Global And Local Winds Question Preview (ID: 48197)


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What causes wind?
a) differences in water
b) differences in gases
c) differences in air pressure
d) differences in oxygen

What causes differences in air pressure?
a) unequal heating of the Earth
b) unequal oxygen on the Earth
c) equal heating of the Earth
d) equal temperature of the Earth

What is the Coriolis effect?
a) force of air on Earth’s surface
b) transfer of thermal energy
c) balance of incoming and outgoing energy
d) apparent curving of wind and ocean currents

What are the jet streams?
a) a polar wind system
b) a highway for jets
c) narrow belts of high-speed winds
d) curving paths of winds

What is most likely to cause local winds?
a) a shoreline or mountain
b) convection cells
c) polar winds
d) westerlies

What are mountain breezes and valley breezes?
a) curving winds
b) global winds
c) local winds
d) jet streams

The area around the equator without much wind is called the
a) trade winds
b) polar easterlies
c) doldrums
d) westerlies

Belts of wind from the poles to 60 degrees latitude are called
a) trade winds
b) polar easterlies
c) westerlies
d) horse latitudes

Winds that blow to the poles from west to east are
a) trade winds
b) polar easterlies
c) westerlies
d) horse latitudes

Winds that blow from 30 degrees latitude to the equator are
a) trade winds
b) polar easterlies
c) westerlies
d) horse latitudes

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