Global Air Currents

The black arrows on the picture represents the:

• Westerlies
• Trade winds
• Polar Easterlies
• Hadley cell

The region in green is known as the:

• tropical region
• temperate region
• polar region
• desert region

This is the reason why winds and ocean curve due to the rotation of the Earth.

• Conduction Effect
• Convection effect

• Coriolis effect

• Tropic of Capricorn effect

Where ever warm air is rising, expect to see an area of ________ pressure.

• low
• high
• medium
• zero

Winds that blow from the west to the east are called:

• Easterlies
• Westerlies
• Trade winds
• convection cells

Which of the following are high pressure zones?

• T, S, R, Q

• Q, P, O, N

• S, Q, O

• T, R, P, N

Cool, sinking air creates _____ pressure zones.

• high

• low

• curved

• severe

Air molecules flow from _____ pressure areas to ______ pressure areas, thus creating wind.

• low; high

• concentrated; high

• high; low

• open; low

Trade Winds flow from ______ to _____.

• West-East

• East-West

• North-South

• South-North

Winds that blow from 30⁰ latitude to the equator are called:

• westerlies

• polar easterlies

• trade winds

• horse latitudes