Wind

What causes wind?

• differences in air pressure

• differences in gravity

• difference in oxygen

• differences in the thermosphere

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What causes differences in air pressure?

• even heating of the Earth

• Even cooling of the earth

• uneven heating of the earth

• global warming

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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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Air at the poles is colder and denser so it_______________.

• rises

• circulates

• stagnates

• sinks

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

• Spirally
• Unevenly
• Circularly
• Kinetically

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_____ heats quickly and _____ cools quickly.

• Water, water
• Land, water
• Land, land
• Water, land

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What are of earth is struck directly by the sun's rays?

• Poles
• Temperate zone
• Equator
• Prime meridian

What causes wind?

• movement of high pressure to low pressure
• movement of low pressure to high pressure

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During convection, more dense currents _________ and less dense currents _________.

• sink, rise
• rise, sink

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In convection, COOL air

• Rises
• Sinks

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