ESS513 Impact on NC Weather Part 1: Wind

Identify the tool used to measure wind speed

• Wind Vane

• Anenometer

• Thermometer

• Rain Guage

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What causes wind?

• movement of high pressure to low pressure
• movement of low pressure to high pressure

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What causes wind?

• convection currents
• conduction currents
• radiation currents
• tropical currents

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Which global winds have the greatest impact on the weather in the US?

• trade winds
• prevailing westerlies
• doldrums
• polar easterlies

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In which direction do prevailing westerlies flow?

• from east to west
• from west to east
• from north to south
• from south to north

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I am a fast-moving ribbon of AIR that moves from west to east in the Northern Hemisphere around the Earth.

• California Current
• Gulf Stream
• Jet Stream
• Atlantic Ocean

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Which is most responsible for guiding the movement of different air masses across the United States?

• the oceans
• trade winds
• the jet stream
• easterly winds

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What type of winds blow constantly, predictably, and over long distances?

• land breezes
• mountain breezes
• global winds
• land breezes

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The Coriolis effect causes ___________.

• the Earth to rotate on its axis

• earthquakes

• global winds to move in a curved path instead of a straight line

• the Earth to revolve around the sun

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Which best describes a characteristic of the jet stream?

• It forms a boundary between a cold air mass and a warm air mass.

• It creates the high winds around the eye of a hurricane.

• It forces the hot air along the equator to rise to areas in North

  America.

• It causes high pressure air masses to rotate clockwise.

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