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Winds and Air Masses

Uneven Heating of

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Weather Maps

Scientific Tools

Vocabulary Up for Grabs!

The movement of wind flows in this direction

A 100

What is horizontal?

A 100

These are normally found near the equator, where there is little wind but daily rain

A 200

What are doldrums?

A 200

These winds are found at the highest latitudes and travel

from northeast to southwest if coming from the north pole

A 300

What are polar easterlies.

A 300

These winds are found between the equator and 30

degrees latitude North or South. They always blow

towards the equator

A 400

What are trade winds?

A 400

They can be found between 30 degrees and 60 degrees latitude North or South and

always blow towards the poles

A 500

What are the prevailing westerlies?

A 500

The process of warm air rising and cold air sinking

creates circulating patterns of wind known as this

B 100

What is convection currents?

B 100

Global wind patterns are affected in the Northern Hemisphere by turning

in a clockwise direction and counterclockwise in the Southern

Hemisphere due to this

B 200

What is the Coriolis Effect?

B 200

This local weather pattern often results when cool air

from the water is blown onto land

B 300

What is a sea breeze?

B 300

An event resulting from the warming of the Pacific Ocean

by several degrees

B 400

What is El Nino?

B 400

Often occurring during evening hours, when air is blown from the land to the water often causing land to cool more quickly than the

water

B 500

What is a land breeze?

B 500

The weather often associated with this symbol

C 100

What is fair, dry conditions?

C 100

The name for this symbol

C 200

What is a stationary front?

C 200

Often results when warm air rises and wind blows in a

counterclockwise direction

C 300

What is a low pressure system?

C 300

Provide the name for this symbol and identify the

weather associated with it

C 400

What is a warm front that usually brings days of steady

rain or snow?

C 400

Describe what happens during an occluded front

C 500

What is two cold air masses move toward one another

with a warm air mass between them, which causes

the warm air to rise, closing it off from the surface?

C 500

Used to measure air pressure

D 100

What is a barometer?

D 100

Individuals who study weather patterns to forecast and predict future weather

conditions for different areas

D 200

Who are meteorologists?

D 200

Used to measure the humidity in an area

D 300

What is a psychrometer?

D 300

Measures wind speed and direction

D 400

What is an anemometer?

D 400

Provides images of global wind patterns, tectonic activities, and erosional

patterns

D 500

What is a satellite map?

D 500

E 100

the whole mass of air surrounding the earth:

the air of a locality

E 100

What is atmosphere?

vertical columns or mounds of water at the

surface and the flow around

E 200

What are gyres?

E 200

E 300

The rising of cold, usually nutrient-rich waters from the ocean depths to the warmer,

sunlit zone at the surface

E 300

What is upwelling?

a relatively warm ocean current flowing northeastwards off the Atlantic coast of the US from the Gulf of Mexico

E 400

What is the Gulf Stream?

E 400

E 500

Water movement which extends to depths of 3-10 feet

often creating by wind dragging along the top of

water

E 500

What is surface current?

F 100

This is what happens to trade winds and water during an El

Nino Event

F 100

What is trade winds weaken and reverse, while water heats

up and flows back to the Coast of South America?

F 200

Explain how the Gulf Stream would affect Iceland and

Northern European Countries

F 200

What is it would cause warmer climates due to the

water radiating heat?

F 300

A hurricane becomes weaker due to this

F 300

What is losing warm, moist air/water?

F 400

Of the following, choose the one would release heat faster

than any other surface

•Sahara Desert

•Lake Eerie

•Mississippi River

•Tropical Rainforest

F 400

What is the Sahara Desert?

This air mass will have moist cold air.

F 500

What is maritime polar?

F 500

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Air masses tend to travel from the polar regions to the equator.

Explain why

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What is air will always flow from areas of higher pressure to areas of lower pressure and therefore, the cold dense air will move towards the equator to replace the warm,

less dense air that is rising?

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