Local Winds

What causes wind?

• convection currents
• conduction currents
• radiation currents
• tropical currents

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Warm air rises over the land.  As the air rises, it cools and drops over ocean.  What type of breeze results?

• Ocean breeze
• Land breeze

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Cool air moving across land and warm air rising up from the ocean will result in:

• land breeze
• sea breeze
• warm breeze
• no breeze

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A land breeze flows from the sea to the land

• true
• false

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Do sea breezes typically happen during the day or night?

• Day
• Night

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Is this a land or a sea breeze?

• land breeze
• sea breeze

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Is this a land or a sea breeze?

• land breeze
• sea breeze

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When warm air rises, ______ pressure forms at the surface of the land or sea.

• high
• some
• low
• none

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How does the air move in a land breeze?

• From east to west
• From west to east
• From the land to the ocean
• From the ocean to the land

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The strength of a sea breeze depends on

• the heat of the day
• the difference between the temperature of the sea and the land
• the wind speed
• the amount of precipitation that day

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