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Foundations of Earth Science, 8e (Lutgens/Tarbuck/Tasa)

Chapter 13 The Atmosphere in Motion

13.1 Multiple Choice Questions

1) Standard sea level pressure is ________.

A) about 1084 mb (32.01 inches of mercury)

B) about 1013 mb (29.92 inches of mercury)

C) about 902 mb (26.71 inches of mercury)

D) about 870 mb (25.70 inches of mercury)

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

Global Sci Out: G2

Section: 13.1 Understanding Air Pressure

Focus/Concepts: 13.1

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

2) A(n) ________ provides a continuous record of pressure changes with the passage of time.

A) mercurial barometer

B) aneroid barometer

C) barograph

D) anemometer

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

Global Sci Out: G2

Section: 13.1 Understanding Air Pressure

Focus/Concepts: 13.1

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

3) Lines on a weather map connecting places of equal air pressure are called ________.

A) isovectors

B) isobars

C) isotherms

D) isopleths

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

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Section: 13.2 Factors Affecting Wind

Focus/Concepts: 13.2

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

4) The ultimate energy source for most wind is ________ because heating of the Earth's surface generates unequal heating.

A) caves

B) hot springs

C) solar radiation

D) the greenhouse effect

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

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Section: 13.2 Factors Affecting Wind

Focus/Concepts: 13.2

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

5) Which of the following does not contribute to controlling the motion of the wind?

A) pressure gradient force

B) Coriolis effect

C) friction

D) ozone layer (and hole)

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

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Section: 13.2 Factors Affecting Wind

Focus/Concepts: 13.2

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

6) The jet stream has winds that blow up to ________, which can greatly influence the impact of weather patterns over a continent.

A) 80-100 kilometers per hour

B) 120-240 kilometers per hour

C) 260-280 kilometers per hour

D) 300-310 kilometers per hour

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

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Section: 13.2 Factors Affecting Wind

Focus/Concepts: 13.2

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

7) ________ are high-elevation "rivers" of air that travel between 120 and 240 kilometers (75 and 150 miles) per hour in a west-to-east direction.

A) Chinooks

B) Valley breezes

C) Jet streams

D) Anticyclones

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

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Section: 13.2 Factors Affecting Wind

Focus/Concepts: 13.2

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

8) Together, a high-pressure center and the Coriolis effect produce ________.

A) hurricanes

B) cyclones

C) anticyclones

D) Hadley cells

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

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Section: 13.3 Highs and Lows

Focus/Concepts: 13.3

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

9) You are getting ready to go for a hike on a summer day. You check the barograph and discover that the pressure tendency has been rising for several hours. Based on this information, what gear should you be sure to pack for your hike?

A) snowshoes

B) sunscreen

C) a rain jacket

D) a helmet

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Applying/Analyzing

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Section: 13.3 Highs and Lows

Focus/Concepts: 13.3

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

10) The ________ is characterized by subsidence and divergence near the 30˚ latitude, north and south, and consists of several semipermanent, anticyclonic centers.

A) Hadley cell

B) subtropical high

C) trade winds

D) polar front

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

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Section: 13.4 General Circulation of the Atmosphere

Focus/Concepts: 13.4

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

11) ________ occur(s) with seasonal reversal of wind direction, often associated with large continents and producing a rainy summer season.

A) Monsoons

B) Cyclones

C) The polar high

D) Easterlies and westerlies

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

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Section: 13.4 General Circulation of the Atmosphere

Focus/Concepts: 13.4

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

12) A wind that blows down the leeward side of a mountain and warms by compression is called a ________.

A) chinook

B) monsoon

C) sea breeze

D) mountain breeze

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Section: 13.5 Local Winds

Focus/Concepts: 13.5

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

13) ________ is the deflective force of Earth's rotation on all free-moving objects including the atmosphere and oceans.

A) The jet stream

B) The pressure gradient force

C) The geostrophic wind

D) The Coriolis effect

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Section: 13.2 Factors Affecting Wind

Focus/Concepts: 13.2

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

14) The force that results from a difference in atmospheric pressure between two locations is called ________.

A) the jet stream

B) the pressure gradient force

C) the geostrophic wind

D) the Coriolis effect

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Section: 13.2 Factors Affecting Wind

Focus/Concepts: 13.2

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

15) An anemometer measures ________.

A) atmospheric pressure

B) wind direction

C) precipitation

D) wind speed

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Section: 13.6 Measuring Wind

Focus/Concepts: 13.6

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

16) ________ are small-scale winds produced by a locally generated pressure gradient.

A) Ocean breezes

B) Prevailing winds

C) Regional winds

D) Local winds

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Section: 13.5 Local Winds

Focus/Concepts: 13.5

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

17) This pressure zone is associated with abundant precipitation and warm temperatures.

A) subtropical high

B) equatorial low

C) subpolar low

D) anticyclone

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Section: 13.7 Global Distribution of Precipitation

Focus/Concepts: 13.7

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

18) The Sahara and Australian deserts (among others) are associated with the ________.

A) subtropical high

B) equatorial low

C) subpolar low

D) anticyclone

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Section: 13.7 Global Distribution of Precipitation

Focus/Concepts: 13.7

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

19) A sea breeze usually originates during the ________.

A) evening and flows toward the land

B) day and flows toward the land

C) evening and flows toward the water

D) day and flows toward the water

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

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Section: 13.5 Local Winds

Focus/Concepts: 13.5

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

20) ________ is the result of horizontal differences in air pressure.

A) An isobar

B) The wind

C) A pressure gradient force

D) The jet stream

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Section: 13.2 Factors Affecting Wind

Focus/Concepts: 13.2

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

21) The faster the wind speed, the ________.

A) change in wind speed does not influence the Coriolis force

B) smaller the deflection of winds due to the Coriolis force

C) lesser the deflection of winds due to the Coriolis force

D) greater the deflection of winds due to the Coriolis force

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Section: 13.2 Factors Affecting Wind

Focus/Concepts: 13.2

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

22) ________ of air occurs near Earth's surface around an anticyclone.

A) Divergence

B) Convergence

C) Transference

D) Conduction

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Section: 13.3 Highs and Lows

Focus/Concepts: 13.3

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

23) For a low-pressure center to be maintained or strengthened, the surface convergence must be balanced by ________ aloft.

A) cyclones

B) divergence

C) anticyclones

D) barometric pressures

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Section: 13.3 Highs and Lows

Focus/Concepts: 13.3

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

24) In general, regions influenced by high pressure, with its associated subsidence and divergent winds, experience ________ conditions.

A) dry

B) wet

C) humid

D) cold

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

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Section: 13.7 Global Distribution of Precipitation

Focus/Concepts: 13.7

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

25) In the Northern Hemisphere, the Coriolis effect shifts objects ________ their straight-line paths.

A) down from

B) up from

C) to the right of

D) to the left of

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Section: 13.2 Factors Affecting Wind

Focus/Concepts: 13.2

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

26) Above a height of a few kilometers, the Coriolis effect is equal to and opposite the pressure gradient force, which results in ________ winds that blow parallel to the isobars.

A) monsoons

B) geostrophic winds

C) valley breezes

D) chinooks

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

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Section: 13.2 Factors Affecting Wind

Focus/Concepts: 13.2

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

27) Which of the following devices is used to determine wind direction?

A) cup anemometer

B) wind vane

C) barograph

D) barometer

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

Global Sci Out: G2

Section: 13.6 Measuring Wind

Focus/Concepts: 13.6

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

28) An instrument that measures air pressure using a partially evacuated chamber is called a(n) ________.

A) mercurial barometer

B) aneroid barometer

C) barograph

D) anemometer

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

Global Sci Out: G2

Section: 13.1 Understanding Air Pressure

Focus/Concepts: 13.1

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

29) Polar easterlies may dominate Alaska's prevailing winds, and NE trade winds may dominate in Hawaii, but ________ dominate the prevailing winds of the "lower 48" (contiguous) United States.

A) the jet stream

B) the westerlies

C) trade winds

D) polar front

Diff: 1

Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

Global Sci Out: G2

Section: 13.4 General Circulation of the Atmosphere

Focus/Concepts: 13.4

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

30) If Earth's surface were uniform, ________ belt(s) of pressure oriented east to west would exist in each hemisphere.

A) one

B) two

C) three

D) four

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

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Section: 13.4 General Circulation of the Atmosphere

Focus/Concepts: 13.4

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

31) The average position of the polar jet stream, and hence the paths followed by cyclones and anticyclones, migrate ________ with the approach of winter.

A) southward

B) northward

C) eastward

D) westward

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

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Section: 13.4 General Circulation of the Atmosphere

Focus/Concepts: 13.4

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

32) While some barometers express atmospheric pressure in millibars, others use ________ as their basic unit of measurement.

A) Kelvin

B) Fahrenheit

C) inches of mercury

D) Celsius

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

Global Sci Out: G2

Section: 13.1 Understanding Air Pressure

Focus/Concepts: 13.1

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

33) In a mercury barometer, when the air pressure increases, the mercury in the tube ________.

A) sublimates

B) evaporates

C) falls

D) rises

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

Global Sci Out: G2

Section: 13.1 Understanding Air Pressure

Focus/Concepts: 13.1

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

34) Closely spaced isobars on a map indicate ________ and ________.

A) a weak pressure gradient; light winds

B) a steep pressure gradient; strong winds

C) a weak pressure gradient; strong winds

D) a steep pressure gradient; light winds

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

Global Sci Out: G2

Section: 13.2 Factors Affecting Wind

Focus/Concepts: 13.2

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

35) Widely spaced isobars on a map indicate ________ and ________.

A) a weak pressure gradient; light winds

B) a steep pressure gradient; strong winds

C) a weak pressure gradient; strong winds

D) a steep pressure gradient; light winds

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

Global Sci Out: G2

Section: 13.2 Factors Affecting Wind

Focus/Concepts: 13.2

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

36) The ________ is the nature of the change in atmospheric pressure over a period of several hours.

A) barometric tendency

B) convergence

C) Coriolis effect

D) divergence

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

Global Sci Out: G2

Section: 13.3 Highs and Lows

Focus/Concepts: 13.3

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

37) Which of the following is located between the NE and SE trade winds?

A) polar front

B) polar easterlies

C) subtropic high

D) equatorial low

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

Global Sci Out: G2

Section: 13.4 General Circulation of the Atmosphere

Focus/Concepts: 13.4

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

38) ________ is the source region for the variable polar easterlies.

A) The polar high

B) The polar easterlies

C) The subtropic high

D) The equatorial low

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

Global Sci Out: G2

Section: 13.4 General Circulation of the Atmosphere

Focus/Concepts: 13.4

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

39) ________ is a chinook-like wind that occurs in southern California, which greatly increases the threat of forest fires in this region.

A) The land breeze

B) The Santa Ana

C) The sea breeze

D) The westerly

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

Global Sci Out: G2

Section: 13.5 Local Winds

Focus/Concepts: 13.5

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

40) When the wind consistently blows more often from one direction than any other, it is called the ________.

A) prevailing wind

B) Coriolis effect

C) chinook

D) wind speed

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

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Section: 13.6 Measuring Wind

Focus/Concepts: 13.6

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

41) Winds are always labeled by the ________ from which they blow.

A) intensity

B) isobar

C) direction

D) speed

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Section: 13.6 Measuring Wind

Focus/Concepts: 13.6

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

42) The underlying cause of wind is ________ of Earth's surface.

A) tropical divergence

B) polar convergence

C) equal heating

D) unequal heating

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Section: 13.4 General Circulation of the Atmosphere

Focus/Concepts: 13.4

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

43) At night, the air above the mountain slopes ________ and drains into the warm valley below, creating a ________.

A) cools slowly; mountain breeze

B) cools rapidly; mountain breeze

C) warms slowly; valley breeze

D) warms rapidly; valley breeze

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

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Section: 13.5 Local Winds

Focus/Concepts: 13.5

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

44) Which of the following is the driving force of wind?

A) vertical pressure gradient

B) horizontal pressure gradient

C) isobar movement

D) prevailing wind direction

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

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Section: 13.2 Factors Affecting Wind

Focus/Concepts: 13.2

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

13.2 Matching Questions

Match the correct description with the definition.

A) a device that measures wind direction, but not speed

B) a device that measures wind speed, but not direction

C) the equatorial low-pressure zone

D) a daytime wind in coastal regions, moving inland

E) a nighttime wind in coastal regions, moving seaward

F air movement that occurs between the equator and the subtropical high

G) a surface region of high atmospheric pressure around which winds spiral outward

H) a surface region of low atmospheric pressure around which winds spiral inward

1) cyclone

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Section: 13.3 Highs and Lows

Focus/Concepts: 13.3

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

2) anticyclone

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Section: 13.3 Highs and Lows

Focus/Concepts: 13.3

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

3) anemometer

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

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Section: 13.6 Measuring Wind

Focus/Concepts: 13.6

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

4) wind vane

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

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Section: 13.6 Measuring Wind

Focus/Concepts: 13.6

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

5) sea breeze

Diff: 1

Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

Global Sci Out: G2

Section: 13.5 Local Winds

Focus/Concepts: 13.5

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

6) land breeze

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

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Section: 13.5 Local Winds

Focus/Concepts: 13.5

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

7) intertropical convergence zone

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Section: 13.4 General Circulation of the Atmosphere

Focus/Concepts: 13.4

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

8) trade wind

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Section: 13.4 General Circulation of the Atmosphere

Focus/Concepts: 13.4

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

Answers: 1) H 2) G 3) B 4) A 5) D 6) E 7) C 8) F

Match the atmospheric occurrence with the correct description.

A) consists of several semipermanent, anticyclonic centers characterized by subsidence and divergence

B) prevailing wind that blows from the polar high toward the subpolar low; not persistent winds

C) stormy belt that separates air masses of polar origin from air masses of tropical origin

D) anticyclone assumed to occupy inner polar regions and believed to be in part thermally induced; source region for variable polar easterlies

E) belt of low pressure that lies near the equator and between the subtropical highs

F) low pressure located near the latitudes of the Arctic and Antarctic Circles

G) poleward side of the subtropical highs, moves from west to east

9) polar high

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Section: 13.4 General Circulation of the Atmosphere

Focus/Concepts: 13.4

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

10) polar front

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Section: 13.4 General Circulation of the Atmosphere

Focus/Concepts: 13.4

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

11) polar easterlies

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Section: 13.4 General Circulation of the Atmosphere

Focus/Concepts: 13.4

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

12) subpolar low

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Section: 13.4 General Circulation of the Atmosphere

Focus/Concepts: 13.4

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

13) westerlies

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Section: 13.4 General Circulation of the Atmosphere

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14) subtropical high

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Section: 13.4 General Circulation of the Atmosphere

Focus/Concepts: 13.4

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

15) equatorial low

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Section: 13.4 General Circulation of the Atmosphere

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Answers: 9) D 10) C 11) B 12) F 13) G 14) A 15) E

13.3 Essay Questions

1) Why are coastal and mountainous regions often much windier than other locations at similar latitudes?

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Section: 13.5 Local Winds

Focus/Concepts: 13.5

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

2) Discuss the major factors that influence the global distribution of precipitation.

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Section: 13.7 Global Distribution of Precipitation

Focus/Concepts: 13.7

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

3) Considering the repositioning of continents due to plate tectonics over geologic time, would you expect that the atmospheric circulation of the past would have been the same as we see today? Why or why not?

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Evaluating/Creating

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Section: 13.7 Global Distribution of Precipitation

Focus/Concepts: 13.7

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

4) If divergence in the jet stream above a surface low-pressure center exceeds convergence at the surface, will surface winds likely get stronger or weaker?

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Applying/Analyzing

Global Sci Out: G7

Section: 13.3 Highs and Lows

Focus/Concepts: 13.3

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

5) Discuss two advantages of the aneroid barometer over the mercury barometer.

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Evaluating/Creating

Global Sci Out: G2

Section: 13.1 Understanding Air Pressure

Focus/Concepts: 13.1

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

6) Briefly discuss the three factors that control wind.

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Section: 13.2 Factors Affecting Wind

Focus/Concepts: 13.2

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

13.4 Visual

1) Examine the map showing air pressure in millibars. Compare and contrast what sorts of weather situations you would expect at sites "B" and "D" on the map.

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Section: 13.3 Highs and Lows

Focus/Concepts: 13.3

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

2) Examine the figure. Compare the precipitation maps in parts A and B with the atmospheric pressure patterns depicted in parts C and D. Does A or B match up with C? Which one matches with D? Explain.

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Section: 13.4 General Circulation of the Atmosphere

Focus/Concepts: 13.4

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

3) Examine the photo. There is a local wind blowing in this photo, though you cannot see the wind itself. Based on the evidence in the photo, which local wind is present here? State your evidence with your interpretation.

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Evaluating/Creating

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Section: 13.5 Local Winds

Focus/Concepts: 13.5

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

4) Examine the barograph shown in the photograph. Based on the data available there, would you expect rainy or clear weather to be more likely? Explain.

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Bloom's Taxonomy: Applying/Analyzing

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Section: 13.1 Understanding Air Pressure

Focus/Concepts: 13.1

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

5) Which of the four lettered locations on this barometer would correspond to a midlatitude cyclone?

A) A

B) B

C) C

D) D

Diff: 2

Bloom's Taxonomy: Applying/Analyzing

Global Sci Out: G3

Section: 13.1 Understanding Air Pressure

Focus/Concepts: 13.1

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

6) Which of the four lettered locations on the map would have the highest pressure gradient (and thus, the highest potential for winds)?

A) A

B) B

C) C

D) D

Diff: 2

Bloom's Taxonomy: Applying/Analyzing

Global Sci Out: G3

Section: 13.2 Factors Affecting Wind

Focus/Concepts: 13.2

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

7) Which of the four breezes shown in this figure best illustrates a land breeze?

A) A

B) B

C) C

D) D

Diff: 1

Bloom's Taxonomy: Remembering/Understanding

Global Sci Out: G7

Section: 13.5 Local Winds

Focus/Concepts: 13.5

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

8) Examine the figure. Which of the four lettered latitudes would be the most likely site for clear skies?

A) A

B) B

C) C

D) D

Diff: 2

Bloom's Taxonomy: Applying/Analyzing

Global Sci Out: G7

Section: 13.4 General Circulation of the Atmosphere

Focus/Concepts: 13.4

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

9) Examine the map showing air pressure in millibars. Which of the four lettered locations deserves a wind hazard alert?

A) A

B) B

C) C

D) D

Diff: 2

Bloom's Taxonomy: Applying/Analyzing

Global Sci Out: G3

Section: 13.2 Factors Affecting Wind

Focus/Concepts: 13.2

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.

10) Examine the figure. The prevailing wind depicting on this wind rose blows from the ________ toward the ________.

A) northwest; southeast

B) southeast; northwest

C) southwest; northeast

D) northeast; southwest

Diff: 2

Bloom's Taxonomy: Applying/Analyzing

Global Sci Out: G3

Section: 13.6 Measuring Wind

Focus/Concepts: 13.6

ESLI: 3.6 Earth's systems are dynamic; they continually react to changing influences.