atmosphere and heat transfer weather

What is the transfer of heat by circulation of the heated parts of a liquid or gas?

• Conduction

• Convection

• Coriolis Effect

• Radiation

You wake up on a Saturday morning and are glad you don’t have to go to school. You sit outside in the sun because you don’t really feel like doing anything at all. The heat from the sun is starting to make you sweat.

• conduction
• convection 
• radiation

Which of the following models most accurately represents the air circulation patterns likely to develop on a hot summer afternoon in a coastal area?

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Global winds are caused by differences in pressure caused by:

• warm air rising at the equator and cold air sinking at the poles

• warm air sinking at the equator and cold air rising at the pole.

• Warm air rising at the equator and cold air rising at the poles

• warm air sinking at the equator and cold air sinking at the poles

Which of the following is NOT a contributing factor to the uneven warming of Earth’s surface?

• Different surfaces warm at different rates

• Different surfaces retain energy differently

• The sun is farther from the Earth during the winter

• The sun’s rays hit the surface at various angles

According to the graph, temperatures in the mesosphere _____ with altitude.

• increase

• stay the same

• decrease

• no data given

How does heat move?

• from a warmer to a cooler object

• from a cooler to a warmer object

• toward a hot object

• away from a cold object

When you heat up an object, the particles in the object move _________.

• faster

• the same speed

• slower

__________ is the transfer of heat by the movement of a fluid.

• Conduction

• Convection

• Radiation

When you touch hot sand, heat is transferred by _________ to your skin.

• conduction

• convection

• radiation