Weather Vocab Review

These currents occur when cold, dense water at the poles sinks. Surface water flows to replace sinking water, causing a conveyor belt-like effect of water circulating around the globe on a 1000-year journey.

• Deep Ocean Currents

• Surface Currents

• Wind Currents

• Waves

The average weather conditions for a place usually measured over a long period of time (30 years).

• temperature

• weather

• Climate

• wind belt

The daily changes in the condition of the atmosphere.

• CLimate

• Temperature

• weather

• wind

How high land is above sea level. Altitude is usually measured in meters or km above sea level.

• latitude

• height

• Altitude

• distance

How far north or south a place is from the equator

• latitude

• height

• altitude

• wind belt

The closer you are to the water, the milder the climate. This is mostly because the bodies of water help maintain moderate temperatures.

• inland

• sea breeze

• land breeze

• proximity to water

the movement of air, caused by the uneven heating of the Earth by the sun and the Earth's own rotation.

• Wind

• land breeze

• sea breeze

• cold front

As the warm air over the land is rising, the cooler air over the ocean is flowing over the land surface to replace the rising warm air.

• Sea Breeze

• wind

• Land breeze

• equator

The warmer air over the ocean is buoyant and is rising. The denser cool air over the land is flowing offshore to replenish the buoyant warm air.

• Sea Breeze

• Land Breeze

• Wind

• Equator

Is a patch of land that has been forced to become a desert because mountain ranges blocked all plant-growing, rainy weather.

• Proximity to water

• Rain Shadow Effect

• Desert

• Altitude