Wind, Ocean Currents, Landforms

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 

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What causes wind to blow?

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

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

• Spirally
• Unevenly
• Circularly
• Kinetically

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What creates the air pressure difference between the equator and the poles?

• The length of the seasons
• The shape of the earth 
• the duration of the solar year
• The amount of direct sunlight each area receives 

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How are the winds in the northern hemisphere different from winds in the southern hemisphere? 

• Winds int he northern hemisphere are deflected right; winds int eh southern hemisphere are deflected left
• winds in the northern hemisphere are deflected south; winds in the southern hemisphere are deflected north 
• winds in the northern hemisphere are deflected eart; winds in the southern hemisphere are deflected west
• winds in the northern hemisphere are deflected left; einds in the southern hemisphere are deflected right 

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The reason why global winds flow from east to west and west to east, but not north to south, or south to north.

• Bernoulli's principle 
• Coriolis effect 
• high pressure 
• low pressure 

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When Earth's rotation causes the wind to curve 

• cloudy 
• Coriolis effect
• high pressure
• low pressure 

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When heat rises cools then sinks 

• high pressure 
• convection current 
• low pressure 
• stratospheric pressure  

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The air above Earth’s surface is not heated evenly. What is responsible for this difference in temperature?

• the sun

• the moon

• landforms

• Earth’s rotation

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.    _____ is caused by the difference between high and low pressure areas.     

• High Pressure

• Low Pressure

• Wind

• Jet Stream

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