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The way Earth's rotation makes the winds curve

• Coriolis Effect
• Cuticle Effect
• Revolution
• rotation

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Which term best describes how the earth's atmosphere is heated?

• Spirally
• Unevenly
• Circularly
• Kinetically

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The Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Current modify the climate of northwestern Europe by making the climate

• warmer and drier
• warmer and more humid
• cooler and drier
• cooler and more humid

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What do you call winds that blow in the same direction all over the Earth?

• global winds
• Coriolis effect
• Greenhouse effect
• sea breezes

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Warm air rises and the cool air sinks demonstrates this type of heat transfer. 

• conduction
• convection
• radiation
• Insolation 

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What causes global winds and convection in the atmosphere? 

• continental deflection
• the rotation of the Earth
• Moon's gravity
• unequal heating of the Earth by the sun

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_{Which diagram shows the formation of a land breeze?}

• diagram Y
• diagram X
• neither 
• both

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What 2 characteristics are used to describe the climate of an area?

• temperature and elevation
• temperature and precipitation
• temperature and latitude
• ocean currents and mountains

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Steady winds that flow from east to west between 30°N latitude and the equator and 30°S latitude and the equator.

• Prevailing westerlies
• Horse latitudes
• Trade winds
• Polar easterlies

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In convection currents, the _____________ part rises and the _____________ part sinks.

• warm, cool

• cool, warm

• cold, hot

• cold, cold

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