Exam 7: Atmospheric Circulations

Instructions: Choose one answer from each pair of selections. Land and sea breezes are SYNOPTIC SCALE | MESOSCALE air circulations.

Sketch and name the major ocean currents adjacent to the coastlines of the United States. Indicate the direction of motion of each current and indicate whether it is a warm or cold current.

In the three-cell model, converging surface winds and rising air motions are found at ____.

Instructions: Choose one answer from each pair of selections. The doldrums are a region of low surface pressure and STRONG | WEAK surface winds.

Which of the following associations is most accurate?

Instructions: Choose one answer from each pair of selections. Upwelling is strongest and surface water is coolest where wind flows PARALLEL | AWAY FROM the coast.

In the three-cell model of the earth's general air circulation, areas of surface low pressure should be found at ____.

The majority of the United States lies within a(n) ____ wind belt.

The intertropical convergence zone (ITCZ) is a region where the ____.

A valley breeze would develop its maximum strength ____.

Instructions: Choose one answer from each pair of selections. In the single-cell model of the earth's general circulation of air, a large thermally driven convection cell is located in each hemisphere. Surface air flows EQUATORWARD | POLEWARD.

____________________ winds are dry, warm winds that occur when strong westerly winds aloft flow over a north-south-trending mountain range, such as the Rockies and Cascades.

The polar jet stream is strongest in the winter when surface temperature contrasts are greatest.

"Howling" winds can be caused by ____.

A sea breeze circulation will reverse direction and become a land breeze circulation ____.

The cold water observed along the northern California coast in summer is due primarily to ____.

The polar front jet stream blows ____.

Instructions: Choose one answer from each pair of selections. The term "horse latitudes" refers to a region of high pressure where winds are weak and precipitation is PLENTIFUL | SCARCE.

In Honolulu, Hawaii (latitude 21°N), you would most likely experience winds blowing from the ____.

Instructions: Choose one answer from each pair of selections. The Pacific high drifts northward during the summer. Sinking air on its eastern side produces a strong upper level subsidence inversion, which tends to keep summer weather along the California coast relatively DRY | WET.