WorksheetsFast & Curious Week 22
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
The circular motion that happens when warmer air rises, while the cooler air sinks (also happens in liquid).
Convection Current
Radiation
Conduction
The movement of air from land to sea at night, created when cooler, denser air from the land forces up warmer air over the sea.
Land breeze
Sea breeze
The movement of air from sea to land during the day when cooler air from above the water moves over the land, forcing the heated, less dense air above the land to rise.
Sea breeze
Land breeze
Cool dense sinking air creates (a) pressure.
Warm air that rises and creates ________.
High pressure
Low Pressure
________ is air moving from an area of high pressure to an area of low pressure.
Wind
Rain
Cloud
Sun
Warm air rises because it's ________
more dense
less dense
Cool air sinks because it's ______
more dense
less dense
The layer of the atmosphere you would find a mountain top, like Mt. Everest, would be...
Troposphere
Stratosphere
Mesosphere
Thermosphere
What happens to the temperature in the Troposphere as you go up in the air?
It rises (with increasing altitude above Earth)
It rises then falls (with increasing altitude above Earth)
It decreases (with increasing altitude above Earth)
It remains constant (with increasing altitude above the Earth)
