What causes global winds?

What is wind?

Scientists use_______ to measure air pressure. This instrument can tell us if the air pressure is dropping or rising.

Air from a ______pressure area will move towards an area of ______pressure.

These types of winds occur near the equator and flow from either the north or south towards the equator. They curve towards the west due to the spin of the Earth.

In the middle latitudes of the Earth, between 35 and 65 degrees latitude, these winds blow from the west to the east and towards the poles.

These winds blow close to the north and south poles and away from the poles and curve east to west.

What kind of local wind occurs because the land heats up faster than the ocean and causes wind to blow toward land from the water?

During the night, when the land cools down faster than the ocean, what type of breeze occurs?

Wind is a good source of what type of energy?

Which of the following can be used to generate wind power?

The curvature of winds cased by Earth's rotation is called the _______________.

What are the characteristics of a continental polar wind?

Wind that originates over the ocean near the equator is known as a Maritime tropical wind and would be described as _________ and ________.

Wind that originates over land near the Equator is known as continental tropical and would be ______ and _______.

Wind that originates over land near the Poles is known as Polar Continental and is ______ and _____.

Wind that originates over water near the Poles is known as maritime polar and would be ____ and ____.

Winds are named __________.

The winds that blow over the United States are known as the _________.

A wind that originates over Antarctica near the South Pole would be described as what kind of wind?

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