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- 1. Multiple Choice
If differences in air pressure produce winds, what can you conclude about temperature and air pressure based on the figure?As warm air rises, it creates an area of lower pressure, and cooler air flows in as windWarm air is denser than cold air is, creating an area of high pressure the produces wind.Winds flow from areas of low pressure to areas high pressure when temperature is warmerAir pressure decreases at night because temperature is lower, producing land and sea breezes - 2. Multiple ChoiceAt the seashore late in the afternoon on a hot day, a person often feels a strong breeze coming from the ocean because...the pounding waves generate air currentswarm air over the ocean rushes in to replace the cool air that rises over the landthe heavy, cool air over the ocean rushes in to replace the warm air that rises over the landthere are no clouds to block the wind coming in from the ocean
- 3. Multiple Choice
Heat transfer by convection is caused by differences in what two things:
Thickness and material
Weight and electricity
Temperature and density
- 4. Multiple Choice
Energy for convection in the atmosphere and hydrosphere comes from...
The sunThe moonSolar windsThe ocean - 5. Multiple ChoiceIn convection, COOL airRisesSinks
- 6. Multiple ChoiceIn convection, WARM airRisesSinks
- 7. Multiple ChoiceWhat is one role of the ocean in convection?to provide a home for animalsto absorb & release heatTo surf onTo drink from
- 8. Multiple Choice
The Gulf Stream is a current that brings warm ocean water from the south (near Florida) to the north (Europe). What type of heat transfer is this?
conduction
convection
radiation
Insolation
- 9. Multiple Choice
Convection currents happen inside the Earth. Magma is heated by ______ and rises towards the crust.
the sun
the core
plate tectonics
- 10. Multiple Choice
Which of the following best describes this diagram?
The oceanic crust is moving under the continental crust because it is denser
The trench is froming a lake of water along the edge of the lithosphere.
Mountains are forming because 2 contiental crust are converging.
The ocean water will put out the fire caused by the volcano.
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