Convection cells and the Coriolis Effect

When air sinks to the surface the pressure increases which raises the temperature of the air. This is called:

• Latent Heat Release

• Adiabatic Cooling

• Adiabatic Heating

• Latent Heat Absorption

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Lower pressure allows for rising air to expand in volume which lowers the temperature of the air. This is called:

• Latent Heat Release

• Adiabatic Cooling

• Adiabatic Heating

• Latent Heat Absorption

The amount of water that air can hold depends on the temperature of the air. This is called:

• Water vapor capacity

• Latent Heat Release

• Air holding capacity

• Vapor pressure

What process explains why the air continues to rise after precipitation in a hadley cell?

• Latent Heat Release

• Latent Heat Absorption

• Adiabatic Cooling

• Adiabatic Heating

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Which is the correct order of the convection cells starting from the equator?

• polar, ferrell, hadley
• ferrell, hadley, polar
• polar, hadley, ferrell
• hadley, ferrell, polar

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Which of the following contributes to the unequal warming of earth?
I. variation in the angle of sunlight that reaches Earth
II. variation in the amount of surface area over which the Sun's rays are distributed
III. variation in the amount of sunlight reflected from clouds

• I only
• I and II only
• II and III only
• III only

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The Coriolis effect is responsible for

• the convergence of two ascending Hadley cells
• the location of atmospheric currents caused by the unequal heating of Earth
• the cooling effect of air as it rises and expands
• the deflection of atmospheric currents

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Due to the Coriolis Effect, water in the northern hemisphere moves

• clockwise
• counter clockwise
• both
• neither

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How does the Coriolis Effect influence hurricanes and cyclones

• determines how powerful they will be
• determines how long the last

• determines where they form
• determines the direction of the wind rotation

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What part of Planet Earth is the warmest/gets sunlight first?

• North Pole

• South Pole

• They all get the same sunlight

• Equator

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