Ms. Brown's Wind Current Review

Why are wind currents deflected?

Jet streams influence weather by

What direction does warm air travel?

To create wind, air travels from areas of low pressure to high pressure

What causes wind to blow?

If water and land are heated for the same amount of time, which will have a higher temperature?

All parts of the earth's atmosphere are heated evenly

Wind is created by

What type of current is this?

Which is more dense?

Low pressure systems are created by

High pressure systems are created by

Winds in the northern hemisphere rotate clockwise

Mountain ranges effect wind currents

Wind currents can effect the weather

The easterly winds

Which material cools quicker?

Sea breezes blow from the land to the sea

There is one global convection current from the equator to the poles

Jet streams are located in the bottom of the troposphere