How does land breeze occur?
A. It occurs when warm air over the land rises and the wind from the sea blows toward the land.
B. It happens when the cool wind from the land rushes to the sea to replace the rising warm air over the sea.
C. Warmer air from the sea moves toward the land to replace the rising cold air over the land.
D. Cold air from the sea sinks and moves toward the land.
Answers & Comments
B.
It happens when the cool wind from the land rushes to the sea to replace the rising warm air over the sea.
Recall that the land surface cools quicker than the water surface at night. Therefore, the warmer air over the ocean is buoyant and is rising. The denser cool air over the land is flowing offshore to replenish the buoyant warm air and is called a land breeze.