Air Pressure and Wind Vocabulary Practice

3. Fast moving rivers of air near the tropopause.
6. Winds that blow from the polar high toward the subpolar low.
8. When the air above the land surface heats expands and rises creating an area of low pressure.
9. Centers of low pressure.
11. A device used for measuring air pressure.
14. When the land cools more rapidly than the sea.
15. When the wind constantly blows from one direction than from any other.
17. Episodes of ocean warming every three to seven years.
19. Two belts of wind that blow almost constantly from the easterly direction.
21. Seasonal changes in wind direction.

1. Used to measure wind speeds.
2. Used to describe atmospheric pressure by the media.
4. Simply the pressure exerted by the weight of air above.
5. Centers of high pressure.
6. Pressure changes are expressed as _______.
7. Air circulates because warmer less dense air rises above cooler denser air.
10. Describes how earths rotation affects movinf objects.
12. When air travels towards the poles and is deflected.
13. Episodes of ocean cooling.
16. The stormy belt in the middle of the latitudes produced by the interaction of warm and cool air.
18. A simple device that can be used to determine wind speed and direction.
20. The lines on maps that connect places of equal air pressure.