GEOG 140 ASSIGNMENTS: CH 5, 8, 9, 10

You are enjoying time at the beach on a warm summer day. It is late afternoon, and a breeze has started to develop. For most of the day, the winds were calm; the breeze only started within the past hour or so. Based on these details, what can you say about this breeze? Select all of the options that apply to this scenario.

-The breeze is most likely a cool breeze coming from the water. -Warm land has now sufficiently heated the overlying air, so that cooler air over the ocean is now moving onshore as a sea breeze.

_____ winds are created when cold air descending the sheltered (leeward) side of the Rockies is warmed by compression

Chinook

What common household item is used in this video to demonstrate differences in atmospheric pressure?

a balloon

What is an anticylone?

a center of high atmospheric pressure

What is a cyclone?

a center of low atmospheric pressure

Why are anticyclones not generally associated with clouds and rain?

air in anticyclones undergoes warming as the air descends

Why are cyclones generally associated with clouds and rain?

air in cyclones undergoes cooling as it rises

A circulation pattern consisting of a light wind blowing into the city from the countryside is characteristic of a

country breeze

Which way does air move in an anticyclone in the Northern Hemisphere?

down, and in a clockwise direction

Which way does air move in an anticyclone in the Southern Hemisphere?

down, and in a counterclockwise direction

As discussed in the video, air always moves from _____ atmospheric pressure regions to _____ atmospheric pressure regions.

high; low

Which way does air converge on a cyclone in the Northern Hemisphere?

in a clockwise direction

Which way does air converge on a cyclone in the Southern Hemisphere?

in a clockwise direction

How does air move near the top of a cyclone?

in the same direction as air in the upper atmosphere

_______ is the result of the air over land heating, expanding, and rising, thereby creating a low-pressure area into which cooler air from over the ocean can move.

sea breeze

As shown in the video, what causes the item to deflate?

the higher pressure inside the item forces air out into the lower pressure of the room

Heated air from mountain slopes gliding up along that slope results in a ________

valley breeze