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- 1. Multiple Choice
What is wind?
Large scale movement of air caused by differences in air pressure
Large scale movement of CO2 caused by differences in air pressure
Large scale movement of air caused by differences in temperature
Large scale movement of temperature caused by differences in air pressure
- 2. Multiple Choice
Differences in air pressure are caused by...?
Differences in the earths rotation
Differences in temperature
Differences in rainfall
Differences in sea level
- 3. Multiple Choice
Winds move from...
high pressure to low pressure
low pressure to high pressure
- 4. Multiple Choice
Warm air...
sinks
rises
- 5. Multiple Choice
Cold air ...
sinks
rises
- 6. Multiple Choice
Where experiences warm temperatures with clouds and rain?
The equator
The sub-tropical highs
The sub-polar lows
The polar highs
- 7. Multiple Choice
What weather is caused by low pressure?
Clouds and rain
Clear skies
- 8. Multiple Choice
True or false - warm air rises, cools and condenses and forms clouds, this is called low pressure
True
False
- 9. Multiple Choice
Cool air sinks at the sub-tropical highs, what does this lead to? SELECT TWO
Deserts
Cloudless skies and low rainfall
Tropical rainforests
Clouds and rainfall
- 10. Multiple Choice
What are trade winds?
Surface winds blowing towards the equator
Atmospheric winds
Winds blowing away from the equator
Low pressure winds
- 11. Multiple Choice
Surface winds blowing towards the poles are called ...
westerlies
easterlies
southerlies
northerlies
- 12. Multiple Choice
Why has the UK got cloudy and wet weather?
It is located at the sub-polar low
It has a lot of mountains
It is located in an area of high pressure
It is located in the middle of an air mass
- 13. Multiple Choice
Why is it hot and dry at sub-tropical highs?
Cold air sinking, no clouds can form
Warm air sinking, no clouds can form
Cold air rising
Warm air rising
- 14. Multiple ChoiceWhy are there global winds?because the cold air sinkes from the poles to the equatorbecause the earth is rotating from east to westbecause the sun heats the air at the equator more than anywhere else on earth
- 15. Multiple ChoiceIf the Earth did not rotate, air at the Equator would simplySink and move toward the poles.Rise and move toward the poles.Stay stationary.None of the above.
- 16. Multiple ChoiceHow does the Coriolis Effect influence hurricanes and cyclonesdetermines how powerful they will bedetermines where they will godetermines where they formdetermines the direction of the wind rotation
- 17. Multiple Choice
Objects in the NORTHERN Hemisphere deflect to which direction due to the Coriolis Effect?
Left
Up
Down
Right
- 18. Multiple Choice
Objects in the SOUTHERN Hemisphere deflect to which direction due to the Coriolis Effect?
Left
Up
Down
Right
- 19. Multiple ChoiceThe Coriolis Effect is caused byEarth rotating around the sunEarth rotating on its axisThe tidesGravity
- 20. Multiple ChoiceThe equator is dominated byhigh pressurecold airlow pressure
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