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WorksheetsWind Quiz
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 39mins
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Class
Date
1.
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.
2.
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 air.
d)
The fact that it's more dense than cold air.
3.
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)
More elephants pass gas near the equator.
d)
The amount of direct sunlight each area receives.
4.
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.
5.
How do jet streams influence the weather?
a)
by creating clouds
b)
by increasing the moisture in the atmosphere
c)
by quickly moving weather from one area to another very quickly
d)
by drying out the atmosphere
6.
Which is these explains how the earth's rotation causes the wind to curve?
a)
jet streams
b)
Coriolis effect
c)
high pressure
d)
westerlies
7.
Wind blows from ______ pressure areas to _____ pressure areas.
a)
high; low
b)
warm; cool
c)
cool; warm
d)
low; high
8.
Wind blows from cooler areas to warmer areas.
a)
True
b)
False
9.
What kind of breeze is this and when would it form?
a)
Land breeze - daytime
b)
Land breeze - nighttime
c)
Sea breeze - daytime
d)
Sea breeze - nighttime
10.
Water is _______ than land during the day, causing a sea breeze.
a)
more inviting
b)
larger
c)
cooler
d)
warmer
11.
What happens to air at the equator?
a)
It rises because it is warm.
b)
It rises because it is cold.
c)
It sinks because it is warm.
d)
It sinks because it is cold.
12.
In a sea breeze, the air is warmer above the _____.
a)
land
b)
ocean
c)
sky
d)
beach
13.
How does the air move in a sea breeze?
a)
wind moves from north to south
b)
wind moves from ocean to the land
c)
wind moves from the land to the ocean
d)
wind moves from south to north
14.
The Westerlies move
a)
from east to west
b)
from west to east
c)
from north to south
d)
south to north
15.
What two factors are needed to measure wind?
a)
direction and speed
b)
temperature and speed
c)
direction and temperature
d)
speed only
16.
Global winds over the United States blow in which direction?
a)
east to west
b)
north to south
c)
south to west
d)
west to east
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