WorksheetsGlobal/Local Winds and Water Cycle
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 32mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What causes wind?
a)
convection currents
b)
conduction currents
c)
radiation currents
d)
tropical currents
2.
What causes GLOBAL winds to move in all directions?
a)
breezes
b)
coriolis effect
c)
westerlies
d)
easterlies
3.
Warm air rises over the land. As the air rises, it cools and drops over ocean. What type of breeze results?
a)
Ocean breeze
b)
Land breeze
4.
What is the process of water droplets or ice crystals falling from the sky?
a)
evaporating
b)
condensing
c)
precipitating
d)
runoff
5.
Cool air moving across land and warm air rising up from the ocean will result in:
a)
land breeze
b)
sea breeze
c)
warm breeze
d)
no breeze
6.
Winds that blow from 30 & 60 latitude are called what?
a)
Polar Easterlies
b)
Polar Westerlies
c)
Prevailing Westerlies
d)
Trade Winds
7.
What source of energy evaporates the most water from Earth’s surface?
a)
volcanoes
b)
the sun
c)
lightning
d)
wind
8.
I am a fast-moving ribbon of AIR that moves from west to east in the Northern Hemisphere around the Earth.
a)
California Current
b)
Gulf Stream
c)
Jet Stream
d)
Atlantic Ocean
9.
Global winds located along the equator where no winds blow because the warm rising air creates an area of low pressure are called what?
a)
Doldrums
b)
Horse Latitudes
c)
Trade Winds
d)
Polar Easterlies
10.
What global wind is located from 0 to 30 degrees North and South of the Equator?
a)
Trade Winds
b)
Prevailing Westerlies
c)
Polar Easterlies
d)
Doldrum
11.
When water _________, dew forms.
a)
Melts
b)
Evaporates
c)
Condenses
d)
Precipitates
12.
What cycle is transpiration a part of?
a)
The water cycle
b)
The life cycle
c)
The bicycle
13.
What is A?
a)
Evaporation
b)
Condensation
c)
Precipitation
d)
Runoff
14.
What is B?
a)
Evaporation
b)
Condensation
c)
Precipitation
d)
Runoff
15.
What is C?
a)
Evaporation
b)
Condensation
c)
Precipitation
d)
Runoff
16.
What is D?
a)
Evaporation
b)
Condensation
c)
Precipitation
d)
Runoff
17.
What is water doing when it is changed to water vapor?
a)
evaporating
b)
condensing
c)
precipitating
d)
runoff
18.
Water is absorbed by the plant through the roots, and transpiration takes place as the water exits the ________.
a)
Leaves
b)
Roots
c)
Stem
19.
What is water vapor doing when it changes to water?
a)
evaporating
b)
condensing
c)
precipitating
d)
runoff
20.
Which of these is not an example of precipitation?
a)
rain
b)
clouds
c)
sleet
d)
snow
21.
Transpiration is a type of ______.
a)
Liquidation
b)
Condensation
c)
Evaporation
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