ESS715 - Wind & Weather

upward movement of warm air / downward movement of cool air

• convection currents

• land breeze

• sea breeze

• global winds

• pressure gradient force

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

The effect of Earth's rotation on the direction of winds and currents

• Coriolis effect

• jet stream

• convection current

• Gulf stream

• pressure gradient force

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

the force due to differences in pressure with in the atmosphere that causes air to move & the wind to blow

• pressure gradient force

• global winds

• jet stream

• convection current

• Gulf stream

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

the flow of air from land to a body of water

• land breeze

• sea breeze

• easterlies

• westerlies

• doldrums

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

flow of cooler air from an ocean or lake toward land

• sea breeze

• land breeze

• westerlies

• easterlies

• doldrums

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

winds that travel long distances in steady patterns over several weeks

• global winds

• jet stream

• convection current

• Gulf stream

• trade winds

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

A narrow belt of strong winds that blow in the upper troposphere

• jet stream

• Gulf stream

• trade winds

• doldrums

• pressure gradient force

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

A warm ocean current of the northern Atlantic Ocean off eastern North America

• Gulf stream

• trade winds

• jet stream

• global winds

• Coriolis effect

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Global winds that blow from east to west

• easterlies

• westerlies

• land breeze

• sea breeze

• trade winds

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6

Global winds that blow from west to east

• westerlies

• easterlies

• jet stream

• Gulf stream

• pressure gradient force

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS2-5

NGSS.MS-ESS2-6