Air Movement - Page 3
Questions
- How is air pressure related to air circulation?
- How do cold winds lower the temperature?
- What are high-altitude, high-velocity winds?
- How does heat from the sun get to Earth?
- How does atmospheric pressure affect wind direction?
- How do jet streams affect weather?
- When the air temperature decreases, what happens to the rate of evaporation?
- Why is air pressure generally lower over equatorial regions than over polar regions?
- What percent of the air consists of nitrogen gas?
- How is thermal energy transferred through the atmosphere and hydrosphere? What effects does this transfer have on climate?
- Is most of the air movement in the Intertropical Convergence Zone horizontal or vertical?
- What processes lead to cloud formation in rising air?
- What is the pressure zone that is associated with rising air near the equator?
- What causes winds to blow?
- How does aneroid barometer works?
- With what type of weather is rising air associated?
- What is the Coriolis Effect?
- What causes sea and land breezes?
- What is average air pressure at sea level?
- What happens to the warm air mass at a cold front?