Jet Stream, Prevailing Westerlies Weather Vocabulary Quiz

In the troposphere region of the atmosphere; flows at over 200 miles per hour from west to east in areas across the globe; effects travel by airplane.

• Jet Stream

• Gulf Stream

• Trade Winds

• Global winds

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

The warm and steady winds that move towards the equator; moving north and south.

• Jet Stream

• Coriolis Effect

• Trade Winds

• Global Winds

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Occur around 60 degree latitude; cool air from the east spreads and sinks over the surfaces of the poles and flows away from the poles.

• Trade Winds

• Global Winds

• Prevailing Westerly Winds

• Polar Easterly Winds

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Between 30-60 degrees of latitude; come from the west and move to the east; responsible for most of the weather in the U.S.

• Prevailing Westerly Winds

• Polar Easterly Winds

• Global Winds

• Coriolis Effect

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Curved wind movements caused by the Earth’s rotation (wind does not move north to south in a straight line)

• Trade Winds

• Coriolis Effect

• Global Winds

• Polar Easterly Winds

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Wind that covers the surface of the Earth; its blows steadily and constantly in a specific pattern.

• Coriolis Effect

• Jet Stream

• Trade Winds

• Global Winds

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

a transfer of heat by moving particles in fluids (liquids and gases) in which the warm fluid rises and the cool fluid sinks

• Local winds

• Density

• Convection

• Wind

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Caused by air of different temperatures and densities moving from areas of high pressure to low pressure.

• Wind

• Global winds

• Density

• Local winds

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

Blows to the sea from the land, happens at night

• Density

• Convection

• Sea Breeze

• Land Breeze

Blows to the sea from the land, happens at night

• Sea Breeze

• Local winds

• Local Breeze

• Wind