NS2-M3C9 - Wind and Weather Quiz 48

Which of the following affects the weather on Earth? (Input all that apply, then push the ENTER button.)

• movement of the moon around Earth

• distance of the Earth from the Sun

• movement of the Earth around the Sun

• rotation of the Earth on its axis

Air always flows _______ in relation to the center of a high-pressure area. Air always flows _______ in relation to the center of a low-pressure area.

• inward; outward

• down; up

• outward; inward

• up; down

The only “permanent” low-pressure area on Earth is the Doldrums Belt near the equator.

• Change “equator” to “North Pole”

• Change “Doldrums Belt” to “Horse Latitudes”

• Change “low-pressure” to “high-pressure”

• It is correct as is.

Why is the area around 30° north and south latitude known as the horse latitudes?

• Sailors who paid off advances on their pay (known as dead horses) would burn effigies of horses as a celebration of their financial freedom.

• In this area on a long ocean voyage, sailors sometimes became mutinous and the discipline was flogging, also known as beating a dead horse.

• Becalmed sailing ships used to throw dead horses overboard here.

• From the French: “hors de combat” meaning out of the war, ships becalmed here would not be able to fight.

Put the following winds in order of weakest to strongest according to the Beaufort Wind Scale.

• Fresh Breeze

• Strong Gale

• Storm

• Gentle Breeze

Moving outward

• Divergence

• Trade winds

• Gradient

• Convergence

A latitude on the terrestrial globe, about 23.5 degrees south of the equator, making up a boundary of the Torrid Zone

• Tropic of Cancer

• Tropic of Capricorn

• Tropic of Torrid

• Tropic of Leo

A latitude on the terrestrial globe, about 23.5 degrees North of the equator, making up a boundary of the Torrid Zone

• Tropic of Leo

• Tropic of Cancer

• Tropic of Capricorn

• Tropic of Torrid

A traveling atmospheric low-pressure system

• Migratory lows

• Santa Anas (winds)

• Prevailing westerlies

Seasonal winds of the Indian Ocean and southern Asia, blowing from the southwest in summer and from the northeast in winter

• Chinook winds

• Foehn winds

• Monsoon