Global Wind Air Pressure Wind Factors Patterns Local

Global Wind Air Pressure Wind Factors Patterns Local and Regional Winds El Niño and La Niña 100 pt 100 pt 200 pt 200 pt 300 pt 300 pt 400 pt 400 pt 500 pt 500 pt

This instrument to measure air pressure was first made by Torricelli, a student of Galileo. 100 air pressure

What is a barometer? 100 points air pressure

Air subsides in the center of this type of system. 200 points air pressure

What is high pressure? 200 points air pressure

Centers of low pressure are called this. 300 points air pressure

What is a cyclone? 300 points air pressure

The lines on a weather map that connect points of equal pressure. 400 points air pressure

What are isobars? 400 points air pressure

In the Southern Hemisphere, winds around a low pressure system blow ______ and ____. 500 points air pressure

What is clockwise and inward? 500 points air pressure

Winds blow from _____ pressure to _____ pressure. 100 points Wind Factors 12

What is higher to lower? 100 points Wind factors 13

In the Northern Hemisphere, the Coriolis effect causes winds to deflect in this direction. 200 points Wind factors 14

What is to the right? 200 points wind factors 15

Near Earth’s surface, this force causes winds to be slowed and change direction. 300 points Wind factors

What is friction? 300 points wind factors

Closely spaced isobars on a weather map indicate a steep pressure gradient and therefore this speed of winds. 400 points wind factors 18

What are high winds? 400 points wind factors

The three factors that combine to control wind. 500 points wind factors 20

What are pressure differences, the Coriolis effect, and friction? 500 points wind factors 21

If the Earth did NOT rotate, how air at the equator would move (2 part answer). 100 points Global Winds

What is rise and move toward the poles? 100 points Global Winds

The winds that blow eastward toward the equator from the subtropical high. 200 points Global Winds

What are the trade winds? 200 points Global winds

The winds that blow from the subtropical high westward across the contiguous US toward the subpolar low at 60° North latitude. 300 points Global winds

What are the westerlies? 300 points Global winds 27

High-altitude, high-speed ‘rivers of air’ that occur near the tropopause at the boundaries between the Polar and Ferrel cells and the Ferrel and Hadley cells. 400 points Global winds

What are the jet streams? 400 points Global winds

On the Earth’s surface, the deflection of wind due to the Coriolis effect is strongest at this latitude. 500 points Global winds

What is 90 degrees N or S (the poles)? 500 points Global winds

This local wind occurs during the daytime at a coastline due to the unequal heating of land water. 100 points Local winds

What is a sea breeze? 100 points Local winds

This local wind occurs during the nighttime at a coastline due to the unequal heating of land water. 200 points Local winds

What is a land breeze? 200 points Local winds

This local wind occurs at night when cool air flows downslope from mountains into a valley. 300 points Local winds

What is a mountain breeze? 300 points Local winds

This instrument measures wind speed. 400 points Local winds

What is an anemometer? 400 points Local winds

This regional wind pattern occurs in the summer when a low pressure system develops over Asia bringing moist air from the Indian Ocean across the Indian subcontinent, producing torrential rains. 500 points Local winds

What are the (summer) monsoons? 500 points Local winds

This atmospheric phenomenon is the opposite of El Niño, with colderthan-usual surface temperatures in the eastern Pacific Ocean. 100 points El Niño

What is La Niña? 100 points El Niño, La Niña

The atmospheric phenomenon called El Niño got its name because it usually occurs near this major holiday season. 200 points El Niño, La Niña

What is Christmas? 200 points El Niño, La Niña

During an El Niño episode, the cold offshore currents along these two countries’ coasts are replaced by warm water from the western Pacific Ocean. 300 points El Niño, La Niña

What are Peru and Ecuador? 300 points El Niño, La Niña

The warm water along the coasts during an El Niño event blocks the normal upwelling of cold water, negatively affecting this part of the local economy. 400 points El Niño, La Niña

What is fishing (particularly anchovies)? 400 points El Niño, La Niña

Changes in the atmosphere in one place that affect weather far away are called this kind of pattern. 500 points El Niño, La Niña

What is teleconnection? 500 points El Niño, La Niña