6.ESS2.6 Quiz Review

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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Why do most storms move from the west coast of America to the east coast?

• The Coriolis Effect

• The Jet Stream

• Warm Air Masses

• Cool Air Masses

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Which has the greatest effect on the movement of the jet stream?

• size of clouds

  
  

• differences in air temperatures

  
  

• amount of precipitation

  
  

• humidity

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Wind is ______

• The movement of air

• Warm and Cool temperatures mixing

• Warm air sinking and Cool air rising

• Jet Streams that are moving quickly

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Jet Stream moves from _____ to ____

• West to East

• East to West

• North to South

• Here to There

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Continental Polar air is....

• Cold and wet

• Cold and dry

• Warm and dry

• Warm and wet

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Maritime air is formed over what?

• Water

• Land

• Ice

• Soil

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Maritime tropical air mass forms over...

• the ocean near the equator

  
  

• the ocean north of the United States

  
  

• Mexico

  
  

• the Arctic

  
  

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Tropical air masses are formed near what?

• The equator

• The poles

• The desert

• The northern part of United States

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What moves air masses?

• Prevailing winds

• Coriolis Effect

• Earth's rotation

• Changes in weather

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