Convection, Weather, & Hurricanes

The effect of Earth's rotation on the direction of winds and currents.

• convection cell

• Coriolis effect

• Earth's climate

• heat energy

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

A mass of sinking cool air that usually bring fair weather.

• low pressure

• warm front

• cold front

• high pressure

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

the form of energy that from the Sun that begins the water cycle (evaporation).

• Coriolis effect

• heat energy

• low pressure

• hurricane

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4

movement of air from sea to land during the day when cooler air from above the water moves over the land, forcing the heated, less dense air above the land to rise

• sea breeze

• land breeze

• cool breeze

• high pressure

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

A mass of rising warm air that usually bring wet, stormy weather.

• cold front

• warm front

• low pressure

• high pressure

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

blue line with triangles; cool, dense air mass that usually moves north to south in the N hemisphere

• cold front

• warm front

• high pressure

• hurricane

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

is changing as a result of natural and human processes; could affect thickness of polar ice caps

• Earth's climate

• hurricanes

• Gulf Stream

• equatorial region

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-4

state of matter that heats and cools faster than the other states of matter

• gas

• liquid

• plasma

• solid

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-4

responsible for starting convection currents which drive Earth's weather patterns

• Pacific Ocean

• the Moon

• The Sun

• Equator

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Heats Earth's oceans which contributes to Earth's weather patterns

• Atlantic Ocean

• the Moon

• the Sun

• equator

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS2-4