Winds generally move this direction in the United States.
What is west to east?
100
This side of mountains receives less rain.
What is the leeward side?
100
The Gulf Stream has this effect on weather in Northern Europe.
What is warmer climate than expected?
100
This is the cause of El Nino.
What is warm water moves east?
100
This is the cause of La Nina.
What is warm water moves west?
200
This is the main source of energy for winds on Earth.
What is the Sun?
200
Areas closer to a body of water will have this type of summer, compared to an area further inland.
What is colder?
200
Cold-water currents carrying water from the poles to the equator are generally found where?
What is the west coast of continents?
200
Warm-water currents that carry water from the equator to the poles are generally found where?
What is the east side of continents?
200
This is the apparent movement of winds on Earth, due to Earth's rotation.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
300
This area, around the equator, has very little wind and a lot of rain.
What are the doldrums?
300
Two cities are found at the same latitude. One city is on the coast of an ocean and the other is on the leeward side of a mountain. How will their climates be different?
What is the ocean one will be wetter and the leeward one will be drier?
300
Northern Ohio has milder winters than southern Ohio due to this.
What is the effect of Lake Erie?
300
This type of wind is found directly north and south of the doldrums. The winds move from east to west and move toward the equator.
What are the trade winds?
300
This is the definition of a jet stream.
What is boundary between cold and warm air?
400
Winds move in this direction.
What is from high pressure to low pressure?
400
Why does the windward side of a mountain get more rain?
What is air rises, cools, precipitates?
400
This drives the Great Ocean Conveyor.
What is saltwater density?
400
Cities have these effects on climate.
What is hotter due to heat-island effect?
400
This type of wind is found at the North Pole and South Pole. Winds move toward the west and move toward the equator.
What are the (polar) easterlies?
500
The Coriolis Effect results in winds moving in this direction in the Northern Hemisphere.
What is to the right?
500
Oceans have these two effects on a region's climate.
What is wetter, less extreme temperature?
500
Sea breezes move in this direction because of this reason.
What is cold air over the ocean sinks and moves toward an area of low pressure, which is over the land.
500
This describes how water heats and cools compared to land.
What is heats and cools slower?
500
These are the effects of El Nino.
What is monsoons in Indonesia, drought in Africa and Australia, storms in California?