Unit 8: Convection Currents Vocabulary Review

What is the measure of the force with which air molecules push on a surface?

• Air Pressure

• Jet Stream

• Radiation

• Trade Winds

What is the Coriolis Effect?

• the spread of something over a given area

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

• winds in northern Indian ocean that blow from the southwest in the summer & from the northeast in winter

• two layers of horizontal winds moving in opposite directions

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What are Doldrums?

• An area in the sea near the equator with high wind activity

• A place where many earthquakes occur

• a frequently windless area near the Equator

• cold winds that blow from the east to the west

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What is a Hadley Cell?

• a large-scale atmospheric convection cell in which air rises at the equator and sinks at medium latitudes, typically about 30 degrees North or South

• A wind that blows from the land to the sea due to local temperature and pressure differences

• Global winds that blow constantly from the same direction

• Dominant winds of the mid-latitudes.

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A region where the atmospheric pressure at the surface of the planet is greater than its surrounding environment, usually associated with dry weather

• High Pressure Area

• Low Pressure Area

• Mid Pressure Area

• No Pressure Area

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What are Jet Streams?

• The trail left from an airplane.

• A high-speed high-altitude airstream blowing from west to east near the top of the troposphere

• Global winds that blow constantly from the same direction

• Dominant winds of the mid-latitudes

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Which of the following is a region where the atmospheric pressure at the surface of the planet is lower than that of surrounding locations; usually associated with stormy weather

• Low Pressure Area

• No Pressure Area

• Mid Pressure Area

• High Pressure Area

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Prevailing cold winds that blow from the east to the west near the North Pole and South Pole?

• Polar Easterlies

• Westerlies

• Coriolis Effect

• Prevailing Winds

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What are global winds that blow constantly from the same direction?

• Prevailing Winds

• Sea Breeze

• Trade Winds

• Polar Easterlies

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What are prevailing winds that blow from east to west from 30 degrees latitude to the equator in both hemispheres?

• Trade Winds

• Land Breeze

• Hadley Cell

• Jet Stream

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