Weather , Climate, Air Pressure and WIND second chance

________ is the force exerted on an object by the weight of the air above and around it.

• Wind pressure

• Air pressure

• Temperate weight

• high pressure air

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What is caused by differences in air pressure?

• Time

• Precipitation

• Clouds

• Wind

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What causes differences in air pressure?

• wind

• rain

• snow

• unequal heating by the sun

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What happens to air pressure as you move upward into the atmosphere?

• increases
• decreases
• stays the same

Density of air is greater ________.

• at the top of the mountain
• at the bottom of the mountain
• at the center of the mountain

Define Climate?

• Weather averaged over a long period of time

• Weather averaged over a short period of time

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What is weather?

• When it is freezing cold all year round.

• The conditions of the atmosphere (air/sky) over a short period of time.

• The speed in which the wind travels.

• The atmosphere (air/sky) over long periods of time.

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The concentration of water vapour in the air is called

• Temperature

• Precipitation

• Humidity

• Wind

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The invisible force that causes global winds to seem to curve is the

• trade winds

• Coriolis action

• Coriolis force

• westerlies

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____ are the powerful global winds that blow from the east towards the equator across the tropics

• prevailing winds

• Trade winds

• tropic wind

• doldrums

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