How Jet Streams Affect Weather
Jet Streams and Weather Quiz
Test your knowledge about how jet streams influence our weather patterns! This quiz covers various aspects of jet streams, their characteristics, and how they interact with atmospheric conditions.
Challenge yourself with questions like:
- What is the jet stream?
- How does it affect local weather?
- What factors influence its movement?
Choose the correct order: Winds are caused by
Differences in air pressure-unequal heating-differences in air temperature
Differences in air temperature-differences in air pressure-unequal heating
Unequal heating-differences in air temperature-differences in air pressure
What is the jet stream?
Strong winds that travel above the Earths surface that travel at a minimum of 317 kmph.
A certain ocean current that travels extremely fast.
Strong winds above the Earth's surface at a minimum of 92 kmph.
Winds located in the mesosphere that rarely affect the troposhere
What jet stream is usually above us?
Southern Hemisphere: polar jet stream
Southern Hemisphere: subtropical jet
Northern Hemisphere: Polar Jet stream
Northern Hemisphere: Subtropical Jet stream
Which has the greatest affect on the movement of the jet stream?
Differences in the temperature of the ground
Differences in air pressure
differences in air temperatures
Which best describes a characteristic of the jet stream?
It can warm or cool the air temperature of certain locations
It creates the high winds around the eye of a hurricane.
It forces the hot air along the equator to rise to areas in North America.
It causes high pressure air masses to rotate clockwise.
Choose the best possible answer: How does the jet stream affect the weather?
It can remove all traces of humidity in a specific location
The jet stream does not affect the weather.
It slowly increases the air pressure of an area over time.
It can produce thunderstorms along it's path.
When air is heated, it will MOST likely
expand and fall
expand and rise
condense and fall
Condense and rise
Why does warm air rise?
Warm air is more dense than cooler air
Warm air has more pressure than cooler air.
Warm air is less dense than cooler air
Warm air has a higher dew point than cooler air.
Which of these MOST likely causes winds to blow on Earth?
Earth spins quickly, causing air to blow around.
The gravity of Earth and the Moon push and pull the air.
Warm air rises and cool air falls toward Earth's surface.
Ocean waves push air onto the shore and across Earth's surface.
Which of the following are narrow belts of strong winds found in the upper troposphere?
Doldrums
Jet streams
westerlies
Trade winds
The curving path of a moving object from an otherwise straight path due to Earth's rotation is called what?
Sublimation
Transpiration
Coriolis effect
Continental deflection
The fastest recorded jet stream traveled at a speed of?
317 mph
317 kmph
371 mph
371 kmph
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