Air Movement - Page 5
Questions
- When does the most evaporation take place: on a hot, windy day or on a hot, still day and why?
- While hiking in the mountains, you notice that it is harder to breathe as you climb higher. Why?
- How is wind related to the uneven heating of Earth's surfaces by the sun?
- What is the boundary between two air masses cal|ed?
- Is warm air high or low pressure?
- Why don't warm air masses form over the North Atlantic or Pacific oceans?
- What processes lead to cloud formation in rising air?
- Why convection more important than conduction in the troposphere?
- What causes winds to deviate from straight-line paths?
- What does air mass depend mainly on?
- How does solar energy cause wind?
- As the altitude in the atmosphere increases, what happens to the air pressure?
- Would you expect the air pressure in a valley that's below sea level to be higher or lower than air pressure at sea level?
- Where does the Earth's wind power come from ?
- Two barometers are placed one kilometer apart. One shows higher pressure than the other. What will happen to air between them?
- What force holds the atmosphere in place as Earth travels through space?
- What does a steep air pressure gradient cause?
- How does friction control net flow of air around a cyclone and an anticylone?
- What kind of weather is associated with low pressure?
- What happens to the warm air mass at a cold front?