Climate, Weather and Jet Stream

What is the jet stream?

• Precipitation in North Carolina

• Weather over a long period of time

• Strong winds above the Earth's surface

• Football flying over the Earth

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A narrow band of fast moving winds high in the atmosphere that move from west to east

• Jet Stream

• doldrums

• equator

• polar easterlies

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

• size of clouds

• amount of precipitation

• differences in air temperatures

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What is true about the jet stream?

• it is warm water that moves along the Atlantic coast of North America

• it is air moving across North America from west to east and sometimes north to south

• it is air moving across North America from east to west and sometimes north to south

• it is cold warm water that moves along the Pacific coast of North America

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​ ​ (a)   is the ​average or typical weather condition of a region year after year.

• Climate

• Weather

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​ ​ (a)   is the condition of the atmosphere at any given time and place.

• Weather

• Humidity

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How does the jet stream affect weather?

• As it moves, it can cool down coastal areas

• As it moves, it can warm coastal areas

• As it moves, it can destroy homes with its violently rotating clouds

• As it moves, it can damage huge areas with intense rain and flooding

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For example, the climate of Houston is subtropical with ​ (a)   and ​ (b)   , but it

can have snowy weather events.

• warm air

• high humidity

• weather

• Climate

• 30 years

• Short term

• Decades

• minutes

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What will most likely result when the jet stream moves south of North

Carolina?

• North Carolina will experience tropical weather conditions.

• North Carolina will experience hot, dry weather.

• North Carolina will experience mild weather.

• North Carolina will experience cold weather.

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