Convection Currents
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- Q 1/10Score 0The arrows in the picture below show several ways heat is transferred from the Sun as it strikes sand on the surface of a beach. Which picture shows convection?294321
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- Q1The arrows in the picture below show several ways heat is transferred from the Sun as it strikes sand on the surface of a beach. Which picture shows convection?4321120s
- Q2Several factors can cause weather patterns in the atmosphere. The diagram below shows how air movement near the equator can form thunderstorms. Which process is the main source of this diagram?decrease in relative humiditywarming in the upper atmospheremovement of ocean currentsheating by energy from the Sun120s
- Q3A wind that blows from the sea to the land during the day, because the land heats faster than the oceansea breezeland breezeocean currentwind120s
- Q4A wind that blows from the land to the sea at night, because the ocean maintains heat longer than the landsea breezewindland breezeocean current120s
- Q5Wind currents always move in what pattern?low pressure to high pressurewest to easteast to westhigh pressure to low pressure120s
- Q6What directly impacts ocean and wind currents?Earth revolving around the sunSun's energyRotation of the EarthMoon's gravitational pull120s
- Q7What is a naturally occurring vortex of wind and currents that rotate in a clockwise direction in the northern hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the southern hemisphere. These create a whirlpool effect, whose vortex moves more slowly at the center and that is where marine plastic debris collects.hurricanegyretornadovortex120s
- Q8What are the long, narrow, tubes of air found between the troposphere and the stratosphere?jet streamdeep currentgyresurface current120s
- Q9This causes winds and ocean currents to move in a curving motion, rather than straight path due to the Earth's rotation. This causes winds to deflect off to the right or clockwise in Northern Hemisphere and left or counter clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.GyreThe Coriolis EffectJet StreamHurricanes120s
- Q10What is a stream like movement of ocean water far below the surface that flows because of differences of density and temperaturejet streamgyresurface currentdeep current120s
