Question

Land breezes and sea breezes are two types of local winds that form MOSTLY because


A)
water releases heat energy faster than land.


B)
wind moves faster over water than over land.


C)
low pressure systems over water at the coast.


D)
there is unequal heating of the Earth's surface.

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Answer 7

D)
there is unequal heating of the Earth's surface.( land vs water)

The sea has a greater heat capacity than land and can therefore absorb more heat than the land, so the surface of the sea warms up more slowly than the land's surface. As the temperature of the surface of the land rises, the land heats the air above it. The warm air is less dense and so it rises. This rising air over the land lowers the sea level pressure by about 0.2%. The cooler air above the sea, now with higher sea level pressure, flows towards the land into the lower pressure, creating a cooler breeze near the coast. The strength of the sea breeze is directly proportional to the temperature difference between the land and the sea. If the environmental wind field is greater than 8 knots and opposing the direction of a possible sea breeze, the sea breeze is not likely to develop.

At night, the land cools off faster than the ocean due to differences in their heat capacity, which forces the dying of the daytime sea breeze. If the land cools below that of the adjacent sea surface temperature, the pressure over the water will be lower than that of the land, setting up a land breeze as long as the environmental surface wind pattern is not strong enough to oppose it.

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Answer 9

Large, rotating low-pressure storms that get their energy from the evaporation of warm water from tropical oceans are called


A)
tornadoes.


B)
thunderstorms.


C)
tropical cyclones.


D)
tropical tsunamis.