Chapter 2 Lesson 2 Oceans & Weather Systems Vocabulary Practice

major wind belt, fueled by energy from the Sun, that influence the formation of ocean currents and the direction they move across a large part of Earth

• prevailing winds

• ocean current

• air mass

• gyre

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

a wind- driven current that carries ocean water horizontally across the ocean's surface

• tropical cycle

• surface current

• Coriolis effect

• ocean current

Answer explanation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

a tropical cyclone, like an Atlantic Ocean hurricane, occurring especially in the region of the Philippines or the China Sea and the warm coastal waters of the Pacific Ocean. 

• storm surge

• tropical cyclone

• typhoon

• hurricane

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

the movement of wind and water to the right or left that is caused by Earth's rotation

• air mass

• gyre

• prevailing winds

• Coriolis effect

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

an intense tropical storm with winds exceeding 119 km/hr

• hurricane

• surface current

• air mass

• prevailing winds

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

a large volume of water flowing in a certain direction

• tropical cyclone

• ocean current

• typhoon

• surface current

Answer explanation

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

a large circular system of currents_

• tropical cyclone

• air mass

• gyre

• ocean current

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

water that has blown outward from the center of a tropical cyclone, eventually sweeping up onto the coastline as a large wave

• hurricane

• typhoon

• storm surge

• Coriolis effect

a large " bubble of air that has about the same temperature and humidity throughout it

• prevailing winds

• surface current

• hurricane

• air mass

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

a term used by meteorologists to describe a rotating, organized system of clouds and thunderstorms that originates over tropical or subtropical waters and has closed, low level circulation

• tropical cyclone

• storm surge

• gyre

• air mass