Atmosphere
Oceans
Little Bit O Everything
Shooting the Breeze
How bout them apples?
100
The sun heats the Earth equally or unequally
What is unequally
100
True or false Warm water rises while cool water sinks
What is true
100
___________________heats the air directly above the earth.
What is conduction
100
With mountain breezes, where does the cool air come from?
What is cooling mountain sides?
100
With valley breezes, where does the cool air come from?
What is from the middle of the valley
200
True or False Cool air rises and hot air falls
What is false
200
Warm water is _________dense than cool water.
What is less
200
Wind flows from ____________pressure to ___________pressure.
What is high to low
200
With valley breezes, where does the warm air come from?
What is mountain sides
200
With sea breezes, where does the cool air come from?
What is the sea
300
Pressure systems flow from high to low or low to high?
What is high to low?
300
Cool water is _________dense than warm water.
What is more
300
Air rising above the earth's surface causes a ___________pressure system
What is low
300
Mountain breezes occur during the day or night
What is night
300
Valley breezes occur during the day or night
What is day
400
The unequal heating of the earth's surface is called
What is conduction
400
Unequal heating of the earth's surface creates _____________
What is wind
400
Air sinking toward the Earth’s surface causes a _____________pressure system
What is high
400
Sea breezes occur during day or night?
What is day
400
Land breezes occur during the day or night?
What is night
500
Convection currents occur in fluids or solids?
What is fluids?
500
Convection currents occur when ________________ energy transfers between two parts of a fluid
What is heat
500
Wind is created when ___________moves in to replace ________ air
What is cool and warm
500
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.
500
Describe what happens during a sea breeze.
Warm air from land (low pressure) rises. Cool air from ocean (high pressure) moves in to take its place. Wind comes from sea and moves towards land.