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Review Questions: Global Circulation Patterns

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Definitions

1. What is the intertropical convergence zone and where is it located?
2. What are the subtropical high pressure cells and where are they located?
3. What is the subpolar low and where is it located?
4. What is the Polar Front and where is it located?
5. What are the Polar Easterlies and where are they located?
6. What are the Westerlies and where are they located?
7. What are the Trade Winds and where are they located?
8. What is a jet stream?
9. What are longwaves?
10. What are the horse latitudes and where are they located?
11. What are the doldrums and where are they located?
12. What is a land breeze?
13. What is a sea breeze?
14. What is a monsoon?

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Content

1. What are the major global pressure belts and where are they located?
2. Is each pressure belt thermally or mechanically induced?
3. What are the major global wind belts, in what direction does the wind blow, and where are they located?
4. How are the wind and pressure belts related?
5. How does the polar front jet stream affect weather patterns?
6. How do the global pressure and wind patterns shift with the seasons? Why?
7. What causes a land breeze? When would we be most likely to experience a land breeze?
8. What causes a sea breeze? When would we be most likely to experience a sea breeze?
9. What causes monsoon winds in southeast Asia?
10. How does the Asian winter monsoon differ from the summer monsoon?
11. What is the general circulation pattern in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans?
12. What type of ocean currents do we find off the east coast of continents? What do we find off the west coast of continents?
13. How is ocean circulation related to the subtropical high pressure cells?