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25 Cards in this Set
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What are 4 types of winds?
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Polar eateries, prevailing westerlies, Trade winds, doldrums
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What is an area that is calm with no winds called?
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Horse latitudes
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When does a sea breeze happen?
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During the day
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When does a land breeze happen?
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At night
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What causes a sea breeze?
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The land heats up faster than the water causes the air above the land to rise, creating an area of low pressure cool air from the ocean moves underneath the warm air
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What causes a land breeze?
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Land cools faster than water. Air over water warms and rises, land air moves to sea.
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Heat always transfers from a...
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Warmer object to a cooler object
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What does temperature mean?
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Average amount of energy of motion of the molecules of a substance |
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define radiation
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Energy from the sun reaches earth by traveling through space
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Conduction is...
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The process in which heat transfers through direct contact
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What is convection
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Heat transfer by movement of a fluid
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What is most heat transfer caused by?
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convection
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What is the speed of cold objects?
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Slow
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What is air made of?
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Atoms and molecules
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What is density?
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The amount of mass in a given volume
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How often douse air pressure change?
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From day to day
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What measures air pressure?
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barometer
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What altitude is the pressure always greater?
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Up high
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What percent of oxygen is in a molecule?
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21%
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How much solar radiation reaches earths surface?
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51%
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How are local winds caused?
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Unequal heating of earths surface within a small area
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Where do local winds occur?
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Near a large body of water
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What are global winds?
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Winds that blow steadily from specific directions over long distances
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What happens with the Coriolis effect?
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The earth rotates makeing it seem as though the wind has curved
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What are jet streams?
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Bands of high speed winds
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