Unit 2: Global Winds

What causes the Coriolis effect?

• Earth's shape.

• Earth's rotation.

• Earth's revolution around the Sun.

• Earth's energy flows from the equator to the poles.

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Prevailing winds that blow between the 60°-90° lines of latitude in both hemispheres. These winds travel from east to west around the globe.

• Doldrums

• Trade winds

• Westerlies

• Easterlies

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A measure of the amount of water vapor in the air.

• Dew point

• Relative humidity

• Humidity

• Vaper point

The general flow of the jet stream is towards the

• North.

• South.

• East.

• West.

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Which instrument measures wind direction only?

• Wind scale.

• Wind compass.

• Wind gauge.

• Wind vane.

Prevailing winds that blow northeast from 30 degrees north latitude almost to the equator and that blow southeast from 30 degrees south latitude almost to the equator.

• Trade winds

• Jet stream

• Tropical Easterlies

• Tropical Westerlies

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Which global wind pattern affects weather in the United States?

• Prevailing Westerlies.

• Polar Easterlies.

• Northeast trade winds.

• Southeast trade winds.

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The flow of cooler air from over an ocean or lake toward land.

• Land breeze

• Sea Breeze

• Day Breeze

• Night breeze

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Wispy, feathery clouds made of ice crystals that form at high levels in the troposphere.

• Stratus

• Cumulonimbus

• cumulus

• Cirrus

The horizontal movement of air from an area of high pressure to an area of lower pressure.

• Convection

• Wind

• Jetstream

• Current

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