Wind Patterns
What are wind currents?
Direction wind travels around the globe in different climate zones.
What type of ocean current comes from Antartica?
Cold
What storm is on land, and is caused by 2 winds coming together to begin spinning?
Tornado
What factors do you need to make a tornado?
2 winds of different elevations coming together and spinning.
What are the 3 climate zones?
Polar, tropical, and temperate
Why is it that KY would look at weather coming from the west instead of the east.
Wind current is moving west--> to east
There are 2 types of ocean current. What are they?
warm and cold
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Name 4 things that tsunamis destroy when it hits land?
Answer will vary
What climate zone has only 1 season?
What is the weather like in that climate zone?
Polar
Cold
If I am living in Mexico which direction is wind current moving. Do not say left or right.
East to West
What storm is mos likely to occur in areas of warm ocean currents?
Hurricane
What causes an earthquake?
Earth's plates shifting causes an area to collapse/move in some way. That movement creates a shock outwards causing the earthquake.
Timothy is going to East Asia. His parents tell him to be careful of possible disasters in that area. What would be a problem there?
Earthquakes and volcanos
What state of the US is NOT in the temperate zone?
Florida
I am in the very south of Africa. Which way is the wind moving? Don't say left or right
West to East
Louis lives on the eastern side of South America. What temperature ocean current is he near?
Warm
Why does Europe not have as many problems weather wise as other locations?
Warm current but not in area for Hurricanes to properly form. No tsunamis or earthquakes because not near places like ring of fire.
Bob wants to go to visit his friend in south america. His friend lives on the east coast in chile. Bob is scared because of a possible disaster. What disaster could that be?
Earthquake and volcano
Tom is going to the middle of South America. What climate zone is that in? What seasons do they have there?
Tropical
2 seasons: warm and cold
Which way should Thomas be tracking weather from if he lives in North Australia? why?
From the east side because wind current there is moving east to west
Sam says that hurricanes are more likely to happen in his city near the shores of California. Saddie says that he is inccorect and an earthquake is more likely to occur. Who is correct? AND why?
Saddie. Hurricane happen in warm ocean currents and the Pacific is cold. Also cali is near the ring of fire, known for volcanoes and hurricanes.
How is a volcano formed? AND why is it different than a mountain?
techtonic plates colliding together. Mountain contains only rock and land pushed together. A volcano has a magma chamber that has been locked inside as it was being formed.
Name 2 storm disasters in history that have occured.
Name the place, the disaster, and what damage it caused.
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Which climate zone has winds going in the opposite direction of the other 2 zones?
Temperate