1.28 Jet Stream Review

What are jet streams?

• The trail left from an airplane.

• Bands of strong wind.

• The winds that push jets through the air.

• Wind made from tornadoes.

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Which direction do jet streams generally blow?

• North to South

• South to North

• East to West

• West to East

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If you were in a plane traveling from west to east, you would get there ________ than if you travel from east to west.

• faster

• slower

• in the same amount of time

If a storm started in California, due to the jet stream, which direction would the storm eventually move?

• Towards the Pacific Ocean

• Towards North Carolina

• Towards Canada

• Towards the Gulf of Mexico

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What is the jet stream?

• Precipitation in North Carolina

• Weather over a long period of time

• Strong winds above the Earth's surface

• Football flying over the Earth

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A narrow band of fast moving winds high in the atmosphere that move from west to east

• Jet Stream

• doldrums

• equator

• polar easterlies

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Which best describes a characteristic of the jet stream?

• It forms a boundary between a cold air mass and a warm air mass.

• It creates the high winds around the eye of a hurricane.

• It forces the hot air along the equator to rise to areas in North

  America.

• It causes high pressure air masses to rotate clockwise.

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How does the jet stream affect the weather?

• The jet stream transports weather systems that affect us.
• The jet stream does not affect the weather.
• The jet stream releases oxygen so we can breathe.
• The jet stream brings only bad weather.

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The water cycle is the movement of__________

• sun
• water
• precipitation
• movement

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When liquid water changes into gas called water vapor this called

• condensation
• evaporation
• precipatation
• runoff

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