Energy from Wind questions
1. What is the Beaufort Scale?
2. What results in the strongest reading on the Beaufort Scale?
3. What causes wind?
4. The fraction of light striking a surface that gets reflected is called __________.
5. Briefly describe how winds are formed.
6. What is another name for mountain wind?
7. When katabatic winds blow through narrow valleys between mountains, the speed of the wind increases. This is called the ______________________.
8. Katabatic winds sometimes have special names throughout the world. In the United States, there are two. Name both.
9. What direction does and sea breeze blow?
10. What direction does and land breeze blow?
11. What causes the Coriollis effect?
12. What are trade winds?
13. What are doldrums?
14. Between 30 and 60 degrees latitude, the air moving toward the poles appears to curve to the east.
Because winds are named for the direction from which they blow, these winds are called ____________.
15. At about 60 degrees latitude in both hemispheres, the prevailing westerlies join with ____________.
16. What are the highest winds called?
17-20. These global winds—________________, __________________, ___________________, and the
______________—flow around the world and cause most of the Earth’s weather patterns.