Global Winds Vocabulary

what is the Coriolis effect

• a wind blowing steadily towards the equator from the northeast

• an affect whereby a mass moving in a rotating system experiences a force

• fast flowing, narrow, meandering air currents in the atmospheres of some planets, including Earth.

• he perceptible natural movement of the air

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What is Wind?

• The movement caused within a fluid by the tendency of hotter.

• Fast flowing, narrow, meandering air currents in the atmospheres of some planets, including Earth.

• The perceptible natural movement of the air.

• The boundary of an advancing mass of cold air.

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What is the Horse Latitude

• a belt of calm air and sea occurring in both the northern and southern hemispheres

• the movement caused within a fluid by the tendency of hotter and therefore less dense material to rise, and colder

• the boundary of an advancing mass of cold air

• a narrow variable band of very strong predominantly westerly air currents encircling the globe several miles above the earth

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What is prevailing westerlies

• a narrow variable band of very strong predominantly westerly air currents encircling the globe several miles above the earth

• anti-trades are from the west toward the east in the middle latitudes between 30 and 60 degrees latitude.

• main belts of wind that move in particular directions across the Earth.

• a belt of calm air and sea occurring in both the northern and southern hemispheres between the trade winds and the westerlies

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what is the polar easterlies

• dry, cold prevailing winds that blow around the high-pressure areas of the polar highs at the North and South Poles

• a wind blowing from the west.

• a wind blowing from the east

• fast flowing, narrow, meandering air currents in the atmospheres of some planets, including Earth

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What are Doldrums?

• An equatorial region of the Atlantic Ocean with calms, sudden storms, and light unpredictable winds.

• A wind blowing steadily towards the equator from the northeast in the northern hemisphere or the southeast in the southern hemisphere, especially at sea.

• A narrow variable band of very strong predominantly westerly air currents encircling the globe several miles above the earth.

• A belt of calm air and sea occurring in both the northern and southern hemispheres between the trade winds and the westerlies.

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