Weather and Climate Part 4

Winds = created from differences in air _________.

• pressure

• composition

• size

• speed

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Wind moves from areas of HIGH to _____ pressure.

• Medium

• Low

• Stable

• Cold

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The greater the difference in pressure, the _________ the wind blows.

• hotter

• weaker

• slower

• faster

Wind is measured with wind vanes and _________ or you can estimate with the Beaufort Wind Scale.

• anemometers

• thermometer

• hydrometer

• chemistry

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________ Winds: Thousands of kilometers long; can cause weather to move in different directions.

• Local

• Free

• Global

• National

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True or False-Jet stream, prevailing westerlies, doldrums, horse latitudes, trade winds are examples of Global Winds.

• True

• False

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Global Winds are caused by the temperature difference in different ________.

• states

• nations

• elevations

• regions

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Hot Tropical Regions—causes air to ______.

• fall

• rise

• sink

• remain unchanged

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True or False- Cold polar Regions—causes air to sink.

• True

• False

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________ Effect = causes winds to curve to the right in the Northern Hemisphere; to the left in the Southern Hemisphere.

• Central

• Spherical

• National

• Coriolis

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