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What is the effect of Earth's rotation on the direction of winds and currents?
What is Coriolis Effect
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Because air has mass, it also has these properties.
What is density and pressure
100
The sun also gives off this type of radiation, which is an invisible form of energy with wavelengths shorter than violet light.
What is ultraviolet radiation
100
A huge body of air that has similar temperature, humidity, and air pressure at any given height.
What is air mass
100
The average year-after-year temperature, precipitation, winds, and clouds in a n area.
What is climate
200
What currents are driven mainly by winds?
What is surface current
200
The force pushing on an area of surface
What is pressure
200
The direct transfer of energy by electromagnetic waves.
What is radiation
200
These four major air masses influence the weather in North America.
What is maritime tropical, continental tropical, maritime polar, and continental polar
200
A small area with climate conditions that differ from those around it.
What is microclimate
300
The pattern of temperature and precipitation typical of an area over a long period of time.
What is climate
300
The result of the weight of a column of air pushing down on an area.
What is air pressure
300
This is the process by which gases hold heat in the air.
What is greenhouse effect
300
Air masses are moved by these two things.
What is prevailing westerlies and jet streams
300
These are the main factors that affect temperature.
What is latitude, altitude, distance from the oceans, and ocean currents
400
An abnormal climate event that occurs every two to seven years.
What is El Nino
400
The common kinds of barometers.
What is a mercury and aneroid barometer
400
Heat is transferred in these three ways.
What is radiation, conduction, and convection
400
The boundary where the air masses meet.
What is a front
400
These are the main factors that affect precipitation.
What is prevailing winds, the presence of mountains, and seasonal winds
500
This is caused by differences in the density of ocean water.
What is deep currents
500
The density of air decreases as this increases.
What is altitude
500
These area areas near the equator with very little wind.
What is doldrums
500
This type of front is where cold and warm air masses meet, but neither can move the other.
What is a stationary front
500
These are sea and land breezes over a large region that change direction with the seasons.
What is monsoons