Weather 3 Vocabulary

The driving energy source for the heating of Earth and the circulation in Earth's atmosphere.

• Greenhouse effect

• Coriolis effect

• Solar energy

• Convection current

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When gases in the atmosphere absorb and retain energy radiated from land and ocean surfaces, thereby regulating Earth's surface and keeping it suitable for living.

• Coriolis effect

• Greenhouse effect

• Solar energy

• Climate regions

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Currents created because warm air near Earth's surface rises and cools as it goes up.

• Convection currents

• Ocean surface currents

• Jet streams

• Climate regions

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Currents of Earth's oceans that circulate warm and cold ocean waters in convection patterns and influence weather and climates of the land masses nearby.

• Convection currents

• Ocean surface currents

• Greenhouse effect

• Jet streams

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The average weather for a particular region and time period.

• Climate regions

• Coriolis effect

• Solar energy

• Climate

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The condition of Earth's atmosphere at a particular time and place.

• Solar energy

• Greenhouse effect

• Weather

• Climate

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Earth's winds move in a rotated pattern (curve) because of the rotation of Earth around its axis.

• Coriolis effect

• Greenhouse effect

• Global winds

• Convection current

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Fast moving ribbons of air that move from west to east in the Northern Hemisphere around Earth.

• Convection currents

• Jet streams

• Gulf streams

• Land and Sea breezes

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Areas created by unequal heating of Earth that impact ocean convection regions, temperatures and currents. (Tropical, Temperate, and Polar)

• Global winds

• Land and Sea breezes

• Ocean surface currents

• Climate regions (zons)

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Local currents created near bodies of water by convection.

• Land and Sea breezes

• Gulf streams

• Jet Streams

• Climate regions (zones)

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