NAME: DATE:

Winds
1. What does the wind do for you?

2. Air can move easily from place to place and this is often caused by a change in
.

3. What instrument measures wind speed?

4. A cool breeze can be refreshing in the summer, but the same breeze can be
in the winter.

5. What are the two main forms of local winds?

6. The sun strikes the Earth unevenly with most of the energy focused at the
.

7. Air pressure is toward the equator and it is near

the poles.

8. Explain the Coriolis Effect.

9. form near the equator where the sun warms the planet the
most.

10. The horse latitudes are located at approximately degrees north and south of
the equator.

11. Label the Diagram

NAME: DATE:

12. The polar easterlies are where the cold air sings and goes back toward the lower
.

13. Jet stream winds can be between and miles per

hour.

Review Questions
1. Name two different types of local winds and explain each.

2. Name three major global winds.

3. What are jet streams?

4. Critical Thinking: What would happen if an airplane flew against a jet stream?
 NAME: DATE:

Answer Key
1. This answer will vary
2. Pressure
3. Anemometer
4. Dangerous
5. Land breeze, sea breeze
6. Equator
7. Lowest, highest
8. Winds curving toward the equator due to the rotation of the earth, winds in the northern
hemisphere turn toward the right, southern hemisphere to the left
9. Doldrums
10. 30
11.

12. Latitudes
13. 150, 300

Review Questions
1. Sea breeze-warmer land air rushed out to the lower pressure over the sea. Land breeze-
the warmer sea air rushes to the land, usually at night
2. Trade winds, polar easterlies, prevailing westerlies
3. Bands of high speed wind 15 miles above Earth’s surface
NAME: DATE:

4. It would delay the flight and lead to more fuel consumption since the airplane is flying
against the wind.