Air Pressure and Wind Review – Flashcards
Directions: Cut out each question (paste on index card optional) and record the answer on the back.
1. What is Air Pressure?
13. Draw a diagram of a Land
Breeze
2. What is a Barometer?
14. Why is there higher
pressure over the land surface
during the night?
3. What is an Isobar?
15. What is Radiation?
4. Why are isobars used to map
pressure?
16. What is Conduction?
5. Other than altitude/elevation,
what causes differences in air
pressure?
17. What is Convection
6. Diagram a High showing the
vertical and surface winds.
18. What happens to molecules
in a liquid or a gas when it is
heated?
7. Diagram a Low showing
vertical and surface winds.
19. How does density affect
fluid movement?
8. What is a Pressure
Gradient?
20. Draw a diagram illustrating
convection currents.
9. The movement of air from
High to Low pressure is called?
21. Why is radiation the only
method of heat transfer through
outer space?
10a. Which absorbs & more
heat, land or water?
10b. Which radiates more heat,
land or water?
22. Earth’s surface is heated by
which heat transfer method?
11. Draw a diagram of a
Sea Breeze
23. The air above the surface is
heated by which heat transfer
method?
12. Why is there lower pressure
over the land surface during the
day?
24. Which heat transfer method
drives land & sea breezes?