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How does wind move?

What is the weather of a certain area over a long period of time?

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What is the weather of a certain area over a long period of time?
humidity
weather
climate
latitude
2
How does wind move?
Warm air rises and cold air sinks
Cold air sinks to the beach
Warm air is pushed by the currents
Cold air sinks and warm air sinks
3
What forms when moisture evaporates into the air, and then cools?
Salinity
Nutrients
Transpiration
Clouds
4
What are air pressure, humidity, clouds and temperature called?
elevation pressure
elements of climate
elementary aspects
elements of weather
5
What causes wind on top of hills and mountains?
Decomposers putting nutrients back in soil
Hot air rising while cool air sinks
Runoff from precipitation
Heat transfer by conduction
6
What is the condition of outside air at a certain time and place?
weather
climate
climate zone
element
7
Which location on the Earth gets the most sun?
Top of the Mountains
North Pole
South Pole
Equator
8
What is a person who studies a weather pattern in an attempt to predict weather?
physicist
meteorologist
hydrologist
ecologist
9
What are climate zones?
areas divided mainly by clouds and time
Areas that are divided by precipitation and temperature
different levels of hills and mountains divided by altitude
weather at different times of day and in different months
10
On a mountain, where would air pressure be the greatest?
Top of the mountains
Bottom of the mountains
Above Earth's atmosphere
Bottom of the clouds