Atmosphere
The sun heats the Earth equally or unequally
What is unequally?
True or False: More dense water rises while less dense water sinks
What is false?
Heat is transfered from one object to another by
What is conduction?
With sea breezes, cool air comes from
What is the ocean?
What is a red line with hills?
Pressure systems flow from
What is high to low?
Warm water is _________dense than cool water.
What is less?
What are oceans, the mantle, the atmosphere and soup?
With land breezes, warm air comes from
What is the ocean?
Stationary front symbol
What is a line with red hills and blue triangles facing opposite directions?
Caused by the unequal heating of the Earth's surface
What is wind?
Cool water is _________dense than warm water.
What is more?
A specific area that has common features
What is a region?
Land breezes occur during the day or night
What is night?
Occluded front symbol
What is a purple line with purple hills and purple triangles all facing the same direction?
Convection currents only occur in
What are fluids?
Temperature from the sun and _________ affect the density of water
What is salinity?
Differences in _____________ between high and low areas cause
What is wind?
Sea breezes occur during day or night
What is day?
On a weather map the direction a front is moving is shown by
What is the direction the symbol is pointing?
Atmospheric convection currents cause 4 things
What are global winds, local breezes, cyclones, and thunderstorms?
Convection currents occur when ________________ energy transfers between two parts of a fluid
What is heat?
Wind is created when ___________moves in to replace ________ air
What is cool and warm?
Describe what happens with a land breeze.
Happen at night. Warm air (low pressure) from ocean rises. Cool air (high pressure) from land moves in to take its place. Wind moves from land to ocean.
This would need to disappear if we wanted to stop wind
What is the sun?