On shore movement of air as inland air heats and rises.

• A. Monsoon
• B. Sea Breeze
• C. Storm
• D. Precipitation

Answer: (B)

The key idea is how differential heating between land and sea drives local winds. During the day, the land becomes much hotter than the adjacent sea, so air over the land rises and creates a local low pressure at the surface there. Cooler, high-pressure air over the sea moves toward this low-pressure area to replace the rising air. As this air moves from sea to land near the surface, it forms a breeze blowing onshore—the sea breeze. So the onshore movement of air as inland air heats and rises is the sea breeze, a daytime coastal wind driven by land–sea temperature differences. The other options describe different phenomena: a monsoon involves seasonal reversal of winds over large regions, storms are intense weather systems, and precipitation is rain; none specifically describe the daytime, localized onshore flow caused by land heating.