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Ocean Currents
Wind Belts
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Winds that move heat and cold across the Earth's surface.
What are prevailing winds?
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The winds traveling west in between 30 degrees and 60 degrees latitude.
What are the prevailing westerlies?
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Where is the gulf stream?
The gulf stream runs through the gulf of mexico and along the east coast.
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What wind belt crosses most of the United States
What is the prevailing westerlies
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What are wind belts caused by prevailing winds
What are the drift currents
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The zone along the equator is calm, with no prevailing winds.
What are doldrums?
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These are the winds between 30 degrees and 0 degrees north latitude.
What are the Northeast trade winds?
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Is the gulf stream a warm or a cold current.
Warm
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What is the horizontal flow of air
What is wind
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Water direction do currents go in the northern hemisphere?
What is clockwise
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Occurs when two air masses of widely different temperatures or moisture levels meet.
What is a front?
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These winds are the winds between 0 degrees south latitude and 30 degrees south latitude
What are the southeast trade winds?
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Name a factor that causes currents?
Earths rotation, water temp., water densities.
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Where are the doldrums
on and near the equator
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Water direction do currents spin in the southern hemisphere
What is counterclockwise
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Warm ocean current that moves warm tropical water northern along eastern North American
What is the Gulf stream?
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The line of air that circles the earth with wind speeds of up to 300 miles per hour.
What is the Jet Stream?
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Where do warm currents originate.
What is the equator
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Wind is the movement of air from and area of _____ pressure to an area of _____ pressure
What is High to low
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Is the california current a warm or cool current
What is cool
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Winds located above 60 degrees north.
What are polar winds?
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Great rivers of sea water that carry warm and cold water through the oceans.
What are currents?
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Where do cold currents originate
What are the poles.
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Fronts are caused by two air masses of widely different _______
What is temperature, and precipitation
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Is the Korishio a warm or a cold current
What is warm