Jet Stream

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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Which has the greatest effect on the movement of the jet stream? 

• size of clouds
• amount of precipitation
• differences in air temperatures

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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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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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What will most likely result when the jet stream moves south of North

Carolina?

• North Carolina will experience tropical weather conditions.

• North Carolina will experience hot, dry weather.

• North Carolina will experience mild weather.

• North Carolina will experience cold weather.

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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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Where are the two polar jet streams located?

• Near the north and south poles.

• Near the equator.

• You can't tell.

• Only near the north pole.

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What causes jet streams?

• They are caused due to large thunderstorms.

• No one knows.

• They form when warm air meets cold air.

• Too many jets in the air at one time.

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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

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