinks

• high pressure

• convection current

• low pressure

• stratospheric pressure

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5