Unit Review Weather, Climate, and Water Cycling OpenSciEd

Atmospheric conditions like temperature, air pressure, wind, humidity, precipitation, and cloud cover over a short time

• Climate

• Weather

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Long-term average weather conditions of a place

• Climate

• Weather

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Prevailing winds are the winds that blow predominantly from

• Different directions

• the same general direction

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What direction does air move in the Northern Hemisphere (US, Europe, Asia) and in the Southern Hemisphere?

• north to south

• south to north

• east to west

• west to east

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Air near the equator moves which direction, which is opposite of the air north and south of the equator.

• north to south

• south to north

• east to west

• west to east

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The air that comes up from the south (Gulf of Mexico) is

• warm air

• cold air

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The air that comes down from the North is

• warm air

• cold air

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Places with a lot of precipitation are likely locations where

• scientists have built weather stations

• the earth's plates are moving

• warm and cold air masses interact or collide.

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Predictable wind patterns bringing ___ are one way for us to predict a location's long-term precipitation pattern.

• cold or warm air

• ash or pollutants

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The ocean is ___ near the equator and ___ near the poles.

• cooler, warmer

• warmer, cooler

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