Weather Vocab #1

The deflective force of earth's rotation on all moving objects is called?

• Westerlies

• Coriolis Effect

• Global Wind

• Sea Breeze

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What is air pressure?

• The density of an object in earths atmosphere.

• The force that attracts a body towards the center of the earth.

• Fast moving rivers of air

• The force exerted by the weight of a column of air above it

What does a barometer measure?

• Temperature

• Density

• Humidity

• Air Pressure

El Niño is. . .

• Cooling of Atlantic

• Warming of Pacific

• Cooling of Pacific

• Warming of Atlantic

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Westerlies

• Blow west to east

• Blow east to west

• Blow toward the poles

• Blow north to south

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Which global wind is a type of Easterly wind

• Doldrums

• Horse Latitudes

• Trade Winds

• Land Breeze

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What is the movement of air from the sea toward the land?

• Sea Breeze

• Land Breeze

• El Nino

• Trade Winds

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Fast moving rivers of air are called what?

• La Nina

• Jet Streams

• Tornadoes

• Cyclones

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Which wind event has a center of low pressure?

• Cyclone

• La Nina

• Jet Stream

• Air mass

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What is a prevailing wind?

• One that forms over water

• Wind that blow consistently in one direction

• Wind that blows from the North pole to the equator

• The warming of the pacific ocean

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