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Weather review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| wind that blows from land to sea | land breeze |
| wind that blows from sea to land | sea breeze |
| what the lower atmosphere is like at any given place and time | weather |
| winds that move from west to east and control most weather movements | prevailing westerlies |
| causes warmer temperatures and more rain | El Nino |
| guides cold artic air that enters NC in winter months | jet stream |
| a belt of winds around Earth moving from high pressure zones toward the low pressure at the equator | trade winds |
| the average weather pattern of a region | climate |
| a warm ocean current that flows from the Gulf of Mexico northward through the Atlantic Ocean that can moderate weather along eastern seaboard (warms the air) | gulf stream |
| causes cooler temperatures and drier conditions | La Nina |