Global atmospheric circulation

Warm air is lighter than cold air

• True

• False

Warm air rises

• True

• False

Cold air descends

• True

• False

The air in the Hadley cell descends at the polar circles

• True

• False

Due to the Coriolis effect air movement in the northern hemisphere is deflected towards the left

• True

• False

The Westerlies blow from the NE to the SW

• True

• False

The Westerlies are part of the convection cell that forms the Hadley cell

• True

• False

Some of the desert areas of the world formed because of descending air

• True

• False

The convection cell that mostly affects the climate of Britain is the Hadley cell.

• True

• False

Without the Coriolis effect the air movement between the tropics and the equator would be dominantly north-south.

• True

• False