Vocab 12

5. is the boundary separating two different types of air.
6. is a narrow variable band of very strong predominantly westerly air currents encircling the globe several miles above the earth. There are typically two or three jet streams in each of the northern and southern hemispheres.
8. is a body of air with horizontally uniform temperature, humidity, and pressure.
9. are the winds in the middle latitudes between 35 and 65 degrees latitude.
10. energy that is transferred from one body to another as the result of a difference in temperature.
11. is the state of the atmosphere at a place and time as regards heat, dryness, sunshine, wind, rain, etc.

1. are dry, cold prevailing winds that blow from the east.
2. is the weather conditions prevailing in an area in general or over a long period.
3. an effect whereby a mass moving in a rotating system experiences a force, acting perpendicular to the direction of motion and to the axis of rotation
4. is a region where air masses get their specific humidity and temperature.
7. are winds that reliably blow east to west just north and south of the equator.