Weather Unit Test

How do oceans influence weather and climate?

• Oceans cause winds to move by the motion of strong currents.

• Oceans reflect the sun’s energy back through the atmosphere into space.

• Oceans absorb the energy of the sun, store it, and release it.

• Oceans’ waves continually generate heat through wave action.

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What is the most important factor that creates these wind patterns?

• Most people visit the shore during the day and are not there at night.

• The sea water is capable of having salt dissolved in it, but the land can't.

• The air above the land heats up and cools off more quickly than the air over water.

• The shape of the land is constantly being changed by the sea water motion.

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How does water usually move from land to the atmosphere?

• Evaporation

• Precipitation

• Condensation

• Crystallization

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Convection currents in the atmosphere cause the movement of air from north to south between 30N and the equator. However, the winds move southwest rather than directly to the south. Which of the following accounts for this southwest movement?

• Rotation of Earth

• Density of the atmosphere

• Depth of the ocean

• Amount of direct sunlight

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The average weather patterns in a particular region

• Coriolis Effect

• Climate

• Convection current

• Condensation

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A circular movement of fluids caused by the rising of hotter, less dense fluid and the falling of cooler, denser fluid.

• Coriolis Effect

• Climate

• Convection current

• Condensation

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The deflection caused by the Earth's rotation

• Coriolis Effect

• Climate

• Convection current

• Condensation

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Temperature is a measure of...

• the average movement of all the particles in a substance.

• the total thermal energy of a substance.

• heat.

• the total volume of an iceberg.

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Heat always transfers from warmer to colder objects..

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Heat...

• is measured by a thermometer.

• is the transfer of thermal energy.

• is the same thing as thermal energy.

• is the average thermal energy of an object.

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