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Question 1

Equatorial Low Pressure belt

Answer 1

very large body of warm, humid and rising air at the equator which supplies rain to the tropical rain forests all around the equator

Question 2

Subtropical high-pressure belts

Answer 2

cold air masses descend causing regular patters of rising atmospheric pressure known as^

Question 3

What is a Hadley cells?

Answer 3

looping weather patterns form a circulation system between the equator and latitude 30 N and between the equator and latitude 30 S

Question 4

What is Ferrel Cells?

Answer 4

an air circulation pattern between latitudes of 30 N & 60 N and between latitudes 30 S & 60 S and as polar cells at the higher latitudes

Question 5

Because of the Coriolis effect the prevailing wind patterns associated with these cells d o not move in a _____ out from the ______ to the N & S but are ______ by _____ ________

Answer 5

straight line, Equator, Bent, Earths Rotation

Question 6

Earths rotation bends

Answer 6

Southward-flowing air to the right in the Northern Hemisphere and northward-flowing air to the left in the Southern Hemisphere, creating prevailing easterly winds that blow from E to W aka trade winds

Question 7

What are jet streams?

Answer 7

a prevailing wind near the top of the troposphere