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100
This is a cycle created by rising and sinking air.
What are convection currents?
100
This calm wind is found on the equator?
What are the Doldrums?
100
These are white, puffy clouds that are found at any altitude.
What are cumulus clouds?
100
Draw the process that hail goes through when it is formed.
Draw: Ice falling from clouds and being pushed by wind back into the clouds before falling again.
100
At what time of day do land breezes occur?
What is night?
200
This breeze is caused by cool air from the land to the ocean.
What is a land breeze?
200
These cold winds are found at 60 degrees North and South latitude.
What are the Polar Easterlies?
200
These clouds are thin and wispy. They are located in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere.
What are cirrus clouds?
200
Draw the process by which sleet is formed? (Include clouds and temperature)
Warm cloud - liquid precipitation. Cold surface temperature - slush/frozen rain
200
Local and global winds are named for this.
What is the direction the wind came from (or originated)?
300
This is liquid precipitation that falls from warm clouds to a warm surface.
What is rain?
300
These winds, used by early explorers, are located between 0 and 30 degrees North and South latitude.
What are Trade Winds?
300
These are dark, storm clouds that can be any shape and located at all altitudes?
What are nimbus clouds?
300
Draw the location and the direction of Westerlies.
Location: Between 30 & 60 degrees North and South of the Equator. Direction: West to East
300
This type of precipitation is formed when the temperature of the clouds and the surface is 32 degrees Fahrenheit or lower?
What is snow?
400
This fast moving wind helps to move air masses and weather in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is the Jet Stream?
400
This fast moving wind is located in the upper troposhere in North America.
What is the Jet Stream?
400
This prefix means "middle." It refers to clouds located in the middle atmosphere.
What is alto?
400
Draw the location and direction of the Trade Winds?
Location: 0 to 30 degrees North and South latitude. Direction: East to West
400
These winds helped get sailors from North America to Europe and Africa?
What are the Westerlies?
500
This theory states that natural convection currents plus the rotation of the Earth causes global winds.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
500
These winds are located between 30 and 60 degrees North and South latitude.
What are the Westerlies?
500
These clouds form even layers or sheets. They are located in the lower troposphere or close to the ground.
What are stratus clouds?
500
Draw a Sea Breeze. Include the convection current.
A Sea Breeze travels from sea to land.
500
Wind is created by this.
What is the Coriolis effect?
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