Revision For Test

Question 1

What is coriolis effect

Answer 1

Winds do not blow in a straight line because the earth is rotating.

Question 2

What direction will the wind blow in coriolis effect

Answer 2

Clockwise

Question 3

Air descends

Answer 3

High pressure

Question 4

Air rises

Answer 4

Low pressure

Question 5

Weather

Answer 5

The day to day conditions of the atmosphere

Question 6

Climate

Answer 6

The average weather conditions of an occurring over many years

Question 7

Hadley cell

Answer 7

a large-scale atmospheric convection cell in which air rises at the equator and sinks at medium latitudes, typically about 30° north or south.

Question 8

Ferrel cell

Answer 8

model of the mid-latitude segment of Earth’s wind circulation. air flows poleward and eastward near the surface and equatorward and westward at higher altitudes; this movement is the reverse of the airflow in the Hadley cell.

Question 9

Polar cell

Answer 9

A weak meridional circulation in the high-latitude troposphere characterized by ascending motion in the subpolar latitudes

Question 10

2 types of jet streams

Answer 10

1. Subtropical

2. Polar

Question 11

Subtropical jet streams

Answer 11

Forms usually at the latitude of between 25 degrees N and 35 degrees S.

Question 12

What country’s subtropical jets normally found

Answer 12

Westerly direction e.g U.K.

Question 13

Polar jet streams

Answer 13

Cold air meets tropical air, usually between 40 degrees N - 60 N and 40S-60S

Question 14

Oceanic currents

Answer 14

Movements of surface water

Question 15

More solar radiation at the equator

Answer 15

Warm oceans currents (due to a smaller surface area).