Global Winds Invest 6

Ocean currents, prevailing wind patterns, and other atmospheric disturbances are initially caused by which of these?

• differences in the phases of the moon
• gravitational pull of the Sun
• incoming solar radiation
• ozone layer depletion

When air is heated, it will MOST likely

• expand and fall
• expand and rise
• condense and fall
• condense and rise

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A sea breeze blows from the ocean toward the shore. Why does this occur?

• High pressure over the land causes a downdraft to occur.
• The tide carries the wind to the shore as it moves back and forth.
• Conduction of heat from the warm water produces wind from the ocean.
• Air over land heats faster than air over water, which causes convection.

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Which statement correctly defines wind?

• Wind is the movement of air from areas of low pressure to areas of high pressure
• Wind is the movement of air to a colder area in the atmosphere.
• Wind is the movement of air from areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure.
• Wind is the movement of air pushed around and bouncing off Earth's surface.

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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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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.

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

• diagram Y
• diagram X
• neither 
• both

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

• diagram Y
• diagram X
• neither
• both

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

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

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Why are there global winds?

• because the cold air sinkes from the poles to the equator
• because the earth is rotating from east to west
• because the sun heats the air at the equator more than anywhere else on earth

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