WIND

Sea Breeze is

• movement of air from land to sea

• movement of air from sea to land

• movement of wind from hills to plains

• movement of wind from plains to hills.

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 

What causes wind to blow?

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

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

• Spirally
• Unevenly
• Circularly
• Kinetically

What can you conclude about prevailing winds from their name? 

• They blow from west to east
• They blow all the time
• The air they contain is very warm 
• The air they contain is very cool

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 

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

Air moves from an area of

• low temperature to high temperature

• high to low temperature

• high temperature to high temperature

• low temperature to low temperature

Sea breeze blows

• at night

• in the morning

• in the day time

• in the evening

Land breeze blows

• in the morning

• late night

• in the day time

• in the evening