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The movement of wind flows in this direction A 100

What is horizontal? A 100

These are normally found near the equator, where there is little wind but daily rain A 200

What are doldrums? A 200

These winds are found at the highest latitudes and travel from northeast to southwest if coming from the north pole A 300

What are polar easterlies. A 300

These winds are found between the equator and 30 degrees latitude North or South. They always blow towards the equator A 400

What are trade winds? A 400

They can be found between 30 degrees and 60 degrees latitude North or South and always blow towards the poles A 500

What are the prevailing westerlies? A 500

The process of warm air rising and cold air sinking creates circulating patterns of wind known as this B 100

What is convection currents? B 100

Global wind patterns are affected in the Northern Hemisphere by turning in a clockwise direction and counterclockwise in the Southern Hemisphere due to this B 200

What is the Coriolis Effect? B 200

This local weather pattern often results when cool air from the water is blown onto land B 300

What is a sea breeze? B 300

An event resulting from the warming of the Pacific Ocean by several degrees B 400

What is El Nino? B 400

Often occurring during evening hours, when air is blown from the land to the water often causing land to cool more quickly than the water B 500

What is a land breeze? B 500

The weather often associated with this symbol C 100

What is fair, dry conditions? C 100

The name for this symbol C 200

What is a stationary front? C 200

Often results when warm air rises and wind blows in a counterclockwise direction C 300

What is a low pressure system? C 300

Provide the name for this symbol and identify the weather associated with it C 400

What is a warm front that usually brings days of steady rain or snow? C 400

Describe what happens during an occluded front C 500

What is two cold air masses move toward one another with a warm air mass between them, which causes the warm air to rise, closing it off from the surface? C 500

Used to measure air pressure D 100

What is a barometer? D 100

Individuals who study weather patterns to forecast and predict future weather conditions for different areas D 200

Who are meteorologists? D 200

Used to measure the humidity in an area D 300

What is a psychrometer? D 300

Measures wind speed and direction D 400

What is an anemometer? D 400

Provides images of global wind patterns, tectonic activities, and erosional patterns D 500

What is a satellite map? D 500

E 100 the whole mass of air surrounding the earth: the air of a locality

E 100 What is atmosphere?

vertical columns or mounds of water at the surface and the flow around E 200

What are gyres? E 200

E 300 The rising of cold, usually nutrient-rich waters from the ocean depths to the warmer, sunlit zone at the surface

E 300 What is upwelling?

a relatively warm ocean current flowing northeastwards off the Atlantic coast of the US from the Gulf of Mexico E 400

What is the Gulf Stream? E 400

E 500 Water movement which extends to depths of 3-10 feet often creating by wind dragging along the top of water

E 500 What is surface current?

F 100 This is what happens to trade winds and water during an El Nino Event

F 100 What is trade winds weaken and reverse, while water heats up and flows back to the Coast of South America?

F 200 Explain how the Gulf Stream would affect Iceland and Northern European Countries

F 200 What is it would cause warmer climates due to the water radiating heat?

F 300 A hurricane becomes weaker due to this

F 300 What is losing warm, moist air/water?

F 400 Of the following, choose the one would release heat faster than any other surface Sahara Desert Lake Eerie Mississippi River Tropical Rainforest

F 400 What is the Sahara Desert?

This air mass will have moist cold air. F 500

What is maritime polar? F 500

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Air masses tend to travel from the polar regions to the equator. Explain why Click on screen to continue

What is air will always flow from areas of higher pressure to areas of lower pressure and therefore, the cold dense air will move towards the equator to replace the warm, less dense air that is rising? Click on screen to continue

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