WorksheetsWind
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 8mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What causes warm air to rise?
a)
the fact that it's less dense than cold air
b)
The fact that it weighs more than cold air
c)
The fact that it has higher pressure than cold
d)
the fact that its more dense than cold air
2.
What causes wind to blow?
a)
Differences in longitude
b)
Shock waves from clouds
c)
Differences in air temperature and pressure
d)
The rotation of the earth
3.
Which term best describes how the earth's atmosphere is heated?
a)
Spirally
b)
Unevenly
c)
Circularly
d)
Kinetically
4.
What can you conclude about prevailing winds from their name?
a)
They blow from west to east
b)
They blow all the time
c)
The air they contain is very warm
d)
The air they contain is very cool
5.
What creates the air pressure difference between the equator and the poles?
a)
The length of the seasons
b)
The shape of the earth
c)
the duration of the solar year
d)
The amount of direct sunlight each area receives
6.
How are the winds in the northern hemisphere different from winds in the southern hemisphere?
a)
Winds int he northern hemisphere are deflected right; winds int eh southern hemisphere are deflected left
b)
winds in the northern hemisphere are deflected south; winds in the southern hemisphere are deflected north
c)
winds in the northern hemisphere are deflected eart; winds in the southern hemisphere are deflected west
d)
winds in the northern hemisphere are deflected left; einds in the southern hemisphere are deflected right
7.
if you wanted to find the jet steam, where would you go?
a)
the area around the poles
b)
the area around the equator
c)
10 km above the earth's surface
d)
1 km above the earth's surface
8.
If you wanted to visit an area with very little wind, where might you go?
a)
The doldrums around the equator
b)
the jet streams in the northern and southern hemisphere
c)
the North or South Pole
d)
the area around the Mediterranean Sea
9.
How do jet streams influence the weather?
a)
by creating clouds
b)
by increasing the moisture in the atmosphere
c)
by moving weather from one area to another very quickly
d)
by drying out the atmosphere
10.
What do the Santa Ana winds and the Fohn have in common?
a)
they both occur in areas of high pressure
b)
the both occur 10 km up in the atmosphere
c)
they both occur around the equator
d)
They are both influenced by mountain ranges
11.
The reason why global winds flow from east to west and west to east, but not north to south, or south to north.
a)
Bernoulli's principle
b)
Coriolis effect
c)
high pressure
d)
low pressure
12.
When Earth's rotation causes the wind to curve
a)
cloudy
b)
Coriolis effect
c)
high pressure
d)
low pressure
13.
When heat rises cools then sinks
a)
high pressure
b)
convection current
c)
low pressure
d)
stratospheric pressure
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