Chapter 7

Which of the following associations is most accurate?

What term describes air aloft that changes speed or direction?

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

A sea breeze circulation is caused by ____ differences.

The nighttime counterpart of the sea breeze circulation is called a ____.

In Florida, when a sea breeze moving west meets a sea breeze moving east, they form a ____.

During the summer along the coast, a sea breeze is usually strongest and best developed ____.

What time of day would you most likely expect thunderstorms to occur on a mountain?

While fly fishing in a mountain stream, you notice that the wind is blowing uphill. From this you might deduce that the wind is a ____.

A valley breeze would develop its maximum strength ____.

Cumulus clouds that appear above isolated mountain peaks are often the result of ____.

The heat from a chinook wind is generated mainly by ____.

On the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains, chinook winds are enhanced when ____.

Strong Santa Ana winds develop in Los Angeles during the fall when a ____ pressure center forms to the ____ of Los Angeles over the Great Basin.

The summer monsoon in eastern and southern Asia is characterized by ____.

The winter monsoon in eastern and southern Asia is characterized by ____.

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

In the Northern Hemisphere, ocean currents in the Atlantic and the Pacific move in a generally circular pattern. The direction of this motion is ____ in the Atlantic and ____ in the Pacific.

During a major El Niño event, ____.

Great Britain typically has warmer winter temperatures than other areas of similar latitude because of the ____.

Summertime weather in Northern California often consists of low clouds and fog due to ____.

The tropical western Pacific Ocean regions experience ____ during strong ENSO events.

Surface winds and upper-level winds blow in the same direction in a thermal circulation.

Cumulus cloud formation above a mountain in the early afternoon could indicate a well-developed valley breeze.

Surface air is warmer and drier as a result of compressional heating in a downslope wind.

A warm northward flowing ocean current is found along the east coast of the United States and a cold southward moving current is found along the west coast.

The rising of cold water

Warming of the surface water of the tropical Pacific west of South America

Warming of the surface water of the tropical Pacific west of South America

Warm ocean current that flows northward along the east coast of North America

The cold water episode that finds strong trade winds and unusually cold surface water in the central and eastern Pacific

Wind system that changes direction seasonally

Another name for a whirlwind

A strong, often cold, downslope wind

Fast flowing current of air concentrated in a narrow band

The nighttime counterpart of the sea breeze

Cumulus clouds developing above isolated mountain peaks are often the result of this

Warm, dry wind associated with devastating fires in Southern California

A windstorm composed of dust and sand that forms along the leading edge of a thunderstorm's cold downdraft

Warm, dry wind that brings relief from the bitter cold on the eastern side of the Rockies

A chinook wind in the Alps