Winds

Winds are named for the direction they are blowing from?

• True
• False

Which statement correctly defines wind?

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

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

• Spirally
• Unevenly
• Circularly
• Kinetically

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 

What is the name for cooler air blowing from the land to the sea?

• Sea Breeze
• Land Breeze
• Mountain Breeze
• None of the Above

What is the name for cooler air blowing from the sea to land?

• Sea Breeze
• Land Breeze
• Mountain Breeze
• None of the Above

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

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

Winds occur because hot air rises and cool air sinks in a process called...

• conduction

• convection

• radiation

• magnetism

True or False:

Land heats and cools faster than water, helping create wind and weather.

• True

• False

Is this a land or a sea breeze?

• land breeze
• sea breeze