Weather List #6 (Weather Currents) Vocabulary Quiz

Name

winds that blow towards the equator

• trade winds
• easterlies
• westerlies
• jet stream
• Gulf Stream

winds that blow from the poles; these global winds flow from the east to the west

• easterlies
• trade winds
• westerlies
• jet stream
• Gulf Stream

winds that blow air masses and fronts across the United States; these winds blow from the west to the east

• westerlies
• trade winds
• easterlies
• jet stream
• Gulf Stream

the boundary between cold air and warm air that has important effects on the formation of weather fronts; a high-speed high-altitude airstream blowing from west to east near the top of the troposphere

• jet stream
• trade winds
• easterlies
• westerlies
• Gulf Stream

a warm ocean current that flows from the Gulf of Mexico northward through the Atlantic Ocean

• Gulf Stream
• trade winds
• easterlies
• westerlies
• jet stream

an abnormal weather pattern caused by the warming of the Pacific Ocean near the equator, off the coast of South America (Warmer, Wetter Weather)

• El Nino
• trade winds
• easterlies
• westerlies
• jet stream

a climate pattern that describes the cooling of surface ocean water along the tropical west coast of South America

• La Nina
• trade winds
• easterlies
• westerlies
• jet stream

move warm and cold water around the world affecting air temperature above the currents and moisture content

• ocean currents
• trade winds
• easterlies
• westerlies
• jet stream