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What is a Sea Breeze?
A breeze where the wind blows from the sea
What causes a sea breeze during the day?
A. Water heats up faster than land
B. Land heats up faster than water
C. Water cools faster than land
D. Land cools faster than water
B. Land heats up faster than water
Which detail from the passage shows why
wind direction changes between day and
night?
A. The sun shines only during the day
B. Land and water heat and cool at
different rates
C. The atmosphere is made of gases
D. The land is always warmer than the
water
B. Land and water heat and cool at
different rates
What is a Valley Breeze?
Where warm air (low pressure) rises up the mountain and cool air sinks into the valley (high pressure) during the day time.
What is heat?
The transfer of thermal energy.
What is a Land Breeze?
A breeze where the wind blows from the land
What causes a land breeze at night?
A. The land stays warmer than water
B. Water cools faster than the land
C. The land cools faster than water
D. The air over land becomes low
pressure
C. The land cools faster than water
How do the diagrams help readers better
understand the passage?
A. They show how air moves differently
during the day and night
B. They prove that the ocean never
changes temperature
C. They show that breezes only
happen near lighthouses
D. They explain why hurricanes form
near the coast
A. They show how air moves differently
during the day and night
What is a Mountain Breeze?
When cool air (high pressure) sinks down the mountain and warm air (low pressure) rises from the valley during the night.
What is temperature?
The average motion of molecules in a substance.
Compare and contrast how land and water change temperature over night
Land is hot during the day and cools down at night. Water is cool during the day and warmer at night.
Which statement best explains why water
changes temperature more slowly than
land?
A. Water has a low specific heat
B. Water has a high specific heat
C. Water absorbs no heat from the sun
D. Water releases heat quickly
B. Water has a high specific heat
According to the passage, what happens
to warm air as it rises over land or water?
A. It creates high pressure
B. It creates low pressure
C. It moves downward
D. It cools immediately
B. It creates low pressure
During what time of day does each breeze occur?
Day = Sea & Valley Breeze
Night = Land & Mountain Breeze
What are five examples of precipitation?
Rain, Snow, Sleet, Hail, Freezing Rain
Compare and contrast the direction that wind blows during the day and at night.
Day = Sea Breeze
Night = Land Breeze
How does the passage help readers
understand the concept of "specific
heat"?
A. By defining specific heat in scientific
terms
B. By comparing how land and water
heat and cool differently
C. By listing examples of other
materials with specific heat
D. By showing a chart of temperature
changes
B. By comparing how land and water
heat and cool differently
Which sentence best states the central
idea of the passage?
A. Breezes occur only during the day
B. Land is always warmer than water
C. The movement of air between land
and sea changes with heating and
cooling
D. The ocean controls all weather
C. The movement of air between land
and sea changes with heating and
cooling
Which breeze has high pressure over the sea and low pressure over the land?
Sea Breeze
Which clouds produce precipitation?
Cumulonimbus & Nimbostratus
How might land and sea breezes be different if water had a very low specific heat?
Answers may vary...
What evidence from the passage supports
the claim that air pressure differences
cause breezes?
A. The sun warms land faster than
water
B. Air moves high in the atmosphere
C. The ocean stays the same
temperature all year
D. Warm air rises, creating low
pressure, while cool air sinks,
creating high pressure
D. Warm air rises, creating low
pressure, while cool air sinks,
creating high pressure
Which idea is supported by the passage?
A. Breezes are due to Earth’s rotation
B. Sea breezes are stronger than land
breezes
C. Breezes only happen along tropical
coasts
D. Pressure differences between land
and sea drive local winds
D. Pressure differences between land
and sea drive local winds
Which breeze occurs when the land is hot and the sea is cold?
Sea Breeze
Define the following:
Conduction, Convection, and Radiation
Conduction is heat transfer through contact.
Convection is heat transfer through moving masses (air and liquid).
Radiation is heat transfer through the vacuum of space (light waves)..