Wind and Currents

What causes wind?

• differences in air pressure

• ocean currents

• differences in density

• tropical currents

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This type of wind is formed near the POLES. It blows from east to west and brings freezing weather. 

• Prevailing Westerlies
• Polar Easterlies
• Polar Westerlies
• Horse Latitudes

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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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When Earth's rotation causes the wind to curve, we call it the...

• cloudy 
• Coriolis effect
• high pressure
• low pressure 

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

• land breezes
• local winds

• global winds
• land breezes

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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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Which wind band is shown in Location B (from 60N to 30N)?

• Polar Easterlies

• Westerlies

• Trade Winds

• Polar Westerlies

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Band D (from 0 - 30S) is the ____________ and moves from ________________.

• Polar Easterlies; east to west

• Westerlies; west to east

• Trade Winds; east to west

• Trade Winds; west to east

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Surface Currents are driven (caused) by

• gravity

• global winds

• water density

• the ocean floor

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Currents that carry warm water are moving

• from the Equator to the poles

• from the poles to the Equator

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