Jet Streams

What is the jet stream?

• Precipitation in North Carolina

• Weather over a long period of time

• Strong winds above the Earth's surface

• Football flying over the Earth

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A narrow band of fast moving winds high in the atmosphere that move from west to east

• Jet Stream

• doldrums

• equator

• polar easterlies

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Which best describes a characteristic of the jet stream?

• It forms a boundary between a cold air mass and a warm air mass.

• It creates the high winds around the eye of a hurricane.

• It forces the hot air along the equator to rise to areas in North

  America.

• It causes high pressure air masses to rotate clockwise.

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Which has the greatest effect on the movement of the jet stream? 

• size of clouds

• amount of precipitation

• differences in air temperatures

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Fast-flowing currents of air high in the troposphere are

• Hadley cells

• Jet streams or "atmospheric jets"

• Trade winds

• Altostratus

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The jet streams

• All flow in the same direction, from west to east

• Flow in different directions depending if they are north or south of the equator

• Flow in different directions depending if they are above rising or falling air

• All flow in the same direction, from east to west

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What will most likely result when the jet stream moves south of North Carolina?

• North Carolina will experience tropical weather conditions.

• North Carolina will experience hot, dry weather.

• North Carolina will experience mild weather.

• North Carolina will experience cold weather.

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How does the jet stream affect the weather?

• The jet stream transports weather systems that affect us.

• The jet stream does not affect the weather.

• The jet stream releases oxygen so we can breathe.

• The jet stream brings only bad weather.

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Which has the greatest affect on the movement of the jet stream?

• differences in air temperatures

• amount of precipitation

• size of clouds

• The jet stream does what it wants.

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Which direction do jet streams generally blow?

• North to South

• South to North

• East to West

• West to East

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