1. During your whole day stay on a beach resort you noticed that the wind direction during the day is the reverse of the wind direction at night. Which of the following statements supports this observation?
A. Land cools faster during the day than water and heats up faster at night.
B. The water has the same temperature all throughout the day.
C. Land heats up faster than water during the day and it also cools faster at night.
D. There is more water in the sea than on land.
2. How does land breeze occur?
A. Cold air from the sea sinks and moves toward the land.
B. Warmer air from the sea moves toward the land to replace the rising cold air over the land.
C. It happens when the cool wind from the land rushes to the sea to replace the rising warm air over the sea.
D. It occurs when warm air over the land rises and the wind from the sea blows toward the land.
3. Human activities have emitted greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, increasing their levels to quantities that have adverse effects on people, biodiversity and the physical environment. Which of the following examples is NOT an effect of the global phenomenon?
A. The temperature will remain constant.
B. Cause severe flooding to low-lying areas.
C. Depletion of the ozone layer.
D. Melting of polar ice caps.