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Winds
Ocean Currents
Pressure
Random
100
Climate factor that causes some rays to be more concentrated than others.
What is latitude
100
High to low
What is the direction winds blow
100
Are caused by density differences.
What is a deep current.
100
Associated with deserts at 30 degrees N and S
What is High pressure
100
2 climate factors that causes a large range of temperatures in MN in the seasons and between the seasons
What are latitude and continental location.
200
Factor that makes Seattle really rainy.
What is mountain barrier
200
Closely spaced isobars
What is the cause of strong winds
200
Coriolis and position of the continents
What is the reason surface currents curve in gyres.
200
Often creates precipitation
What is low pressure
200
Breeze that forms when a lake is cooler than the nearby land.
What is a sea breeze.
300
Climate factors that increases with a decrease in temperature, humidity or elevation.
What is air pressure
300
Northeasterly or Southeasterly
What is the direction of the direction of the trade winds and polar easterlies
300
Cold, nutrient-rich water brought up to coastlines
What is a benefit of upwelling
300
Turns counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere
What is a low pressure cell or cyclone
300
A Wind that flows parallel to isobars
What is a geostrophic wind
400
Climate factor that makes tropical rain forests and deserts really close together in the same state.
What is mountain barriers
400
Right in the Northern Hemisphere and to the left in the Southern Hemisphere
What is way the Coriolis Effect curves winds
400
Moves very slowly and turns over the oceans in 1000 years
What is the global conveyor belt or thermohaline circulation
400
Has surface divergence
What is high pressure (cell)
400
The location of this high speed westerly wind shifts with the seasons and can make us warmer or cooler.
What is the jet stream.
500
Climate factor that can make a northern latitude city warmer than expected.
What is ocean currents
500
The pressure gradient is equal to the Coriolis Force
What is a geostrophic wind
500
The name of the current that makes London warmer than expected and the name of the current that makes San Francisco colder than expected.
What is the Gulf Stream current and the California current.
500
Is created by difference in heating or cooling.
What is a pressure gradient or pressure differences
500
The leeward side of a mountain
What is the dry, warm side often with a desert
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