Atmospheric Circulation and Characteristics of the Atmosphere

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Question or Hint Answer or Word
  1. Coriolis Effect is the what? Curving of the air and water on earth.
  2. What is the Jet Stream? A narrow band of strong winds that blow in the upper troposphere.
  3. What is the polar easterlies? Prevailing winds that blow from the east to the west between 60 degrees and 90 degrees latitude in both hemispheres.es
  4. What are the polar westerlies? Prevailing winds that blow from the west to east between 30 degrees and 60 degrees latitude in both hemispheres.he west between 30 degrees 60 degrees latitude in both hemispheres.
  5. What are the trade winds? Prevailing winds that blow from east to west from 30 degrees latitude to the equator in both hemispheres.
  6. What is the atmosphere? The layer of gases that surround the Earth.
  7. What is the ozone? The place where there is a small amount of oxygen in the atmosphere.

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