Wind

What is the primary cause of global wind patterns?

• Uneven heating of the Earth's surface by the sun.

• The gravitational pull of the moon

• The movement of tectonic plates

What is the main factor that causes the Coriolis effect?

• ocean currents

• atmospheric pressure

• rotation of the Earth

Moving air between areas of high pressure and low pressure is called...

• Rain

• Humidity

• Wind

• Clouds

Air gets moved from areas of...

• Low pressure to high pressure.

• High pressure to low pressure.

• Rain to snow.

• East to West.

Winds blow from areas of what to what?

• High temperature to high pressure

• Low temperature to high pressure

• High pressure to low pressure

• Low temperature to high temperature

wind

• warm, less dense air rises

• cool, dense air sinks

• large circular patterns of moving air

• movement of air cause by differences in air pressure

What causes wind?

• movement of air from high pressure to low pressure

• movement of air from low pressure to high pressure

The Coriolis Effect is caused by what?

• The wind blowing

• Earth's gravity pulling things down

• The rotation of the Earth

• The pull of the Moon

What causes warm air to rise?

• the fact that it's less dense than cold air 
• The fact that it weighs more than cold air 
• The fact that it has higher pressure than cold
• the fact that its more dense than cold air 

What causes wind to blow?

• Differences in longitude 
• Shock waves from clouds 
• Differences in air temperature and pressure 
• The rotation of the earth