Air Pressure
These two types of pressure impact weather/wind.
What are high air pressure and low air pressure?
Global winds occur due to differing temperatures in these two regions.
What are the equator and the poles?
Local winds occur between these two geographic features.
What are the land and the sea?
The Coriolis Effect is caused by the ____________ of the Earth.
What is the rotation?
Pressure maps are used to
What is predict wind patterns/weather?
Air always moves from areas of _______ to _______.
What is high to low?
These global winds move weather systems from the west to the east across the United States.
What are the Westerlies?
These are the two types of local winds.
What are land breezes and sea breezes?
The Coriolis Effect causes winds in the Northern Hemisphere to curve to the ______________.
What is the right/east?
These lines represent air pressure on a pressure map.
What are isobars?
Cool temperatures create this type of pressure. In what region can this type of pressure be found?
What is high air pressure? Where are the poles?
These winds are high altitude and can affect the speed planes can travel.
What are the Jet Streams?
This type of local wind occurs during the day due to the warm land and the cool sea.
What is a sea breeze?
The Coriolis Effect causes winds in the Southern Hemisphere to curve to the _____________.
What is the left/west?
The L on the pressure map represents
What is low pressure?
Warm temperatures create this type of pressure. This type of pressure can be found in this region.
What is low pressure? What is the equator?
Global wind belts occur every _____ degrees latitude.
What is 30?
This type of local wind occurs at night due to the cool land and the warm sea.
What is a land breeze?
The _____________________ causes large scale winds to bend or curve.
What is the Coriolis Effect?
The H on the pressure map represents
What is high pressure?
The cyclical motion of high and low temperatures refers to what process?
What is convection?
How does the jet stream impact aviation?
What is affects the time of flying?
Does land or water heat up/cool down the fastest?
What is land?
If there was no Coriolis Effect winds would blow in ________________.
What are straight lines?
The pressure on a map is represented by this unit.
What are millibars?