Meteorology Vocabulary

a belt of calm air and sea occurring in both the northern and southern hemispheres between the trade winds and the westerlies

• Horse latitudes

• Coriolis effect

• Polar easterlies

• Trade winds

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Winds that blow from the west to the east

• Doldrums

• Westerlies

• Global winds

• Trade winds

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Polar easterlies is....

• Winds that blow away from the poles

• Little or low wind area near equator where warm air rises

• a wind blowing almost continually toward the equator from the northeast

• The effect of Earth’s rotation on the directions of winds and currents

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Trade winds is....

• Little or low wind area near equator where warm air rises

• a belt of calm air and sea occurring in both the northern and southern hemispheres between the trade winds and the westerlies

• a wind blowing almost continually toward the equator from the northeast

• Winds that blow from the west to the east

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

the continual movement of air in a circular pattern in the atmosphere

• Convection currents

• conduction

• radiation

• convection

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

describes the atmospheric conditions at a specific place at a specific point in time

• weather

• climate

• atmosphere

• weather front

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

the average pattern for weather over a period of months, years, decades, or longer in a specific place.

• weather

• atmosphere

• climate

• greenhouse effect

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

 the boundary that forms between two different air masses

• weather front

• high pressure

• low pressure

• air pressure

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

a destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system

• tornadoes

• hurricanes

• greenhouse effect

• atmosphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

a large tropical storm system with high-powered circular winds

• hurricanes

• tornadoes

• weather front

• climate

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2